Giddens’s Concepts for Canadian Nursing Practice, 1st Edition
(with eBook Access on VitalSource)
Date of Publication: 10/2025
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Learn the core concepts of Canadian nursing care and how to apply them to the clinical setting! Giddens’s Concepts for Canadian Nursing Practice uses a simplified, intuitive approach to describe 64 important concepts relating to all areas of nursing practice in a Canadian health care context, including Indigenous health, racism, and gender diversity. Integrating the latest Canadian statistics, research, and cultural considerations, this text emphasizes cultural safety, interprofessional collaboration, and health equity. To reinforce understanding, this book also makes connections among related concepts and links you to other Elsevier nursing textbooks. Exemplars for each concept provide useful examples and models, showing how concepts are successfully applied to practice. Essential tools and case studies for clinical reasoning in nursing help you confidently prepare for almost any clinical nursing situation.
Learn the core concepts of Canadian nursing care and how to apply them to the clinical setting! Giddens’s Concepts for Canadian Nursing Practice uses a simplified, intuitive approach to describe 64 important concepts relating to all areas of nursing practice in a Canadian health care context, including Indigenous health, racism, and gender diversity. Integrating the latest Canadian statistics, research, and cultural considerations, this text emphasizes cultural safety, interprofessional collaboration, and health equity. To reinforce understanding, this book also makes connections among related concepts and links you to other Elsevier nursing textbooks. Exemplars for each concept provide useful examples and models, showing how concepts are successfully applied to practice. Essential tools and case studies for clinical reasoning in nursing help you confidently prepare for almost any clinical nursing situation.
Key Features
- Fully adapted text reflects Canada’s unique health care context and cultural landscape
- Comprehensive inclusion of Canadian statistics, research, references and resources, guidelines, assessment and screening tools, and more
- Canadian cultural considerations, as they relate to race/ethnicity, Indigenous Peoples, gender identity, 2SLGBTQI+ community, family composition, recent immigrants, refugees and vulnerable persons are threaded throughout all applicable text chapters
- Uniquely Canadian chapters include Holistic Health: Indigenous Perspectives; Racism; and Gender Diversity
- Current content throughout addresses COVID-19, Bill C-14 Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD), and gender identity considerations as exemplars, reflecting the latest research evidence and national and international health care guidelines
- Features Canadian concepts of Person-Centred Practice, Evidence-Informed Practice, Interprofessional Collaboration and Delegation, and Care in the Community
- Next-Generation NCLEX® (NGN) exam–style case studies and review questions on the Evolve companion website challenge you to apply critical thinking and clinical judgement, providing optimal preparation for the NGN
- Authoritative content written by expert Canadian contributors and grounded in concept-based curriculum (CBC) expert Jean Giddens’ standard for the growing CBC movement
- Logical framework of concepts by units and themes helps you form immediate connections among related concepts — a key to conceptual learning
- Case studies in each chapter make it easier for you to apply knowledge of nursing concepts to real-world situations
- Clearly defined and analyzed nursing concepts span the areas of patient physiology, patient behaviour, and the professional nursing environment
- Featured Exemplars sections describe selected exemplars related to each nursing concept, covering the entire lifespan and all clinical settings, and help you assimilate concepts into practice
- Integrated exemplar links connect you to concept exemplars in other purchased RN- and PN-level Canadian Elsevier nursing titles
- Emphasis on cultural assessment/considerations and caring for Indigenous and vulnerable populations
- NEW! Companion Study Guide helps reinforce your understanding of key concepts. Sold separately.
- Key topics include cultural safety; interprofessional collaboration; systems thinking; the nurse’s role in promoting health equity; equipping nurses to respond to emergencies and other public health crises; and promoting the wellness of nurses
- Coverage provides the most-up-to-date Canadian statistics, references and resources, protocols, documentation standards, delegation rules, Canadian nursing best practice guidelines, metric measurements, and more
- Interrelated Concepts illustrations provide visual cues to understanding and help you make connections across concepts
- Content is “levelled” from concept to concept and chapter to chapter to enhance comprehension
- All topics, skills, and examples conform to Canadian provincial and territorial scopes of practice and Canadian standards in nursing practice
Author Information
Edited by Debra (Debbie) Sheppard-LeMoine, RN, PhD, Associate Professor Dean Faculty of Nursing University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada and Lisa-Marie Forcier, Professor, Bridging to University Nursing Program, at the School of Community and Health Studies, Centennial College, Ontario, Canada
