Contexts of Nursing

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Elsevier Australia, 2009 - Medical - 388 pages

Contexts of Nursing 3e builds on the strengths of previous editions and continues to provide nursing students with comprehensive coverage of core ideas and perspectives underpinning the practice of nursing. The new edition has been thoroughly revised and updated. New material on Cultural Awareness and Contemporary Approaches in Nursing has been introduced to reflect the realities of practice. Nursing themes are discussed from an Australian and New Zealand perspective and are supported by illustrated examples and evidence. Each chapter focuses on an area of study within the undergraduate nursing program and the new edition continues its discussions on history, culture, ethics, law, technology, and professional issues within the field of nursing.

  • update and revised with strong contributions from a wide range of experienced educators from around Australia & New Zealand

  • new Chapter 17 Becoming a Nurse Leader has been introduced into the third edition to highlight the ongoing need of management in practice

  • Chapter 20 Cultural Awareness Nurses working with indigenous people is a new chapter which explores cultural awareness, safety and competence

  • Chapter 22 Using informatics to expand awareness engages the reader on the benefits of using technology

  • evidence-based approach is integrated throughout the text

  • learning objectives, key words and reflective questions are included in all chapters

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Contents

Presenting nursing a career for life
1
Visioning the future by knowing the past
15
Nursing as art and science
38
exploring popular
51
Philosophy and nursing? Exploring the truth effects
65
issues concerns debates
80
The growth of ideas and theory in nursing
95
what why and how
110
Power and politics in the practice of nursing
193
Becoming part of a multidisciplinary healthcare team
208
Technology skill development and empowerment
223
rural and remote area nursing
239
Becoming a nurse leader
258
the evolving roles of nursing
274
nurses working with
301
Becoming a critical thinker
314

concepts and processes
128
Ethics in nursing
145
An introduction to legal aspects of nursing practice
155
The gendered culture of nursing
174
Using informatics to expand awareness
330
Connecting clinical and theoretical knowledge for practice
351
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About the author (2009)

Professor Debra Jackson AO is a distinguished nurse scientist and scholar, and her career has spanned clinical practice, academic work, research and scholarship. She is a Fellow of the Australian College of Nursing, and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK). In 2015 she won a Principal Fellowship of the NIHR-funded Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, awarded in recognition of sustained contribution to generating knowledge to enhance the care of NHS patients. In 2019, her work was honoured through her being awarded Officer of the Order of Australia(AO) for distinguished service to medical education in the field of nursing practice and research as an academic and author. In 2020 Professor Jackson was named as Australia's leading nurse researcher by The Australian newspaper in their list of Australia's Top 250 Researchers. This was based on highest number of citations from papers published in the last five years in the 20 top journals in the field. In 2020 she was appointed Fellowship Ad Eundem, Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland.

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