Issues and Trends in Nursing addresses the evolution, current status, and future direction of nursing education and practice. It presents historical, political, legal, ethical, and cultural underpinnings and integrates these themes through a comprehensivescope of issues affecting the nursing profession. The book's strengths include its readability, range of topics, and quality of coverage of the history of nursing, economics of health care, social policy and health care delivery, urban and rural nursing, international ...
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Issues and Trends in Nursing addresses the evolution, current status, and future direction of nursing education and practice. It presents historical, political, legal, ethical, and cultural underpinnings and integrates these themes through a comprehensivescope of issues affecting the nursing profession. The book's strengths include its readability, range of topics, and quality of coverage of the history of nursing, economics of health care, social policy and health care delivery, urban and rural nursing, international nursing, and political awareness. Integrates various factors that influence the delivery of health care in many different settings, including rural, urban and international to prepare the student for practice in a range of settings. Discusses critical issues that affect nurses today and in the future to assist students in preparing for future practice. Presents viewpoints of well-known contributors to encourage consideration of different perspectives. Includes chapter-opening objectives to pique students' interest and set the context of material to follow. Includes addresses of nursing organizations and the state boards of nursing in the appendices, providing important contact information. Provides increased content on managed care and recent changes in health care delivery to prepare students for the realities of practice today. Features coverage of job seeking, the resume, interviewing, time management, networking and strategies to avoid burnout to enable the nurse to meet the challenges in health care today. Offers Critical Thinking Activities throughout to help students assess their own strengths, areas for improvement, values, attitudes, and goals. Features a new, unique chapter that examines computers and the Internet and addresses the increasing need for nurses to access and use the latest information technology. Presents a more inviting design, with graphic elements to provide more visual interest. Includes a new three-part organisation, with parts on the historical/social aspects of nursing, nursing education, and nursing practice to help organise the material in a logical fashion for student comprehension.
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