This book is the perfect guide for nurses at all levels to uncover the tools needed to build their careers in nursing. It includes practical tips for achieving career goals in nursing. Topics include: continuing education, formal academic education, certifi cation, mentoring, nursing specialty professional organization membership, networking, and credentialing. Each chapter discusses a particular career tool and contains two parts. Part 1, for the individual nurse, contains the practical tips for an individual nurse to use the particular career tool described in the chapter. Part 2, for the...