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Main description:
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.
Contents:
1. Nursing Today
2. The History and Social Context of Nursing
3. The Professionalization of Nursing
4. Legal Aspects of Nursing
5. Ethics: Basic Concepts for Nursing Practice
6. Becoming a Nurse: Defining Nursing and Socialization into Professional Practice
7. Educational Patterns in Nursing
8. Critical Thinking, the Nursing Process, and the Development of Clinical Judgment
9. Communication and Collaboration in Nursing
10. Illness, Culture, and Caring: Impact on Patients, Families, and Nurses
11. The Science of Nursing and Evidence-Based Practice
12. Conceptual and Philosophical Bases of Nursing
13. The Theoretical Basis for Professional Nursing
14. Nursing and Health Care Delivery: System, Roles, and Finance
15. Politics and Policy: Nursing's Role in Shaping Health Care
16. Nursing's Future Challenges
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