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• Critical Thinking Challenges and self-development activities help you develop your applied knowledge skills, guide your professional socialization initiatives, and envision your personal philosophy of nursing.
• Case studies identify the professional behaviors demonstrated, in a column adjacent to that behavior mentioned in the text.
• Interviews with established and respected professional nurses offer their perspectives on current issues facing the nursing profession today.
• Evidence-Based Practice Notes offer descriptions of relevant studies to show the importance of evidence-based practice and insights that nursing research provides.
• News Notes compile excerpts from general press resources to illustrate public perceptions of nurses and the nursing profession.
• Where appropriate, historical notes supplement and enhance chapter content.

• Updated content throughout includes discussions on collective bargaining, the status of the Nursing Doctorate Degree, the faculty shortage, nursing theorists, evidence-based practice, critical thinking, spirituality and caring, and death and dying.
• Additional content has been added to this edition on Aiken studies, the impact of computerized records, alternative/complementary care, Bloom's taxonomy to domains of learning, crisis intervention, adult teaching learning principles, delegation and stress, and the Patient Self-Determination Act.
• Cultural Consideration Challenges weave a common thread of cultural diversity throughout the book for sensitive patient care.
• Additional clinical examples throughout help improve your understanding of concepts.
• Bolded key terms integrated into the narrative of every chapter familiarize you with terminology presented in the context of the discussion.
• A revised glossary includes additional words and phrases beyond the key terms in each chapter, to improve your general understanding.

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Overall this is an interesting text with good information. I have definately read text material for class that is more dry. It is relatively simple reading.