Professional nursing
Subtitle: concepts & challenges
By: Kay Kittrell Chitty, Beth Perry Black
Contributors: Black, Beth Perry
Edition: 6th ed.
Publisher: Saunders/Elsevier
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Maryland Heights, Mo
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9781437707199
Subjects: Textbooks; Practice; Nursing
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Nursing today. Current status of nursing in the United States -- Nursing opportunities requiring higher degrees -- Employment outlook in nursing -- History and social context of nursing. Historical context of nursing -- Social context of nursing -- Nursing's pathway to professionalism. Historical review : characteristics of a profession -- From occupation to profession -- Barriers to professionalism in nursing -- Nursing's pathway to professionalism -- Collegiality as an attribute of the professional nurse -- Need for a new paradigm -- Legal aspects of nursing. American legal system -- Nursing as a regulated practice -- Legal risks in professional nursing practice -- Confidentiality -- Evolving legal issues and the nurse -- Preventing legal problems in nursing practice -- Ethics : basic concepts for nursing practice. Basic definitions -- Approaches to moral reasoning -- Ethical theories -- Ethical principles -- Nursing codes of ethics -- Ethical decision making -- Navigating ethical dilemmas in nursing -- Becoming a nurse : defining nursing and socialization into professional practice. Defining nursing : harder than it seems -- Becoming a nurse : shaping your professional identity -- Education and professional socialization -- Models of professional socialization -- Socialization to the work setting -- The education of nurses. Development of nursing education in the United States -- Educational pathways to becoming a registered nurse today -- Alternative educational programs in nursing -- Practical nursing programs (licensed practical nurse or licensed vocational nurse) -- Accreditation of educational programs -- Graduate education in nursing -- Certification programs -- Continuing education -- Challenges in nursing education -- Critical thinking, the nursing process, and clinical judgment. Defining critical thinking -- Critical thinking in nursing -- Nursing process : an intellectual standard -- Phases of the nursing process -- Dynamic nature of the nursing process -- Developing clinical judgment in nursing -- Communication and collaboration in nursing. Therapeutic use of self -- Communication theory -- How communication develops -- Criteria for successful communication -- Becoming a better communicator -- Communication with professional colleagues -- Collaboration skills : key to effective teamwork -- Illness, culture, and caring : impact on patients, families, and nurses. Illness -- Stages of illness -- Sick role -- Impact of illness on patients and families -- Impact of caregiving on nurses -- Science of nursing and evidence-based practice. Science and the scientific method -- What is nursing research? -- Evidence-based practice : bridging the gap between research and practice -- The research process -- Relationship of nursing research to nursing theory and practice -- Support for nursing research -- Roles of nurses in research -- Conceptual and philosophical bases of nursing. Systems -- Person -- Environment and suprasystem -- Health -- Putting it all together : nursing -- Beliefs -- Values -- Philosophies and their relationship to nursing care -- Developing a personal philosophy of nursing -- Nursing theory : the basis for professional nursing. Nursing philosophies -- Nursing conceptual models -- Theories of nursing -- Theoretical challenges for nursing education, practice, and research -- Health care delivery system. The health care delivery system -- Financing health care -- Health care reform and universal access -- Political activism of nursing: in organizations and government. Policy and politics -- Professional organizations -- Purpose and activities of organizations -- Benefits of belonging to professional associations -- Political activism in the government arena -- Getting involved -- Nursing awaits your contributions -- Nursing's future challenges. Societal challenges -- Challenges in nursing practice -- Challenges in nursing education -- A challenge to the entire nursing profession: focus, unite, act! -- Epilogue.