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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.
-Offers comprehensive and timely coverage of the issues affecting nursing education and practice.
-UNIQUE! Over 100 well-known contributors offer their expert insights and analysis.
-UNIQUE! Viewpoint chapters present controversial issues to showcase pressing issues facing nursing today.
-New content covering the following topics:
--The Challenges of Nursing on an International Level
--Health Care Systems and Practice
--Ethics, Legal, and Social Issues
--The Changing Practice
--Professional Challenges, Collaboration, & Conflict
--Violence Prevention and Care: Nursing's Role
--Definitions of Nursing
--Changing Education
This book presents the challenges that nurses face in today's healthcare arena. To date, there is no other contemporary issues book that uses the viewpoint/debate format. None cover the breadth of topics that this book does. This edition fills a gap in current nursing issues texts."- Carole A. Kenner (University of Oklahoma College of Nursing), Doody Review Services
| Defining Nursing from a Variety of Roles | |
| The Richness of Nursing | |
| What is Nursing, Why Do We Ask, and How Will Nursing be Better Understood? | |
| Staff Nurses Working in Hospitals: Who Are They, What Do They Do, and What Are Their Challenges? | |
| Clinical Nurse Specialists: Education and Practice Issues | |
| Nurse Practitioners: Taking Their Place in the Health Care Arena | |
| Nurse Executives: Critical Thinking for Rapid Change | |
| The Nurse as Chief Executive Officer (NEW) | |
| Nurse Educators: Issues That Affect the Profession | |
| Nurse Researchers: Who Are They, What Do They Do, and What Are Their Challenges? | |
| Nursing Education in Transition | |
| Nursing Education in Transition | |
| Creating the Future of Nursing Education: Challenges and Opportunities | |
| Educational Challenges: Quality in Pre-Licensure Nursing Education | |
| Graduate Nursing Education: A Critical Examination from a Global Perspective | |
| International Collaborative Institutional Approaches to Nursing Education (NEW) | |
| Using Academic-Service Collaborative Partnerships to Expand Professional Nursing Programs | |
| Creating the Nursing Theory-Research-Practice Nexus | |
| E-Learning | |
| Changing Practice | |
| A Nurse Is Not a Nurse Is Not a Nurse | |
| Moving the Care from Hospital to Home | |
| Adult Health Nursing Practice: Current Changes & Issues | |
| Alternative and Complementary Therapies: Recent Changes and Current Issues | |
| Ambulatory Care Nursing: Challenges for the Twenty-First Century | |
| Gerontological Nursing: Recent Changes and Current Issues | |
| Hospice and Palliative Care: One Solution for Improving U.S. Health Care? | |
| Pediatric Nursing: Recent Changes and Current Issues | |
| Perinatal Nursing: Recent Changes and Current Issues | |
| Perioperative Nursing: Recent Changes and Current Issues | |
| Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing: Recent Changes and Current Issues | |
| Forensic Nursing: Recent Changes and Current Issues | |
| Occupational Health Nursing: Recent Changes and Current Issues (NEW) | |
| Genetics, Genomics and Current Issues for Professional Nursing (NEW) | |
| Information Technology Challenges (NEW) | |
| The Impact of Technology on Health Care (NEW) | |
| Nursing: A Profession Evolving with the Use of Informatics and Technology (NEW) | |
| Standardized Terminologies and Integrated Information Systems: Building Blocks for Transforming Data into Nursing Knowledge | |
| Nursing Informatics: Partnerships at the Crossroads of Practice and Research (NEW) | |
| Sustaining a Focus Group Devoted to Standardized Language Development (NEW) | |
| Why Health Information Technology Standards and Harmonization are Important (NEW) | |
| Personal Health Records as a Tool for Improving the Delivery of Health Care (NEW) | |
| Global Challenges of Electronic Records for Nursing (NEW) | |
| Health Care Systems and Practice | |
| The Impact of Evolving Health Care Systems on Nursing | |
| From a Medical Care System for a Few to a Comprehensive Health Care System for All | |
| The Challenge: Participate in the Era of Politics - Choose an Ideology and Lead | |
| Defining Health Disparities from Three Viewpoints: Reducing Inequality in Health Care (NEW) | |
| Magnet Designation: Creating New Synergies | |
| The Research Imperative for the Nurse Executive (NEW) | |
| Laying the Foundation for Evidence-Based Practice for Nurse Residents | |
| Determining Staffing Needs Based on Patient Outcomes versus Nursing Interventions (NEW) | |
| Impact of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act | |
| Trends in Long-Term Care (NEW) | |
| Health Care Organization and Finance | |
| Identifying and Controlling Health Care Costs | |
| Controlling Health Care Costs: Balancing Public and Private Solutions | |
| Business Coalitions: Shaping Health Reform Through Technology and Science | |
| Mergers and Acquisitions | |
| The Cost of Home Health Care: Changes and Challenges | |
| Drugs Are Too Cheap | |
| Professional Challenges, Collaboration, & Conflict | |
| Challenges, Collaboration, and Conflict | |
| Collaboration between Nurses and Physicians: The Need for a Broader View | |
| Health Professions Education in Community-Based Settings: A Collaborative Journey | |
| Overcoming Polarity in Nursing (NEW) | |
| Expanding into the Twenty-First Century: Men in Nursing | |
| Nursing Employment Issues: Increasing Unionization in Nursing | |
| Managing Generational Issues in Nursing: Preserving the Future of the Profession (NEW) | |
| Cultural Inclusiveness | |
| Diversity in Nursing: A Challenge for the United States | |
| Should Nursing Be More Diversified? | |
| Minority Representation in Nursing: Diversity, Cultural Competency and Racism- | |
| The Challenge Persists | |
| Bridging Cultures: Blacks and Nursing | |
| Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and Nursing: Narrowing the Health Disparities Gap | |
| Bridging Cultures: Hispanics/Latinos and Nursing | |
| Bridging Cultures: American Indians and Nursing | |
| Ethics, Legal, and Social Issues | |
| Ethical, Legal, and Social Concerns in a Changing Health Care World | |
| Ethics of Health Care Reform: Should Health Care be Rationed? | |
| The Nurse as Patient Advocate: Is There a Conflict of Interest? | |
| Ethical Nursing Practice: It's All About Relationship | |
| Harassment and Discrimination Issues in Nursing | |
| Health Care for the Poor and Underserved | |
| Legal, ethical, and moral considerations in caring for individuals with diminished capacity | |
| Nurses' Role in Patients' Advance Directives: Facilitation or Reduction of Patient Autonomy? | |
| Environmental Disasters: Nurse Preparedness for Radiation & Chemical Events (NEW) | |
| Disaster Nursing and the American Red Cross (NEW) | |
| The Greening of Health Care (NEW) | |
| Violence Prevention and Care: Nursing's Role | |
| Violence: The Expanding Role of Nursing in Prevention and Care | |
| Child Maltreatment: Nursing Considerations | |
| Nursing Care: Preventing Firearm Injuries | |
| Group Interventions with African American Women Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence | |
| Nursing Care: Victims of Violence - Elder Mistreatment | |
| Disaster Nursing during Terrorist Events | |
| Nursing Practice in Emergency Management and Disaster Preparedness | |
| Nursing in Wars | |
| More Nurse Involvement Needed in Infectious Disease Disaster Preparedness | |
| Compassion Fatigue in Nursing (NEW) | |
| International Nursing Considerations | |
| Issues Abroad | |
| The Global Nursing Shortage - An Issue of Social Justice (NEW) | |
| All Hazards Preparedness: Advocating for Mothers and Babies (NEW) | |
| Nursing At The World Health Organization: The (In)Visibility of Chief Nurses 1951-2009 (NEW) | |
| Global Health Needs and Priorities in Developing Countries (NEW) | |
| The Global Health Agenda: Are Nursing and Midwifery Responding? (NEW) | |
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