Nursing Education Catalogue 2017

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Professional Issues in Nursing: Challenges and Opportunities, Fourth Edition Carol J. Huston, MSN, MPA, DPA January 2016 / Softbound / 7" x 9" / 448 pp. 978-1-4963-3439-8 DESCRIPTION Professional Issues in Nursing: Challenges &Opportunities features contemporary and enduring issues in professional nursing. Designed to be used in both pre- and post-licensure nursing programs, the text has an undiluted focus on professional issues in nursing and includes many timely workplace issues, workforce issues, legal and ethical issues, nursing education, and issues related Transcultural Concepts in Nursing Care, Seventh Edition Margaret M. Andrews, PhD, RN, CTN-A, FAAN September 2015 / Softbound / 7" x 9" / 496 pp. / 84 Illus. 978-1-4511-9397-8 DESCRIPTION Transcultural Concepts in Nursing Care helps nursing students transform their thinking so they develop into culturally competent nurses capable of safe, thoughtful, and ethical care of individuals, families, groups, and communities of diverse backgrounds. Transcultural Concepts in Nursing Care takes a life span approach to describe cultural variations in lifestyle, habits, beliefs, and life process; and in doing so, provides a framework that will improve health and

NURSING EDUCATION

to professional power and furthering the nursing profession. Unlike other “issues and trends” textbooks that cover everything from nursing research to nursing theory, this text is devoted to the “hot topics” of the time which allows students to begin to prepare for the realities of nursing practice.

nursing care to minority, underrepresented, disenfranchised, and marginalized populations. Rather than just covering specific cultures and expected behaviors/beliefs of that culture, the authors provide students the tools they will need as nurses to effectively perform cultural assessments and incorporate their findings into their interventions. With more culture specific examples in this edition, the text offers the knowledge needed to provide culturally competent and contextually meaningful care for all clients. Fully updated in its seventh edition, this unique resource creates an interdisciplinary knowledge foundation reflecting the cultural changes in the clinical nursing environment.

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