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Nursing Issues in the 21st Century

Nursing Issues in the 21st Century

Perspectives from the Literature

9780781730174
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With a varied collection of readings focusing on contemporary issues in professional nursing, this new book introduces students to the many perspectives affecting nurses and society. This text incorporates both nursing and non-nursing literature, covering such issues as education and role transition, governance, and cost containment. Articles are organized from simple to complex, making it easy for faculty to assign readings to beginning, intermediate, and advanced students. The author provides an introduction for each section of articles, framing them in historical, political, and sociocultural settings.
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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
38743
9780781730174
9780781730174

Data sheet

Publication date
2001
Issue number
1
Cover
paperback
Pages count
560
Dimensions (mm)
187 x 232
Weight (g)
889
    1. The Risk of Not Understanding Nursing History 3
    2. A Caring Dilemma:: Womanhood and Nursing in Historical Perspective 10
    3. Florence Nightingale:: Reformer, Reactionary, Researcher 26
    4. The Fateful Decade, 1890-1900 39
    5. Nursing and the Great Depression 42
    6. The Lasting Impact of World War II on Nursing 47
    7. The Public Image of the Nurse 55
    8. The Missing Voices in Coverage of Health 74
    9. Nurse, Interrupted 79
    10. Nursing Schools Perplexed by Falling Enrollments 89
    11. The Struggle for Just Compensation 94
    12. Trouble in Nurse Labor Market? Recent Trends and Future Outlook 106
    13. Black Nurses in the United States:: 1879-1992 122
    14. Diversity in Nursing:: A Challenge for the Profession 128
    15. Promoting Cultural and Racial Diversity in Nursing:: The Need for Political Activism 135
    16. Alternative Medicine:: Values and Risks 145
    17. Alternative and Complementary Healing:: Implications for Nursing 150
    18. What We May Expect From the Law 171
    19. Why We Need a Patients Bill of Rights 175
    20. The Wrong Rights 182
    21. Seeking Confidentiality of Medical Records 185
    22. The Real Meaning of Patient-Nurse Confidentiality 190
    23. Medical Records:: Enhancing Privacy, Preserving the Common Good 201
    24. Manners, Morals, and Nurses:: An Historical Overview of Nursing Ethics 223
    25. Genetic Engineering:: Is it Morally Acceptable? 229
    26. Fountain of Youth 235
    27. A World of Immortal Men 237
    28. Redrawing the Ethics Map 239
    29. Health Care Rationing in the Aged 243
    30. Making the Best of Things:: Technology in American Nursing, 1870-1940 262
    31. Looking to Care or Caring to Look? Technology and the Rise of Spectacular Nursing 279
    32. Healthcare:: Technology in the New Millennium 291
    33. How Will the Internet Change our Health System? 295
    34. The Old Homeless and the New Homelessness in Historical Perspective 311
    35. Helping People off the Streets:: Real Solutions to Urban Homelessness 322
    36. Not Gone, but Forgotten? 327
    37. Faces of the Uninsured 330
    38. Myths of the Uninsured 337
    39. Infection with HIV in the Elderly Population 340
    40. U.S. Faces TB Threat 350
    41. The Meaning of Aging and the Future of Social Security 359
    42. The Age Wave 366
    43. Ethical and Policy Considerations for Centenarians:: The Oldest Old 371
    44. The Gunfire Dialogues 386
    45. The Movies Made Me Do It 391
    46. Media Insensitivity to Victims of Violence 395
    47. The Least Among Us:: Children of Substance-Abusing Parents 402
    48. Hidden Bruises 406
    49. Elder Abuse and Neglect 409
    50. Managed Care Evolution:: Where Did it Come From and Where is it Going? 423
    51. Managed Care:: Devils, Angels, and the Truth in Between 432
    52. Whats Behind the Publics Backlash? 441
    53. Managed Care at a Crossroads 445
    54. Healing Medicare 459
    55. What Price Coverage Reform? 469
    56. Problems with the Medicare Drug Benefit Plan.And What Can Be Done 474
    57. Free Health Care Does Not Exist 480
    58. Nursings Past, Present and Future Political Experiences 486
    59. Washington:: Will Congress Stop Playing Politics With Health Care? 495
    60. Theyre Here, Theyre Gray 502
    61. A Backward Glimpse 511
    62. Looking Ahead with the Nursing Profession 514
    63. Nursing in the Decade Ahead 519
    64. The Future of the Nursing Profession 525
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