Includes bibliographic references and index.

Role transitions --
Personal management: time and self-care strategies --
Mentorship, preceptorship, and nurse residency programs --
Employment considerations: opportunities, resumes, and interviewing --
NCLEX-RN examination and the new graduate --
Historical perspectives: influences on the present --
Nursing education --
Nursing theory --
Image of nursing: influences of the present --
Challenges of nursing management and leadership --
Building nursing management skills --
Effective communication and team building --
Conflict management --
Delegation in the clinical setting --
The health care organization and patterns of nursing care delivery --
Economics of the health care delivery system --
Political action in nursing --
Collective bargaining: traditional (union) and nontraditional approaches --
Ethical issues --
Legal issues --
Cultural and spiritual awareness --
Quality patient care --
Nursing informatics --
Using nursing research in practice --
Workplace issues --
Emergency preparedness.

Popular 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 profession's 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.