NURSING DELEGATION, SETTING PRIORITIES, AND MAKING PATIENT CARE ASSIGNMENTS, 2ND EDITION, is designed to build the diverse skills your students need in today's world of nursing, where many institutions rely on nurses to delegate critical tasks. This book will teach your students how to safely delegate, an indispensable skill in the delivery of quality patient care. NURSING DELEGATION, SETTING PRIORITIES, AND MAKING PATIENT CARE ASSIGNMENTS discusses the demanding roles of a professional nurse and explores the elements of decision making, which nurses use most, while also highlighting the importance of communication, time management, and accountability. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

This dynamic resource is your guide to the latest information on the roles and responsibilities of the manager of patient care, core competencies required of nurses caring for patients, and a wide range of management concepts that nurses need to know before entering practice. With an emphasis on patient safety and evidence-based practice, it provides complete coverage of patient care management, leadership, information management, organizational planning, and human resources. Organized around the five major functional groups within health care organizations that nurses handle or frequently interact with — patient care management, leadership, information management, organizational planning, and human resources. Important content on the environment of care examines hospital safety and security issues including emergency codes, Safe Patient Handling and Movement and Materials Safety Data Sheets (MSDS). Evidence-Based boxes summarize current research and best practices for topics throughout the textbook. Clinical Corner boxes discuss practice process improvements made by nurses, including safe, effective practices used at their institutions and how they improve patient care. NCLEX® examination-style review questions at the end of each chapter offer valuable review and exam preparation.

Prepare for success on the Next-Generation NCLEX-RN® Exam and develop your clinical judgment skills with a focus on management of care! Prioritization, Delegation, and Assignment: Practice Exercises for the NCLEX-RN® Examination, 6th Edition provides a wide variety of realistic patient care scenarios to help you learn management-of-care concepts and skills and see how to apply them to clinical practice. Exercises progress from simple to complex, and updated questions for the Next-Generation NCLEX-RN® Exam (NGN) are designed to match the latest NGN formats. All the book's questions are also provided in an interactive format on the Evolve website in tests that simulate the most current NCLEX-RN® Exam. This thoroughly updated new edition now includes 2021 AACN Essentials item coding for faculty, three new Case Studies, a new Community Health Problems chapter, updated question formats to reflect the NGN, and updated content throughout. Written by a team of noted educators led by Linda A. LaCharity, this NGN review has become a student favorite!

There’s a new fundamentals text in town. One that centers on simple language, active learning, and a fresh new way to help you truly understand, apply, and retain important nursing information and concepts. Introducing the brand new Fundamentals of Nursing text from Yoost and Crawford. Written in a warm and conversational style, this innovative text starts by guiding you towards a basic understanding of the nursing profession and then logically progresses through the nursing process and into the safe and systematic methods of applying care. Each chapter features realistic case studies and critical thinking exercises woven throughout the content to help you continually apply what you’ve learned to actual patient care. Conceptual care maps further your ability to make clinical judgments and synthesize knowledge as you develop plans of care after analyzing and clustering related patient assessment data. All of this paired with a wealth of student-friendly learning features and clinically-focused content offers up a fundamentally different — and quite effective — way for you to easily master the fundamentals of nursing.

Master the critical-thinking and test-taking skills you need to excel on the prioritization, delegation, and management questions on the NCLEX-RN®. Three sections provide you with three great ways to study. In the first section, you’ll find individual and multiple client care-focused scenario questions organized by disease process with rationales and test-taking hints. The second section features seven clinical case scenarios with open-ended, NCLEX-style questions. The third section is a comprehensive, 100-question exam.

This is the first undergraduate textbook to provide a comprehensive overview of essential knowledge, skill, and attitudes about safety in nursing practice. It reflects the six areas of nursing competencies as developed by the Quality and Safety Education Program for Nurses (QSEN) initiative, which are currently required content in undergraduate nursing programs. Using an inter-professional focus, the book addresses the fundamental knowledge required of entry-level nurses in each of the six QSEN areas: quality improvement, patient safety, teamwork and collaboration, evidence-based practice, informatics, and patient-centered care. The book includes all of the content required for nursing programs to be accredited by AACN or NLN. Contributors include nurse educators, faculty, researchers, administrators, case managers, quality improvement practitioners, and entrepreneurs of nursing as well as physicians and librarians from throughout the U.S. Readers will be privy to the unique perspectives of different health care partners who provide real life examples from an inter-professional team perspective. These include pharmacists, lawyers, physicians, librarians, quality improvement nurses, radiology technologists, nurse practitioners, hospital board members, patients, and others. Each chapter includes objectives, opening scenarios, case studies, critical thinking exercises, key terms, NCLEX-style questions, photos, tables, figures, web resources, recommendations for additional reading, and PowerPoint slides. An important feature of the book is the listing of QSEN competencies and the associated knowledge, skills, and attitudes (KSA) in the Appendix. Key Features: Comprises the only undergraduate text to address the six areas of requisite nursing competencies as developed by the QSEN initiative Provides a strong foundation for safe, evidence-based care Presents an inter-professional approach that reflects health care today Supports teaching with PowerPoint slides, critical thinking exercises, case studies, and rationales for review questions Includes objectives, critical thinking exercises, case studies, real world interviews, tables, figures, visuals, and suggested readings in each chapter

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Fundamentals made manageable! Assure your mastery of the fundamentals of nursing while developing your critical-thinking, clinical judgment, and test-taking skills. Over 1,200 classroom-tested, NCLEX®-style questions—including more than 440 alternate-item-format questions prepare you for success now and on the Next Gen NCLEX®. An easy-to-follow format organizes information into 25 content areas. Each question provides answers and rationales for correct and incorrect responses and strategies for how to develop your critical-thinking skills.

Leading and Managing in Nursing, 5th Edition -- Revised Reprint by Patricia Yoder-Wise successfully blends evidence-based guidelines with practical application. This revised reprint has been updated to prepare you for the nursing leadership issues of today and tomorrow, providing just the right amount of information to equip you with the tools you need to succeed on the NCLEX and in practice. Content is organized around the issues that are central to the success of professional nurses in today's constantly changing healthcare environment, including patient safety, workplace violence, consumer relationships, cultural diversity, resource management, and many more. ".. apt for all nursing students and nurses who are working towards being in charge and management roles." Reviewed by Jane Brown on behalf of Nursing Times, October 2015 Merges theory, research, and practical application for an innovative approach to nursing leadership and management. Practical, evidence-based approach to today's key issues includes patient safety, workplace violence, team collaboration, delegation, managing quality and risk, staff education, supervision, and managing costs and budgets. Easy-to-find boxes, a full-color design, and new photos highlight key information for quick reference and effective study. Research and Literature Perspective boxes summarize timely articles of interest, helping you apply current research to evidence-based practice. Critical thinking questions in every chapter challenge you to think critically about chapter concepts and apply them to real-life situations. Chapter Checklists provide a quick review and study guide to the key ideas in each chapter, theory boxes with pertinent theoretical concepts, a glossary of key terms and definitions, and bulleted lists for applying key content to practice. NEW! Three new chapters - Safe Care: The Core of Leading and Managing, Leading Change, and Thriving for the Future - emphasize QSEN competencies and patient safety, and provide new information on strategies for leading change and what the future holds for leaders and managers in the nursing profession. UPDATED! Fresh content and updated references are incorporated into many chapters, including Leading, Managing and Following; Selecting, Developing and Evaluating Staff; Strategic Planning, Goal Setting, and Marketing; Building Teams Through Communication and Partnerships; and Conflict: The Cutting Edge of Change. Need to Know Now bulleted lists of critical points help you focus on essential research-based information in your transition to the workforce. Current research examples in The Evidence boxes at the end of each chapter illustrate how to apply research to practice. Revised Challenge and Solutions case scenarios present real-life leadership and management issues you'll likely face in today's health care environment.

The NCLEX-PN exam is not just about what you know—it's about how you think. Kaplan's NCLEX-PN Prep Plus uses expert critical thinking strategies and targeted sample questions to help you put your expertise into practice, apply the knowledge you’ve gained in real-life situations, and face the exam with confidence. In NCLEX-PN Prep Plus, Kaplan's all-star nursing faculty teaches you essential strategies and critical-thinking techniques you need to apply your knowledge. Proven Strategies. Realistic Practice. 9 critical thinking pathways to break down what exam questions are asking 6 end-of-chapter practice sets to help you put critical thinking principles into action 2 full-length practice tests to gauge your progress—one in the book, one online Detailed rationales for all answer choices, correct and incorrect Techniques for mastering the computer adaptive test format Expert Guidance In-depth content review, organized along the exam's "Client Needs" framework 60 minutes of video tutorials on the ins and outs of the NCLEX-PN Kaplan's learning engineers and expert psychometricians ensure our practice questions and study materials are true to the test We invented test prep—Kaplan (www.kaptest.com) has been helping students for 80 years, and our proven strategies have helped legions of students achieve their dreams With NCLEX-PN Prep Plus you can study on-the-go. Log in from anywhere to watch video tutorials, review strategies, and take your online practice test.