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. Build upon your prior nursing experiences with all of the concepts you need to progress from RN to BSN and beyond. From new and timely topics such as the Joint Commission’s safety initiatives to health care reform and global issues, this text is ideal for pursuing ongoing education and reaching the next level of professional practice.

Thoroughly revised and updated, the 5th Edition encourages you, the practicing nurse, to master the theories that are changing nursing. Apply them to the situations you’ll encounter in practice today… and to the challenges in which you’ll play a pivotal role in facing as a nurse tomorrow.

Perfect for both classroom-based and online courses!

• Interactive exercises online at DavisPlus.
• Coverage of Joint Commission initiatives and roles in accreditation.
• Issues from the American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE) and magnet status.
• Discussions on delegation and how it relates to the management of unlicensed assistive personnel.
• All of the critical components of professional nursing practice, including effective communication, professional ethics, leadership, group theory, teaching/ learning, and multicultural issues.
• Quantum physics theory and its relevance to nursing care.
• Nanotechnology and genomics and how they affect nursing.
• Data element sets and terminologies recognized by ANA.
• Staffing issues related to safety.
• Coverage of domestic violence issues.

1. Professional Bases for Practice
   1. Your Professional Identity
   2. Theory as the Basis for Practice?
   3. Evolution and Use of Formal Nursing Knowledge
   4. Health, Illness, and Holism
   5. Evidence-Based Practice
2. Critical Abilities in Professional Nursing Practice
   6. Effective Communication
   7. Critical Thinking
   8. Working with Groups
   9. Teaching-Learning Process
   10. Managing and Leading in the Organization
   11. Change and Innovation
   12. Professional Ethics
3. Quality Care for Individuals, Families & Groups
   13. Quality and Safety in Health Care
   14. Healthy Initiatives for At-Risk Population
   15. Informatics and Documenting Outcomes
   16. Healthcare Economics
   17. The Politically Active Nurse: An Imperative
4. Envisioning the Future
   18. Healthcare Reform and Global Issues
   19. Expanding the Vision
Appendices:

1. Professional Nursing Organizations
2. Nursing Diagnoses Categorized by Major Functional Health Patterns
3. Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC) and Nursing Outcomes Classifications Systems

• New chapter, Health Care Reform and Global Issues addresses healthcare reform and the related issues being debated in both legislative and professional areas that have major implications for the nursing profession.
• Chapter, Managing and Leading in the Organization looks at organizational characteristics and the skills needed to effectively manage and lead within that setting. Includes discussion of delegation principles.
• Chapter, Quality and Safety Improvements in Health Care is in line with the national initiatives driving the improvements!
• Chapter, Health, Illness, and Holism chapter delves further into models of health and illness with a focus on culture and literacy
• Chapter, Evidence-Based Practice focuses on use of known and evolving knowledge replaces tradition as health care focuses on guidelines and documented evidence for efficacy of care.
• More increased focus on collaborative practice issues in which effective communication and critical thinking are key.
• More coverage of nursing taxonomies and the use of Electronic Health Records.
• More increased emphasis on classification systems.
• New American Nurses Association (ANA) standards.
• New NIC & NOC Appendix.