Exemplary Professional Practice: Criteria for Nursing Excellence
Exemplary Professional Practice: Criteria for Nursing Excellence

Author: American Nurses Credentialing Center

Publisher:

Published: 2013-09-19

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 9781492358800

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Revision 3.0 - Updated July 2014.Visit www.nursecredentialing.org/magnet for manual clarifications.The Magnet Model Mini-Books will give you a summary of each Magnet Model component: -Transformational Leadership-Structural Empowerment-Exemplary Professional Practice -New Knowledge Innovations and Improvements-Empirical OutcomesThe purpose of the mini-book is to describe the Magnet Model as well as the expectation for the component. The Model guides the transition of Magnet principles to focus healthcare organizations on achieving superior performance as evidenced by outcomes. Evidence-based practice, innovation, evolving technology, and patient partnerships are evident in the Model.

Peer Review in Nursing
Peer Review in Nursing

Author: Barbara Haag-Heitman

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 0763790400

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Peer Review in Nursing: Principles for a Successful Practice is the first nursing publication that approaches the definition and implementation strategies for peer review within an organizational setting. Using a professional model, with shared governance as a framework, the authors discuss the difference between manger initiated staff performance evaluation of the past and the true peer review aspects of professional practice for the future. This text follows in line with the Magnet program requiremet “that nurses at all levels use self appraisal performance review and peer review, including annual goal settings, for the assurance of competence and professional development” page 30 of the 2008 Magnet manual. This unique text teaches nurses the skills they need to demonstrate organizational processes, structures, and outcomes that help insure accountability, competence and autonomy.

Essentials of Nursing Practice
Essentials of Nursing Practice

Author: Catherine Delves-Yates

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2018-06-30

Total Pages: 1228

ISBN-13: 1526451557

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Essentials of Nursing Practice introduces the core topics and essential information that nursing students, in all four fields, will need to master during the first year of a nursing degree. It expertly brings together insight from over fifty experienced lecturers, nurses and healthcare professionals, along with contributions from student nurses, to deliver the most complete guide to successfully becoming a registered nurse. Key features: A clear, full-colour, effective learning design aimed to help students understand the core theory, skills and knowledge, and how this can be applied in practice through holistic, person-centred nursing. Covers professional issues such as ethics, law, accountability, core academic skills like writing and completing assignments, and fundamental clinical skills such as pain management and medicines administration. Includes interactive activities such as critical thinking, reflection and ‘what’s the evidence’ boxes. Real-life ‘voices’ and experiences from patients, students and practitioners are integrated throughout. Addresses the transition to the new NMC Standards of Proficiency with a new tool developed for educators mapping the content of the book to both the existing and new standards. Readers get free 24/7 access to videos, case studies, journal articles, quizzes and multiple choice questions at the click of a button, by downloading the interactive eBook version of the text. (Redemption code and instructions inside the book)

Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements
Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements

Author: American Nurses Association

Publisher: Nursesbooks.org

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 42

ISBN-13: 1558101764

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Pamphlet is a succinct statement of the ethical obligations and duties of individuals who enter the nursing profession, the profession's nonnegotiable ethical standard, and an expression of nursing's own understanding of its commitment to society. Provides a framework for nurses to use in ethical analysis and decision-making.

Shared Governance for Nursing
Shared Governance for Nursing

Author: Timothy Porter-O'Grady

Publisher: Aspen Publishers

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13:

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The primary focus of this book is the creation of a work environment that reflects the values and professional practice behaviors articulated by nurses. Its practice-based text carries the reader through each phase of shared governance, from concept to systems integration. Special emphasis is given To The logical progression away from the traditional bureaucratic organization to a new structure that supports shared governance.