Help students prepare for the NCLEX® and their transition to practice Fresh content and references related to conflict (mediation and arbitration), personal/personnel issues, violence and incivility, and delegation included in their respective chapters.
Separate chapters on key topic areas such as cultural diversity, consumer relationships, delegation, managing information and technology, legal and ethical issues, and many more.Eye-catching full-color design helps engage and guide students through each chapter.UNIQUE The Solution closes each chapter with an effective method to handle the real-life situation presented in The Challenge, and demonstrates the ins and outs of problem solving in practice.The Evidence boxes in each chapter summarize relevant concepts and research from nursing/business/medicine literature.Theory boxes highlight and summarize pertinent theoretical concepts related to chapter content.UPDATED The Core of Leading, Managing, and Following, features the latest guidelines for ensuring patient safety, QSEN updates and it will also include some new tools to help with assessing/managing patient safety in the hospital settingUPDATED Chapter 12, Care Delivery Strategies, covers different nursing care delivery models used to organize care in a variety of healthcare organizations.UPDATED Chapter 14, Workforce Engagement through Collective Action and Governance, provides information on how to assess work environments through assessing organizational and governance characteristics, nurse empowerment/engagement strategies, and a variety of collective action and bargaining strategies that can shape nurses' practice.Patricia S. Yoder-Wise, RN, EdD, NEA-BC, ANEF, FAAN