Professional Nursing: Concepts & Challenges / Edition 9

by Beth Black

Overview

This easy-to-read text introduces you to the issues and trends you're likely to encounter in any nursing practice setting. Each stand-alone chapter introduces and explores a specific topic and gives insightful discussions of issues such as the health care delivery system, professionalization in nursing, standards and scope of practice, socialization and nursing theories surrounding the profession, and political action facing nurses.

• Evidence-based Practice boxes offer insight and highlight research that affects patient care.
• Case studies allow you to put information from the text into practice.
• Critical thinking questions and challenges guide you to apply chapter-relevant information to scenarios and envision a personal philosophy of nursing.
• Interviews with practicing nurses focus your attention on pertinent information throughout the text.
• Cultural Consideration Challenges help you develop cultural sensitivity and familiarize you with cultural influences.
• News Notes tie information from the text to real-life nursing situations
• Historical notes emphasize chapter content by providing interesting side notes about the changes in nursing practice.

• Updated content on topics such as the socialization of nursing, nursing activism, evidence-based practice, and nursing education degree programs, ensures that you have the most up-to-date and relevant information for your career.
• A variety of student activities for each chapter on the Evolve companion website help you apply topics presented in the text.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	2900323551136
Publication date:	09/04/2019
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

Table of Contents

1. Nursing Today: A Time of Transformation
2. The History and Social Context of Nursing
3. Nursing’s Pathway to Professionalism
4. Legal Aspects of Nursing
5. Ethics: Basic Concepts for Nursing Practice
6. Becoming a Nurse: Defining Nursing and Socialization Into Professional Practice
7. The Education of Nurses: On the Leading Edge of Transformation
8. Critical Thinking, the Nursing Process, and Clinical Judgment
9. Communication and Collaboration in Nursing
10. Illness, Culture, and Caring: Impact on Patients, Families, and Nurses
11. The Science of Nursing and Evidence-Based Practice
12. Conceptual and Philosophical Bases of Nursing
13. Nursing Theory: The Basis for Professional Nursing
14. Health Care in the United States
15. Political Activism In Nursing: Communities, Organizations, Government
16. Nursing’s Challenge: The Call for Transformation

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Vicki Ann Moss, DNSc, MS, BSN, RN (University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh)
Description: This overview of nursing's major contemporary issues includes concepts from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing's (AACN) latest (2008) Essentials document.
Purpose: The purpose is to help students understand the role of the professional nurse through its history and the identification of nursing's values, standards, and ethics. It is also intended to help students comprehend the influence of social and economic factors on the practice of nursing.
Audience: This book is appropriate for bridge courses in RN-BSN courses and early courses for generic baccalaureate students. It also could be used as a resource for practicing nurses and graduate students.
Features: "The 16 chapters match the number of weeks in a semester. Chapters can stand alone and can be read in any order. This edition has been streamlined with some material found on the Evolve website. Designed to be student friendly, the book takes care to include visual features to aid the visual learner. Key terms are in boldface and are included in the glossary. Chapters include self-assessment exercises, evidence-based practice notes, and critical thinking exercises. Cultural challenges are found in several chapters. There is an instructor's manual with activities for both large and small groups and for in-class and out-of-class sessions, as well as chapter outlines and objectives, and suggested readings. An instructor suite includes PowerPoint Lectures, a comprehensive test bank, and audience-response questions."
Assessment: This book is rich in content, yet readable for novices as well as seasoned professionals. The topics are very timely and lend themselves well to reflection and discussion.

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