Contexts of Nursing - E-Book VBK, 7th Edition
Elsevier eBook on VitalSource
$47.99
Embarking on a nursing career
Authored by leading nursing academics from Australia and New Zealand, Contexts of Nursing is an essential resource that equips students with a foundational understanding of the theory, language and scholarship of nursing and healthcare. This book provides critical insights that shape the future practice of aspiring nurses, ensuring they are well prepared for the complexities of modern healthcare.
The book is an indispensable guide for nursing students, covering everything they need to know to enter the nursing profession—from ethics to patient safety, preparing for clinical placements, and working across diverse health settings.
The seventh edition of this well-established textbook has been completely updated, featuring five brand-new chapters. Designed to challenge and expand the reader's understanding, this edition prepares future nurses to enter the field with confidence, compassion, and with the skills needed to excel in a rapidly evolving healthcare landscape.
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- Prepares students for professional practice with a realistic overview of the contemporary nursing profession
- Unique Australian and New Zealand content—not available elsewhere
- Offers a range of views and voices, providing a unique and contemporary focus on Australian and New Zealand healthcare contexts
- Useful for all levels of study, from new student nurses to those advancing their studies
- Reflective questions and exercises within each chapter to stimulate critical thinking, learning and deep personal reflection
- Case studies and other pedagogical features enhance learning
New to this edition
- New chapter on patient perspectives and person-centred care in nursing
- New chapter on nursing and the quest for care quality and patient safety
- New chapter on nursing and family violence
- New chapter on simulation learning in nursing
- New chapter on nursing and the environment
- New digital resource (small group activities)
Students and Instructor resources on Evolve:
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1. Presenting nursing: A career for life
2. Visioning the future by knowing the past
3. Ethics in nursing
4. An introduction to legal aspects of nursing practice
5. Cultural safety in nursing
6. Key concepts informing nursing: caring, compassion and emotional competence
7. Patient perspectives and person-centred care in nursing
8. NEW Nursing and the quest for care quality and patient safety
9. Becoming a critical thinker
10. Power and politics and the practice of nursing
11. Reflective practice: what, why and how
12. Interprofessional learning and working
13. Nursing and social media 6069 Going to approach
14. Nursing practice and digital health interventions: A focus on improving care
15. Social justice, health disparities and equity in nursing
16. Nursing and responses to family violence
17. Rural and remote nursing
18. Primary healthcare and nursing
19. Simulation learning in nursing
20. Preparing for and making meaning of clinical placement
21. Research in nursing
22. Becoming a nurse leader
23. Nursing and the environment
24. Global health and nursing -
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