"Nursing Ethics and Professional Responsibility in Advanced Practice, Third Edition" remains the only comprehensive textbook available on the ethical issues faced by APNs giving front-line care. It is a critically important resource for students preparing for advanced practice and nursing leadership in both the United States and around the world. The author demystifies the principles and language of healthcare ethics. Beginning from a foundation of nursing practice, she guides students in developing ethical decision-making skills they can apply to a range of circumstances, from everyday issues to complex dilemmas. The "Third Edition" reflects recent changes in the healthcare environment, including biotechnological advances, sociological movements, and economic conditions. -- From publisher's description.

"This book focuses in an in-depth way on the particular problems faced by nurses in various advanced practice roles across the life-span and in front-line care. It is comprehensive textbook broken out into three sections: philosophical foundation, ethics, and specialty focus"--

Nursing Ethics and Professional Responsibility in Advanced Practice equips healthcare professionals with the tools they need to address the ethically complex issues they face in daily practice- both across specialty areas as well as within an area of specialty practice. This unique and comprehensive resource provides a philosophical base for professional responsibility, it explains complex ethical ideas in accessible terms, and presents contemporary examples from actual practice. The book presents ethical issues across a variety of interests with topics ranging from the nature and source of human rights, social justice, human subjects research, acute care practice, and primary care to contemporary content in gerontology and end-of-life care.

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The overall goal of this Assessment Technologies Institute, LLC (ATI) Content Mastery Series module is to provide nursing students with an additional resource for the focused review of "Fundamentals for nursing" content relevant to NCLEX preparation and entry level nursing practice.

This popular textbook, now in a second edition, presents a clear introduction to the field and a skills-oriented approach to the core information needed by all advanced practice nurses. Students and clinicians -- whether nurse practitioner, clinical nurse specialist, midwife, or nurse anesthetist -- will learn to apply clinical decision making, care management, client education and advocacy, research, consulting, and writing and oral presentation skills to their APN role. They also will find information on professional issues, such as licensure and reimbursement. New to this edition are chapters on complementary therapies, collaboration, and ethical issues.

A leading text in community health nursing, COMMUNITY AND PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING presents all major community and public health topics within the population-focused, community-oriented framework of health promotion. This fifth edition emphasizes the roles and responsibilities of the community and public health nurse, while highlighting the latest (1999) ANA standards for this area of nursing. A new full-color design and many more photographs and illustrations bring this edition to life. (Includes a FREE MERLIN website at:www.harcourthealth.com/MERLIN/Stanhope/)

Compiles all the basic competencies for adult oncology nursing, as approved by the ONS. Updated to reflect the certification test blueprint outline, chapters discuss such topics as ethical issues, cancer survivorship issues and HIV. New coverage includes on supportive therapies and procedures.