Description
Now in its Seventh Edition, this broad-based text addresses the philosophical, developmental, theoretical, accountability, care delivery, and leadership issues encountered by professional nurses throughout a lifetime career. The book outlines the multidimensional roles that encompass professional nursing practice. This edition includes key updated information regarding the influence of nurses in public policy formation, changes in health care delivery, multicultural issues in professional practice, and nursing practice implications of new advances in technology, management, and nursing research.
Clinical vignettes based on real-life scenarios illustrate key concepts in each chapter while offering an opportunity to prepare for future professional challenges. From Theory to Practice questions offer a way to link key chapter points to daily practice. To stimulate critical thinking and classroom discussion, Questions for Reflection are interspersed throughout each chapter. Research Briefs appear in chapters when applicable to promote the use of research in clinical practice. Updated Internet exercises provide current online resources to expand knowledge related to each chapter.
Features
--NEW! New content on magnet status, disaster nursing, the Nursing Minimum Data Set, and Kingdon Model for Political Action
--NEW!: New informatics and technology checklist in Chapter 15, Informatics and Technology in Nursing Practice, helps the nurse assess her strengths and weaknesses
--Learning Outcomes help focus students on key content
--Key Terms and Concepts alert students to important terminology
--Clinical vignettes aid students in relating real life situations todaily practice.
--Questions for Reflection that appear throughout the chapter enhance the nurse's self-discovery
--From Theory to Practice questions at the end of each chapter help students think critically about the chapter content
--Research Briefs promote the use of research in practice
--Internet Exercises aid critical thinking and advance technological knowledge
About the Author(s)
Specs
- Edition: Seventh
- Product Format: Softbound
- ISBN: 9780781792486
- Trim Size: 7 x 10
- Pages: 640
- Pub Date: Sep 29, 2009
- Weight: 2.0
Associated Specialties
Table of contents
Section I Exploring Professional Nursing
- Chapter 1 The Professional Nurse
- Chapter 2 The History Behind the Development of Professional Nursing
- Chapter 3 Contextual, Philosophical, and Ethical Elements of Professional Nursing
- Chapter 4 Establishing Helping and Healing Relationships
- Chapter 5 Patterns of Knowing and Nursing Science
- Chapter 6 Nursing Models and Theories
- Chapter 7 Professional Nursing Processes
- Chapter 8 The Health Process and Self-Care of the Nurse
- Chapter 9 Health Care Delivery Systems
- Chapter 10 Developing and Using Nursing Knowledge Through Research
- Chapter 11 Multicultural Issues in Professional Practice
- Chapter 12 Professional Nurse Accountability
- Chapter 13 Environmental and Global Health
- Chapter 14 Community Health
- Chapter 15 Informatics and Technology in Nursing Practice
- Chapter 16 Nursing Approaches to Client Systems
- Chapter 17 The Professional Nurse's Role in Teaching and Learning
- Chapter 18 Leadership and Management in Professional Nursing
- Chapter 19 Quality Improvement and Professional Nursing
- Chapter 20 The Professional Nurse's Role in Public Policy
- Chapter 21 Career Options for Professional Nurses
- Chapter 22 Development of a Professional Nursing Career
- Chapter 23 Shaping the Future of Nursing
Section II The Changing Health Care Context
Section III Professional Nursing Roles
Section IV Glimpsing the Future of Professional Nursing
