F.A. Davis Company

Advance your career to the next level of professional practice with the guidance you’ll find in the New Edition of this popular text. Here are all the concepts you need to progress from RN to BSN and beyond—from new and timely topics such as quantum physics and genomics and how they are influencing the delivery of care to domestic violence and the potential impact of bioterrorism.

Carefully constructed interactive exercises in the book and on the web help you to use all of your current knowledge to master the theories that are changing nursing practice today...and help you to apply them in the real world.

Perfect for both classroom-based and online courses!

• Focuses specifically on practicing nurses returning to school to advance their careers. 
• Includes interactive exercises in the book and online. Adds a new chapter, Protecting the Populace, with expanded coverage on community health issues, including bioterrorism. 
• Offers web resources to demonstrate how to access effectively the Internet for more information. 
• Discusses delegation and how it relates to the management of unlicensed assistive personnel. 
• Encompasses all of the critical components of professional nursing practice, including effective communication, professional ethics, leadership, group theory, teaching/ learning, and multicultural issues. 
• Provides web links to important nursing and governmental web sites. 
• Web-based student learning activities for each chapter and a web-based Instructor’s Guide. 

I. Introduction

1. Professional Nursing Practice

2. Coping with Returning to School

II. Theoretical Basis of Nursing Practice

3. Theory Development

4. Evolution and Use of Formal Nursing Knowledge

5. Health & Illness Models

6. Evidence-Based Practice

III. Critical Components of Professional

Nursing Practice

7. Effective Communication

8. Working with Groups

9. Critical Thinking

10. Teaching and Learning

11. Leadership

12. Management in Organizations

13. Change

14. Professional Ethics

IV. Providing Care to Individuals, Families & Groups

15. Managing and Providing Care

16. Healthy Initiatives for At-Risk Populations

17. Quality Improvements in Health Care

18. Informatics

19. Health Care Economics

20. Protecting the Populace

21. The Politically Active Nurse

V. Envisioning the Future

22. Nursing Health Care Agenda

23. Expanding the Vision

Appendix A. Professional Nursing Organizations

Appendix B. Nursing Interventions/Outcomes Classification (NIC-NOC)

I. Introduction

II. Theoretical Basis of Nursing Practice

III. Critical Components of Professional

Nursing Practice

IV. Providing Care to Individuals, Families & Groups

V. Envisioning the Future

Appendix A. Professional Nursing Organizations

Appendix B. Nursing Interventions/Outcomes Classification (NIC-NOC)

• Quantum physics theory and its relevance to nursing care.
• Nanotechnology and genomics and how they affect nursing.
• The American Organization of Nurse Executives and magnet status.
• Increased focus on data element sets and terminologies recognized by ANA and staffing issues related to safety.
• Updated Healthy People 2010.
• Coverage of domestic violence issues.
• JCAHO initiatives.
• Bioterrorism and population protection.
• More web-based learning activities.