Professional nursing concepts & challenges /
| Main Author: | Black, Beth Perry, |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Maryland Heights, Missouri :
Elsevier/Saunders,
2017.
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| Physical Description: |
xi, 364 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. |
| Edition: | Eighth edition. |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Nursing in today's evolving health care environment
- The history and social context of nursing
- Nursing's pathway to professionalism
- Nursing education in an evolving health care environment
- Becoming a professional nurse : defining nursing & and socialization into practice
- Nursing as a regulated practice : legal issues
- Ethics : basic concepts for professional nursing practice
- Conceptual and philosophical foundations of professional nursing practice
- Nursing theory : the basis for professional nursing
- The science of nursing and evidence-based practice
- Developing nursing judgment through through critical thinking
- Communication and collaboration in professional nursing
- Nurses, patients, and families : caring at the intersection of health, illness, and culture
- Health care in the United States
- Political activism in nursing : communities, organizations, government
- Nursing's challenge : to continue to evolve.