Current Issues In Nursing

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

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Current Issues in Nursing provides a forum for knowledgeable debate on the important issues that nurses face today. This resource provides the opportunity to analyze conflicting viewpoints and develop your own thoughts on demands being made for the nursing profession and the difficult issues affecting today's health care delivery. Continually praised for its in-depth discussion of critical issues, solid organization of material, and encouragement of independent thinking, you'll find this text a valuable resource in the modern world of nursing.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2010-03-25
Mått:203 x 254 x 28 mm
Vikt:1 540 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:832
Upplaga:8
Förlag:Elsevier Health Sciences
ISBN:9780323065719

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Innehållsförteckning

Section 1 Defining Nursing from a Variety of RolesThe Richness of Nursing1 What is Nursing, Why Do We Ask, and How Will Nursing be Better Understood?2 Staff Nurses Working in Hospitals: Who Are They, What Do They Do, and What Are Their Challenges?3 Clinical Nurse Specialists: Education and Practice Issues4 Nurse Practitioners: Taking Their Place in the Health Care Arena5 Nurse Executives: Critical Thinking for Rapid Change6 The Nurse as Chief Executive Officer (NEW)7 Nurse Educators: Issues That Affect the Profession8 Nurse Researchers: Who Are They, What Do They Do, and What Are Their Challenges?Section 2 Nursing Education in TransitionNursing Education in Transition9 Creating the Future of Nursing Education: Challenges and Opportunities10 Educational Challenges: Quality in Pre-Licensure Nursing Education11 Graduate Nursing Education: A Critical Examination from a Global Perspective 12 International Collaborative Institutional Approaches to Nursing Education (NEW)13 Using Academic-Service Collaborative Partnerships to Expand Professional Nursing Programs14 Creating the Nursing Theory-Research-Practice Nexus15 E-Learning Section 3 Changing PracticeA Nurse Is Not a Nurse Is Not a Nurse16 Moving the Care from Hospital to Home17 Adult Health Nursing Practice: Current Changes & Issues18 Alternative and Complementary Therapies: Recent Changes and Current Issues19 Ambulatory Care Nursing: Challenges for the Twenty-First Century20 Gerontological Nursing: Recent Changes and Current Issues21 Hospice and Palliative Care: One Solution for Improving U.S. Health Care?22 Pediatric Nursing: Recent Changes and Current Issues23 Perinatal Nursing: Recent Changes and Current Issues24 Perioperative Nursing: Recent Changes and Current Issues25 Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing: Recent Changes and Current Issues26 Forensic Nursing: Recent Changes and Current Issues27 Occupational Health Nursing: Recent Changes and Current Issues (NEW)28 Genetics, Genomics and Current Issues for Professional Nursing (NEW)Section 4 Information Technology Challenges (NEW)The Impact of Technology on Health Care (NEW)29 Nursing: A Profession Evolving with the Use of Informatics and Technology (NEW)30 Standardized Terminologies and Integrated Information Systems: Building Blocks for Transforming Data into Nursing Knowledge31 Nursing Informatics: Partnerships at the Crossroads of Practice and Research (NEW)32 Sustaining a Focus Group Devoted to Standardized Language Development (NEW)33 Why Health Information Technology Standards and Harmonization are Important (NEW)34 Personal Health Records as a Tool for Improving the Delivery of Health Care (NEW)35 Global Challenges of Electronic Records for Nursing (NEW)Section 5 Health Care Systems and PracticeThe Impact of Evolving Health Care Systems on Nursing36 From a Medical Care System for a Few to a Comprehensive Health Care System for All37 The Challenge: Participate in the Era of Politics - Choose an Ideology and Lead38 Defining Health Disparities from Three Viewpoints: Reducing Inequality in Health Care (NEW)39 Magnet Designation: Creating New Synergies 40 The Research Imperative for the Nurse Executive (NEW)41 Laying the Foundation for Evidence-Based Practice for Nurse Residents42 Determining Staffing Needs Based on Patient Outcomes versus Nursing Interventions (NEW)43 Impact of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act 44 Trends in Long-Term Care (NEW)Section 6 Health Care Organization and FinanceIdentifying and Controlling Health Care Costs45 Controlling Health Care Costs: Balancing Public and Private Solutions 46 Business Coalitions: Shaping Health Reform Through Technology and Science47 Mergers and Acquisitions 48 The Cost of Home Health Care: Changes and Challenges49 Drugs Are Too CheapSection 7 Professional Challenges, Collaboration, & ConflictChallenges, Collaboration, and Conflict50 Collaboration between Nurses and Physicians: The Need for a Broader View51 Health Professions Education in Community-Based Settings: A Collaborative Journey52 Overcoming Polarity in Nursing (NEW)53 Expanding into the Twenty-First Century: Men in Nursing54 Nursing Employment Issues: Increasing Unionization in Nursing55 Managing Generational Issues in Nursing: Preserving the Future of the Profession (NEW)Section 8 Cultural InclusivenessDiversity in Nursing: A Challenge for the United States56 Should Nursing Be More Diversified?57 Minority Representation in Nursing: Diversity, Cultural Competency and Racism-The Challenge Persists58 Bridging Cultures: Blacks and Nursing59 Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and Nursing: Narrowing the Health Disparities Gap60 Bridging Cultures: Hispanics/Latinos and Nursing61 Bridging Cultures: American Indians and NursingSection 9 Ethics, Legal, and Social IssuesEthical, Legal, and Social Concerns in a Changing Health Care World62 Ethics of Health Care Reform: Should Health Care be Rationed?63 The Nurse as Patient Advocate: Is There a Conflict of Interest?64 Ethical Nursing Practice: It's All About Relationship65 Harassment and Discrimination Issues in Nursing66 Health Care for the Poor and Underserved67 Legal, ethical, and moral considerations in caring for individuals with diminished capacity68 Nurses' Role in Patients' Advance Directives: Facilitation or Reduction of Patient Autonomy?69 Environmental Disasters: Nurse Preparedness for Radiation & Chemical Events (NEW)70 Disaster Nursing and the American Red Cross (NEW)71 The Greening of Health Care (NEW)Section 10 Violence Prevention and Care: Nursing's Role Violence: The Expanding Role of Nursing in Prevention and Care72 Child Maltreatment: Nursing Considerations73 Nursing Care: Preventing Firearm Injuries74 Group Interventions with African American Women Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence75 Nursing Care: Victims of Violence - Elder Mistreatment76 Disaster Nursing during Terrorist Events77 Nursing Practice in Emergency Management and Disaster Preparedness 78 Nursing in Wars79 More Nurse Involvement Needed in Infectious Disease Disaster Preparedness 80 Compassion Fatigue in Nursing (NEW)Section 11 International Nursing ConsiderationsIssues Abroad81 The Global Nursing Shortage - An Issue of Social Justice (NEW)82 All Hazards Preparedness: Advocating for Mothers and Babies (NEW)83 Nursing At The World Health Organization: The (In)Visibility of Chief Nurses 1951-2009 (NEW)84 Global Health Needs and Priorities in Developing Countries (NEW)85 The Global Health Agenda: Are Nursing and Midwifery Responding? (NEW)