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Leadership & Management • Issues & Trends
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
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.