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

Professional/Ethical Issue in every chapter tests your ability to think critically and apply concepts to a real-life dilemma

Unit 3: Leadership and Management in Nursing guides you through skills such as budgeting, communication and conflict resolution, staffing, health policy and politics, and more

Unit 4: Career Management describes how to make the transition from student to professional, including time management, career opportunities, and tips on how to pass the NCLEX-RN® examination

NEW! Information on COVID-19 covers preparedness for a pandemic response, legal issues and ethical dilemmas of COVID-19, the nursing shortage, access to personal protective equipment, and the growth of telehealth/telemedicine care

NEW! Clinical Judgment chapter emphasizes the development of clinical reasoning skills

NEW! Additional coverage in Theories of Nursing Practice chapter includes the application of theories in nursing practice, Watson’s theory of caring, and Swanson’s middle range theory

NEW! Updated coverage of delegation and supervision includes the most current guidelines from the National Council of State Boards of Nursing

NEW! Updates to contemporary trends and issues include AACN essentials, associate degree-BSN, nursing education in other countries, online programs, distance education, and more

NEW! Updates in Paying for Health Care in America chapter cover current payment models, the social determinants of health, and healthcare access

NEW! Additional information on CBD oil and the legalization of marijuana is included