Text for RN Semester 1.

Unit I. Professional growth and transition -- Chapter 1. Role transitions -- Chapter 2. Personal management : Time and self-care strategies -- Chapter 3. Mentorship, preceptorship, and nurse residency programs -- Chapter 4. Employment considerations : Opportunities, resumes, and interviewing -- Chapter 5. NCLEX-RNª exam and the new graduate -- Unit II. Nursing : A developing profession -- Chapter 6. Historical perspectives : Influences on the present -- Chapter 7. Nursing education -- Chapter 8. Nursing theories -- Chapter 9. Professional image of nursing -- Unit III. Nursing management -- Chapter 10. Challenges of nursing management and leadership -- Chapter 11. Building nursing management skills -- Chapter 12. Effective communication, team building, and interprofessional practice -- Chapter 13. Conflict management -- Chapter 14. Delegation in the clinical setting -- Unit IV. Current issues in health care -- Chapter 15. The health care organization and patterns of nursing care delivery -- Chapter 16. Economics of the health care delivery system -- Chapter 17. Political action in nursing -- Chapter 18. Collective bargaining : Traditional (union) and nontraditional approaches -- Chapter 19. Ethical issues -- Chapter 20. Legal issues -- Unit V. Contemporary nursing practice -- Chapter 21. Cultural and spiritual awareness -- Chapter 22. Quality patient care -- Chapter 23. Nursing informatics -- Chapter 24. Using evidence-based practice and nursing research -- Chapter 25. Workplace issues -- Chapter 26. Emergency preparedness -- Index.