Advancing Your Career Concepts of Professional Nursing

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Edition: 8th
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2023-09-21
Publisher(s): F.A. Davis Company
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Summary

Advance your career to the next level of professional practice!
Here are all the concepts and theories returning and practicing RNs need to continue their education and reach the next level of professional practice. You’ll find in-depth coverage of the critical components of professional nursing practice, including effective communication, professional ethics, leadership, group theory, teaching/learning, and multicultural issues.
 
Explore the challenges and issues that are changing the field of nursing. Then, apply them to the situations you encounter in practice today . . . and to the challenges you’ll encounter tomorrow.
 
The Textbook of Choice For West Haven University’s RN to BSN “… expertly written by professionals within the field of nursing who have an appreciation for the needs of returning RN students in a unique training environment. From time management to conflict resolution in a dynamic health care setting, this book covers it all. It is simply a panoply of the essential ingredients needed to cultivate the nursing leaders of tomorrow. In a word, it is excellent.”—Dr. Charles M. Frye, President, West Haven University, Online Reviewer
 
  • New! The AACN’s Essentials 2021 and ANA’s 2021 Scope & Standards of Practice, and the National Academy of Medicine’s Future of Nursing 2020-2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity
  • New, Revised & Expanded! Content on the progress of the Healthy People 2030 initiatives, the social determinants of health, structural racism, cultural humility, and public health emergencies like COVID-19 as well as overage of interoperability and data security, artificial intelligence/machine learning, wearables, remote patient monitoring, and interprofessional practice as a collaborative partner on a healthcare team
  • New! The importance of clinical reasoning and judgment in clinical practice and communication
  • “Evidence-Based Practice” boxes with questions and online “Case Scenarios” with questions
  • Discussions of the abilities critical to professional nursing, including communication, critical thinking, teaching and learning, leadership and management skills, and professional ethics
  • Section on quality care for individuals and groups with emphasis on safety, population health, economics, and the politically active nurse
 

Table of Contents

I.Professional Bases for Practice
1.Your Professional Identity
2.Theory as the Basis for Practice
3.Evolution and Use of Formal Knowledge of Nursology
4.Health, Illness, and Holism
5.Evidence-Based Practice
II.Critical Abilities in Professional Nursing Practice
6.Effective Communication
7.Critical Thinking and Clinical Judgment
8.Working with Groups
9.The Teaching-Learning Process
10.Managing and Leading in the Organization
11.Change and Innovation
12.Professional Ethics
III.Quality Care for Individuals, Families & Groups
13.Quality and Safety in Healthcare
14.Population Heath
15.Informatics and Documenting Outcomes
16.Economics and Healthcare Policy
17.The Politically Active Nurse: An Imperative
IV.Envisioning the Future
18.Global Health, Nursing, Policy, and Social Justice
19.Expanding the Vision
Appendix
A. Professional Nursing Organizations

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