Professional Issues in Nursing

Professional Issues in Nursing
Author: Carol Huston
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Total Pages: 497
Release: 2021-12-09
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 197517562X

Give students a professional edge in nursing practice with proven, expert insight across a variety of enduring and contemporary issues facing today’s nursing workforce. Rich in engaging pedagogical features and extensively updated with the latest evidence-based perspectives on workplace considerations, workforce issues, legal and ethical concerns, nursing education challenges, and more, Professional Issues in Nursing: Challenges and Opportunities, 6th Edition, readies students for the realities of today’s changing healthcare environment and instills the critical thinking and clinical judgment skills to achieve success in any nursing setting.

Leadership Skills for Licensed Practical Nurses Working with the Aging Population

Leadership Skills for Licensed Practical Nurses Working with the Aging Population
Author: Cheryl Kruschke
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2018-02-26
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 3319698621

This textbook fills a gap in education for licensed practical nurses (LPN), providing information specific to their own needs and concerns. Firstly, it clarifies the leadership role of LPNs in the healthcare setting, and then identifies the knowledge, skills and abilities related to leadership, management, communication, culture change and person-directed care concepts. It also explains the efficacy of these concepts related to the LPN care of patients in the work setting and reviews the Nurse Practice Act (NPA) enacted in every US state. LPNs play an essential role in the patient care team and we have to ensure they receive advanced education as practitioners in healthcare settings that reach vulnerable populations such the elderly. They have been considered as the registered nurses’ right hand in acute care as well as many home-health settings. They provide basic medical and nursing care, ensure the comfort of patients, discuss health care with patients, and report the status of patients to registered nurses and doctors. But the LPNs are often expected to take on a real leadership role based on the perception that as licensed nurses they already have all the qualifications and education necessary for leadership roles. However, there is a gap in the education they receive and a limited body of literature dedicated to them. Written in honor of all LPNs, this educational textbook fills that gap. With learning objectives, review questions and scenarios, it is a valuable resource for courses for undergraduate students training to be LPNs.

Health and the Law

Health and the Law
Author: Tom Christoffel
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 472
Release: 1985-08
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0029059607

This outstanding text and reference provides health professionals & students with a balanced, comprehensive, highly readable survey of the legal concepts and controversies affecting them today. Avoiding unnecessarily technical language, it lucidly explains basic legal principles and theories, examines current issues and their implications, and probes future legal trends. Throughout, each chapter offers a complete, self-contained introdu ction to a medicolegal topic--including invaluable endnotes that cite references, clarify perspectives, and suggest further readings. A unique appendix also explains how to use law library facilities to best advantage.