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The AJN Book of the Year award-winning textbook, Nursing in Today's World, is now in its thoroughly revised, updated Ninth Edition. This vibrant full-color text presents basic concepts underlying professional nursing along with contemporary issues affecting the profession, including educational preparation, health care finance, legal responsibilities, and ethics/bioethics. Critical thinking exercises are embedded throughout the chapters. Key terms and concepts are highlighted in bold. This edition has more critical thinking exercises, plus a new Communication feature that teaches students how to communicate effectively in difficult situations.
Synopsis
The AJN Book of the Year award-winning textbook, Nursing in Today's World, is now in its thoroughly revised, updated Ninth Edition. This vibrant full-color text presents basic concepts underlying professional nursing along with contemporary issues affecting the profession, including educational preparation, health care finance, legal responsibilities, and ethics/bioethics. Critical thinking exercises are embedded throughout the chapters. Key terms and concepts are highlighted in bold.
This edition has more critical thinking exercises, plus a new Communication feature that teaches students how to communicate effectively in difficult situations. A new chapter, Nursing for the Future, includes discussions on informatics in nursing and evidence-based practice.
Synopsis
The AJN Book of the Year award-winning textbook, Nursing in Today's World, is now in its thoroughly revised, updated Ninth Edition. This vibrant full-color text presents basic concepts underlying professional nursing along with contemporary issues affecting the profession, including educational preparation, health care finance, legal responsibilities, and ethics/bioethics. Critical thinking exercises are embedded throughout the chapters. Key terms and concepts are highlighted in bold. This edition has more critical thinking exercises, plus a new Communication feature that teaches students how to communicate effectively in difficult situations.
Synopsis
This vibrant full-color issues and trends text presents basic concepts underlying professional nursing along with contemporary issues affecting the profession, including educational preparation, health care finance, legal responsibilities, and ethics/bioethics. Critical Thinking exercises are embedded throughout the chapters. Key terms and concepts are highlighted in bold. The Eighth Edition features focus questions, more leadership and management content, web resources, and updated cartoon images. Instructor's resources include a CD-ROM with an instructor's manual, test generator and the "Connection" Website, connection.LWW.com/go/ellis.
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This package includes the following products:
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9780781765251 Ellis Nursing in Today's World
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9780781780261 Craven Study Guide to Accompany Craven and Hirnle's Fundamentals
9780781789820 Karch Focus on Nursing Pharmacology
9780781799072 Smeltzer Brunner and Suddarth's Handbook of Laboratory and Diagnostics
9781608311491 Taylor Taylor's Video Guide to Clinical Nursing Skills
9781609136215 Karch 2012 Lippincott's Nursing Drug Guide
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This package contains the following products:
- 9780781771948 Fischbach A Manual of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests
- 9780781785907 Smeltzer Brunner and Suddarth's Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing
- 9780781765251 Ellis Nursing in Today's
- 9780781776288 Buchholz Henke's Med-Math, North American Edition
- 9780781780551 Ricci Maternity and Pediatric Nursing
- 9780781777698 Abrams Clinical Drug Therapy: Rationales for Nursing Practice
- 9780781793834 Taylor Fundamentals of Nursing, North American Edition
- 9780781793841 Lynn Taylor's Clinical Nursing Skills, North American Edition
- 9781608311491 Taylor Taylor's Video Guide to Clinical Nursing Skills, Student Set
- 9781451142891 Taylor PrepU for Taylor's Fundamentals of Nursing, 12-month
Table of Contents
Unit I: ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL ASPECTS OF HEALTH CARE DELIVERY
Chapter 1: Understanding the Health Care Environment and Its Financing
Chapter 2: The Political Process in Society and in Nursing Organizations
Chapter 3: The Nursing Profession and the Community
Unit II: APPRECIATING THE DEVELOPMENT OF NURSING AS A PROFESSION
Chapter 4: Exploring the Growth of Nursing as a Profession
Chapter 5: Educational Preparation for Nursing
Chapter 6: Nursing for the Future
Unit III: LEGAL AND ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY FOR PRACTICE
Chapter 7: Credentials for Health Care Providers
Chapter 8: Legal Responsibilities for Practice
Chapter 9: Ethical Concerns in Nursing Practice
Chapter 10: Bioethical Issues in Health Care
Unit IV: INTRODUCTION TO LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT ROLES
Chapter 11: Understanding the World of Healthcare Employment
Chapter 12: Initiating the Leadership and Management Role
Chapter 13: Working with Others for Patient Care
Chapter 14: Leading Change and Managing Conflict
Unit V: CAREER OPPORTUNITIES AND PROFESSIONAL GROWTH
Chapter 15: Making Professional Goals A Reality
Chapter 16: Facing the Challenges of Today's Workplace
Appendix A: Commonly Used Acronyms