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PROFESSIONAL NURSING
Professional NursingConcepts & Challenges
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Fifth Edition

By
Kay Chitty, RN, EdD, CS, Adjunct Faculty, College of Nursing, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
Beth Perry Black, MSN, Clinical Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill School of Nursing, Chapel Hill, NC

Description
An ideal choice for anyone who wants to gain a professional edge in the world of nursing today, the latest edition of this popular book introduces you to the issues and trends you're likely to encounter in any practice setting. Each stand-alone chapter introduces and explores a specific topic, enabling them to be read in any order. You'll find insightful discussions of professionalization in nursing, standards and scope of practice, socialization and nursing theories surrounding the profession, critical thinking, research and evidence-based practice, the health care delivery system, and professional associations and political action facing nurses. Additionally, thought provoking questions, practical strategies, real-life scenarios, self-assessments, and personal viewpoints and interviews help you extend and apply the ideas presented.

Contents
1. Nursing Today
2. The History and Social Context of Nursing
3. The Professionalization of Nursing
4. Legal Aspects of Nursing
5. Ethical Aspects of Nursing
6. Becoming a Nurse: Defining Nursing and Socialization into Professional Practice
7. Educational Patterns in Nursing
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. Nursing and Health Care Delivery: System, Roles, and Finance
15. The Political Activism of Nursing – In Organizations and the Government
16. Nursing?s Future Challenges

Bibliographic details
Paperback, 512 pages, publication date: MAR-2007
ISBN-13: 978-1-4160-4473-4
ISBN-10: 1-4160-4473-6
Imprint: SAUNDERS


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Last update: 27 Sep 2008
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