Advancing Your Career: Concepts in Professional Nursing

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Advance your career to the next level of professional practice!

Build on your prior nursing experiences. Here are all the theories and concepts you need to progress from RN to BSN and beyond. From timely topics, such as JCAHO’s safety initiatives, to healthcare reform and global issues, this popular text helps you continue your education and reach the next level of professional practice.

Explore the challenges and issues that are changing the field of nursing. Then apply them to the situations you encounter in practice today . . . and to the challenges you’ll encounter tomorrow.

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•  Coverage of The Joint Commission’s initiatives and roles in accreditation.
• Issues from the American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE) and magnet status.
• Discussions on delegation and how it relates to the management of unlicensed assistive personnel.
• All of the critical components of professional nursing practice, including effective communication, professional ethics, leadership, group theory, teaching/ learning, and multicultural issues.
• Quantum physics theory and its relevance to nursing care.
• Nanotechnology and genomics and how they affect nursing.
• Data element sets and terminologies recognized by ANA.
• Staffing issues related to safety.
• Coverage of domestic violence issues.
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• UPDATED & REVISED! Thoroughly updated and revised to reflect the issues affecting the practice of nursing today.
• NEW! Coverage of recently passed federal laws on providing and paying for health care, including the Affordable Care Act and Accountable Care Organizations.
• NEW! Four color design
• NEW! New concepts on group process, change theory, health promotion initiatives, informatics, health care economics, health care reform and global issues

Table of Contents

I. Professional Bases for Practice
1. Your Professional Identity 
2. Theory as the Basis for Practice? 
3. Evolution and Use of Formal Nursing Knowledge 
4. Health, Illness, and Holism 
5. Evidence-Based Practice 
II. Critical Abilities in Professional Nursing Practice 
6. Effective Communication 
7. Critical Thinking 
8. Working with Groups 
9. The Teaching-Learning Process 
10. Managing and Leading in the Organization 
11. Change and Innovation 
12. Professional Ethics 
III. Quality Care for Individuals, Families & Groups 
13. Quality and Safety in Healthcare 
14. Population Heath
15. Informatics and Documenting Outcomes 
16. Economics and Healthcare Policy
17. The Politically Active Nurse: An Imperative 
18. Healthcare Reform and Global Issues 
19. Expanding the Vision 
Appendices
A. Professional Nursing Organizations 
B. Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC) and Nursing Outcomes Classifications (NOC) Systems