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Ross-Kerr and Wood’s Canadian Nursing Issues & Perspectives

CDN NURSING ISSUES & PERSPECTIVES

  • 6th Edition - September 23, 2020
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Lynn McCleary, Tammie McParland
  • Language: English

Get an in-depth look at where nursing’s most timely issues and trends all began with Ross-Kerr and Wood’s Canadian Nursing: Issues & Perspectives, 6th Edition. This e… Read more

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Get an in-depth look at where nursing’s most timely issues and trends all began with Ross-Kerr and Wood’s Canadian Nursing: Issues & Perspectives, 6th Edition. This extensively updated, engaging text examines the latest issues and trends in Canadian nursing, along with the history which laid the groundwork for where nursing in Canada is now and can be in the future. Comprehensive coverage includes everything from the development of the profession of nursing in Canada to discussions of nursing knowledge, nursing research, and the theoretical foundations of modern nursing. The authors also examine issues in the delivery of nursing care as well as nursing education, credentialing, standards of care, entry to practice, informatics, and much more. In addition to its relevant and cutting-edge content additions, this new dual-colour sixth edition boasts a wealth of new reader-friendly learning features, easy-to-follow explanations, consistent chapter formatting, and extensive visual updates to help you better engage with content and apply learning.

Key features

  • Comprehensive coverage of Canadian-specific nursing issues
    • includes Canadian statistics, research, and legislation.
  • Wealth of reader-friendly in-text learning features include Apply Content Knowledge boxes that provide focused opportunities for reflection and discussion, and Research Focus boxes that highlight current research to help make content more applicable and relevant.
  • UPDATED! Detailed references at the end of each chapter give you a direct path to further learning on a particular topic.
  • Clear writing style, logical content organization, and consistent chapter formatting helps you better learn and retain complex chapter information.
  • Thoughtful end-of-chapter features including chapter summaries and critical thinking questions help you gauge your mastery of chapter concepts.

Table of contents

Part I: The Profession in Canada

1. The Canadian Health Care System

2. Nursing in Canada, 1600s to the Present: A Brief Account

3. Professionalization in Canadian Nursing

4. The Professional Image: Impact and Strategies for Change

5. NEW! Gender in Nursing

Part II: Nursing Knowledge

6. Theoretical Issues in Nursing in the 21st Century: Nursing Theorizing as Everyday Practice

7. Thinking Philosophically in Nursing

8. Nursing Research in Canada

9. Knowledge Translation and Evidence-Informed Practice

10. Health Informatics and Digital Health

Part III: Nursing Care Delivery

11. Primary Health Care: Challenges and Opportunities for the Nursing Profession

12. Quality of Care: From Quality Assurance and Improvement to Cultures of Patient Safety

13. The Practising Nurse and the Law

14. NEW! Decolonizing and Anti-Oppressive Nursing Practice: Awareness, Allyship, and Action

15. Ethical Issues and Dilemmas in Nursing Practice

16. Collaboration in Nursing Practice

17. Shortage or Oversupply? The Nursing Workforce Pendulum

18. Political Influence in Nursing

19. Nursing Unions: A Social Force in Canada–Advocating for Nurses, Patients and Health Care

Part IV: Educating Nurses for the Future

20. The Origins and Development of Nursing Education in Canada

21. Licensure, Credentialing, and Entry to Practice

22. The Growth of Graduate Education in Nursing in Canada

23. Career Development in Nursing

24. Monitoring Standards in Nursing Education

Part V: Canadian and International Nursing

25. Global Health Nursing: Emerging Issues and Events Locally and Beyond

26. Internationalizing in Canadian Nursing

Product details

  • Edition: 6
  • Latest edition
  • Published: October 14, 2020
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Lynn McCleary

Dr. McCleary is a Professor in the Department of Nursing and Graduate Program Director of the Master of Applied Gerontology Program in the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences at Brock University. Dr. McCleary is also Adjunct Member, Institute for Life Course and Aging, University of Toronto. She is a mental health and gerontological nurse who works with research teams and service providers on health and social care for older people and their families. Her research and practice emphasize improving dementia care services as well as improving gerontology and geriatrics education in the health professions. She is a past president of the Canadian Gerontological Nursing Association.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Nursing, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario

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Tammie McParland

Dr. McParland is an Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at Nipissing University. She has extensive nursing experience spanning several practices—rural, remote, medical-surgical, telepractice, labour and delivery, intensive and critical care, and education. She is a founding member of the Ontario Simulation Alliance and CANSim, which focuses on the use of all forms of simulation pedagogy in nursing education. She has served on the board of directors for the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario as the education member-at-large. She has taught Issues and Trends in undergraduate nursing education for the past several years.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor Nipissing University