Professional Nursing: Concepts, Issues, and Challenges (Paperback)
by John Daly (Editor), Sandra Speedy (Editor), Debra Jackson (Editor), Vickie Lambert (Editor), Clinton Lambert (Editor)
This engagingly written text offers nursing students comprehensive ideas and perspectives that are basic to the practice of contemporary nursing. Each chapter focuses on a foundational area of study and explores the central concepts, relevant issues, dilemmas, and debates. It presents a broad-range of professional issues, ranging from a brief history of nursing in the U.S., research and legal issues, to an introduction to nursing organizations and regulatory bodies.
As President of The Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International, I have had the privilege and unique opportunity to witness cross-cultural similarities and differences in professional nursing in countries around the world. While there is great diversity in nursing there is also a transcendent unity in nursing values, beliefs and service-practice commitments to the health and wellbeing of people served. During my Presidency I have come to realize that the Honor Society is really a transnational organization that has aspirations to be global. One of the things that will help nurses develop a global consciousness is cross-cultural learning and professional dialogue. This text is a major contribution to the development of a global nursing consciousness. This effort requires cross-cultural learning and conversations about professional nursing identity and evolution of the discipline. The authors who contributed to this text provide rich insights and creative ways to stimulate the professional dialogue necessary for solidifying the identity and advancing the vision and value of nursing through out the world.
Through the profession of nursing nurse are connected and interdependent on each other. Such interdependence is enhanced when we devote time, and attention to cultural learning that transcends the local gravity of our own spheres of influences and awakens a more global consciousness in regard to professional issues, obstacle, challenges and frames of reference. This text edited by John Daly, Sandra Speedy, Debra Jackson, and Vickie and Clinton Lambert, provides insights, and information about professional issues that are similar and different across cultural contexts. The text is a cultural learning resource about professional nursing issues that support cultural understanding in the context of our disciplinary evolution.
John Daly, PhD, RN, FRCNA, FINE, FCN, is Professor of Nursing and Foundation Head of the School of Nursing, Family & Community Health, University of Western Sydney. He is one of Australia's leading scholars in Nursing. Dr. Daly's research focuses on cardiovascular nursing, the experience of illness and transcultural nursing. He is active in international publications projects in nursing scholarship and is well published in textbooks and refereed journals.
Sandra Speedy, EdD, MURP, BA (Hons), Dip. Ed., RN, is currently Executive Dean, Faculty of Law, Business and the Creative Arts, at James Cook University and Professor Emeritus. She has an extensive history in nursing education at all levels, working across the range of administrative, academic and service areas. Her areas of research interest include gender issues in management, dysfunctional organizations and cultural challenges in organizations. She has published in a wide range of areas in nursing, health, sociology and management. She is a consultant clinical psychologist and conducts a psychotherapy practice.
Debra Jackson, RN, PhD, MCN, is Associate Professor of Nursing at the School of Nursing, Family & Community Health, University of Western Sydney. Dr. Jackson's research focuses on women's and family health nursing, family support, building resilience in individuals and families, nursing leadership, and nursing workforce issues. She is well published in refereed journals and textbooks.
Vickie A. Lambert, DNSc, RN, FAAN, is Dean and Professor Emerita, School of Nursing, Medical College of Georgia, and an international nursing consultant with Lambert & Lambert Nursing Consultants. She has held visiting professorships in Australia, China, Japan, South Korea and Thailand. Dr. Lambert's research focuses on role stress and coping skills among hospital nurses from America, Asia, and Oceania. She has numerous publications in textbooks and journals, as well as having served as Editor of an international nursing and health sciences journal.
Clinton E. Lambert, PhD, RN, CS, FAAN, is an international nursing consultant with Lambert & Lambert Nursing Consultants. He is a retired US Army psychiatric clinical nurse specialist and the former owner and counselor, Lambert Counseling Services, in rural Georgia. Dr. Lambert has held visiting professorships in Australia, China, Japan, South Korea, and Thailand. His research focuses on role stress and coping skills among hospital nurses from America, Asia, and Oceania. Dr. Lambert has published extensively in books and professional journals, as well as having served as Editor of an international nursing and health sciences journal.
Paperback: 376 pages
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company; 1 edition (February 18, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0826125549
ISBN-13: 978-0826125545