Includes bibliographical references and index.

Role transitions -- Personal management: time and self-care strategies -- Mentorship, preceptorship, and nurse residency programs -- Employment considerations: opportunities, resumes, and interviewing -- NCLEX-RN® examination and the new graduate -- Historical perspectives: influences on the present -- Nursing education -- Nursing theory -- Image of nursing: influences of the present -- Challenges of nursing management and leadership -- Building nursing management skills -- Effective communication, team building, and interprofessional practice -- Conflict management -- Delegation in the clinical setting -- The health care organization and patterns of nursing care delivery -- Economics of the health care delivery system -- Political action in nursing -- Collective bargaining: traditional (union) and nontraditional approaches -- Ethical issues -- Legal issues -- Cultural and spiritual awareness -- Quality patient care -- Nursing informatics -- Using evidence-based practice and nursing research -- Workplace issues -- Emergency preparedness.