This title provides an overview and update of the continuing healthcare quality crisis, emphasizing its foundational relational core through an evolving middle-range theory, and offers opportunities for application at several levels. It highlights the importance of caring relationships in improving the safety and quality of health systems. Moreover, it is a call to action for healthcare workers, especially nurses. Safe, quality healthcare, meaningful work, and overall well-being are at stake. By exploring several theoretical concepts drawn from multiple sources, the book articulates the Quality-Caring Model©. It illuminates and updates the critical relationships with self, the community served, patients and families, and the healthcare team for current and future practice. Applying the model in clinical, educational, and leadership practice offers possibilities for advancing the value of the nation’s health systems while providing the context for meaningful work. Using the Quality-Caring Model© as a foundation for research may point to new evidence regarding the contribution of caring relationships to quality health outcomes. This revised edition is intended for use by nursing students, and nursing scholars as well as clinical nurses, nurse educators, nurse researchers, and those in nursing leadership positions. Health professionals in other disciplines may also find it helpful. Each chapter contains objectives, an introductory section followed by specific narratives holding new information or applications. They also include a specific focus area to highlight their importance and specific “Calls to Action.” Multiple case examples and reflective questions are provided as well as practice analyses for use in formal education programs, continuing education, workshops and conferences, and general clinical practice. The appendices provide additional resources for those interested in caring relationships in health systems.

Designed as a last-minute gut check for the certification exam, this guide, written by medical-surgical nurses, provides quick, digestible nuggets of the most pertinent topics they encounter on the Medical-Surgical Nursing Certification Board (MSNCB) and American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) exams. It can be used in conjunction with other study aids to ensure nurses are as prepared as possible for the exam. The certification helps to ensure quality patient care, indicates expert knowledge in the area of practice, and builds trust on the part of the patient and facility. It also establishes a high level of standards within healthcare, strengthens the nurse’s resume and job qualifications, and increases the potential for earning power. The book follows the most recent exam content outlines from the Certified Medical-Surgical Registered Nurse (CMSRN®) Certification Examination and the Medical-Surgical Nursing Board Certification Examination blueprints and uses a succinct, bulleted format to highlight what nurses need to know. It helps nurses solidify their retention of information in the month or so leading up to their exam. Special features appear throughout the book to call out important information including complications, nursing pearls, alerts, pop quizzes, and a list of abbreviations. The nursing pearls cover additional patient care insights and strategies for knowledge retention. The alerts include need-to-know details on how to handle emergency situations or when to transfer care. The pop quizzes cover critical-thinking questions to test nurses’ ability to synthesize what they have learned. Nurses encounter ethical dilemmas in caring for patients, including issues concerning access to care, informed consent, and treatment goals. Legal issues for nurses include both professional-centered and patient-centered concerns. The book deals with these professional and legal issues and the ways to address them. It serves as a quick refresher for registered nurses preparing for their certification examination.

Distinguished by abundant patient and health provider narratives highlighting the impact of health disparities on health outcomes worldwide, A Population Health Approach to Health Disparities for Nurses is a scholarly yet practical text that prepares RN-BSN, DNP, and PhD students to work toward improving community health for a variety of underserved and vulnerable populations. Grounded in the population health approach addressed in the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) Essentials, it delivers practical steps nurses can take to address population health goals, including the improvement of quality of care, access to healthcare, outcomes, and cost management. Written by lawyers, physicians, social workers, statisticians and economists, psychologists, ethicists, finance experts, population health specialists, anthropologists, and nurses, the text emphasizes an interdisciplinary approach to learning and all components of healthcare—delivery of care, policy, research, and teaching. It examines demographic differences, chronic and acute health conditions, and the health needs of the unserved/underserved across the life cycle. It highlights the importance of understanding the social determinants of health and discusses ways to address health disparities through changes in public policy, attitudes, beliefs, education, research, and advocacy.

This book highlights the alarming statistics regarding medical errors and the most common causes. A thorough review of the literature identified the most significant errors and their causes. The significance of critical thinking, logic, and clinical judgment has been well established, and the book includes strategies for developing and improving these skills. It addresses case studies, exemplars, tips from the field, discussion questions, and special topics that support the integration and application of the important concepts. The book is structured and organized around two major units. Unit I addresses the severity of the issue and common causes. It provides an overview of the issue and the agencies that focus on patient safety. Despite numerous policy changes and strategies, patient errors have continued to increase after a previous improvement that stemmed from the initiatives after the landmark report To Err Is Human. Common medical errors include medication errors, patient falls, pressure ulcers, infections, and surgical errors. Unit I also describes the primary causes with poor communication being one of the most common causes. Unit II focuses on improving patient safety and decreasing adverse events. It focuses on ways to become a safe practitioner through education and competency development. It also highlights several theories that can be used to promote quality of care and decrease adverse outcomes. It then focuses on the significance of critical thinking in promoting patient outcomes and ways to develop and improve critical thinking and reasoning. The book focuses on prioritization and delegation and ways to develop these skills in addition to the scope of practice, intuition, and ethics. It focuses on leadership and emotional intelligence and finally focuses on the issue from a holistic approach and includes cultural humility and artificial intelligence.

This nursing handbook introduces and defines key terms about race and racism for nurses, nursing students, and nurse educators. It addresses how race and racism act as structural and core social determinants of health and propel health inequities. It moves beyond a focus on multicultural approaches for understanding inequity toward a recognition of the broader impact that both systemic and structural racism have had on inequality in health and life opportunities. Through a social justice lens, the book underscores how nurses, as frontline health professionals, need to understand racism as a factor behind these inequities and its significance to their working environment and nursing practice.

In concise chapters with brief paragraphs and bulleted information, this practical handbook offers strategies for how to productively engage in a dialogue about race and racism. It considers the history of racism in the United States and then breaks down how it operates at structural, institutional, and individual levels. Case studies illustrate such concepts as microaggressions, implicit bias, power, privilege, and intersectionality in order to foster understanding and provide opportunities for both self-reflection and collective conversation.

This book follows one of the most challenging years for the U.S. health care patients and providers. The 2021 edition of The Essentials: Core Competencies for Professional Nursing Education from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing promotes competencies for Doctor of Nursing Practices (DNPs) that include resource allocation, cost containment, knowledge of reimbursement models and collaboration that promotes effective and sustainable interventions. Given the current context of uncertain and often limited health care resources balanced against serious healthcare disparities and demands, it is apt that relevant competencies from The Essentials are threaded throughout the chapters in this third edition. Part one lays the groundwork, presenting the context of US healthcare economics, fundamentals of insurance coverage, population health management, and an overview of international health finance models. Part two presents budgeting concepts for acute care and outpatient settings, as well as capital budgeting, and reviews financial statements. Part three presents concepts of quality management, data analysis and informatics, as well as legal, ethical, and policy issues that are all closely related to financial management in healthcare settings. Part four helps the reader build skills in project management, grant writing, and entrepreneurship offering insights on administrative partnerships within the C-suite and between healthcare and academic institutions. Part five discusses financial management strategies in these times of uncertainty and change, and envisions the hospital of the future. This is a textbook that will guide the theory and practice of financial management by DNPs now and for years to come. The ultimate goal of this book is to provide DNP-prepared nurse leaders with the business acumen and financial skills to have meaningful conversations with their chief financial officers regarding the value of nursing, to be able to build a comprehensive business plan, and to “talk the talk”.

This book is written by and for cardiac vascular nurses. The authors recognize their dedication to the care of cardiac and vascular patients, and they applaud them for taking this step to pursue their certification as a cardiac-vascular registered nurse (CVRN). The purpose of this book is to provide a concise and focused review of the most important aspects of cardiovascular care. This book, written by experts from across the United States, will guide us as one prepare for the exam. The aim was to cover the content in a focused way to help us identify what one already know, what one don’t know, and what one need to learn more about. The authors urge us to read each chapter, reflect on our knowledge, and take the corresponding practice questions. They have provided additional resources and the best references to help us determine the scope of our study needs. One will find this book a valuable tool as one further our education on our journey toward certification. And if certification isn’t our goal, this book will provide us with a thorough review of cardiovascular nursing and evidence-based care of cardiac and vascular patients.

Policies are essential opportunities for nurses to take ownership of advocacy. This completely updated third edition provides a hands-on approach to help nurses across a variety of settings to develop health policy competencies for managing an ever-changing health and uncertain policy arena. Four major units provide a framework for the authors approach as the chapters of the book take the reader on a journey through all the steps of the policy-making process. Leadership, ethical, and social justice principles are unifying concepts integrated across chapters. Throughout each new or revised chapter, policy development is exemplified from the grand scale of global or national to the local level. The authors believe that policymaking at all these levels is essential. Often, however, the interplay between levels is not always recognized or acknowledged. The key features of each chapter covers specific aspects of the policy-making process including learning objectives, an introduction, policy challenge and solutions, policies on the scene, key concepts, future implications, summary, learning activities, and e-resources. These features in each of the 15 chapters have been thoroughly revised. Each chapter introduces a key aspect of the policy-making process framing the important details for the reader. The Policy Challenge presents a particular dilemma or issue in policy with a Policy Solution illustrating the outcome at the end of the chapter. Policies on the Scene provide short vignettes about the policy journeys of nurse leaders and aspiring policy activists. Implications for the Future describe projected developments in nursing and healthcare that have the potential to influence policy. Key Concepts aid learning by taking readers through the steps of the policy process to enhance their policy skills. The Learning Activities are designed to enhance critical thinking. E-Resources reflect key information from a variety of sources important for policy savvy nurses.

The only policy text written specifically for APRN students, this preeminent resource delivers a sweeping examination of policy impact on the full implementation of the APRN role across all environments, including its effectiveness on specific patient populations. The expanded third edition–containing six new chapters–includes expanded information on policy analysis, nursing roles, and the impact of technology. It provides practical knowledge on developing policy to advocate for vulnerable populations–bolstered by case examples–and discusses how interprofessional education has changed and will continue to alter health policy in the United States and internationally. Additionally, the text discusses the evolving influence of the Patient Protection Affordable Care Act (PPACA) and the implications of current and future health policy changes as they affect APRN practice. New doctoral-level content adds to the book’s relevance for DNP students.

The text addresses the initiative within nursing for Full Practice Authority for all APRNs, which enables them to practice to the full extent of their educational preparation. Edited by experienced APRN leaders who have been closely involved with health policy development, the text meets the requirements of the IOM report on The Future of Nursing and the DNP criteria V for the inclusion of health policy and advocacy in the curriculum. This “call to action” for APRNs is specifically designed for courses serving a variety of APRN trajectories and includes content from all APRN role perspectives in every section.