Professional Nursing: Concepts & Challenges by Kay Kittrell Chitty, Beth Perry Black

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Synopsis

An ideal choice for anyone who wants to gain a professional edge in the world of nursing today, the latest edition of this popular book introduces you to the issues and trends you're likely to encounter in any practice setting. Each stand-alone chapter introduces and explores a specific topic, enabling them to be read in any order. You'll find insightful discussions of professionalization in nursing, standards and scope of practice, socialization and nursing theories surrounding the profession, critical thinking, research and evidence-based practice, the health care delivery system, and professional associations and political action facing nurses. Additionally, thought provoking questions, practical strategies, real-life scenarios, self-assessments, and personal viewpoints and interviews help you extend and apply the ideas presented.

• Critical Thinking Challenges and self-development activities help you develop your applied knowledge skills, guide your professional socialization initiatives, and envision your personal philosophy of nursing.
• Case studies identify the professional behaviors demonstrated, in a column adjacent to that behavior mentioned in the text.
• Interviews with established and respected professional nurses offer their perspectives on current issues facing the nursing profession today.
• Evidence-Based Practice Notes offer descriptions of relevant studies to show the importance of evidence-based practice and insights that nursing research provides.
• News Notes compile excerpts from general press resources to illustrate public perceptions of nurses and the nursing profession.
• Where appropriate, historical notes supplement and enhance chaptercontent.

• Updated content throughout includes discussions on collective bargaining, the status of the Nursing Doctorate Degree, the faculty shortage, nursing theorists, evidence-based practice, critical thinking, spirituality and caring, and death and dying.
• Additional content has been added to this edition on Aiken studies, the impact of computerized records, alternative/complementary care, Bloom's taxonomy to domains of learning, crisis intervention, adult teaching learning principles, delegation and stress, and the Patient Self-Determination Act.
• Cultural Consideration Challenges weave a common thread of cultural diversity throughout the book for sensitive patient care.
• Additional clinical examples throughout help improve your understanding of concepts.
• Bolded key terms integrated into the narrative of every chapter familiarize you with terminology presented in the context of the discussion.
• A revised glossary includes additional words and phrases beyond the key terms in each chapter, to improve your general understanding.

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Defines the profession, philosophies, major concepts, nursing roles in the health care delivery system.

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Reviewer:Vicki Ann Moss, DNSc, MS, BSN, RN (University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh)
Description:This book provides an overview of nursing's major contemporary issues including collective bargaining, evidence-based practice, the faculty shortage, the status of the nursing doctorate degree, and other timely issues.
Purpose:The purpose is to "assist students to understand what it means to be a professional nurse; to appreciate the history of nursing," and prize nursing's values, standards, and ethics. The authors hope that it instills an appreciation of life-long learning and the need to become a contributing member of the profession.
Audience:Its basic audience has been students in a bridge course from RN to BSN, but it could be used in early baccalaureate courses and as a resource for practicing nurses and graduate students.
Features:The 16 chapters of the book are in synch with the number of weeks in a semester. Chapters can stand alone and can be read in any order. The book has been designed to be student friendly with care, including visual features to aid visual learners. Key terms are in boldface and explained in the glossary. Chapters include self-assessment exercises, evidence-based practice notes, and critical thinking exercises. An instructor's manual contains activities for both large and small groups, and for in and out of class sessions. A test bank is included as are chapter outlines and objectives and suggested readings.
Assessment:This book is very rich in content yet is readable for both the novice as well as the seasoned professional. The topics are timely and lend themselves well toreflection and discussion.

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