The travel nursing industry is growing at an incredible pace, and you'll need the best resources available to make a splash! Perfect for your personal reference as an introduction to the profession, Travel Nursing: Your Ultimate Guide features countless tips and clues to help you navigate all the most important facets of the profession, including how to locate the best housing, find childcare in a new city, contract structure basics, an entire chapter dedicated to the immigration process for International Nurses, and a complete breakdown on taxation options for Travel Nurses!Let this Guide help you become the best traveler you can be! You'll refer back to it again and again, so pick up a copy for your friends, too!

This brief, up-to-date resource and new career guide is written in a friendly, approachable manner by a travel nursing veteran. Combines a decade of experience with comprehensive and practical information on this relatively new field. Focused on real-world issues, this text includes self-assessment exercises, tips, insights and complete listings for 70 health care staffing agencies, and explores a broad range of international travel issues, as well as finance and tax strategies.

Easy to read and highly practical, Leddy & Pepper’s Conceptual Bases of Professional Nursing, 8th Edition provides a broad overview of the nursing profession, addressing philosophical, developmental, sociocultural, environmental, political, health care delivery, and leadership issues vital for career enhancement. The author covers professional nursing roles and client care issues, stimulate nurses to learn more about presented content, and present strategies to deal with the emotional and ethical dimensions of professional practice. Updated to reflect the latest advances in the field, the Eighth Edition now includes real life clinical scenarios and introduces students to the complex environment of nursing practice today through Hood’s Professional Nurse Contributions Model, which synthesizes the affective, cognitive, behavioral, and psychomotor domains of professional practice. Also new is a unique online Interactive Literature Assessment Tool that gets students thinking critically about the relationship between issues discussed in current journal articles and their future nursing careers. This edition also offers an expanded student resource program, which is customizable to the student’s level of practice expertise.

Now in its seventh edition, this text provides nurses with a comprehensive overview of the evolving marketplace, emphasising the need to develop and maintain sound professionalism.

Popular for its comprehensive but concise overview of the issues facing nurses today, this text is designed to help you prepare for the dynamic world of modern health care. This edition is fully revised and updated, giving you the most practical, balanced preparation for the issues, trends, and management topics you'll encounter in practice. Chapter features identify the most important concepts in each chapter and help you study more efficiently. Website references in every chapter direct you to online resources for additional learning. Critical Thinking Questions challenge your understanding and help you perfect your analytical skills. A NEW chapter on Budgeting Basics for Nurses prepares you for participation in the budgeting process, an increasingly common responsibility for nurses in the clinical setting. An expanded Workplace Advocacy chapter familiarizes you with the benefits and challenges of collective bargaining. New content helps you clearly identify compassion fatigue and presents strategies for prevention. Expanded coverage of nursing educational programs identifies new opportunities available to you for career growth and development. An updated chapter on the NCLEX-RN" examination incorporates the 2007 NCLEX test plans to help you master the exam and become licensed. Increased emphasis on the uninsured population highlights changes to the U.S. healthcare delivery system affecting your responsibilities in professional nursing. Revised chapter organization makes content easier to grasp. Expanded Evolve resources reinforce what you¡]ve learned with Student Learning Worksheets, answers to Critical Thinking Activities, Appendices, and links to additional sources.