F.A. Davis Company

Prepare your students for the rapidly evolving world in which they will practice. The thoroughly revised and updated 5th Edition of this popular text examines the issues and trends that are shaping the profession of nursing…now and in the future. The author explores the evolution and history of nursing, and examines the impact of reform, the legal system, and politics. New information and updates are posted online annually to keep the text current.

• NCLEX coverage appears in two chapters—the first gives an overviewof smart test-taking tips and the other focuses specifically on the NCLEX.
• Reality Shock in the Workplace offers practical information that students can really use to...prepare a professional resume that gets results • fine tune their interviewing skills • and prepare a portfolio.
• Chapters on nursing research and evidence-based practice.
• Discussions of the new clinical nurse leader concept, advanced practice nursing, and developing specialties like forensic and travel nursing.
• “Writing pads” to answer the questions in the “What do you think?” boxes.

1. The Development of a Profession
2. Historical Perspectives
3. The Evolution of Licensure, Certification, and Nursing Organizations
4. Theories and Models of Nursing
5. The Process of Educating Nurses
6. Critical Thinking

II. Making the Transition to Professional

7. Ethics in Nursing
8. Bioethical Issues
9. Nursing Law and Liability
10. How to Take and Pass Tests
11. NCLEX: What You Need to Know
12. Reality Shock in the Workplace

III. Leading and Managing

13. Principles of Leadership and Management
14. Communicating Successfully
15. Delegation and Supervision in Nursing
16. Collective Bargaining and Governance
17. The Health Care Delivery System
18. Nursing Informatics

IV. Issues in Delivering Care

19. The Politically Active Nurse
20. Spirituality and Health Care
21. Cultural Diversity
22. Developments in Current Nursing Practice
23. Teaching Learning Theory
24. Nursing Research and Evidence-Based Practice
25. Alternative and Complementary Healing Practices

• New chapter, Teaching Learning Theory
• Up-to-date information on complementary/alternative therapies, sexual harassment/violence in the workplace, and nursing policy development.
• Expanded coverage of disasters, including biological and psychosocial terrorism.