Description
Professional Nursing (7th Ed.)
Author: Black Beth
Language: EnglishDescription
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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.
- Nursing Today: A Time of Transformation
- The History and Social Context of Nursing
- Nursing's Pathway to Professionalism
- Legal Aspects of Nursing
- Ethics: Basic Concepts for Nursing Practice
- Becoming a Nurse: Defining Nursing and Socialization Into Professional Practice
- The Education of Nurses: On the Leading Edge of Transformation
- Critical Thinking, the Nursing Process, and Clinical Judgment
- Communication and Collaboration in Nursing
- Illness, Culture, and Caring: Impact on Patients, Families, and Nurses
- The Science of Nursing and Evidence-Based Practice
- Conceptual and Philosophical Bases of Nursing
- Nursing Theory: The Basis for Professional Nursing
- Health Care in the United States
- Political Activism In Nursing: Communities, Organizations, Government
- Nursing's Challenge: The Call for Transformation