This in-depth edition updates an enduring ANA classic, one centered on nursing's unique value and accountability to society. The book's singular contribution is its integrated description of the nursing profession in terms of its essential elements:
Social context and contract
Definition of nursing
Authority for practice
Nursing's knowledge base
Autonomy and competency
Scope and standards of practice
Regulation of practice
These elements have been revised in recognition of the ongoing advances in nursing practice and knowledge, delineating and reaffirming the deep societal commitments of the profession.
The ANA Foundation of Nursing Package is an essential resource for every registered nurse regardless of level, role, or setting. The three books in the Package guide nursing practice, thinking, and decision-making:
Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice, Second Edition
Nursing's Social Policy Statement: The Essence of the Profession
Guide to the Code of Ethics for Nurses: Interpretation and Application
This package can be used as:
Professional reference
Classroom textbook
In-service training guide
Credentialing exam resource
And much more
A must-have for nursing faculty, students, researchers, in-service trainers, chief nursing officers, nursing board members, and interprofessional colleagues, as well as agencies, organizations, regulators, legislators, lawyers, judges, and healthcare consumers.

Nursesbooks.org

United States, United States of America

Apr 01, 2010

3, US, 2010

obscured text on leaf 196

xii, 178 pages : 26 cm
"Last revised in 2003, this comprehensive revision to an enduring text updates its framework on the social roots and relationships of the nursing profession and nursing practice. An integrated discussion of its organizing topics - the social context of nursing, nursing's social contract, the definition of nursing, nursing's knowledge base, the scope of nursing practice, the standards of nursing practice, and the regulation of nursing - delineates the essential elements of the profession for nurses in any level or setting of practice and education."--Publisher's description
Includes bibliographical references and index
Nursing's social policy statement: an overview -- Social context of nursing : The social concerns in health care and nursing ; The authority for practice for nurses ; The elements of nursing's social contract ; Professional collaboration in health care -- Definition of nursing : Human responses ; Theory application ; Nursing actions ; Outcomes -- Knowledge base for nursing practice -- Scope of nursing practice : Specialization in nursing practice ; Advanced nursing practice ; Advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) ; Additional specialized advanced nursing roles -- Standards of professional nursing practice : Definition and function of standards ; Development of standards ; Standards of professional nursing practice ; Standards of practice ; Standards of professional performance ; Application of scope and standards ; Code of ethics for nurses ; Autonomy and competent practice -- Regulation of professional nursing : Professional regulation ; Legal regulation ; Institutional policies and procedures ; Self-regulation -- Application of nursing's social policy statement -- Appendices : A. Consensus Model for APRN Regulation: Licensure, Accreditation, Certification, and Education (2008) -- B. Nursing's Social Policy Statement, 2nd Edition (2003) -- C. Nursing's Social Policy Statement (1995) -- D. Nursing: A Social Policy Statement (1980) -- E. The development of foundational nursing documents and professional nursing: a timeline

2023-06-28