<p>With an understanding of healthcare issues, you can improve patient care and advance the nursing profession! <b>Contemporary Nursing: Issues, Trends, & Management, 9th Edition </b>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<SUP>¿</SUP> examination, but for effective leadership and management in the workplace.</p><ul><b><li>Vignettes at the beginning of each chapter</b> personalize nursing practice and history, and help you understand your place in the profession. </li><li><b>Full-color illustrations and design </b>demonstrate