Reinventing Your Nursing Career: A Handbook for Success in the Age of Managed Care

The health care revolution now underway is anticipated to displace nearly a million hospital-based nurses over the next several years. While opportunities in nursing exist outside hospital walls, most nurses are not trained or equipped to cope with such a derailment, Reinventing Your Nursing Career is a self-study manual on rethinking one's career, setting personal goals, and planning and implementing a strategy to find a place in the future of health care. The book begins with a straightforward, tell-it-like-it-is assessment of the current scene for nurses, then flows into how nurses need to identify their value concretely in terms of skill sets and explains how to develop them. Chapters on empowerment and empowering techniques, goal-setting exercises, personal action planners, and networking techniques round out the book. Plus, you can earn CE credits!