Nursing Catalogue 2016

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Leddy & Pepper’s Conceptual Bases of Professional Nursing, Eighth Edition Lucy Hood 978-1-4511-8792-2 • October 2013 • Softbound • 7” x 10” • 640 pp.

Succeed in your course and prepare to enter the nursing profession with this easy to read and highly practical text. This Eighth Edition of Leddy & Pepper’s Conceptual Bases of Professional Nursing provides a broad overview of the nursing profession, addressing philosophical, developmental, sociocultural, environmental, political, health care delivery, and leadership issues vital for career enhancement. The authors cover professional nursing roles and client care issues, stimulate you to learn more about presented content, and present strategies that will help you deal with the emotional and ethical dimensions of professional practice. Features • NEW! Additional clinical scenarios have been added to help students see how chapter concepts are applied in clinical settings. • NEW! An online Interactive Literature Assessment Tool guides students through a series of application-level questions designed to challenge them to think critically about the relationship between timely issues and trends discussed in current journal articles and their future nursing practice and professional identity. Answers can be recorded, printed, and e-mailed to instructors. • NEW! Hood’s Professional Nurse Contributions Model, introduced in the first chapter and referred to throughout, synthesizes the affective, cognitive, behavioral, and psychomotor domains of professional practice to help students explore the ever-changing, highly complex, and sometimes chaotic environment of nursing practice today. • NEW! The book has been updated in every chapter to reflect the latest advances in the field. • EXTENSIVELY REVISED! To reflect recent advances and trends in the field, the author has extensively revised “Health Care Delivery Systems” (Chapter 9); “Professional Nurse Accountability” (Chapter 12); and “Quality Improvement: Enhancing Patient Safety and Health care Quality” (Chapter 19). • Introduce your students to the ever-changing, highly complex, and sometimes chaotic environment of nursing practice today through Hood’s Professional Nurse Contributions Model, which synthesizes the affective, cognitive, behavioral, and psychomotor domains of professional practice. • Challenge your students to think critically about the relationship between issues discussed in journal articles and their future careers and professional identities through the online Interactive Literature Assessment Tool. This dynamic tool guides students through a series of application-level questions. Answers can be recorded, printed, and e-mailed to instructors.

Table of Contents Section 1: Exploring Professional Nursing Ch. 1: The Professional Nurse Ch.2: The History Behind the Development of Professional Nursing Ch. 3: Contextual, Philosophical, and Ethical Elements of Professional Nursing Ch. 4: Establishing Helping and Healing Relationships Ch. 5: Patterns of Knowing and Nursing Science Ch. 6: Nursing Models and Theories Ch. 7: Professional Nursing Processes Ch. 8:The Health Process and Self-Care of the Nurse Section 2: The Changing Health Care Context Ch. 9: Health Care Delivery Systems Ch. 10: Developing and Using Nursing Knowledge Through Research Ch. 11: Multicultural issues in Professional Practice Ch. 12: Professional Nurse Accountability Ch. 13: Environmental and Global Health Ch. 14: Community Health Ch. 15: Informatics and Technology in Nursing Practice Section 3: Professional Nursing Roles Ch. 16: Nursing Approaches to Client Systems Ch. 17: The Professional Nurse’s Role in Teaching and Learning Ch. 18: Leadership and Management in Professional Nursing Ch. 19: Quality Improvement: Enhancing Patient Safety and Health care Quality Ch. 20: The Professional Nurse’s Role in Public Policy Section 4: Glimpsing the Future of Professional Nursing Ch. 21: Career Options for Professional Nurses Ch. 22: Development of a Professional Nursing Career Ch. 23: Shaping the Future of Nursing

Leadership & Management • Issues & Trends