Contexts of Nursing: An Introduction

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Elsevier Health Sciences, Sep 23, 2009 - Medical - 400 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

 

Contents

CHAPTER 1 Presenting nursing a career for life
1
CHAPTER 2 Visioning the future by knowing the past
15
CHAPTER 3 Nursing as art and science
38
exploring popular images and representations of nurses and nursing
51
CHAPTER 5 Philosophy and nursing? Exploring the truth effects of history culture and language
65
issues concerns debates
80
CHAPTER 7 The growth of ideas and theory in nursing
95
what why and how
110
CHAPTER 14 Becoming part of a multidisciplinary healthcare team
208
CHAPTER 15 Technology skill development and empowerment in nursing
223
rural and remote area nursing
239
CHAPTER 17 Becoming a nurse leader
258
the evolving roles of nursing
274
implications for nursing practice
287
nurses working with Indigenous peoples
301
CHAPTER 21 Becoming a critical thinker
314

concepts and processes
128
CHAPTER 10 Ethics in nursing
145
CHAPTER 11 An introductionto legal aspects ofnursing practice
155
CHAPTER 12 The gendered culture of nursing
174
CHAPTER 13 Power and politics in the practice of nursing
193
CHAPTER 22 Using informatics to expand awareness
330
CHAPTER 23 Connecting clinical and theoretical knowledge for practice
351
GLOSSARY
370
INDEX
379
Copyright

Other editions - View all

Contexts of Nursing
John Daly
Limited preview - 2009
Contexts of Nursing: An Introduction
John Daly,Sandra Speedy,Debra Jackson
No preview available - 1999

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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.

Bibliographic information

TitleContexts of Nursing: An Introduction
AuthorsJohn Daly, Sandra Speedy, Debra Jackson
Edition3
PublisherElsevier Health Sciences, 2009
ISBN0729579255, 9780729579254
Length400 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Medical / Internal Medicine
Medical / Nursing / Fundamentals & Skills
Medical / Nursing / General
  
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