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In recent years, the topic of career development and management has become a career-long process rather than something only new graduates consider. Author Lois Sarah Marshall, PhD, MN, RN, recognizes that the notion of career is a fluid process and helps nurses at all stages in their career journey in her updated book Take Charge of Your Nursing Career, Second Edition.
Lois Marshall and her contributors have done it again! The second edition of Take Charge of Your Nursing Career reminds all nurses how essential intentional career planning is, whether it is developing, managing, or expanding one’s career. This incredible resource is well-written, relevant, timely, and important and offers numerous practical tips, strategies, and tools all nurses can use on their career journey.
–Carol Huston, DPA, MSN, FAAN
Professor Emerita, School of Nursing, Trinity Hall
California State University, Chico
INDIANAPOLIS—In recent years, the topic of career development and management has become a career-long process rather than something only new graduates consider. Author Lois Sarah Marshall, PhD, MN, RN, recognizes that the notion of career is a fluid process and helps nurses at all stages in their career journey in her updated book Take Charge of Your Nursing Career, Second Edition.
This book's 11 chapters contain topics that will help nurses grow, maintain, sustain, and advocate for their careers. The second edition of Take Charge of Your Nursing Career includes updated chapters from the first edition about resumés, curriculum vitae, portfolios, educational advancement, professional development, and entrepreneurship. In addition to these updated chapters, new and timely topics are also included, such as mentorship, developing a nursing identity, the impact of social media, work-life balance, and more. This conversational, user-focused book also includes reflections from experienced nurses who want to help other nurses throughout their career journeys.
“One of the great things about being a nurse is that you can constantly re-examine your career trajectory and expand and grown in directions you hadn’t even dreamed of when you graduated from nursing school,” said Lois Marshall. “Particularly as our world regains its balance in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, be open to a new and different future. When you are ready to move forward—or even sideways—I hope you will allow this book to assist you in examining all the possibilities open to you as a professional nurse and determining how to make them happen for you.”
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Take Charge of Your Nursing Career, Second Edition
By Lois Sarah Marshall, PhD, MN, RN
Published by Sigma, 2022
ISBN-13: 9781646480005
EPUB ISBN: 9781646480074
PDF ISBN: 978164648067
Price: US $34.95
Trade paperback, 280 pages
Trim size: 6 x 9
About the author:
Lois Sarah Marshall, PhD, MN, RN, is the principal and owner of LSM Educational Consulting. A nurse and nurse educator for more than 40 years, she has been at the forefront of nursing career development and management. For the last 10 years she has served as lead advisor for the Sigma Career Center and coordinator of the Career Development Center for the National Student Nurses’ Association.
About Sigma:
The Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing (Sigma) is a nonprofit organization with the mission of developing nurse leaders anywhere to improve healthcare everywhere. Founded in 1922, Sigma has more than 135,000 active members and 550 chapters at institutions of higher education and healthcare partners from Armenia, Australia, and Botswana to Thailand, the United States, and Wales. Sigma members include clinical nurses and administrators, academic nurse educators and researchers, policymakers, entrepreneurs, and others working to fulfill the organization’s vision of connected, empowered nurse leaders transforming global healthcare.
Learn more at SigmaNursing.org.