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This vibrant full-color issues and trends text presents basic concepts underlying professional nursing along with contemporary issues affecting the profession, including educational preparation, health care finance, legal responsibilities, and ethics/bioethics. Critical Thinking exercises are embedded throughout the chapters. Key terms and concepts are highlighted in bold. The Eighth Edition features focus questions, more leadership and management content, web resources, and updated cartoon images. Instructor's resources include a CD-ROM with an instructor's manual, test generator and the "Connection" Website, connection.LWW.com/go/ellis .

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• Unit I Economic and Political Aspects of Health Care Delivery(p. 1)
• 1 Understanding the Health Care Environment(p. 3)
• Classification of Health Care Agencies(p. 4)
• Understanding Today's Hospital(p. 9)
• The Long-Term Care Facility(p. 12)
• Ambulatory Care Settings(p. 15)
• Community Agencies(p. 16)
• Colleagues in Health Care(p. 18)
• Complementary and Alternative Health Care(p. 24)
• 2 Health Care Finance and Control(p. 35)
• Financing Health Care for Individuals(p. 37)
• Patterns of Payment(p. 45)
• Cost Control in Health Care(p. 49)
• Access to Health Care(p. 56)
• Accreditation of Health Care Institutions and Agencies(p. 58)
• Evaluation of Health Care(p. 59)
• Power in the Health Care System(p. 62)
• Implications for Nurses(p. 65)
• 3 The Political Process and the Nursing Profession(p. 69)
• Relevance of the Political Process for Nurses(p. 70)
• Influencing the Political Process(p. 71)
• The Federal Government's Role in Health Care(p. 82)
• The State Government's Role in Health Care(p. 85)
• Local Political Concerns(p. 87)
• Health Care Reform(p. 87)
• Nursing Organizations(p. 88)
• Unit II Appreciating the Development of Nursing as a Profession(p. 105)
• 4 Exploring Nursing's Origins(p. 106)
• Health Care in Ancient Cultures(p. 107)
• Historical Perspectives of Nursing(p. 115)
• The Nightingale Influence(p. 124)
• The Military Influence(p. 125)
• Early Schools in the United States(p. 133)
• The Beginning of Nursing Organizations(p. 138)
• The Development of Hospitals and Nursing Homes in the United States(p. 141)
• 5 The Development of Nursing as a Profession(p. 148)
• Nursing Defined(p. 150)
• Characteristics of a Profession(p. 156)
• Differentiating Between the Terms "Profession" and "Professional"(p. 161)
• The Image of Nursing Today(p. 162)
• Nursing's Image and the Nursing Shortage(p. 165)
• Studies For and About Nursing(p. 167)
• Defining a Language for Nursing(p. 175)
• Traditions in Nursing(p. 181)
• 6 Educational Preparation for Nursing(p. 191)
• The Nursing Assistant(p. 193)
• Practical Nurse Education(p. 194)
• Diploma Education(p. 196)
• Associate Degree Education(p. 197)
• Baccalaureate Education(p. 201)
• Master's and Doctoral Programs That Prepare for Licensure(p. 203)
• Similarities Among Entry-Level Programs(p. 205)
• Other Forms of Nursing Education(p. 208)
• Nursing Education at the Graduate Level(p. 212)
• Articulated Programs(p. 213)
• Nondegree Programs(p. 214)
• Residencies and Structured Orientation for the New Graduate(p. 215)
• Factors Influencing Nursing Education(p. 216)
• The American Nurses Association Position Paper(p. 218)
• Differentiated Practice(p. 222)
• Forces for Change in Nursing Education(p. 225)
• Continuing Education(p. 229)
• Unit III Legal and Ethical Responsibility and Accountability for Practice(p. 237)
• 7 Credentials for Health Care Providers(p. 238)
• Types of Credentials in Health Care(p. 239)
• Nursing Licensure in the United States(p. 243)
• Obtaining a Nursing License(p. 252)
• Multistate Licensure(p. 257)
• Revocation or Limitation of a License(p. 259)
• Sunset Laws(p. 260)
• Licensure of Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools(p. 261)
• International Nursing Licensure(p. 262)
• Certification in Nursing(p. 262)
• The Future of Credentialing in Health Care(p. 267)
• 8 Legal Responsibilities for Practice(p. 272)
• Understanding the Scope of the Law(p. 273)
• Sources of Law(p. 274)
• Other Factors Affecting Legal Decisions(p. 276)
• Classification of Laws(p. 278)
• Criminal Law and Nursing(p. 279)
• Civil Law and Nursing(p. 280)
• Liability(p. 283)
• Liability Insurance(p. 286)
• National Data Bank(p. 289)
• Legal Issues Common in Nursing(p. 289)
• Factors That Contribute to Malpractice Claims(p. 302)
• Preventing Malpractice Claims(p. 304)
• Elements of a Legal Action(p. 306)
• The Nurse as Witness(p. 307)
• 9 Ethical Concerns in Nursing Practice(p. 312)
• Understanding the Concept of Ethics(p. 313)
• Basic Ethical Concepts(p. 316)
• Ethical Theories(p. 322)
• Factors That Influence Ethical Decision-Making(p. 322)
• Factors in the Work Environment That Affect Ethical Decision-Making(p. 335)
• A Framework for Ethical Decision-Making(p. 337)
• Specific Ethical Issues Related to the Profession of Nursing(p. 339)
• The Chemically Impaired Professional(p. 349)
• Boundary Violations(p. 353)
• 10 Bioethical Issues in Health Care(p. 358)
• Major Areas Where Bioethics Are Applied(p. 359)
• Bioethical Issues Related to the Beginning of Life(p. 362)
• Bioethical Issues Concerning Death(p. 376)
• Bioethical Concerns Related to Sustaining Quality of Life(p. 388)
• Other Bioethical Issues(p. 398)
• Unit IV Career Opportunities and Professional Growth(p. 407)
• 11 Beginning Your Career as a Nurse(p. 409)
• Employment Opportunities Today(p. 410)
• Competencies of the New Graduate(p. 412)
• Personal Career Goals(p. 416)
• Making Goals Reality(p. 418)
• Problems Experienced by Nurses in the Workplace(p. 434)
• Discrimination in Nursing(p. 441)
• Workplace Safety and Health for Nurses(p. 446)
• 12 Preparing for Workplace Participation(p. 454)
• Understanding Organizations(p. 456)
• Organizational Relationships(p. 458)
• Shared Governance(p. 463)
• Patterns of Nursing Care Delivery(p. 464)
• Collective Bargaining(p. 468)
• 13 Initiating the Leadership/Management Role(p. 490)
• Understanding Leadership and Management(p. 491)
• Understanding Accountability and Authority(p. 492)
• The Concept of Power(p. 497)
• Developing Your Leadership Style(p. 502)
• Communicating Effectively(p. 504)
• Using Communication Skills in the Leadership Role(p. 505)
• Performance Appraisal(p. 507)
• Time Management(p. 513)
• 14 Working With Others for Patient Care(p. 519)
• Transdisciplinary Health Care(p. 520)
• Team Building(p. 526)
• Motivating Others(p. 528)
• Delegating(p. 530)
• Managing Change(p. 537)
• Managing Conflict(p. 542)
• Appendix A Commonly Used Acronyms(p. 551)
• Index(p. 555)

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Janice Rider Ellis, RN, PhD: Professor of Nursing Director of Nursing Education Shoreline Community College Seattle, Washington
Celia Love Hartley, RN, MN: Professor Emerita College of the Desert Palm Desert, California Curriculum Consultant Camano Island, Washington