Foundations of professional nursing : care of self and others / Katherine Renpenning, MScN, Susan Gebhardt Taylor, PhD, MSN, FAAN, Judith M. Pickens, PhD, RN.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Health, well-being, and self-care -- Thinking and doing nursing : the nursing system conditioning factors and health-related self-care -- The "why" of self-care : determining the self-care demand -- The "how" of self-care : self-care agency -- Nursing practice operations : from diagnosis to designing the nursing system -- Production and control operations and evidence-based practice -- The dependent-care system -- Meaning of family in nursing -- Nursing and community -- Ethical and legal foundations for nursing -- Care of the self : a nursing imperative.