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Leadership&Management • Issues &Trends
Table of Contents
Section1:
ExploringProfessional
Nursing
Ch. 1:The ProfessionalNurse
Ch.2:TheHistoryBehind theDevelopment
of ProfessionalNursing
Ch. 3: Contextual, Philosophical, andEthical
Elements of ProfessionalNursing
Ch. 4: EstablishingHelping andHealing
Relationships
Ch. 5: Patterns of Knowing andNursing
Science
Ch. 6:NursingModels andTheories
Ch. 7: ProfessionalNursing Processes
Ch. 8:TheHealthProcess and Self-Care of
theNurse
Section2:
TheChangingHealthCare
Context
Ch. 9:HealthCareDelivery Systems
Ch. 10:Developing andUsingNursing
KnowledgeThroughResearch
Ch. 11:Multicultural issues inProfessional
Practice
Ch. 12: ProfessionalNurseAccountability
Ch. 13: Environmental andGlobalHealth
Ch. 14: CommunityHealth
Ch. 15: Informatics andTechnology in
Nursing Practice
Section3:
ProfessionalNursingRoles
Ch. 16:NursingApproaches toClient
Systems
Ch. 17:The ProfessionalNurse’s Role in
Teaching andLearning
Ch. 18: Leadership andManagement in
ProfessionalNursing
Ch. 19:Quality Improvement: Enhancing
Patient Safety andHealth careQuality
Ch. 20:The ProfessionalNurse’s Role in
Public Policy
Section4:
Glimpsing theFutureof
ProfessionalNursing
Ch. 21: CareerOptions for Professional
Nurses
Ch. 22:Development of a Professional
NursingCareer
Ch. 23: Shaping the Future ofNursing
Leddy&Pepper’sConceptualBasesofProfessionalNursing,
EighthEdition
LucyHood
978-1-4511-8792-2 •October2013 • Softbound • 7” x10” •640pp.
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’sConceptualBasesofProfessionalNursing
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
authorscoverprofessionalnursing rolesandclientcare 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 havebeenadded tohelp
students seehow chapter concepts areapplied in clinical settings.
•
NEW!
Anonline Interactive LiteratureAssessmentTool guides
students througha seriesof application-level questionsdesigned to
challenge them to think criticallyabout the relationshipbetween
timely issues and trendsdiscussed in current journal articles and
their futurenursingpracticeandprofessional identity.Answers can
be recorded, printed, ande-mailed to instructors.
•
NEW!
Hood’s ProfessionalNurseContributionsModel, introduced
in thefirst chapter and referred to throughout, synthesizes the
affective, cognitive, behavioral, andpsychomotordomainsof
professional practice tohelp students explore theever-changing,
highly complex, and sometimes chaotic environmentof nursing
practice today.
•
NEW!
Thebookhas beenupdated inevery chapter to reflect the
latest advances in thefield.
•
EXTENSIVELYREVISED!
To reflect recent advances and trends in
thefield, theauthor has extensively revised “HealthCareDelivery
Systems” (Chapter 9); “ProfessionalNurseAccountability” (Chapter
12); and “Quality Improvement: EnhancingPatientSafetyand
Health careQuality” (Chapter 19).
• Introduceyour students to theever-changing, highly complex, and
sometimes chaotic environmentof nursingpractice today through
Hood’s ProfessionalNurseContributionsModel,which synthesizes
theaffective, cognitive, behavioral, andpsychomotordomainsof
professional practice.
• Challengeyour students to think criticallyabout the relationship
between issuesdiscussed in journal articles and their future careers
andprofessional identities through theonline Interactive Literature
AssessmentTool.Thisdynamic tool guides students througha series
of application-level questions.Answers canbe recorded, printed,
ande-mailed to instructors.