Fully updated to cover today's issues and trends, Nursing in Today's World, 11e prepares students for the realities of practice. Reimaged to appeal to this generation of nursing students, this engaging edition contains features that break up the text and help students pragmatically acquire, retain, recall, and apply knowledge to real-life scenarios. Appealing to visual learners, our Cartoon Curriculum adds humor and satire to the book. These visuals and related discussion questions/activities decrease learning time, improve comprehension, enhance retrieval, and increase retention. Appealing to students who learn best through Modelling and Storytelling, Communication In Action helps students develop their soft skills. Examples, Daily Ethical Dilemmas Feature Boxes, and Stegen & Sowerby Stories offer the concrete examples on the day to day life of a RN that students need to realize why what they are learning in their Issues and Trends course is important to their careers and ability to navigate complex healthcare realities. While the text engages today's learner, it stays academically rigorous through Nursing Theory Alert Boxes, Evidence-Based Practice Boxes, as well as our comprehensive coverage of safety issues. thePoint contains student and instructor resources that will help students gain a better understanding of what it is to be a nurse in today's world. Students will benefit from additional and more challenging NCLEX questions and a new NCLEX Preparation Tutorial. Instructors can easily incorporate the 11th Edition of Nursing In Today's World into their courses because this package includes a syllabus, Open Book Test, Instructor Test Bank, QSEN and AACN BSN Essentials Competencies maps, and more.

This text builds on the basic concepts and skills that the nursing assistant has already mastered. Recognizing that the students using this text have already completed their basic nursing assisting training and may have already been working in the profession, this text does not repeat information that is part of the basic nursing assistant training. Rather, this textbook is meant to be used in conjunction with, or as a follow-up to, a "basic" nursing assistant textbook, such as Lippincott's Textbook for Nursing Assistants.

Fully updated to cover today's issues and trends, Nursing in Today's World, 11e prepares students for the realities of practice. Reimaged to appeal to this generation of nursing students, this engaging edition contains features that break up the text and help students pragmatically acquire, retain, recall, and apply knowledge to real-life scenarios. Appealing to visual learners, our Cartoon Curriculum adds humor and satire to the book. These visuals and related discussion questions/activities decrease learning time, improve comprehension, enhance retrieval, and increase retention. Appealing to students who learn best through Modelling and Storytelling, Communication In Action helps students develop their soft skills. Examples, Daily Ethical Dilemmas Feature Boxes, and Stegen & Sowerby Stories offer the concrete examples on the day to day life of a RN that students need to realize why what they are learning in their Issues and Trends course is important to their careers and ability to navigate complex healthcare realities. While the text engages today's learner, it stays academically rigorous through Nursing Theory Alert Boxes, Evidence-Based Practice Boxes, as well as our comprehensive coverage of safety issues. thePoint contains student and instructor resources that will help students gain a better understanding of what it is to be a nurse in today's world. Students will benefit from additional and more challenging NCLEX questions and a new NCLEX Preparation Tutorial. Instructors can easily incorporate the 11th Edition of Nursing In Today's World into their courses because this package includes a syllabus, Open Book Test, Instructor Test Bank, QSEN and AACN BSN Essentials Competencies maps, and more.

This text builds on the basic concepts and skills that the nursing assistant has already mastered. Recognizing that the students using this text have already completed their basic nursing assisting training and may have already been working in the profession, this text does not repeat information that is part of the basic nursing assistant training. Rather, this textbook is meant to be used in conjunction with, or as a follow-up to, a "basic" nursing assistant textbook, such as Lippincott's Textbook for Nursing Assistants.