Reflecting both enduring professional considerations and the most pressing contemporary issues facing the nursing profession, Professional Issues in Nursing: Challenges and Opportunities, 6th Edition, equips students with proven, expert insight essential to success in today’s nursing practice. This straightforward, engaging text challenges students to critically analyze issues and form their own assessments about the state of nursing and their role as a professional nurse, building the critical thinking and clinical judgment to effectively manage workplace considerations, workforce issues, legal and ethical concerns, nursing education challenges, and issues related to professional power and advancing the nursing profession. New and updated content throughout the 6th Edition instills a practical understanding of emerging trends in healthcare, including nursing implications of the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the latest considerations in workplace safety, changing population demographics and nursing workforce projections, global perspectives on healthcare, and the rapidly evolving healthcare environment.
