Contemporary Nursing: Issues, Trends, & Management

With an understanding of healthcare issues, you can improve patient care and advance the nursing profession! Contemporary Nursing: Issues, Trends, & Management, 9th Edition ensures that you are prepared for the complex and rapidly changing world of today’s nursing. Coverage of key topics includes nursing theories and evidence-based practice, social and ethical issues, the rising cost of health care, quality improvement and patient safety, palliative care, effective decision-making, collective bargaining and unions, managing time, and career opportunities. Written by noted nursing educators Barbara Cherry and Susan R. Jacob, this text not only prepares you for the NCLEX-RN® examination, but for effective leadership and management in the workplace.
Vignettes at the beginning of each chapter personalize nursing practice and history, and help you understand your place in the profession.
Full-color illustrations and design demonstrate concepts and make the text visually appealing.
Case studies help you apply theory to clinical practice.
Colorful, humorous cartoons depict the themes in each chapter.
Key terms, learning outcomes, and chapter overviews begin each chapter, helping you organize and focus your study, and a summary at the end of each chapter reinforces the key points to remember.