Advancing Your Career: Concepts for Professional Nursing

by Kearney-nunnery, Rose

• ISBN13: 9780803618275
• ISBN10: 0803618271
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-03-03
• Publisher: F a Davis Co

Summary

Carefully constructed interactive exercises in the book and on the Web help you to use all of your current knowledge to meet the challenges you face on the path to your new career. Outstanding Features: Encompasses all of the critical components of professional nursing practice, including effective communication - professional ethics - leadership - group theory - teaching/learning and multicultural issues. Discusses delegation and how it relates to the management of unlicensed assistive personnel. NEW! Quantum physics theory and its relevance to nursing care. NEW! Nanotechnology and genomics and how they affect nursing. NEW! A chapter on Protecting the Populace, with expanded coverage on community health issues, including bioterrorism. NEW! The American Organization of Nurse Executives and magnet status. NEW! Increased focus on data element sets and terminologies recognized by ANA and staffing issues related to safety. NEW! Updated Healthy People 2010. NEW! Coverage of domestic violence issues. NEW! The Joint Commission initiatives.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Your Professional Identity	p. 1
Coping with Returning to School	p. 15
Theoretical Basis of Nursing Practice	p. 33
What is Theory?	p. 33
Evolution and Use of Formal Nursing Knowledge	p. 50
Models for Health and Illness	p. 82
Evidence-Based Practice	p. 103
Critical Components of Professional Nursing Practice	p. 123
Effective Communication	p. 123
Working with Groups	p. 140
Critical Thinking	p. 156
Teaching-Learning Process	p. 170
Leadership	p. 192
Management in Organizations	p. 206
Change	p. 229
Professional Ethics	p. 250
Providing Care	p. 269
Managing and Providing Care	p. 269
Healthy Initiatives for At-Risk Populations	p. 289
Quality Health Care	p. 315
Informatics and Computer Use	p. 334
Health-Care Economics	p. 348
Protecting the Populace	p. 368
The Politically Active Nurse: An Imperative	p. 388
Health-Care Issues in the New Millennium	p. 403
Nursing's Health-Care Agenda	p. 403
Expanding the Vision	p. 417
Professional Nursing Organizations	p. 433
Nursing Classification System	p. 441
Index	p. 461
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