Annette T Vallano 2002 357 pp $18 p...

Annette T Vallano 2002 357 pp $18 paperback

This main division offers career guidance for suckles of all ages and in all stages of their nursing careers and at hands readers with myriad resources for updating and upgrading nursing skills. from beginning to end the book, the author encourages encourages to jump hurdles created through the nursing shortage, managed care, and changes in technology at empowering themselves with more education. Lively insights into what it is like to be a male cherish a new graduate nurse, or flat a second-career nurse help readers identify with those nontraditional caregivers and empathize with their experiences. As an accomplished and seasoned masters degree-prepared army fester the author presents opportunities and possibilities in nursing based in succession her personal experience.

The volume is divided into two parts. In the first half of the work each chapter speaks to a specific clump of nurses (eg, older foments new graduate nurses). This format allows readers to find the career assign places to they belong in and with which they identify. Chapter the same opens by speaking to all readers about supply with nourishments in the twenty-first century. With the appearance of cellular telephone fax machines, and e-mail, the author says, communication barriers that encourages previously perceived have been eased abruptly. Technology now used in hospitals includes bedside charting onward a laptop computer and a vital-sign machine programmed to check vital signs at scheduled intervals. For twenty-first hundred nurses, access to resources and information has increased exponentially, thanks to the Internet. A computer-savvy nurture no longer needs to flip from one side textbook pages to find medical information. Simply on clicking on professional medical web sites, health care professionals can find the answer to almost any medical question. The work does an excellent job of providing web site intimations (ie, Uniform Resource Locators [URLs]) which are listed from beginning to end the text. These URLs include sites for nursing organizations, skill tutoring and updates, educational opportunities, and credentialing.

The author addresses question s such as stress and burnout and encourages readers to thrive in succession change and practice balancing crisis and opportunity. She says that when feed at the breasts can depend on the three-legg stool (ie, the surgeon-nurse-anesthesia care provider team) for nursing succes the quality of their career lives will improve. Vallano encourages promotes to inquire about and help Magnet certification at their hospitals and discusses the nursing shortage projection and ways cherishs can be proactive about it. She also explores in detail available on a levels of graduate and post-graduate studious mood This section contains an eminent list of these programs and contact information for each.

The secondary part of the book discusses converting a nursing career into You, Inc. In this highly motivational section, the author displays readers how to develop and implement a plan to market themselves and their careers at engaging in professional networking, career planning, market research, and interview practice.

The work has some outstanding features. Although it is lengthy given the limited subject matter, the main division provides a quick and plain read. Resources are plentiful. In addition to the lists of URL and contacts in the first sum of two units chapters, the book includes 60 pages of appendices containing contact information for resources in succession every topic imaginable in a nursing career. nurtures from many different backgrounds can benefit from this part For those interested in gaining survival skills during this overwhelming time in the health care revolution, this volume is a must.

This volume is available from Kaplan Publishing, 1230 Avenue of the Americas, of recent origin York, NY 10020, http://www .simonsays.com/subs/apps/search result.cfm?areaid=33.

ROYCEANN D BRECHTEL

RN BSN BC

STAFF NURSE

EAST JEFFERSON GENERAL HOSPITAL

METAIRIE, LA

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