Professional Nursing: Concepts & Challenges

by Beth Black, Kay Kittrell Chitty RN EdD CS

An ideal choice for anyone who wants to gain a professional edge in the world of nursing today, the latest edition of this popular book introduces you to the issues and trends you're likely to encounter in any practice setting. Each stand-alone chapter introduces and explores a specific topic, enabling them to be read in any order. You'll find insightful discussions of professionalization in nursing, standards and scope of practice, socialization and nursing theories surrounding the profession, critical thinking, research and evidence-based practice, the health care delivery system, and professional associations and political action facing nurses. Additionally, thought provoking questions, practical strategies, real-life scenarios, self-assessments, and personal viewpoints and interviews help you extend and apply the ideas presented.

Genres: School, Nursing

512 pages, Paperback

First published February 20, 1998

Reviews

[Sonie · Rating 2 out of 5]

It's a text book. What else is there to say?

[mpfrom · Rating 1 out of 5]

Ugh. So glad I am done with this book. So ticked that I bought it instead of rented it!

[Mandy · Rating 1 out of 5]

Ugh, this book sucked and didn't tell me anything I didn't already know.

[Brillare · Rating 2 out of 5]

Sometimes you gotta read what you gotta read.... Not bad for a textbook, but glad to be done with it.

[Lauren orso · Rating 1 out of 5]

if you hated the academic publishing industrial complex before, just wait til you read this!

[Kam]

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