Professional Nursing Practice: Concepts and PerspectivesExploring the professional roles of health promoter, teacher-learner, leader-manager, research consumer, advocate, colleague and collaborator, as identified by the ANA Standards of Professional Performance, this book details the historical, theoretical, ethical and legal foundations of professional nursing. Current and comprehensive, it provides a discussion of the changing health care system especially as it relates to health care economics, nursing in a culture of violence and nursing in a culturally and spiritually diverse world. |
Contents
Journey to Professionalism | 1 |
Foundations of Professional Nursing Practice | 9 |
FOUNDATIONS OF PROFESSIONAL NURSING PRACTICE | 13 |
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