Nursing today: transition and trends

unit I. Professional growth and transition. 1. Role transitions : Transitions ; Reality shock ; Role transformation 2. Personal management: time and self-care strategies : Managing your time ; Managing tasks ; Managing others ; Managing your goals ; Self-care strategies 3. Mentorship, preceptorship, and nurse residency programs : Historical background ; What mentoring is and is not ; what is a nurse residency program? unit II. Career development. 4. Employment considerations: opportunities, resumes, and interviewing : What is happening in the job market? ; Self-assessment ; Researching prospective employees ; How do I go about researching prospective employers? ; What do I need to know to assess the organization? ; Resume writing ; The interview process ; Critical first 5 minutes! ; Phases of the interview ; How do I handle unexpected questions or situations? ; Job offers and possible rejection 5. NCLEX-RN® examination and the new graduate : The NCLEX-RN examination ; Preparing the the NCLEX-RN examination unit III. Nursing: a developing profession. Historical perspectives: influences on the present : Nursing history: people and places ; American nursing: critical factors ; History of nursing education ; The nurse's role: the struggle for definitions 7. Nursing education : Path of diploma education ; Path of associate degree education ; Path of baccalaureate education ; Other types of nursing education ; Nontraditional paths for nursing ; Graduate education ; Credentialing: licensure and certification ; Nursing education: future trends 8. Nursing theory : Nursing theory ; Who are the nursing theorists 9. Image of nursing: influences of the present : Professional image of nursing ; Nursing organizations unit IV. Nursing management. 10. Challenges of nursing management and leadership : Management versus leadership ; The twenty-first century: a different age for management and for leadership ; Power and authority in nursing management ; Management problem-solving ; The challenge of change 11. Building nursing management skills : Communication and patient safety ; Communicating when it is critical: what do you need to do this? ; Managing time in the clinical setting ; Managing others 12. Effective communication and team building : Communication in the workplace ; What does my image communicate to others? ; Components of effective communication ; Group communication ; Team building ; Assertive styles of communication 13. Conflict management : Conflict ; Conflict resolution ; Dealing with difficult people ; Sexual harassment in the workplace 14. Delegation in the clinical setting : What does delegation mean? ; Who is accountable here? ; The right task ; The right circumstances ; The right person ; The right direction ; The right supervision and evaluation

unit V. Current issues in health care. 15. The health care organization and patterns of nursing care delivery : What are some important challenges currently facing health care? ; Strategies to control costs ; Case management ; Disease management ; Pay for performance ; Evidence-based practice ; Shortage of nurses ; The impact of the 2010 Institute for Medicine Future of Nursing Report ; Patient safety ; The effects of various patterns of nursing care delivery: a historical perspective

16. Economics of the health care delivery system : What are the trends affecting the rising costs of health care? ; What is the effect of the changing economic environment on clinical practice? ; Introduction to economics ; Budgets

17. Political action in nursing : What exactly is politics? ; What is power, and where does it come from? ; Networking among colleagues ; Building coalitions ; Controversial political issues affecting nursing

18. Collective bargaining: traditional (union) and nontraditional approaches : When did the issues leading to collective bargaining begin? ; The evolution of collective bargaining in nursing ; Who represents nurses for collective bargaining? ; The debate about collective bargaining ; Future trends

19. Ethical issues : Understanding ethics

20. Legal issues : Sources of law ; Court actions based on legal principles ; Legal control over nursing practice ; Torts ; Nursing malpractice ; Intentional torts ; Criminal actions ; Risk management and quality improvement ; Controversial legal issues affecting nursing

unit VI. Contemporary nursing practice. 21. Cultural and spiritual awareness : Culture and spirituality ; Office of minority health and disaster preparedness; Cultural and spiritual assessment

22. Quality patient care : Standards of quality health care management ; History and evolution of quality in health care ; What are core measures? ; What is HCAHPS? ; What is hospital compare? ; Just what is the Joint Commission? ; Monitoring the quality of health care ; What are some other agencies influencing patient safety? ; Quality improvement methods ; Tools and processes for continuous quality improvement ; How do we use DMAIC? ; Health care provider credentialing

23. Nursing informatics : Nursing informatics ; Professional practice, trends, and issues ; Clinical information systems ; Trends ; Using the Internet: the next generation of health care delivery ; Data access at the point of care ; Evaluating Internet resources ; Nursing informatics and you

24. Using nursing research in practice : The need for nursing practice based on research ; What is nursing research utilization? ; Research utilization compared with nursing research and the conduct of research ; Defining your practice context ; The National Institute of Nursing Research ; The agency for health care research and quality

25. Workplace issues : Questions to ask when starting a new position ; Ergonomic hazards for health care workers ; Workplace violence: a growing concern in health care ; Other workplace issues

26. Emergency preparedness : What is public health preparedness? ; Clinical preparedness ; What is triage? ; Public health preparedness and administrative efforts ; Community health nurse issues and public health preparedness ; What do I need to know about community preparedness issues? ; What do I need to know about disaster mental health?