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A student favorite for its easy-to-read style, real-life applications, and humorous cartoons, Nursing Today: Transition and Trends, 7th Edition Revised Reprint 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 with career development skills including resume writing, finding a job, and effective interviewing. Test-taking tips and strategies prepare you for the NCLEX-RN^� exam, and discussions of communication and management issues prepare you to succeed in the workplace. In this edition, well-known educator JoAnn Zerwekh and coauthor Ashley Zerwekh Garneau provide the latest information on nursing issues and trends including health care reform, patient safety, collective bargaining, and emergency preparedness.

• Thorough coverage prepares you for a professional nursing career by including all of the most important issues faced by the new nurse.
• An engaging presentation features lively cartoons, chapter objectives, bibliographies, and colorful summary boxes.
• Critical Thinking boxes are located in every chapter, with relevant questions and exercises to apply what you have learned to clinical practice.
• Evidence-Based Practice boxes focus on the research evidence that supports clinical practice.�
• Real-life scenarios in each chapter illustrate and personalize the�chapter topics.
• An emphasis on making the transition into the workplace is included in chapters such as NCLEX-RN^� and the New Graduate, Employment Considerations: Opportunities, Resumes, and Interviewing, and Mentoring and Preceptorship.
• A companion Evolve website includes Case Studies for every chapter, test-taking strategies, a sample NCLEX^� test tutorial, a sample NCLEX^� exam, appendices, and resume builder templates for creating professional resumes and cover letters.

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