Professional nursing : concepts & challenges /
Chitty, Kay Kittrell.
Professional nursing : concepts & challenges / Kay Kittrell Chitty - 4th edition. - St. Louis, Mo. : Saunders/Elsevier, c2005. - xvi, 654 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Chapter 1 Professional Nursing Comes of Age: 1859-2004
Chapter 2 Educational Patterns in Nursing
Chapter 3 The Social Context for Nursing
Chapter 4 Professional Associations
Chapter 5 Nursing Today
Chapter 6 The Professionalization of Nursing
Chapter 7 Defining Nursing and Nursing's Scope of Practice
Chapter 8 Professional Socialization
Chapter 9 Philosophies of Nursing
Chapter 10 Major Concepts in Nursing
Chapter 11 Nursing Theory: The Basis for Professional Nursing
Chapter 12 The Scientific Method, Nursing Research, and Evidence-Based Practice
Chapter 13 The Health Care Delivery System
Chapter 14 Nursing Roles in the Health Care Delivery System
Chapter 15 Critical Thinking, The Nursing Process, and Clinical Judgement
Chapter 16 Financing Health Care
Chapter 17 Illness and Culture: Impact on Patients, Families, and Nurses
Chapter 18 Communication and Collaboration in Nursing
Chapter 19 Nursing Ethics
Chapter 20 Legal Aspects of Nursing
Chapter 21 Nurses and Political Action
Chapter 22 Nursing's Future Challenges
9780721606958 0721606954
Nursing--Practice--Textbooks.
WY 16 C543p 2005
Professional nursing : concepts & challenges / Kay Kittrell Chitty - 4th edition. - St. Louis, Mo. : Saunders/Elsevier, c2005. - xvi, 654 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Chapter 1 Professional Nursing Comes of Age: 1859-2004
Chapter 2 Educational Patterns in Nursing
Chapter 3 The Social Context for Nursing
Chapter 4 Professional Associations
Chapter 5 Nursing Today
Chapter 6 The Professionalization of Nursing
Chapter 7 Defining Nursing and Nursing's Scope of Practice
Chapter 8 Professional Socialization
Chapter 9 Philosophies of Nursing
Chapter 10 Major Concepts in Nursing
Chapter 11 Nursing Theory: The Basis for Professional Nursing
Chapter 12 The Scientific Method, Nursing Research, and Evidence-Based Practice
Chapter 13 The Health Care Delivery System
Chapter 14 Nursing Roles in the Health Care Delivery System
Chapter 15 Critical Thinking, The Nursing Process, and Clinical Judgement
Chapter 16 Financing Health Care
Chapter 17 Illness and Culture: Impact on Patients, Families, and Nurses
Chapter 18 Communication and Collaboration in Nursing
Chapter 19 Nursing Ethics
Chapter 20 Legal Aspects of Nursing
Chapter 21 Nurses and Political Action
Chapter 22 Nursing's Future Challenges
9780721606958 0721606954
Nursing--Practice--Textbooks.
WY 16 C543p 2005