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Current Issues in Nursing

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Current Issues in Nursing provides a forum for knowledgeable debate on the important issues that nurses face today. Through six editions it has provided information and viewpoints of developments that have changed and are changing the delivery of health care and the nursing profession. Chapters are grouped into sections focusing on major themes. Each section includes an overview, a debate chapter, and several viewpoint chapters. This format provides the opportunity to analyze conflicting viewpoints and to synthesize your own thoughts on the demands being made on the nursing profession and the difficult issues affecting todays health care delivery. Comments from users and reviewers have continued to praise the book for its in depth discussion of critical issues, solid organization of material, and encouragement of independent thinking.
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Mosby
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9780323036528
9780323036528

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Publication date
2006
Issue number
7
Cover
paperback
Pages count
896
Dimensions (mm)
203 x 254
Weight (g)
1547
  • Section 1 Definitions of Nursing

    The richness of nursing

    1. What is nursing and why do we ask?

    2. Staff nurses working in hospitals: Who are they, what do they do, and what challenges do they face?

    3. Clinical nurse specialists: Who are they, what do they do, and what challenges do they face?

    4. Nurse practitioners: Who are they, what do they do, and what challenges do they face?

    5. Nurse executives: Critical thinking for rapid change

    6. Nursing faculty: Opportunities and challenges

    7. Nurse researchers: Who are they, what do they do, and what challenges do they face?


    Section 2 Changing Education

    Nursing education in transition

    8. The future of nursing education: Educational models for future care

    9. Educational challenges: The crisis in quality

    10. International graduate nursing education: A critical examination

    11. Critical thinking: What is it and how do we teach it?

    12. Collaborative institutional approaches to nursing education

    13. Using academic-service collaborative partnerships to expand professional nursing programs

    14. Integrating nursing theory, nursing research and nursing practice

    15. Standardized terminologies and integrated information systems: Data into nursing knowledge

    16. Electronic information and methods for improving education realities - assumptions

    17. Web-based education


    Section 3 Changing Practice

    A nurse is not a nurse is not a nurse

    18. Moving the care: From hospital to home

    19. Adult health/medical-surgical nursing practice: Recent changes and current issues

    20. Alternative and complementary therapies: Recent changes and current issues

    21. Ambulatory care nursing: Challenges for the 21st century

    22. Gerontological nursing: Recent changes and current issues

    23. Hospice and palliative care: Recent changes and current issues

    24. Parish nursing: Recent changes and current Issues

    25. Pediatric nursing: Recent changes and current issues

    26. Perinatal nursing: Recent changes and current issues

    27. Perioperative nursing: Recent changes and current issues

    28. Psychiatric nursing: Recent changes and current issues

    29. Forensic nursing: Role and technique

    30. Disease management: Are nurses ready?


    Section 4 Quality Improvement

    Nursings role in achieving quality health care systems

    31. Institute of Medicine Recommendations: Can we meet the challenges?

    32. Nursing care priority area: Patient safety

    33. Leadership by example: Resources for nurses in health system process improvements

    34. Nursing care priority area: Prevention

    35. Nursing care priority area: Chronic

    36. Nursing care priority area: Frailty, palliative, end of life


    Section 5 Governance

    Challenges to nursing leadership in a changing nursing practice world

    37. Who should provide nursing care?

    38. Leadership in transition in acute-care hospitals

    39. Nursing employment issues: Unions, mandatory overtime, patient staff ratios

    40. Shared governance models in nursing: What is shared, who governs, and who benefits


    Section 6 Health Care Systems

    System reform: Opportunity or threat?

    41. From a medical care system for a few to a comprehensive health care system for all

    42. Business coalitions: Defining, purchasing and providing health care

    43. The challenge: Participate in the era of politics - chose an ideology and lead

    44. The corporatization of health care: Mergers and acquisitions

    45. Nurse practitioners: Issues within a managed care environment

    46. Contracting for nursing services

    47. Magnet hospitals: Gold standard for nursing excellence


    Section 7 Health Care Costs

    A concern for costs

    48. Controlling health care costs: Is there an answer?

    49. Managed care, prospective payment, and reimbursement trends: Impact and implications for nursing

    50. The costs of home healthcare: Changes and challenges

    51. Reimbursement for alternative providers

    52. Impact of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)

    53. Drugs are too cheap


    Section 8 Role Challenges, Collaboration, & Conflict

    Colleagues and conflict

    54. Collaboration issues between nurses and physicians

    55. Feminism and nursing: Reclaiming Nightingales vision

    56. Entering collegial relationships: The demise of nurse as victim

    57. Health professions in community-based settings: A collaborative journey

    58. Some reflections on conflict resolution in nursing: The implications of negotiating at an uneven table


    Section 9 Cultural Diversity

    Diversity in nursing: A United States challenge

    59. Why isnt nursing more diversified?

    60. Minority representation in nursing: Is cultural competency in nursing achievable and when?

    61. Nursing at the crossroads: Men in nursing

    62. Bridging cultures: African Americans and nursing

    63. Narrowing the health disparities gap: Asian and Pacific Islanders and nursing

    64. Bridging cultures: Hispanic/Latinos and nursing

    65. Bridging cultures: American Indians and nursing


    Section 10 Ethics, Legal, and Social Issues

    Ethical and legal concerns in a changing health care world

    66. Ethics of health care reform: Should health care be rationed

    67. The nurse as patient advocate: Is there a conflict of interest?

    68. Ethical issues and resources for nurses across the continuum

    69. Sexual harassment

    70. Health care for poor and underserved

    71. Legal, ethical, and moral considerations in caring of individuals with Alzheimers Disease

    72. Advance directives: Promoting self-determination or hampering autonomy

    73. Managed care and the violation of ethical principles: Research vignettes

    74. Learning a practice of uncertainty: Clinical ethics and the nurse


    Section 11 Violence prevention and care: Nursings role

    Violence: Nursings expanding role in prevention and care

    75. Child maltreatment: Developmental and health effects

    76. Child neglect prevention: Nursings pivotal role

    77. I find myself at therapys doorstep - Care of African American women survivors of intimate partner violence

    78. Nursing care: Victims of violence-elder mistreatment

    79. Nursing care: Preventive gun safety

    80. Nursing care during terrorist events

    81. Nursing practice in homeland security

    82. Nursing in wars

    83. Bioterrorism and emerging infections: Emergency preparedness for nurses

    84. Nursing care: Combat - jungles to deserts


    Section 12 International Nursing

    Nursing: A global view

    85. Nursing in Southern Africa: An overview of health care and nursing education and practice

    86. Nursing in Canada: An overview of health care and nursing education and practice

    87. Nursing in Britain: An overview of health care and nursing education and practice

    88. Nursing in Japan: Meeting the healthcare challenges of the 21st century

    89. Nursing in Latin America: An overview of health care and nursing education and practice

    90. Nursing in Russia: An overview of health care and nursing education and practice

    91. Nursing in The Gambia: An overview of health care and nursing education and practice
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