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Professional nursing practice : concepts and perspectives / by Blais, Kathleen.; Hayes, Janice S.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Beginning the journey -- Socialization to professional nursing roles -- Historical foundations of professional nursing -- Ethical foundations of professional nursing -- Legal foundations of professional nursing -- Knowledge development in nursing -- The nurse as health promoter and care provider -- The nurse as learner and teacher -- The nurse as leader and manager -- The nurse's role in evidence-based health care -- The nurse's role in quality and safety -- The nurse's role as political advocate -- The nurse as colleague and collaborator -- Communicating effectively -- Managing change -- Technology and informatics -- Nursing in an evolving health care delivery system -- Providing care in home and community -- Global health -- Dimensions of holistic health care -- Nursing in a culturally diverse world -- Nursing in a spiritually diverse world -- Nursing in a culture of violence -- Advanced nursing education and practice -- The future of nursing.
Subjects: Nursing; Nursing.; Nurse's Role.; Nursing Theory.;
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Community as partner : theory and practice in nursing / by Anderson, Elizabeth T.; McFarlane, Judith M.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Community health nursing.; Community Health Nursing.; Health Promotion.; Nurse's Role.; Nursing Theory.;
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Success in practical/vocational nursing : from student to leader / by Knecht, Patricia(Patricia A.).; Hill, Signe S.Success in practical/vocational nursing.Preceded by (work):;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Personal resources of an adult learner -- Academic resources (study skills and test strategies) -- Community resources -- How practical/ vocational nursing evolved : 1836 to present -- Critical thinking : a lifelong journey -- Ethics applied to nursing : personal versus professional ethics -- Nursing and the law : what are the rules? -- Effective communication : health care team, patients, faculty, and peers -- Assertiveness : your responsibility -- Cultural uniqueness, sensitivity, and competence -- Spiritual needs, spiritual caring, and religious differences -- Nursing process : your role -- Nursing theory, research, and evidence-based practice -- The interdisciplinary health care team : the role of the practical/vocational nurse -- Health care settings : continuum of care -- The health care system : financing, issues, and trends -- Collaboration : leading and managing -- Work force trends : how to find a first job you will love -- Licensure and regulation : becoming licensed and understanding your state nurse practice act.
Subjects: Practical nursing; Nursing, Practical.; Nurse's Role.; Nursing Theory.; Vocational Guidance.;
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Fundamentals of nursing care : [electronic resource] : Concepts, connections & skills. by Burton, Marti.;
Think. Learn. Do.Take a fresh, new approach to nursing fundamentals that teaches students how to think, learn, and do while they make the 'connections' each step of the way. The thoroughly revised and updated 2nd Edition continues to meet the needs of today's students. A practical, student-oriented focus helps LPN students to master safe and effective nursing care by developing the critical thinking and problem solving skills they need to excel in clinical practice.Electronic reproduction.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Nursing; Nursing Care.; Ethics, Nursing.; Nurse's Role.; Nurse-Patient Relations.; Nursing Process.; Nonfiction.; Medical.;
© 2014.,
On-line resources: http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=130119&titleID=2020315 -- Click to access digital title in OverDrive.;
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Leddy & Pepper's professional nursing / by Hood, Lucy J.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Leddy & Pepper's Professional Nursing, 10th 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-for both pre- and post-licensure nursing students. 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"--The Professional Nurse -- The History Behind the Development of Professional Nursing -- Contextual, Philosophical, and Ethical Elements of Professional Nursing -- Establishing Helping and Healing Relationships -- The Health Process and Self-Care of the Nurse -- Patterns of Knowing and Nursing Science -- Nursing Models and Theories -- Professional Nursing Processes -- Health Care Delivery Systems -- Developing and Using Nursing Knowledge Through Research -- Multicultural Issues in Professional Practice -- Professional Nurse Accountability -- Environmental and Global Health -- Informatics and Technology in Nursing Practice -- Nursing Approaches to Client Systems -- The Professional Nurse's Role in Teaching and Learning -- Leadership and Management in Professional Nursing -- Quality Improvement : Enhancing Patient Safety and Health Care Quality -- The Professional Nurse's Role in Public Policy -- Career Options for Professional Nurses -- Development of a Professional Nursing Career -- Shaping the Future of Nursing.
Subjects: Nursing.; Nursing; Nursing Theory; Nurse's Role; Nursing; Philosophy, Nursing;
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Your first year as a nurse : making the transition from total novice to successful professional / by Cardillo, Donna Wilk,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."This classic primer takes nurses inside the hospital, the exam room, and the locker room to help you survive and thrive on the job--now updated for the post-pandemic world. 'A must-read guide for new nurses and even those who have been practicing for years'--Echo Heron, R.N., New York Times bestselling author of Intensive Care. In this thorough, readable guide, Donna Cardillo, known as 'The Inspiration Nurse,' pulls back the curtain on what it's really like for first-year nurses, with practical tips for navigating the healthcare system as a new member of the workforce in a world that looks vastly different from ever before. Drawing on her thirty-year nursing career and brand-new insights and perspectives from real healthcare workers, Cardillo shows nurses how to use the principles of self-care, assertiveness, and mindfulness to navigate the interpersonal dynamics that are so key to nursing success and preserve their own longevity in the field. New graduates, second-career nurses, and healthcare workers of all kinds will learn to: find a job that's a perfect fit; navigate clinical settings with confidence; develop positive relationships with physicians, patients, and co-workers; stay upbeat, deal with conflict and adversity, and avoid burnout. With newly updated material on holistic patient care, empowerment, wellness practices, and cultivating resilience, Your First Year as a Nurse is an essential guide for nurses and healthcare workers looking to survive and thrive in today's health-services lands cape"
Subjects: Nursing; Nursing.; Vocational qualifications.; Vocational guidance.; Nursing; Nurse's Role; Professional Competence; Vocational Guidance;
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Prioritization, delegation, and assignment : practice exercises for the NCLEX examination / by LaCharity, Linda A.,author.; Kumagai, Candice K.,author.; Bartz, Barbara,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.Pain -- Cancer -- Immunologic problems -- Fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base balance problems -- Safety and infection control -- Respiratory problems -- Cardiovascular problems -- Hematologic problems -- Neurologic problems -- Visual and auditory problems -- Musculoskeletal problems -- Gastrointestinal and nutritional problems -- Diabetes mellitus -- Other endocrine problems -- Integumentary problems -- Renal and urinary problems -- Reproductive problems -- Problems in pregnancy and childbearing -- Pediatric problems -- Pharmacology -- Emergencies and disasters -- Psychiatric-mental health problems -- Chest pressure, indigestion, and nausea -- Dyspnea and shortness of breath -- Multiple clients on a medical-surgical unit -- Shortness of breath, edema, and decreased urine output -- Diabetic ketoacidosis -- Home health -- Spinal cord injury -- Multiple patients with adrenal gland disorders -- Multiple clients with gastrointestinal problems -- Multiple patients with pain -- Multiple clients with cancer -- Gastointestinal bleeding -- Head and leg trauma and shock -- Septic shock -- Heart failure -- Multiple patients with peripheral vascular disease -- Respiratory difficulty after surgery -- Long-term care -- Pediatric clients in clinic and acute care settings -- Multiple patients with mental health disorders -- Childbearing.Introduction -- Prioritization, delegation, and assignment in common health scenarios -- Prioritization, delegation, and assignment in complex health scenarios.The most successful method of approaching nursing is to maintain a focus on the outcomes that the patients and their families want to achieve. This study guide is deigned to help students, novice nurses, and seasoned nurses apply concepts of prioritization, delegation, and assignment to nursing practice in today's patient care settings. -- adapted from text.
Subjects: Nursing; Nursing Care.; Delegation, Professional.; Nurse's Role.; Decision Making.;
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Saving lives : why the media's portrayal of nursing puts us all at risk / by Summers, Sandy.; Summers, Harry,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."For millions of people worldwide, nurses are the difference between life and death, self-sufficiency and dependency, hope and despair. But a lack of understanding of what nurses really do -- one perpetuated by popular media's portrayal of nurses as simplistic archetypes -- has devalued the profession and contributed to a global shortage that constitutes a public health crisis. Today, the thin ranks of the nursing workforce contribute to countless preventable deaths. This fully updated and expanded edition of Saving Lives highlights the essential roles nurses play in contemporary health care and how this role is marginalized by contemporary culture. Through engaging prose and examples drawn from television, advertising, and news coverage, the authors detail the media's role in reinforcing stereotypes that fuel the nursing shortage and devalue a highly educated sector of the contemporary workforce. Perhaps most important, the authors provide a wealth of ideas to help reinvigorate the nursing field and correct this imbalance. As American health care undergoes its greatest overhaul in decades, the practical role of nurses -- that as autonomous, highly skilled practitioners -- has never been more important. Accordingly, Saving Lives addresses both the sources of, and prescription for, misperceptions surrounding contemporary nursing"--Foreword by Echo Heron -- Introduction -- Part one: Dangerous ignorance: Why our understanding of nursing matters -- Chapter 1: Who are nurses and where have they gone? -- Chapter 2: How nursing's image affects your health -- Part two: The great divide: the media versus real nursing -- Chapter 3: Could monkeys Be nurses? -- Chapter 4: Yes, doctor! No, doctor! -- Chapter 5: The naughtiest nurse -- Chapter 6: Who wants yesterday's girl? -- Chapter 7: You are my angel -- Chapter 8: Winning the battle-axe, losing the war -- Chapter 9: Advanced practice nurses: skilled professionals or cut-rate physician -- Part Three: Seeking better understanding of nursing-and better health care -- Chapter 10: How we can all improve understanding of nursing -- Chapter 11: How nurses can improve their own image
Subjects: Nursing; Nurses; Nursing; Mass Media.; Nurse's Role.; Nurse-Patient Relations.; Public Relations.;
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LPN to RN transitions : achieving success in your new role / by Harrington, Nicki.; Terry, Cynthia Lee,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Lifelong learning : returning to school -- Role development and transition -- Adapting to change -- Transitions throughout nursing's history -- Learning at the ADN level -- Individualizing a plan for role transition -- Test success for the LPN : challenge of NCLEX-RN questions -- Practicing within regulatory frameworks -- Critical thinking, clinical reasoning, and clinical judgment in nursing -- The nursing process : assessment and caring interventions -- The nurse as communicator -- The nurse as teacher -- Managing unique client care -- Managing time, conflict, and the nursing environment -- Professional responsibilities -- Legal accountability -- Ethical issues.Confidently return to academic life and prepare for the rigor of registered nursing programs with this proven guide to personal and professional achievement. [From publisher's description].
Subjects: Nursing; Practical nurses.; Nursing.; Career Mobility.; Nurse's Role.; Nurses;
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American nursing : a history of knowledge, authority, and the meaning of work / by D'Antonio, Patricia,1955-;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Nursing and physicians in nineteenth-century Philadelphia -- Competence, coolness, courage, and control -- They went nursing, in early twentieth-century America -- Wives, mothers, and nurses -- Race, place, and professional identity -- A tale of two associations : White and African American nurses in North Carolina -- Who is a nurse?This original interpretation of the history of nursing in the United States captures the many ways women reframed the most traditional of all gender expectations, that of caring for the sick, to create new possibilities for themselves, to renegotiate the terms of their life experiences, and to reshape their own sense of worth and power. For much of modern U.S. history, nursing was informal, often uncompensated, and almost wholly the province of female family and community members. This began to change at the end of the nineteenth century when the prospect of formal training opened for women doors that had been previously closed. Nurses became respected professionals, and becoming a formally trained nurse granted women a range of new social choices and opportunities that eventually translated into economic mobility and stability. In this book the author looks closely at this history, using a new analytic framework and archival sources, and finds complex, multiple meanings in the individual choices of women who elected a nursing career. New relationships and social and professional options empowered nurses in constructing consequential lives, supporting their families, and participating both in their communities and in the health care system. Narrating the experiences of nurses, she captures the possibilities, power, and problems inherent in the different ways women defined their work and lived their lives. For scholars in the history of medicine, nursing, and public policy, those interested in the intersections of identity, work, gender, education, and race, and nurses.
Subjects: Nursing; History of Nursing.; Nurse's Role; History, 19th Century.; History, 20th Century.;
© ©2010., Johns Hopkins University Press,
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