Nursing Consultation: A Framework for Working with Communities - Softcover

Norwood, Susan L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130617989 ISBN 13: 9780130617989

Publisher: Pearson, 2002

Synopsis

In today's health care environment, consultation services have become increasingly integral to nursing. This engaging, reader-friendly book presents a five-phase process—a variation of the traditional nursing process—for working with individuals or groups to help them resolve actual or potential health care problems. Examines key issues in nursing today, including entrepreneurial opportunities for nurses and nurses empowering individuals/groups in problem solving and assessing wellness responsibility. Provides updated examples that focus more on today's integral, community perspective versus providing consultation primarily in organizational settings. Features key search engine terms at the beginning of each chapter. Offers real-life examples of nursing consultation. Provides application activities after each chapter. An up-to-date, pragmatically organized reference for case managers and nursing supervisors.

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From the Back Cover:

Essential for today's nurses! Today's nurses are faced with challenging and exciting new opportunities for consultation! While nursing consultation has always been an integral part of the health care environment increasingly apparent and important is the need for a community perspective. Revised and updated to include this new emphasis on consulting within communities, Nursing Consultation continues to provide nurses with both the theoretical background and practical strategies that are needed to successfully respond in today's health care environment.

Features Include:

• A 5-phase process to resolve actual or potential problems related to the health status of clients or to health care delivery
• Three New Chapters - Communities, Nurses, and Consultation (Chapter 2), Team Building in Consultation (Chapter 12), and Working with Consultants (Chapter 18)
• Key search engine terms at the beginning of each chapter allow for easy access to the latest resources

Other Titles of Interest

Ervin, Advanced Community Health Nursing Practice (0-8053-734-0)

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.:

Providing consultation services is an increasingly important nursing role. Indeed, nurse leaders recognize that the formal title of "nurse consultant" is not needed to provide consultation; the consultation role is, rather, an integral part of being a nurse in today's health care environment. Thus, the theory behind and principles of nursing consultation are a critical part of contemporary nursing education.

Nursing Consultation: A Framework for Working with Communities (previously published as The Nursing Consultation Process: Essential Concepts and Principles) presents nursing consultation as a five-phase process for working with individuals or groups to help them resolve actual or potential problems related to the health status of clients or to health care delivery. The content is appropriate for senior-level leadership and community health courses in baccalaureate nursing and RN to BSN programs, as well as for nurses who are pursuing graduate degrees and preparing themselves to assume advanced roles in nursing (e.g., as clinicians, educators, or managers/administrators).

While the first edition of this text promoted nursing consultation as a dimension of contemporary, everyday nursing practice in all settings, many of the examples in the text focused on nurses providing consultation in organizational settings. This may have inadvertently reinforced nursing consultation as only a career option, rather than as something nurses do on a daily basis. Since the first edition of this text was published, a community perspective in health care has become increasingly apparent—and important. This perspective presents new needs and opportunities for nurses to take on the consultant role and was the impetus behind the changes that have been incorporated into the revised edition of this text.

The revised edition of this text retains the basic structure that shaped the first edition: its organization (foundational concepts, contextual issues, the consultation process, and professional issues), its pedagogy (an integration of theory-based and application-oriented approaches), and special features (a chapter overview and guiding questions, boxed features of consultation strategies and scenarios, documentation guidelines, examples of consultation contracts, and end-of-chapter learning activities). At the same time, the revised edition is enhanced by several new features:

• A new title reflecting the text's emphasis on providing consultation to communities
• Three new chapters: Chapter 2-"Communities, Nurses, and Consultation"; Chapter 12-"Team Building in Nursing Consultation"; and Chapter 18"-Working with Consultants" Community-oriented examples of nursing consultation
• Key search engine terms at the beginning of each chapter Updated references
• A new, more reader-friendly design and layout

A frustration encountered while updating and revising this text was the paucity of new references about consultation processes in general, and about nursing consultation in particular. So, while nursing leaders advocate consultation competencies and a community perspective (with its inherent need for nurse consultants), the nursing profession has lagged behind in terms of reporting consultation strategies, success stories, and lessons learned from less-than-successful consultation engagements. This situation challenges readers of this text to share their consultation experiences so that their experiences become learning tools for colleagues and communities. As did the first edition of this text, this edition of Nursing Consultation: A Framework for Working with Communities provides nurses with both the theoretical background and practical strategies that are needed to successfully respond to the exciting and challenging opportunities for nurses to provide consultation in today's health care environment.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0130617989
• ISBN 13: 9780130617989
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 358