Description
Book SynopsisThis textbook draws on international contributors with a range of backgrounds to explore, engage with and challenge readers in understanding the many aspects and elements that inform and influence contemporary nursing practice. With a focus to the future, this book explores the challenges facing health services and presents the arguments for a nursing contribution and influence in ensuring safe and quality care.
Readers are supported to explore how, as individuals, they can shape their personal nursing identity and practice. The structure of the text is based on the belief that an individual nurse's professional identity is developed through an interaction between their personal attributes and the influences of the profession itself. Reflecting this approach, the authors engage in a conversation with the reader rather than simply presenting a series of facts and information.
Organised around a series of topical and pertinent questions and drawing on perspectives from p
Trade Review
Although offered as a textbook, it is much more: it is a delightful dialogue between the author and reader. This book offers something for everyone, whether a nursing student or a more experienced nurse, at whatever stage of their career.
—Eleanor Sherwen, patient experience and quality manager, NHS England Midlands and East nursing and quality directorate
The strengths of the book include international contributors, well referenced text, additional resources for the reader to access and poignant points to reflect on the issues discussed. The writing style and choice of subjects addressed make this book an enjoyable journey of contemplation, which offers insight to the personal and professional capacity of nursing. Who should read it? Anyone who is interested in gaining insight into nursing’s professional identity and considering the future of nursing as a specialised entity amongst the political and economic complexities that face health care.
- Ibadete Fetahu, Nursing Times
Table of ContentsPart I: Understanding nursing and nurses
Chapter 1. Nursing’s public image: toward a professional future
Chapter 2. Nursing, a trusted brand: do we dare to care?
Chapter 3. The changing nature of nurse education: preparing our future workforce
Chapter 4. The unique role of the nurse: the organisation of nursing careers
Part II: Developing your nursing practice
Chapter 5. Nursing regulation: being a professional
Chapter 6. Nurses influencing health care: leading as a professional
Chapter 7. Creating your professional identity: becoming the nurse you want to be
Part III: Contexts of health care and nursing
Chapter 8. Health literacy and the nurse.patient partnership
Chapter 9. The global context of health care delivery
Chapter 10. The economic challenge for health care services
Chapter 11. Political and policy influences on health care : are nurses political and do they need to be?
