Prepare your students for the realities of nursing practice.

Designed to help both students and practicing nurses, Professional Issues in Nursing: Challenges & Opportunities, 4th Edition, offers insightful coverage of today’s most pressing workplace, workforce, and legal and ethical issues as well as issues related to professional power and advancing the nursing profession. This practical text’s focus on timely hot topics—all related to today’s increasingly global, rapidly changing, technology-driven world—equips students and nurses to deal with real-life issues.

Highlights of the 4th Edition:

• Coverage of the profession’s latest hot topics includes social media in nursing, teaching clinical reasoning, MOOCs and virtual learning spaces, and academic integrity in nursing education.
• Cutting-edge trends explored throughout include the ever-increasing demand for quality and safety in the workplace for patients and workers, the impact of health care reform, changing nursing education paradigms, and the IOM recommendations put forth in The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health .
• Discussion Points encourage students to pause and reflect on specific questions individually or in groups.
• “Consider This” feature encourages active learning, critical thinking, and values clarification.
• “Research Study Fuels the Controversy” sections in every chapter explore at least one research study to promote evidence-based analysis.