Professional Nursing: Concepts & Challenges (Chitty, Professional Nursing; Concepts and Challenges)

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1) Paperback Book Professional Nursing: Concepts & Challenges (Chitty, Professional Nursing; Concepts and Challenges) by Saunders. Overall this is an interesting text with good information. I have definately read text material for class that is more dry. It is relatively simple reading.
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2) Paperback Book Professional Nursing: Concepts & Challenges (Chitty, Professional Nursing; Concepts and Challenges) by Saunders. An ideal choice for anyone who wants to gain a professional edge in the world of nursing today, the latest edition of this popular book introduces you to the issues and trends you´re likely to encounter in any practice setting. Each stand-alone chapter introduces and explores a specific topic, enabling them to be read in any order. You´ll find insightful discussions of professionalization in nursing, standards and scope of practice, socialization and nursing theories surrounding the profession, critical thinking, research and evidence-based practice, the health care delivery system, and professional associations and political action facing nurses. Additionally, thought provoking questions, practical strategies, real-life scenarios, self-assessments, and personal viewpoints and interviews help you extend and apply the ideas presented.

• Critical Thinking Challenges and self-development activities help you develop your applied knowledge skills, guide your professional socialization initiatives, and envision your personal philosophy of nursing.
• Case studies identify the professional behaviors demonstrated, in a column adjacent to that behavior mentioned in the text.
• Interviews with established and respected professional nurses offer their perspectives on current issues facing the nursing profession today.
• Evidence-Based Practice Notes offer descriptions of relevant studies to show the importance of evidence-based practice and insights that nursing research provides.
• News Notes compile excerpts from general press resources to illustrate public perceptions of nurses and the nursing profession.
• Where appropriate, historical notes supplement and enhance chapter content.

• Updated content throughout includes discussions on collective bargaining, the status of the Nursing Doctorate Degree, the faculty shortage, nursing theorists, evidence-based practice, critical thinking, spirituality and caring, and death and dying.
• Additional content has been added to this edition on Aiken studies, the impact of computerized records, alternative/complementary care, Bloom´s taxonomy to domains of learning, crisis intervention, adult teaching learning principles, delegation and stress, and the Patient Self-Determination Act.
• Cultural Consideration Challenges weave a common thread of cultural diversity throughout the book for sensitive patient care.
• Additional clinical examples throughout help improve your understanding of concepts.
• Bolded key terms integrated into the narrative of every chapter familiarize you with terminology presented in the context of the discussion.
• A revised glossary includes additional words and phrases beyond the key terms in each chapter, to improve your general understanding.

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