Nursing in Today's World

Challenges, Issues and Trends

Janice Rider Ellis, Celia Love Hartley (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

528 Seiten

2001 | 7th Revised edition
Lippincott Williams and Wilkins (Verlag)
978-0-7817-2455-5 (ISBN)

Infos

This text presents basic concepts underlying professional nursing along with contemporary issues affecting the profession. Additional content includes the role of consumer in health care, alternative health care, evidence-based practice, and reporting requirements on abuse and neglect.

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This text presents basic concepts underlying professional nursing along with contemporary issues affecting the profession. Content is supported using pedagogical tools and features including cartoons that aim to enliven the text discussion. Additional content on the role of consumer in health care, more content on alternative health care, evidence-based practice, virtual university, multi-state licensure, reporting requirements on abuse and neglect, NFLPN code of ethics, developing a study plan for NCLEX exam and conducting job searches "on line".

Inhalt

Understanding the health care environment; health care finance and control; the political and the nursing profession; exploring nursing's origins; the development of nursing as a profession; educational preparation for nursing; credentials for health care providers; legal responsibilities for practice; ethical concerns in nursing practice; bioethical issues in health care; beginning your career as a nurse; preparing for workplace participation. Appendix A: nursing licensing authorities (boards of nursing) United States and US Territories. Appendix B: nursing related organizations. Appendix C: commonly used acronyms.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.1.2001
• Zusatzinfo: 50 cartoons, 20 tables
• Verlagsort: Philadelphia
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 188 x 235 mm
• Gewicht: 980 g
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege
• ISBN-10: 0-7817-2455-4 / 0781724554
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7817-2455-5 / 9780781724555
• Zustand: Neuware