Professional Nursing Practice: Concepts and Perspectives / Edition 7

by Kathy Blais, Janice Hayes PhD, RN

Overview

Professional Nursing Practice: Concepts and Perspectives, Seventh Edition, is intended as a text for registered nurses who are in transition or bridge programs to achieve a baccalaureate or higher degree in nursing. It may also be used in generic nursing programs or in transition or bridge programs for vocational nurses (LPNs or LVNs) to complete the professional nursing baccalaureate degree.

Professional Nursing Practice helps nursing students explore and understand the nurse’s role in the health care environment with coverage on topics including nursing history, theory, ethics, and law, as well as nursing roles, issues, and changes in the profession. Fully updated, this edition includes more information on Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN), global health, and nursing theory and research. This resource explores the changing health care system especially related to health care economics, nursing in a culture of violence, and nursing in a culturally and spiritually diverse world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780133801316
Publisher:	Pearson Education
Publication date:	06/03/2015
Pages:	528
Sales rank:	390,375
Product dimensions:	7.90(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Kathleen Blais received her Diploma in nursing from Temple University Hospital School of Nursing (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), her BSN and MSEd from Florida International University (Miami, Florida), MSN from the University of Miami (Miami, Florida), and Ed.D. from Florida Atlantic University (Boca Raton, Florida). She has taught in both undergraduate and graduate nursing programs. Dr. Blais has held faculty and academic leadership positions throughout her career. She is currently a Professor Emerita of Nursing at Florida International University College of Nursing and Health Sciences.

Janice Hayes received her BSN from the University of Evansville, MSN from Indiana University, and PhD from Purdue University. She has taught both in undergraduate and graduate nursing programs as well as providing research leadership with clinical institutions. Dr. Hayes has maintained a research trajectory in the areas of development risk and trauma outcomes. She is currently the Assistant Director for Graduate Programs in the School of Nursing at the University of Northern Colorado.

Table of Contents

Brief Contents
About the Authors iv
Thank You v
Preface vi
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1. Beginning the Journey
Unit I: Foundations of Professional Nursing Practice
2. Socialization to Professional Nursing
3. Historical Foundations of Professional Nursing
4. Ethical Foundations of Professional Nursing
5. Legal Foundations of Professional Nursing
6. Knowledge Development in Nursing
Unit II: Professional Nursing Roles
7. The Nurse as Health Promoter and Care Provider
8. The Nurse as Learner and Teacher
9. The Nurse as Leader and Manager
10. The Nurse’s Role in Evidence-based Health Care
11. The Nurse’s Role in Quality and Safety
12. The Nurse’s Role as Political Advocate
13. The Nurse as Colleague and Collaborator
Unit III: Processes Guiding Professional Practice
14. Communicating
15. Managing Change
16. Technology and Informatics
Unit IV: Professional Nursing in a Changing Health Care Environment
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18. Providing Care in the Home and Community
19. Global Health
20. Dimensions of Holistic Health Care
21. Nursing in a Culturally Diverse World
22. Nursing in a Spiritually Diverse World
23. Nursing in a Culture of Violence
Unit V: Into the Future
24. Advanced Nursing Education and Practice
25. The Future of Nursing
Index

Preface

To meet the demands of a dramatically changing health care system, nurses must change and grow. Skills in communication and interpersonal relations are needed for nurses to become effective members of a collaborative health care team. Nurses need to think critically and be creative in implementing nursing strategies with clients of diverse cultural and spiritual backgrounds in increasingly diverse settings. They need skills in teaching, collaborating, leading, managing, advocacy, political involvement, and analyzing and applying theory and research findings to practice. Nurses must be prepared to provide care not only in hospitals, but also in client homes and other community-based settings, including clinics, schools, occupational sites, faith-based communities, homeless shelters, and prisons. Their unique role demands a blend of nurturance, compassion, sensitivity, caring, empathy, commitment, courage, competence, and skill based on broad knowledge of the arts, humanities, biological and social sciences, and nursing science. In addition, an understanding of holistic healing modalities and complementary therapies is becoming more essential. In this book we address concepts on which nurses can build their repertoire of professional nursing, knowledge. These concepts include, but are not limited to, wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention; holistic care; multiculturalism; nursing history; technology and informatics; nursing theories and conceptual frameworks; nursing research; and professional empowerment and politics.

Professional Nursing Practice: Concepts and Perspectives, 4th edition, is intended as a text for registered nurses who are in transition orbridge programs to pursue a baccalaureate degree in nursing. It may also be used in generic nursing programs or in transition or bridge programs for vocational nurses (LPNs or LVNs) to complete the professional nursing baccalaureate degree. This text has been revised extensively to reflect the additional areas of knowledge that practicing nurses require to be effective in the changing health care system. A new organization in the text emphasizes the foundational knowledge related to professional nursing, including nursing history, nursing theory, ethics, and legal aspects; the processes guiding nursing, including communication, group, change, and technology and informatics; nursing in a changing health care-delivery system, including health care economics, cultural and spiritual dimensions of nursing care, nursing in a culture of violence; and nursing in the new millennium, which discusses advanced nursing education and practice and visions for the future of nursing.

NEW TO THIS EDITION

There are eight new chapters, one new feature, and a new website created for the fourth edition of Professional Nursing Practice: Conceits and Perspectives.

• New chapters focus on important topics and concepts for today's nurse. They include Chapter 1, "Beginning the Transition: Journey to Professionalism," Chapter 3, "Historical Foundations of Professional Nursing," Chapter 11, "The Nurse as Advocate," Chapter 12, "The Nurse as Colleague and Collaborator," and Chapter 13, "Communication," Chapter 16, "Technology and Informatics," Chapter 17, "Nursing in an Evolving Health Care Delivery System," and Chapter 18, "Health Care Economics."
• Nurse Connect logos in each chapter. The web address will take the reader to a website created to support, enhance, and update chapter content. The website has links to nursing, health care, and other sites that provide current information related to the profession and health care.

HALLMARK FEATURES

The fourth edition of Professional Nursing Practice: Concepts and Perspectives retains several of the features that have been well received by faculty and, students who have used previous editions:

• Updated nursing research notes in each chapter describe relevant studies and relate them to clinical practice.
• Bookshelf boxes provide additional readings from popular and professional literature that enhance understanding of chapter content. The readings were chosen to pique student interest in exploring additional literary sources outside the classroom. For example, the readings in Chapter 21, "Nursing in a Culturally and Spiritually Diverse World," provide first-person accounts of the personal experiences of people of diverse cultural backgrounds.
• Practicing nurse profiles occur in two chapters, Chapter 19 "Providing Care in the Home and Community," and Chapter 22, "Advanced Nursing Education and Practice." The profiles include information about why these practitioners chose their specific practice areas, what qualities they think are necessary to be a nurse in this setting, what their job entails, and what encouragement they would offer a nurse considering practice in this setting. The profiles provide useful first-person perspectives for readers.
• "Consider. . ." sections occur in each chapter. This feature presents questions or ideas for readers to reflect upon and discuss. Items are related to the content presented and are intended to stimulate critical thinking. In most cases, the Consider questions encourage readers to apply the chapter content to their own areas of practice, be it a clinical specialty, a geographic area, or a personal belief about practice. These sections can be used as a basis for group discussions in a classroom setting, bulletin board or chat-room discussions for web-based courses, or independent learning.
• All chapters retained from the previous edition have been completely updated.

ORGANIZATION

This edition is organized into five units, with an introductory chapter preceding the first unit. Units and chapters can be used independently or in any sequence.

• Chapter 1, "Beginning the Transition: Journey to Professionalism," was created to assist registered nurses as they return to school. It provides information regarding factors influencing nurses' return to school for baccalaureate and higher degrees and overcoming barriers that may interfere with student success.
• Unit 1, "Foundations of Professional Nursing Practice," focuses on the concepts of professional and professionalism, historical influences on nursing, ethical and legal issues, and nursing theories and conceptual frameworks for nursing.
• Unit 2, "Professional Nursing Roles," includes information related to the professional roles of health promoter and care provider, learner and teacher, leader and manager, research consumer, advocate, and colleague and collaborator.
• Unit 3, "Processes Guiding Professional Practice," focuses on processes used in professional nursing practice, including communication process, change process, group process, and the use of technology and informatics.
• Unit 4, "Professional Nursing in a Changing Health Care Delivery System," includes chapters devoted to nursing in an evolving health care delivery system, health care economics, providing care in the home and community, nursing in a culture of violence, and nursing in a culturally and spiritually diverse world.
• Unit 5, "Into the New Millennium," looks at the future of nurses and nursing. It includes chapters on advanced nursing education and practice, and visions for the future of nursing.

We hope this book helps learners from diverse backgrounds appreciate the proud heritage of professional nursing, understand what is meant by professional, view nursing as a profession, and develop knowledge and abilities that will contribute to the advancement of the profession. In addition, we hope the knowledge gained will help nurses provide quality care in a constantly changing health care system.

Editorial Reviews

3 Stars from Doody