2015 LWW Nursing Education Catalogue

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Leddy&Pepper’sConceptualBasesofProfessionalNursing, EighthEdition LucyHood 978-1-4511-8792-2 •October2013 • Softbound • 7” x10” •640pp.

Succeed in your course and prepare to enter the nursing profession with this easy to read and highly practical text. This Eighth Edition of Leddy&Pepper’sConceptualBasesofProfessionalNursing provides a broad overview of the nursing profession, addressing philosophical, developmental, sociocultural, environmental, political, health care delivery, and leadership issues vital for career enhancement. The authorscoverprofessionalnursing rolesandclientcare issues, stimulate you to learn more about presented content, and present strategies that will help you deal with the emotional and ethical dimensions of professional practice. Features • NEW! Additional clinical scenarios havebeenadded tohelp students seehow chapter concepts areapplied in clinical settings. • NEW! Anonline Interactive LiteratureAssessmentTool guides students througha seriesof application-level questionsdesigned to challenge them to think criticallyabout the relationshipbetween timely issues and trendsdiscussed in current journal articles and their futurenursingpracticeandprofessional identity.Answers can be recorded, printed, ande-mailed to instructors. • NEW! Hood’s ProfessionalNurseContributionsModel, introduced in thefirst chapter and referred to throughout, synthesizes the affective, cognitive, behavioral, andpsychomotordomainsof professional practice tohelp students explore theever-changing, highly complex, and sometimes chaotic environmentof nursing practice today. • NEW! Thebookhas beenupdated inevery chapter to reflect the latest advances in thefield. • EXTENSIVELYREVISED! To reflect recent advances and trends in thefield, theauthor has extensively revised “HealthCareDelivery Systems” (Chapter 9); “ProfessionalNurseAccountability” (Chapter 12); and “Quality Improvement: EnhancingPatientSafetyand Health careQuality” (Chapter 19). • Introduceyour students to theever-changing, highly complex, and sometimes chaotic environmentof nursingpractice today through Hood’s ProfessionalNurseContributionsModel,which synthesizes theaffective, cognitive, behavioral, andpsychomotordomainsof professional practice. • Challengeyour students to think criticallyabout the relationship between issuesdiscussed in journal articles and their future careers andprofessional identities through theonline Interactive Literature AssessmentTool.Thisdynamic tool guides students througha series of application-level questions.Answers canbe recorded, printed, ande-mailed to instructors.

Table of Contents Section1: ExploringProfessional Nursing Ch. 1:The ProfessionalNurse Ch.2:TheHistoryBehind theDevelopment of ProfessionalNursing Ch. 3: Contextual, Philosophical, andEthical Elements of ProfessionalNursing Ch. 4: EstablishingHelping andHealing Relationships Ch. 5: Patterns of Knowing andNursing Science Ch. 6:NursingModels andTheories Ch. 7: ProfessionalNursing Processes Ch. 8:TheHealthProcess and Self-Care of theNurse Section2: TheChangingHealthCare Context Ch. 9:HealthCareDelivery Systems Ch. 10:Developing andUsingNursing KnowledgeThroughResearch Ch. 11:Multicultural issues inProfessional Practice Ch. 12: ProfessionalNurseAccountability Ch. 13: Environmental andGlobalHealth Ch. 14: CommunityHealth Ch. 15: Informatics andTechnology in Nursing Practice Section3: ProfessionalNursingRoles Ch. 16:NursingApproaches toClient Systems Ch. 17:The ProfessionalNurse’s Role in Teaching andLearning Ch. 18: Leadership andManagement in ProfessionalNursing Ch. 19:Quality Improvement: Enhancing Patient Safety andHealth careQuality Ch. 20:The ProfessionalNurse’s Role in Public Policy Section4: Glimpsing theFutureof ProfessionalNursing Ch. 21: CareerOptions for Professional Nurses Ch. 22:Development of a Professional NursingCareer Ch. 23: Shaping the Future ofNursing

Leadership&Management • Issues &Trends