Contexts of Nursing: An Introduction

Table of Contents:
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

About the Author :
Emeritus Professor John Daly works at the University of Western Sydney; Emeritus Professor, University of Technology, Sydney; Honorary Professor, University of Wollongong, Australia Professor Debra Jackson AO is a distinguished nurse scientist and scholar, and her career has spanned clinical practice, academic work, research and scholarship. She is a Fellow of the Australian College of Nursing, and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK). In 2015 she won a Principal Fellowship of the NIHR-funded Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, awarded in recognition of sustained contribution to generating knowledge to enhance the care of NHS patients. In 2019, her work was honoured through her being awarded Officer of the Order of Australia(AO) for distinguished service to medical education in the field of nursing practice and research as an academic and author. In 2020 Professor Jackson was named as Australia's leading nurse researcher by The Australian newspaper in their list of Australia's Top 250 Researchers. This was based on highest number of citations from papers published in the last five years in the 20 top journals in the field. In 2020 she was appointed Fellowship Ad Eundem, Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland. Ann Bonner works at the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Griffith University, Australia Kidney Health Service, Metro North Health, Australia. Professor of Nursing Education, University of Sydney; Honorary Professor, Queen's University Belfast