The Image of Nursing: Perspectives on Shaping, Empowering, and Elevating the Nursing Profession

You and your staff are highly-educated, competent nurses who are entrusted with saving patients' lives. Isn t it time your image reflects your level of education and professionalism?

HCPro is proud to present the groundbreaking book, Our Image, Our Choice: Perspectives on Shaping, Empowering, and Elevating the Nursing Profession. Written by Shelley Cohen, RN, BSN, CEN, and Kathleen Bartholomew, RC, RN, MN, with contributions from nursing experts in the field, it examines the professional image of nursing today and what you and your staff can do to elevate it.

This unique book brings you a historical assessment of the current image of nursing, as well as practical strategies you and your staff can use to elevate your image from focusing on the ethics of nursing to professional communication with patients, physicians, and peers.

This book will help you raise your staff s image, and the image of the entire nursing profession, by demonstrating how nurses can:

Strive for increased professionalism Practice responsibility, autonomy, and accountability

Focus on excellence in practice Improve communication with patients, peers, physicians, and managers Understand how nursing ethics is vital to professionalism