"In the face of challenging situations, nurses are ideal for confronting and resolving overwhelming conditions because of their firsthand experience working directly with patients. By tapping into that experience, they face a wide variety of health-care threats head-on. Because of the pandemic and the fallout it produced, the landscape of health-care has changed. In response to these changes, the profession continues to progress and evolve at a rapid rate, and the ninth edition of Nursing Now: Today's Issues, Tomorrow's Trends is keeping up with that progress. Including loads of new information and the latest topics, this text offers students a starting point to influence the future of health care in the United States and helps them build the knowledge and skills to practice in an increasingly complicated and crowded health-care system"--