Leddy and Pepper's Professional Nursing (International Edition)

Description

Now in a full color, visually improved design, Leddy & Pepper’s Professional Nursing, 9th Edition provides an easy to read, highly practical, broad overview of the nursing profession, addressing philosophical, developmental, sociocultural, environmental, political, health care delivery, and leadership issues vital for career enhancement. The author covers professional nursing roles and client care issues and presents strategies to deal with the emotional and ethical dimensions of professional practice. Appealing to today’s learners, this edition features videos and interactive resources in the accompanying ancillary package.

For online or hybrid, this textbook is also integrated into Lippincott RN to BSN Online. Lippincott RN to BSN Online, a full curriculum online course solution aligned to the guiding nursing curriculum standards The Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice and the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses Competencies, uniquely features self-paced multimedia modules that foster experiential, active learning.

Key Features

• Real-life Reflections -- poses a real life situation related to information contained in each chapterCapture interest and hopefully connect the content to RN work experiencesStart of chapter just following the key terms & concepts and learning outcomes
• Professional Building Blocks -- Blocks of content key elements to consider in clinical practiceApply theory to practiceScattered throughout the text and placed appropriately in the body of a chapter. (See 8th ed.)
• Questions for Reflection (Think Time in the 8th ed.) -- Questions for students to think about and reflect upon content presented in the text.Provide deeper information processing and to develop reflective thinking habits.Scattered throughout the text and placed appropriately in the body of a chapter. (See 8th ed.)
• Learning, Knowing & Growing -- Boxes of content for self-assessmentGive learners the opportunity for self-assessment and determine if there are any ways to improve professional performance or provides key strategies for developing a specific skill (e.g. Lobbying)Scattered throughout the text and placed appropriately in the body of a chapter. (See 8th ed.)
• Concepts in Practice -- Content boxes providing an example of how chapter content can be used in clinical practiceProvide readers with an example of how to use concepts and theory in professional practice. Scattered throughout the text and placed appropriately in the body of a chapter. (See 8th ed.)
• Focus on Research -- Block of content highlighting a research study, its findings and how to incorporate findings into professional practiceDevelopment of evidence-based practice using research findings. Scattered throughout the text and placed appropriately in the body of a chapter. (See 8th ed.)
• Professional Prototypes -- Boxes of content offering suggestions or actual documents for use in professional practiceProvide readers with specific guidelines of how to implement and use concepts to improve professional practiceScattered throughout the text and placed appropriately in the body of a chapter. (See 8th ed.)

NEW!!

• Nurse As Author -- Brief writing assignment based on chapter content for short written assignments or discussion board postingsDevelopment of professional writing skillsEnd of each chapter. NEW to this edition.

Table of Contents

Section 1: Exploring Professional Nursing

Chapter 1: The Professional Nurse

•  Characteristics of Professional Nursing Practice: The Hood Professional Nurse Contributions Model
•  Core Competencies for Professional Nurses
•  The Multiple Roles of the Professional Nurse
•  Challenges of the Professional Nursing Student
•  Skills for Educational Success
•  Image and Physical Appearance
•  Socialization and Resocialization into the Nursing Profession
•  Developing a Professional Self-Concept
•  Characteristics of a Profession
•  Summary and Significance to Practice

Chapter 2: The History Behind the Development of Professional Nursing

•  Nursing in Ancient Civilizations (Before 1 CE)
•  Nursing in the Early Christian Era (1–500 CE)
•  Nursing in the Middle Ages (500–1500)
•  The Establishment of Nursing in Europe, England, and the New World (1500–1819)
•  The Movement of Nursing to a Respectable Profession (1820–1917)
•  The Birth of Formal Nursing Education
•  The American Public Health Movement
•  Nursing During the Early 20th Century, the World Wars, and the Post—World War II Era (1890–1960)
•  Nursing in the Modern Era (1960–1999)
•  Media Portrayals of Professional Nurses
•  Nursing in the Early Postmodern Era (2000–2010)
•  Nursing in the Second Decade of the Postmodern Era and Beyond (2010 -20….)
•  Summary and Significance to Practice

Chapter 3: Contextual, Philosophical, and Ethical Elements of Professional Nursing

•  Contextual Basis of Nursing Practice
•  Nursing Philosophy
•  Morality and Ethics in Nursing Practice
•  Ethical Decision Making
•  Major Contextual Elements Affecting Nursing Practice

Chapter 4: Establishing Helping and Healing Relationships

•  Communication as Interaction
•  Helping Relationships: The Nurse as Helper
•  Healing Relationships: The Nurse's Role in Healing
•  Helping and Healing Relationships with Colleagues and Other Health Care Team Members
•  Summary and Significance to Practice

Chapter 5: Patterns of Knowing and Nursing Science

•  The Evolution of Scientific Thought
•  Philosophy of Knowledge
•  Patterns of Nursing Knowledge
•  The Development of Nursing Science
•  Summary and Significance to Practice

Chapter 6: Nursing Models and Theories

•  Nursing Models
•  The Stability Model of Change
•  The Growth Model of Change
•  Complexity Theory as a Framework
•  Nursing Models in Research and Practice
•  Summary and Significance to Practice

Chapter 7: Professional Nursing Processes

•  Critical Thinking
•  Cognitive Nursing Processes
•  Interpersonal Processes
•  Psychomotor Processes
•  Patterning Nursing Processes
•  Summary and Significance to Practice

Chapter 8: The Health Process and Self-Care of the Nurse

•  Worldviews of Health
•  Health Protection and Promotion
•  Health Patterning
•  Implications of the Nurse's View of Health for Role Performance
•  Self-Care of the Nurse
•  Summary and Significance to Practice

Section 2 : The Changing Health Care Context

Chapter 9: Health Care Delivery Systems

•  Challenges of Health Care Delivery in the 21st Century
•  Selected Current Health Care Delivery Systems
•  Health Care Delivery Settings
•  The Interdisciplinary/Interproessional  Health Care Team
•  Nursing Care Delivery Models
•  Nursing Challenges Related to Health Care Delivery Systems
•  Summary and Significance to Practice

Chapter 10: Developing and Using Nursing Knowledge Through Research

•  The Research Processes in Nursing
•  Nursing Research Utilization and Evidence-Based Practice
•  Creating a Public Image of the Nurse as Scholar
•  Summary and Significance to Practice

Chapter 11: Multicultural Issues in Professional Practice

•  Diversity and Assimilation in a Shrinking World
•  Establishing Cultural Competence
•  Strategies and Challenges for Multicultural Nursing Practice
•  Creating a Multicultural Nursing Profession
•  Summary and Significance to Practice

Chapter 12: Professional Nurse Accountability

•  Definition of Accountability and Related Concepts
•  Professional Accountability
•  The Groundwork for Accountability
•  Accountability in an Era of Cost Containment
•  Accountability in the Future
•  Checklist for Accountability

  Chapter 13: Environmental and Global Health

•  The Global Environment
•  The Community Environment
•  The Work Environment
•  The Home Environment
•  Comprehensive Environmental Health Assessment
•  The Nurse’s Role in Disaster Planning, Mitigation and Recovery
•  Summary and Significance to Practice

Chapter 14: Informatics and Technology in Nursing Practice

•  Informatics and Health Care
•  The Informatics Nurse Specialist
•  Consumer Health Informatics in Practice
•  Educational Informatics
•  Technology in the Acute Care Clinical Setting
•  Technological Changes Affecting Nursing Practice and Health Care
•  Challenges in Managing Health-Related Informatics and Technology
•  Summary and Significance to Practice

Section 3: Professional Nursing Roles

Chapter 15: Nursing Approaches to Client Systems

•  The Individual as Client
•  The Family as Client
•  The Community as Client
•  Community Level Nursing Interventions
•  Career Opportunities in Community Health Nursing
•  Summary and Significance to Practice

Chapter 16: The Professional Nurse's Role in Teaching and Learning

•  Health Literacy
•  Philosophical Assumptions About Teaching and Learning
•  Teaching—Learning Process Approaches
•  Teaching—Learning as a Responsibility of the Advocate
•  Learning Theories
•  Implications of Change Theory on Teaching—Learning
•  Strategies for Effective Teaching and Learning
•  Specific Client Education Activities
•  Client Education as an Interdisciplinary Process
•  Summary and Significance to Practice

Chapter 17: Leadership and Management in Professional Nursing

•  Conceptual and Theoretical Approaches to Nursing Leadership and Management
•  Leadership Development
•  Key Leadership and Management Skills for Nurses
•  Leadership Effectiveness
•  Evaluating Leadership Effectiveness
•  Summary and Significance to Practice

Chapter 18: Quality Improvement: Enhancing Patient Safety and Health Care Quality

•  History of Quality Improvement in Health Care
•  The Need for Improved Patient Safety and Care Quality
•  Quality Improvement Approaches
•  Implementing Continuous Quality Improvement and Total Quality Management
•  Efforts to Improve the Quality of Health Care
•  Professional Nursing Roles in Quality Improvement
•  An Integrated Approach to Quality Improvement and Safety in Health Care
•  Summary and Significance to Practice

Chapter 19: The Professional Nurse's Role in Public Policy

•  The Kingdon Model for Political Processes
•  The Nurse's Role in Influencing Public Policy
•  Current Political and Legislative Issues Affecting Professional Nursing Practice and Health Care
•  Examples of Nurses Influencing Public Policy
•  Opportunities to Learn the Art of Influencing Public Policy
•  Summary and Significance to Practice

Section 4 : Envisioning and Creating the Future of Professional Nursing

Chapter 20: Career Options for Professional Nurses

•  Universal Job Skills
•  Levels of Nursing Practice
•  General Nursing Career Opportunities
•  Advanced Nursing Practice Career Options
•  Opportunities for APRNs
•  Indirect Client Care Advanced Nursing Career Options
•  Summary and Significance to Practice

Chapter 21: Development of a Professional Nursing Career

•  Values and Career Goals
•  Discovering Your Passion in Nursing
•  Envisioning Your Nursing Career
•  Networking
•  Mentoring
•  Career Development Strategies
•  Making a Nursing Career Change
•  Summary and Significance to Practice

Chapter 22: Shaping the Future of Nursing

•  A Conceptual Approach to the Future
•  Future Scenarios for Society and Health Care
•  Future Scenarios for Health Care Delivery
•  Evolving Health Care Needs and Health Care Delivery
•  The Future of Professional Nursing Practice
•  The Future of Nursing Education
•  The Future of Nursing Scholarship
•  Summary and Significance to Practice

 Appendix
 Index