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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Focuses on practicing nurses returning to school to advance their careers. This book includes a chapter, Protecting the Populace, with coverage on community health issues, including bioterrorism. It discusses delegation and how it relates to the management of unlicensed assistive personnel.