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.