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Professional Issues in Nursing: Challenges and Opportunities

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Using a thought-provoking approach that fosters critical thinking and values clarification, this textbook examines the full range of professional issues facing contemporary nursing. Coverage includes critical issues such as the nursing shortage, mandatory staffing ratios, violence in nursing, legal and ethical issues, plus the latest HIPAA regulations, career advancement and evaluations, and best practices for today and the future.

Chapters are grouped into five categories—furthering the profession, workforce issues, workplace issues, legal and ethical issues, and professional power. Each chapter presents multiple perspectives on a topic and ends with thought-provoking discussion questions. Comprehensive lists of electronic, news/media, and print resources help students find supplemental information.

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39549
9780781748759
9780781748759

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Rok wydania
2005
Numer wydania
1
Oprawa
miękka foliowana
Liczba stron
528
Wymiary (mm)
203 x 254
Waga (g)
1002
  • Unit 1:: Furthering the Profession 1

  • Entry Into Practice:: An Elusive Dream or a Critical Professional Need? 3
  • Differentiated Nursing Practice:: Maximizing Resources or Dividing an Already Divided Profession? 21
  • Defining Evidence-Based Best Practices 46
  • Socialization and Mentoring 65

    Unit 2:: Workforce Issues 83

  • The Current Nursing Shortage:: Causes, Consequences, and Solutions 85
  • Importing Foreign Nurses 108
  • Distance Learning:: One Strategy for Furthering Nursing Education and Easing the Nursing Shortage 127
  • Unlicensed Assistive Personnel and the Registered Nurse 147
  • Diversity in the Nursing Workforce 166

    Unit 3:: Workplace Issues 187

  • Mandatory Staffing Ratios:: Are They Working? 189
  • Mandatory Overtime in Nursing:: How Much? How Often? 207
  • Violence in Nursing:: The Expectations and the Reality 226
  • Technology in the Health Care Workplace:: Benefits, Limitations, and Challenges 248
  • Medical Errors:: An Ongoing Threat to Quality Health Care 268

    Unit 4:: Legal and Ethical Issues 293

  • Whistle-blowing in Nursing 295
  • The Chemically Impaired Nurse:: Discipline or Treatment? 314
  • Collective Bargaining and the Professional Nurse 328
  • Assuring Provider Competence Through Licensure, Continuing Education, and Certification 348

    Unit 5:: Professional Power 369

  • The Nursing Professions Historic Struggle to Increase Its Power Base 371
  • Professional Identity and Image 391
  • Advanced Practice Nursing:: Challenges of Role Definition, Recognition, and Reimbursement 412
  • Nursing and Public Policy:: Getting Involved 435
  • Nursings Professional Associations 460 Index 489
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