The Nursing Career Planning Guide,9780763739539

The Nursing Career Planning Guide

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780763739539
ISBN10: 0763739537
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-05-18
Publisher(s): Jones & Bartlett Learning
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Summary

The Nursing Career Planning Guide presents working nurses with tips for beginning a nursing career, moving out of bedside clinical roles, and acquiring general supervision and career development skills. This book introduces strategies for coping with workplace transitions such as job reentry, layoff, termination, resignation, and compassion fatigue. This guide also covers the following topics: nursing as a career, the nursing shortage, men in nursing, financing your nursing education, and life as a new nurse. Author Susan Odegaard Turner offers unique self assessment tools (Turner Self Assessment Tools) that nurses and nursing students can use routinely over the course of their career.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix
Acknowledgments xi
Chapter 1 Nursing as a Career 1(14)
Choosing Nursing as a Career
1(3)
The Nursing Shortage
4(2)
Entering Nursing as a Second Career
6(1)
Men in Nursing
7(1)
Selecting a School of Nursing
8(1)
Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurse or Registered Nurse?
9(2)
Financing Your Nursing Education
11(1)
Evaluating Nursing Programs
12(3)
Chapter 2 Life as a New Nurse 15(10)
Your Interim Permit or Interim License
15(1)
Your First Nursing Job After Graduation
16(2)
Having a Life and a Career: Achieving Balance
18(7)
Chapter 3 Career Development 25(24)
Manage Your Career
26(4)
Create a Plan
30(5)
If Not Now, When?
35(3)
Resumes
38(1)
Interviews
39(1)
Doing Your Homework: Preparing for the Interview
40(1)
How to Create a Successful Interview
40(2)
Working with a Recruiter
42(7)
Chapter 4 General Career Skills 49(16)
Important Job Skills
49(1)
Selling Yourself with No Experience
50(2)
What Your Boss Wants You to Know
52(2)
Time Management
54(7)
Evaluate Your Communication Style: It Does Affect Your Career
61(4)
Chapter 5 Nursing Roles 65(12)
Nonclinical Nursing Roles in a Hospital
65(3)
Nursing Roles in the Community
68(7)
Advanced-Practice Nursing Roles
75(2)
Chapter 6 Supervision and Management Skills 77(56)
Portrait of a Leader
77(1)
Supervising the Work of Others
77(6)
What Skills Are Required for a Charge Nurse?
83(7)
Should You Be a Nurse Manager?
90(13)
Managing an Effective Team
103(12)
Effective Delegation
115(3)
Evaluating and Critiquing Performance
118(5)
Providing Discipline to Staff Members
123(3)
Decision-Making
126(2)
Problem-Solving
128(5)
Chapter 7 Encouraging Others to Succeed 133(6)
Effective Mentoring
133(3)
Effective Coaching
136(1)
Effective Precepting
136(3)
Chapter 8 Workplace Transition 139(30)
Entering the Nursing Workforce After Taking Time Off
139(2)
When You Get Sidelined in Your Career
141(1)
Layoffs/Reduction in Force
142(2)
If You Are the Person Doing the Laying Off
144(2)
If You Are Terminated
146(5)
If You Terminate an Employee
151(1)
Resignation
152(3)
Negotiating a Raise
155(1)
Professional Malaise
155(2)
Solutions for Professional Malaise
157(1)
Coping with Transition: Change Your Headspace
158(4)
Recovery After Transition
162(3)
Mastering Career Change
165(1)
Turner Career Transition Model
166(3)
Chapter 9 Your Evolving Career 169(10)
Professional Nursing Roles
169(1)
Dealing with Angry Patients and Co-workers
170(1)
Assertive Communication
171(1)
Managing Conflict
171(8)
Chapter 10 Professional Advocacy 179(16)
Nurturing Our Young
179(1)
Nurse Retention
180(3)
Public Perception of Nursing
183(1)
Nursing Survival Strategies During Turbulent Times
184(2)
Nursing Means Being of Service to Others
186(1)
Graciousness Is Mandatory
187(1)
Abuse in the Workplace
188(2)
The Importance of Networking
190(3)
Political Advocacy
193(2)
Chapter 11 Creating Your Nursing Future 195(26)
Future Trends in Nursing
195(3)
Creating Your Personal Nursing Future
198(3)
The Winner
201(2)
References
203(6)
Organizations and Web Sites
209(10)
Nursing
219(2)
Index 221

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