Featured Book - Policy and Politics for Nurses and Other Health Professions

The featured book from the current Library New Books List is Policy and Politics for Nurses and Other Health Professions: Advocacy and Action, edited by Donna Middaugh, Associate Dean, UAMS College of Nursing, Donna M. Nickitas and Nancy Aries.

Policy and Politics for Nurses and Other Health Professions: Advocacy and Action provides a nursing focus within an interdisciplinary approach, which intertwines to create an understanding of economics, politics, and policy in relation to health care. Contributors to this text offer future nurses and health care providers keen insight about clinical practice and its derivation from regulation, laws, and policies that have roots in public policy and politics.

This innovative text also offers practical knowledge on how health care professionals can get involved an be proactive in the policy that directly affects their profession and patients.

Key pedagogical features include chapter objectives, summaries, examples, boxed articles, case studies, review questions, key terms, photographs, and a toolkit that includes a "skills" section of how-tos.
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WA 540 AA1 P758 2011
Policy and Politics for Nurses and Other Health Professions/edited by Donna Middaugh, Donna Nickitas, and Nancy Aries
Sudbury, Mass: Jones and Bartlett, 2011