Advancing your career: concepts of professional nursing. /
Rose Kearney-Nunnery.
- 4th ed.
- Philadelphia: F.A. Davis, 2008.
- xviii, 477 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: Your professional identity -- Coping with returning to school -- What is theory? -- Evolution and use of formal nursing knowledge -- Models for health and illness -- Evidence-based practice -- Effective communication -- Working with groups -- Critical thinking -- Teaching-learning process -- Leadership -- Management in organizations -- Change -- Professional ethics -- Managing and providing care -- Healthy initiatives for at-risk populations -- Quality health care -- Informatics and computer use -- Health-care economics -- Protecting the populace -- The Politically active nurse: an imperative -- Nursing's health-care agenda -- Expanding the vision --
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Nursing--Vocational guidance. Nursing--Vocational guidance--United States. Nursing--Philosophy. Career development. Nursing. Career Mobility.