Professional Nursing: Concepts & Challenges

Description:

**Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 with "Essential Purchase" designation in Fundamentals**

Discover what it means to be a professional nurse — the history, values and standards, and commitment to lifelong learning. Professional Nursing: Concepts & Challenges, 10th Edition equips you with current professional nursing practices to positively impact your career. This easy-to-read text provides insight into the current state of the profession and thoroughly examines standards and scope of practice, with new information on interprofessional education and practice, nursing roles, Covid-19, the surge of ambulatory and community care, bullying, gender issues, clinical judgment, and more.

Features:

• Cognitive rehearsal prepares you for the unlikely threat of lateral violence
• Social justice in nursing helps you learn to advocate for patients who need your help
• Interview narratives explore the issues like culture and faith from the perspectives of leaders in those fields
• Historical Notes highlight little-known stories of heroisms in the nursing profession.
• Tips on documentation include both electronic and paper records
• Concepts and Challenges and Ideas for Further Exploration at the end of the chapters help with review and test prep
• Discussions on the implications of social media on nursing, including ethics and boundaries
• Considering Culture boxes highlight the impact of culture on a nurse's role and responsibilities and the patient's healthcare experience
• Evidence-Based Practice boxes identify leading findings in nursing topics and trends
• Case Study boxes feature scenarios involving relevant issues in patient care
• Nurses Doing Research boxes highlight problems identified in patient care and the ongoing efforts to find patient interventions
• Professional Profiles boxes provide prospective from nurses in the field
• Thinking Critically boxes encourage higher-level consideration of potential factors affecting nurses
• Learning outcomes are presented at the beginning of each chapter
• Key terms are bolded where defined in the text

New To This Edition:

• NEW! Updated content includes the latest information on interprofessional education and practice, nursing roles, COVID-19, the surge in ambulatory and community care, bullying, gender issues, the faculty shortage, and challenges faced by new graduates.
• NEW! Expanded coverage of clinical judgment helps you develop the critical thinking and clinical decision-making skills required for the Next Generation NCLEX^® and in nursing practice.

Table Of Contents:

1. Nursing in Today’s Evolving Healthcare Environment

2. The History and Social Context of Nursing

3. Nursing’s Pathway to Professionalism

4. Nursing Education in an Evolving Healthcare Environment

5. Becoming a Professional Nurse: Defining Nursing and Socialization in Practice

6. Nursing as a Regulated Practice: Legal Issues

7. Ethics: Basic Concepts for Professional Nursing Practice

8. Conceptual and Philosophic Foundations of Professional Nursing Practice

9. Nursing Theory: The Basis for Professional Nursing

10. The Science of Nursing and Evidence-Based Practice

11. Developing Nursing Judgment Through Critical Thinking

12. Communication and Collaboration in Professional Nursing

13. Nurses, Patients, and Families: Caring at the Intersection of Health, Illness, and Culture

14. Health Care in the United States

15. Political Activism in Nursing: Communities, Organizations, and Government

16. Nursing’s Challenge: To Continue to Evolve