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Conceptual Bases of Professional Nursing

ISBN: 9780397552771 | 0397552777
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Pub. Date: 3/1/1998

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SummaryTable of Contents
Widener Univ., Chester, PA. Brandon/Hill Nursing first-purchase selection. Comprehensive overview of issues and trends shaping today's nursing practice. For registered nurses in BSN completion programs. Previous edition: c1993. Softcover. 3 U.S. contributors. DNLM: Nursing.
SECTION 1 The Dynamics of Professional Development1(124)
1 The Professional Nurse
3(20)
Characteristics of a Profession
4... MORE
The Professional Nurse
11(12)
2 Contextual and Philosophic Elements of Nursing
23(28)
The Contextual Basis of Nursing Practice
24(3)
The Philosophic Basis of Nursing Practice
27(2)
Major Contextual Elements Affecting Nursing Practice
29(14)
Morality in Nursing Practice
43(4)
Developing a Personal Philosophy of Nursing
47(4)
3 Dynamics in the Development of Professional Nursing
51(24)
The 1860s to 1960s
52(11)
The 1960s to 1990s
63(12)
4 Socialization for Professional Practice
75(22)
Socialization Processes
76(5)
Initial Socialization Into Nursing
81(1)
Resocialization in the Work Setting
82(4)
Resocialization Through Education
86(11)
5 Development and Care of the Professional Self-Concept
97(28)
Theoretical Basis of Self-Concept: Interaction
99(2)
The Professional Self
101(14)
Professional Identity and Image
115(3)
The Professional Self-System and Career Development
118(2)
Care of the Professional Self-System
120(5)
SECTION 2 The Knowledge Bases of Professional Practice125(122)
6 Patterns of Knowing and Nursing Science
127(16)
The Evolution of Scientific Thought
128(3)
Philosophy of Knowledge
131(2)
Patterns of Nursing Knowledge
133(5)
The Development of Nursing Science
138(5)
7 Research Processes and Utilization
143(22)
Research Processes in Nursing
145(8)
Utilization of Nursing Research
153(8)
Creating a Public Image of the Nurse as Scholar
161(4)
8 Nursing Models and Theories
165(36)
Value of Theories for Nursing
166(1)
Models of Nursing
166(2)
The Stability Model of Change
168(10)
The Growth Model of Change
178(16)
Research Related to Models of Nursing
194(7)
9 Processes of Professional Nursing
201(26)
Cognitive Nursing Processes
203(17)
Interpersonal Processes
220(3)
Patterning Processes
223(4)
10 The Health Process
227(20)
Worldviews of Health
228(5)
Health Protection and Promotion
233(10)
Health Patterning
243(1)
Implications of the Nurse's View of Health for Role Performance
244(3)
SECTION 3 The Changing Health Care Context247(52)
11 The Health Care Delivery System
249(26)
Historic Development
250(3)
Forces Influencing Change in the Health Care Delivery System
253(7)
Changes in the Health Care Delivery System and Their Implications for Nursing
260(15)
12 The Professional Nurse's Role in Public Policy
275(24)
Lucy J. Hood
The Nurse's Role in Influencing Public Policy
276(14)
Current Political Issues Affecting the Practice of Nursing and Health Care
290(9)
SECTION 4 Professional Practice Strategies299
13 The Professional Nursing Role With Family and Community Clients
301(24)
The Individual as Client
303(1)
The Family as Client
303(14)
The Community as Client
317(8)
14 Accountability in the Next Millenium
325(24)
Susan E. Gordon
Definition of Accountability and Related Concepts
326(3)
Accountability of a Profession
329(6)
The Groundwork for Accountability
335(4)
Accountability in an Era of Cost Containment
339(2)
Accountability in the Future
341(1)
The Positive Aspects of Accountability
342(1)
A Checklist for Accountability
343(6)
15 Communication: Helping Relationships
349(32)
Communication as Interaction
350(14)
Helping Relationships--The Nurse as Helper
364(11)
Healing Relationships--The Nurse's Role in Healing
375(6)
16 The Process of Teaching and Learning
381(20)
Philosophic Assumptions About Teaching-Learning
383(4)
The Traditional Teaching-Learning Process
387(2)
Teaching-Learning as a Responsibility of the Advocate
389(2)
Learning Theories
391(3)
Implications of Change Theory for Teaching-Learning
394(2)
Communication Strategies in the Teaching-Learning Process
396(5)
17 Leadership of Client Care
401(30)
Changing Views on Leadership
402(1)
Current Perspectives on Leadership
402(17)
The Nurse as Leader
419(12)
18 Management of Client Care
431(22)
Client Care Management Skills
432(17)
Management of Quality in Client Care
449(4)
19 Future Perspectives
453
Carol R. Sando
Future Scenarios
454(2)
Changes in Health Care and Health Care Delivery
456(2)
Changes in Nursing Education
458(4)
Nursing Scholarship
462

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