Publisher's Synopsis
Many nurses maintain a passion for the practice; however, some seek more flexibility and control over hours and shifts worked because of domestic demands on their lives, while others desire to advance in education, skill and responsibility, and some in mid-career experience physical setbacks which require them to leave clinical roles. There are intriguing and even exciting new opportunities for the full-spectrum of professionals in the nursing workforce that may in some way enable a wholistic blending of priorities, ambitions, and realities. Therefore, it is timely now to reveal to graduating nursing seniors, mid-career nurses, nurses in need of challenge, nurses seeking relief from stressful acute care settings, second-career students, even high school seniors the options of emerging roles in the profession, some of which may be taught in selected universities, others initiated by employer innovation teams, and some created as independent service businesses by skillful nurses themselves.A theory-based self-inventory of the nurse's perception of competencies to function in a community setting follows the text. The author's intent is to assure recruitment and retention of nurses in the profession at a time when society needs them most. Cover photo attribution: Copyright, Lyudmyla Kharlamova, artist; source: 123RF.com
