Professional Nursing: Concepts & Challenges

**Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 with "Essential Purchase" designation in Fundamentals**

Discover what it means to be a professional nurse — the history, values and standards, and commitment to lifelong learning. Professional Nursing: Concepts & Challenges, 10th Edition equips you with current professional nursing practices to positively impact your career. This easy-to-read text provides insight into the current state of the profession and thoroughly examines standards and scope of practice, with new information on interprofessional education and practice, nursing roles, Covid-19, the surge of ambulatory and community care, bullying, gender issues, clinical judgment, and more.

• Cognitive rehearsal prepares you for the unlikely threat of lateral violence.
• Social justice in nursing helps you learn to advocate for patients who need your help.
• Interview narratives explore the issues like culture and faith from the perspectives of leaders in those fields.
• Historical Notes highlight little-known stories of heroisms in the nursing profession.
• Tips on documentation include both electronic and paper records.
• Concepts and Challenges and Ideas for Further Exploration at the end of the chapters help with review and test prep.
• Discussions on the implications of social media on nursing, including ethics and boundaries.
• Considering Culture boxes highlight the impact of culture on a nurse's role and responsibilities and the patient's healthcare experience.
• Evidence-Based Practice boxes identify leading findings in nursing topics and trends.
• Case Study boxes feature scenarios involving relevant issues in patient care.
• Nurses Doing Research boxes highlight problems identified in patient care and the ongoing efforts to find patient interventions.
• Professional Profiles boxes provide prospective from nurses in the field.
• Thinking Critically boxes encourage higher-level consideration of potential factors affecting nurses.
• Learning outcomes are presented at the beginning of each chapter.
• Key terms are bolded where defined in the text.

• NEW! Updated content
includes the latest information on interprofessional education and practice, nursing roles, COVID-19, the surge in ambulatory and community care, bullying, gender issues, the faculty shortage, and challenges faced by new graduates.
• NEW! Expanded coverage of clinical judgment helps you develop the critical thinking and clinical decision-making skills required for the Next Generation NCLEX^® and in nursing practice.