Advancing Your Career

by Kearney, Rose

• ISBN13: 9780803612167
• ISBN10: 0803612168
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-12-15
• Publisher: F a Davis Co

Summary

Advancing Your Career: Concepts of Professional Nursing, 3rd Edition, is designed to provide the practicing nurse with the concepts required to advance to the next level of professional practice. Using carefully constructed interactive exercises, your students will be able to use their current experience to understand and apply the concepts discussed. Each chapter ends with lists of additional web resources to provide your student with more information.

Table of Contents

Section I INTRODUCTION	1	(46)
1 YOUR PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY
Rose Kearney-Nunnery, RN, PhD	3	(18)
2 COPING WITH RETURNING TO SCHOOL
Bernadette Dorsch Curry, RN, PhD	21	(26)
Section II THEORETICAL BASIS OF NURSING PRACTICE	47	(104)
3 WHAT IS THEORY?
Rose Kearney-Nunnery, RN, PhD	49	(20)
4 EVOLUTION AND USE OF FORMAL NURSING KNOWLEDGE
Jacqueline Fawcett, PhD, FAAN
Barbara Swoyer, MSN, CRNP	69	(36)
5 MODELS FOR HEALTH AND ILLNESS
Rose Kearney-Nunnery, RN, PhD	105	(24)
6 EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE
Rose Kearney-Nunnery, RN, PhD	129	(22)
Section III CRITICAL COMPONENTS OF PROFESSIONAL NURSING PRACTICE	151	(178)
7 EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION
Jacqueline Owers Favret, RN, MSN	153	(20)
8 GROUP THEORY
Rose Kearney-Nunnery, RN, PhD	173	(20)
9 CRITICAL THINKING Genevieve M. Bartol, RN, EdD
Rebecca S. Parrish, RN, PhD	193	(14)
10 TEACHING-LEARNING PROCESS
Rose Kearney-Nunnery, RN, PhD	207	(28)
11 LEADERSHIP
Theresa M. Valiga, RN, EdD
Sheila C. Grossman, RN, PhD	235	(18)
12 MANAGEMENT IN ORGANIZATIONS
Rose Kearney-Nunnery, RN, PhD	253	(30)
13 CHANGE
Rose Kearney-Nunnery, RN, PhD	283	(22)
14 PROFESSIONAL ETHICS
Joseph T. Catalano, RN, PhD	305	(24)
Section IV PROVIDING CARE	329	(162)
15 MANAGING AND PROVIDING CARE
Vicki L. Buchda, RN, MS	331	(20)
16 HEALTHY INITIATIVES FOR AT-RISK POPULATION
Rose Kearney-Nunnery, RN, PhD	351	(30)
17 QUALITY HEALTH CARE
Francoise Dunefsky, RN, MS, CNAA	381	(22)
18 NURSING INFORMATICS AND HEALTH MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Julia Aucoin, RN, PhD	403	(16)
19 HEALTH CARE ECONOMICS
Cyril F. Chang, PhD
Sylvia A. Price, RN, PhD
Susan K. Pfoutz, RN, PhD	419	(26)
20 PROTECTING THE POPULACE
Robin S. Vogt, RN, PhD, FNP-C	445	(26)
21 THE POLITICAL IMPERATIVE
Rose Kearney-Nunnery, RN, PhD
Jimmie E. Nunnery, MA	471	(20)
Section V HEALTH CARE ISSUES IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM	491	(34)
22 HEALTH CARE REFORM
Sister Rosemary Donley, RN, PhD, C-ANP, FAAN	493	(14)
23 EXPANDING THE VISION
Rose Kearney-Nunnery, RN, PhD	507	(18)
APPENDIX: professional nursing organizations	525	(8)
INDEX	533