Professional Nursing Concepts: Competencies for Quality Leadership takes a patient-centered, traditional approach to the topics of nursing education and professional development. This dynamic text helps students to recognize and understand the critical role that nurses play in healthcare delivery. It provides a unique framework in which to study the nursing profession, including an examination of the Institute of Medicine's (IOM) core competencies for providing safe, quality health care and their relation to nursing practice."-- Back cover.

Professional Nursing Concepts: Competencies for Quality Leadership, Fourth Edition takes a patient-centered, traditional approach to the topic of nursing education.

Professional Nursing Concepts: Competencies for Quality Leadership takes a patient-centered, traditional approach to the topic of nursing education and professional development. This dynamic text engages students in recognizing the critical role that nurses play in healthcare delivery. Divided into four sections, this text has a unique framework and exclusively covers the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) five core competencies on quality and healthcare for all healthcare professionals. The first section introduces students to the history of the nursing profession, and covers such topics as nursing education, regulation, and accreditation. Section two explores the healthcare context in which nursing is practiced including continuum of care, health promotion, disease prevention, and illness, nursing ethics, and the nurse’s role in health policy. The third section focuses on each of the five core competencies set forth by the IOM, and the final section focuses on the practice of nursing today and in the future particularly exploring the critical issue of the nursing shortage and the transformation of nursing practice.

Professional Nursing Concepts: Competencies for Quality Leadership continues its patient-centered, traditional approach to nursing education in an updated sixth edition. Anita Finkelman provides the foundation for pre-licensure nursing students to successfully transition from the classroom into practice. Grounded in the Institute of Medicine/National Academy of Medicine (IOM/NAM) five core competencies for healthcare professionals and the related Quality and Safety for Nursing Education (QSEN) competencies, the content progresses from the basics of the nursing profession and the dynamics of patient care into critical healthcare delivery discussions, ranging from health policy and political action to community health and leadership in nursing practice.

Ensure that you understand your new roles as caregiver, decision maker, patient teacher, leader, and manager. Making the Transition from LPN to RN will help you master these responsibilities and begin your successful career as an RN. Uses an informal, conversational writing style. Features case studies that make the information come alive. Presents a clear balance of theory, clinical application of knowledge, and clinical decision making. Builds on your nursing skills to address the practice issues that differentiate LPN from RN practice. Emphasizes the importance of scope of practice, nursin

CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS OF PROFESSIONAL NURSING PRACTICE focuses on the professional nursing role and the concepts which form the basis of professional nursing practice today. This edition focuses on the concepts important for professional nursing practice. Part I, The Context of Professional Nursing Practice, discusses the history and current status of nursing education, socialization into professional nursing, nursing theory, the nursing process, client systems, nursing roles, and health care delivery. Part II, Dimensions of Professional Nursing Practice, discusses the political, economic, legal, ethical, social, and cultural influences on nursing and health care. Part III, Themes in Professional Nursing Practice, includes topics that are directly relevant to patient care such as caring, health promotion, teaching and learning interpersonal communication, critical thinking, change, research, and information technology.

In this thought-provoking compendium, 40 experts, representing various disciplines, examine quality management both as a philosophy that is integral to health care and as it applies specifically to nursing. The book considers quality management in both domestic and international settings and attempts to reconcile the polarities of quality care and cost concerns. 170 illus.