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Now in its Sixth Edition, this text provides nurses with a comprehensive overview of the evolving marketplace, emphasizing the need to develop and maintain sound professionalism. The book discusses the nurse's role in public policy and management of patient care. This edition includes new material on professional nursing roles, nursing management and leadership theories, quality improvement processes, and working in diverse and international communities. Each chapter includes clinical vignettes representing real-life practice situations, thought-provoking questions to stimulate critical thinking, research briefs to promote the use of research in practice, and critical thinking exercises. Internet exercises are included to familiarize students with online resources.
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Table of Contents

Section I: Exploring Professional Nursing

Chapter 1 - The Professional Nurse

Chapter 2 - Historical Roots of the Nursing Profession

Chapter 3 - Contextual Elements of Professional Nursing

Chapter 4 - Patterns of Knowing and Nursing Science

Chapter 5 - Nursing Models and Theories

Chapter 6 - Professional Nursing Processes

Chapter 7 - Professional Communication to Establish Helping and Healing Relationships

Chapter 8 - The Health Process and Self-care of the Nurse

Section II: The Changing Health Care Context

Chapter 9 - The American Health Care Delivery System

Chapter 10 - Nursing Research and Evidence Based Practice

Chapter 11 - Multicultural Issues in Professional Practice

Chapter 12 - Accountability in Professional Nursing

Chapter 13 - Environmental and Global Health

Chapter 14 - Community Health Nursing: ConceptsandOpportunities

Chapter 15 - Informatics and Technology in Nursing Practice

Chapter 16 - Public Policy and the Professional Nurse

Section III: Professional Nursing Roles

Chapter 17 - Nursing Approaches to Client Systems

Chapter 18 - The Professional Nurse's Role in Teaching and Learning

Chapter 19 - Professional Nursing Leadership

Chapter 20 - Multiple Roles for Professional Nurses

Chapter 21 - Development of a Professional Nursing Career

Chapter 22 - Shaping the Future of Nursing

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Product Details

ISBN:
9780781761000
Author:
Hood, Lucy
Publisher:
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Author:
Hood, Lucy J.
Author:
Hood, Lucy
Author:
Leddy, Susan K
Subject:
Philosophy
Subject:
Nursing
Subject:
Nursing - Issues
Subject:
Nursing -- Philosophy.
Edition Number:
6
Edition Description:
Sixth Edition
Publication Date:
October 2005
Binding:
Hardcover
Grade Level:
Professional and scholarly
Language:
English
Illustrations:
11
Pages:
688
Dimensions:
9.14x7.40x1.22 in. 2.46 lbs.
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