Professional nursing: concepts and challenges

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. INDICE: 1. Nursing Today2. The History and Social Context of Nursing3. TheProfessionalization of Nursing4. Legal Aspects of Nursing5. Ethics: Basic Concepts for Nursing Practice6. Becoming a Nurse: Defining Nursing and Socialization into Professional Practice7. Educational Patterns in Nursing8. Critical Thinking, the Nursing Process, and the Development of Clinical Judgment9. Communication and Collaboration in Nursing10. Illness, Culture, and Caring: Impact on Patients, Families, and Nurses11. The Science of Nursing and Evidence-Based Practice12. Conceptual and Philosophical Bases of Nursing13. The Theoretical Basis for Professional Nursing14. Nursing and Health Care Delivery: System, Roles, and Finance15. Politics and Policy: Nursing's Role in Shaping Health Care16. Nursing's Future Challenges

• ISBN: 978-1-4377-0719-9
• Editorial: Saunders
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 464
• Fecha Publicación: 15/03/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés