W.B. Saunders CompanyProduct DescriptionPopular with nursing students for its humorous cartoons and easy-to-read style Nursing Today: Transition and Trends 8th Edition helps you make a successful transition from student to practicing nurse. It covers the professions leading issues and opportunities ensuring that you graduate not only with patient care skills but also with career development skills such as resume writing finding a job and effective interviewing. Study questions and test-taking tips prepare you for the NCLEX-RN? exam and discussions of communication and management prepare you to succeed in the workplace. Well-known educators JoAnn Zerwekh and Ashley Zerwekh Garneau provide the latest information on nursing issues and trends including health care reform patient safety and patterns of nursing care delivery.
An emphasis on making the transition into the workplace is included in chapters such as NCLEX-RN? and the New Graduate Employment Considerations: Opportunities Resumes and Interviewing and Mentorship Preceptorship and Nurse Residency Programs.- Coverage of QSEN and patient safety includes Quality and Safety Education for Nurses?? National Patient Safety Foundation?? and Institute of Medicine competencies related to patient safety?? and addresses communication among health care providers?? quality improvement?? and guidelines from The Joint Commission.
- Coverage of evidence-based practice includes management protocols and interventions used as the basis for clinical outcomes.
- Coverage of nursing informatics helps you use technology?? access information?? and evaluate content to provide quality patient care ?? and includes a discussion of the Electronic Health Record (EHR).
- Coverage of health care reform includes the Affordable Care Act of 2010 and the new Patient Bill of Rights?as they apply to health care delivery and costs.
- Student resources on an Evolve companion website include case studies for every chapter?? NCLEX-RN?? review questions?? NCLEX-RN exam-s