The Practice of Primary Nursing: Relationship-Based, Resource-Driven Care Delivery updates on where Primary Nursing fits in today's health care climate. Originally started at the University of Minnesota Hospitals in 1968, Primary Nursing has been used by many hospitals in the U.S., Canada, and the World. This new edition thoroughly explains the four important operating elements of Primary Nursing and outlines the actual steps taken at the unit level for successful implementation. Today's hospital needs the type of relationship-based care delivery that Primary Nursing provides. Winner of the 2002 American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award!

Primary Nursing describes a model of care delivery that while being nearly 5 decades mature, continues to provide the highest level of person-centered care for thousands of patients and their loved ones. Topics covered in this edition include: how Primary Nursing continues to address persistent issues in the nursing profession and how implementation can succeed in today's fast paced environment. New to this edition are stories from long-term Primary Nursing practice environments as well as the interdisciplinary approach to professional practice. Primary Nursing is a past winner of the American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award.

Practicing Primary Health Care in Nursing: Caring for Populations is a new innovative text examines the broad definition of “primary health care”, and incorporating a nursing perspective with a global and population-based focus. This book presents the enduring relationship that nurses have had in pioneering primary health care with a population-based, inter-intra/professional, and global perspective. Important Notice: the digital edition of this book is missing some of the images or content found in the physical edition.”.

Written by nurse practitioners for nurse practitioners in collaboration with a physician, this popular text builds a solid understanding of the theoretical foundation of nursing practice, while also providing comprehensive patient-care guidance based on the latest scientific evidence.

The classic text describing Primary Nursing?s development and implementation has been updated to address the current issues facing nursing today. The book covers Primary Nursing history followed by a thorough explanation of the four important operating elements and the process for implementation at the unit level. Don?t miss out on up-to-date insights from one of nursing?s pioneers.

The Future of Nursing explores how nurses' roles, responsibilities, and education should change significantly to meet the increased demand for care that will be created by health care reform and to advance improvements in America's increasingly complex health system. At more than 3 million in number, nurses make up the single largest segment of the health care work force. They also spend the greatest amount of time in delivering patient care as a profession. Nurses therefore have valuable insights and unique abilities to contribute as partners with other health care professionals in improving the quality and safety of care as envisioned in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) enacted this year. Nurses should be fully engaged with other health professionals and assume leadership roles in redesigning care in the United States. To ensure its members are well-prepared, the profession should institute residency training for nurses, increase the percentage of nurses who attain a bachelor's degree to 80 percent by 2020, and double the number who pursue doctorates. Furthermore, regulatory and institutional obstacles-including limits on nurses' scope of practice-should be removed so that the health system can reap the full benefit of nurses' training, skills, and knowledge in patient care. In this book, the Institute of Medicine makes recommendations for an action-oriented blueprint for the future of nursing.