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Unit I Professional Growth and Transitions |
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3 | (22) |
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5 | (1) |
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5 | (1) |
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What Are Important Factors Influencing Transitions? |
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5 | (1) |
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6 | (1) |
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6 | (6) |
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6 | (1) |
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What Are the Phases of Reality Shock? |
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7 | (5) |
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12 | (9) |
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When Does the Role Transition to Graduate Nurse Begin? |
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13 | (2) |
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How Can I Prepare Myself for This Transition Process? |
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15 | (1) |
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How Can I Prepare Myself for a Transition? |
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16 | (5) |
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21 | (4) |
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25 | (18) |
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Is Burnout Inevitable for Nurses? |
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26 | (1) |
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Empowerment and Self-Care |
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27 | (5) |
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Suggested Strategies for Self-Care That Are Based on the Holistic Self-Assessment Tool |
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30 | (1) |
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Am I Emotionally Healthy/Emotionally Intelligent? |
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31 | (1) |
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What About Friends and Fun? How Do I Find the Time? |
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31 | (1) |
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32 | (6) |
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How Do I Take Care of my Physical Self? |
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32 | (1) |
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Strategies to Foster my Spiritual Self: Does my Life Have Meaning? |
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33 | (1) |
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How Do I Increase my Mental Potential? Is It Okay to Daydream? |
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33 | (5) |
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What Are my Choices, and How Do I Exercise Them? |
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38 | (1) |
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38 | (5) |
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Unit II Career Development |
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Employment Considerations: Opportunities, Resumes, and Interviewing |
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43 | (36) |
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What Is Happening in the Job Market? |
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44 | (2) |
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46 | (6) |
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What Are my Clinical Interests? |
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46 | (1) |
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What Are my Likes and Dislikes? |
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47 | (3) |
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What Are my Personal Needs and Interests? |
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50 | (1) |
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What Are my Career Goals? |
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51 | (1) |
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Researching Prospective Employers |
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52 | (2) |
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What Employment Opportunities Are Available? |
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52 | (1) |
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What About Advanced Degrees in Nursing? |
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53 | (1) |
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How Do I Go About Researching Prospective Employers? |
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54 | (2) |
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Employment Considerations: How Do You Decide on an Employer? |
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54 | (2) |
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What Do I Need to Know to Assess the Organization? |
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56 | (2) |
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How Do You Go About Assessing an Organization to Find What You Want? |
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56 | (2) |
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58 | (6) |
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How Do I Write an Effective Resume? |
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58 | (1) |
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What Information Is Necessary for a Resume? |
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59 | (2) |
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What Else Should I Submit with my Resume? |
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61 | (1) |
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What Are the Methods for Submitting Resumes? |
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61 | (3) |
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What Is the Difference Between a Resume and a Curriculum Vitae? |
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64 | (1) |
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64 | (3) |
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How Do I Plan my Interview Campaign? |
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64 | (2) |
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Strategies for Interview Success |
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66 | (1) |
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Critical First 5 Minutes! |
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67 | (6) |
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68 | (1) |
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How Do I Handle Unexpected Questions or Situations? |
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69 | (1) |
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Now Can We Talk About Benefits? |
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70 | (3) |
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Job Offers and Possible Rejection |
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73 | (3) |
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74 | (1) |
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74 | (1) |
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What if I Do not Like my First Position? |
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75 | (1) |
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What if It Is Time for Me to Change Positions? |
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76 | (1) |
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76 | (3) |
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Mentoring and Preceptorship |
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79 | (12) |
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80 | (1) |
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What Mentoring Is and Is not |
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80 | (9) |
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83 | (1) |
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What Are the Characteristics of a Successful Mentor? |
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83 | (1) |
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What Is a Mentoring Moment? |
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84 | (1) |
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84 | (2) |
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What Is the Role of the Mentee? |
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86 | (1) |
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What Are the Characteristics of a Mentee? |
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86 | (1) |
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What Are the Types of Mentoring Relationships? |
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87 | (1) |
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Mentoring Through Reality Shock |
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87 | (1) |
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What Does the Future Hold? |
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88 | (1) |
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89 | (2) |
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NCLEX-RN and the New Graduate |
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91 | (30) |
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92 | (6) |
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Who Prepares It, and Why Do We Have to Have It? |
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92 | (1) |
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How Will the Nurse Licensure Compact Affect Your License? |
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92 | (1) |
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What Is the NCLEX-RN Test Plan? |
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93 | (1) |
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94 | (3) |
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What Kind of Questions Will Be on the NCLEX? |
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97 | (1) |
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What Are Some of Other Things I Really Need to Know About the NCLEX? |
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97 | (1) |
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Preparing for the NCLEX-RN |
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98 | (19) |
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Where and When Should I Start? |
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98 | (3) |
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How Do I Select an NCLEX Review Course? |
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101 | (4) |
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NCLEX-RN Review Books; Which One Is Right For You? |
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105 | (2) |
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Test Anxiety: What Is the Disease? How Do You Get Rid of It? |
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107 | (1) |
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What Kind of Questions Can I Expect on the NCLEX? |
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108 | (3) |
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What Difference Do Test-Taking Strategies Make? |
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111 | (2) |
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What Are Strategies for Answering Multiple-Choice Questions? |
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113 | (3) |
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116 | (1) |
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117 | (4) |
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Unit III Nursing: A Developing Profession |
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Historical Perspectives: Influences of the Past |
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121 | (20) |
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Nursing History: People and Places |
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122 | (7) |
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122 | (1) |
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Why Deacons, Widows, and Virgins? |
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122 | (1) |
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How Did Knighthood Contribute to Nursing? |
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123 | (1) |
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What About Revolts and Nursing? |
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124 | (1) |
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Florence Nightingale: The Legend and the Lady |
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125 | (4) |
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American Nursing: Critical Factors |
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129 | (2) |
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What Was It Like in Colonial Times? |
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129 | (1) |
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What Happened to Nursing During the U.S. Civil War? |
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130 | (1) |
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How Did the Roles of Nurses and Wives Compare During the Victorian Era? |
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130 | (1) |
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Who Were the Reformers of the Victorian Era? |
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131 | (1) |
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The Nurse's Role: The Struggle for Definitions |
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131 | (8) |
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131 | (1) |
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What Is the Traditional Role of a Nurse? |
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132 | (1) |
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Did You Know You Would Be a Teacher? |
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133 | (1) |
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134 | (2) |
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136 | (1) |
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Can Nurses Be Colleagues? |
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137 | (1) |
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Where Does This Leave the Role of Colleague? |
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138 | (1) |
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138 | (1) |
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139 | (2) |
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141 | (18) |
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Path of Diploma Education |
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143 | (1) |
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What Is the History of Diploma Nursing? |
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143 | (1) |
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What Is the Educational Preparation of the Diploma Graduate? |
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143 | (1) |
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Path of Associate-Degree Education |
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143 | (2) |
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What Is the History of Associate-Degree Nursing? |
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143 | (1) |
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What Is the Educational Preparation of the Associate-Degree Graduate? |
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144 | (1) |
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Path of Baccalaureate Education |
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145 | (1) |
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What Is the History of Baccalaureate Nursing? |
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145 | (1) |
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What Is the Educational Preparation of the Baccalaureate Graduate? |
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146 | (1) |
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Nontraditional Paths for Nursing Education |
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146 | (1) |
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What About a Master's Degree as a Path to Becoming an RN? |
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146 | (1) |
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What About a Doctoral Path to Becoming an RN? |
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147 | (1) |
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147 | (4) |
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What About Graduate School? |
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147 | (1) |
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What Is the History of Graduate Nursing Education? |
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147 | (1) |
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Why Would I Want a Master's Degree? |
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148 | (1) |
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How Do I Know Which Master's Degree Program Is Right for Me? |
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149 | (1) |
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Why Would I Want a Doctoral Degree? |
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150 | (1) |
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How Do I Know Which Doctoral Program Is Right for Me? |
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151 | (1) |
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Other Types of Nursing Education |
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151 | (2) |
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What Are the Other Available Education Options? |
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151 | (1) |
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What Is a BSN-Completion Program? |
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152 | (1) |
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153 | (1) |
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Nursing Education: Future Trends |
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154 | (3) |
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The Changing Student Profile |
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154 | (2) |
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156 | (1) |
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A Shortage of Qualified Nursing Faculty |
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156 | (1) |
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156 | (1) |
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Changing Health Care Settings |
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157 | (1) |
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157 | (1) |
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157 | (2) |
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159 | (20) |
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160 | (7) |
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160 | (1) |
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What Nursing Theory Is Not |
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160 | (1) |
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161 | (1) |
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What Is the History of Nursing Theory? |
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162 | (5) |
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Who Are the Nursing Theorists? |
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167 | (10) |
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Selected Nursing Theorists |
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167 | (10) |
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177 | (2) |
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Image of Nursing: Influences of the Present |
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179 | (28) |
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180 | (9) |
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What Do We Mean by the ``Image'' of Nursing? |
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180 | (2) |
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What Constitutes a Profession? |
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182 | (2) |
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184 | (5) |
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189 | (4) |
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What Should I Know About Professional Organizations? |
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189 | (1) |
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What Organizations Are Available to the Recent Graduate? |
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189 | (4) |
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Credentialing: Licensure and Certification |
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193 | (4) |
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193 | (1) |
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What Are Registration and Licensure? |
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194 | (1) |
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194 | (2) |
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Certification: Generalist or Specialist? |
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196 | (1) |
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196 | (1) |
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What Nursing Journals or Literature Are Available? |
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196 | (1) |
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197 | (3) |
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What Is Going on in the Job Market? |
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197 | (2) |
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What About Advanced-Practice Nursing? |
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199 | (1) |
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200 | (7) |
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Unit IV Nursing Management |
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Challenges of Nursing Management |
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207 | (22) |
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Management Versus Leadership |
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208 | (4) |
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What Is the Difference Between Management and Leadership? |
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208 | (1) |
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What Is Meant by Management Style? |
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209 | (1) |
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What Are the Characteristics and Theories of Leadership? |
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210 | (2) |
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The Twenty-First Century: A Different Age for Management and for Leadership |
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212 | (4) |
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Who Are the Silent or Veterans? |
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213 | (1) |
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Who Are the Baby Boomers? |
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213 | (1) |
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213 | (1) |
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214 | (2) |
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Power and Authority in Nursing Management |
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216 | (1) |
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Do You Know the Difference Between Power and Authority? |
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216 | (1) |
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What Are the Different Types of Power? |
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216 | (1) |
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Management Problem Solving |
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217 | (4) |
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How Are Problem-Solving Strategies Used in Management? |
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217 | (2) |
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How Do We Relate Problem Solving and Decision Making? |
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219 | (1) |
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What Effect Does the Leader Have on the Group? |
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220 | (1) |
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221 | (5) |
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Who Initiates Change and Why? |
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224 | (2) |
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226 | (3) |
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Effective Communication and Team Building |
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229 | (42) |
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The Communication Process |
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230 | (7) |
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What Are the Parts of the Communication Process? |
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230 | (2) |
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What Are the Basic Principles of Effective Communication? |
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232 | (1) |
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What Are Facilitative Messages? |
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233 | (2) |
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What Are Obstructive Messages? |
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235 | (2) |
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Communication in the Workplace |
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237 | (7) |
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How Can I Communicate Effectively with my Supervisor? |
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237 | (1) |
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How Can I Communicate Effectively with Other Nursing Personnel? |
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238 | (1) |
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How Can I Communicate Effectively with Patient Care Assistants? |
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238 | (2) |
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What Does my Image Communicate to Others? |
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240 | (1) |
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How Do Sex Differences Influence Communication Styles? |
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241 | (1) |
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What Should I Know About the ``Grapevine''? |
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242 | (1) |
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How Can I Deal with Cultural Diversity at Work? |
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242 | (2) |
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Components of Written Communication |
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244 | (8) |
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How Can I Communicate Effectively in Writing? |
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244 | (1) |
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How Can I Learn to Speak Effectively? |
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245 | (1) |
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What Listening Skills Do I Need to Develop? |
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246 | (2) |
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How Can I Use Nonverbal Communication Effectively? |
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248 | (1) |
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What Skills Do I Need to Use the Telephone Effectively? |
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249 | (1) |
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How Can I Communicate Effectively by Using Technology? |
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249 | (3) |
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252 | (5) |
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252 | (2) |
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How Can You Improve Communications in Group Meetings? |
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254 | (1) |
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What Are the Responsibilities of a Group Leader? |
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255 | (2) |
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257 | (5) |
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257 | (1) |
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When Nurses Work as a True Team, Everyone Involved Benefits! |
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258 | (4) |
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Assertive Styles of Communication |
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262 | (5) |
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Why Are Nurses not More Assertive? |
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263 | (1) |
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What Are the Benefits of Assertiveness? |
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264 | (1) |
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What Are my Basic Rights as a Person and as a Nurse? |
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264 | (1) |
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How Can I Begin to Practice Assertive Communication? |
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264 | (1) |
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What Are the Components of Assertive Communication? |
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265 | (1) |
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When to Use Assertive Communication |
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266 | (1) |
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267 | (4) |
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271 | (18) |
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272 | (1) |
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272 | (1) |
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What Are Some Common Areas of Conflict Between Nurses and Patients---and Between Nurses and Patients' Families? |
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273 | (1) |
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273 | (4) |
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What Are Ways to Resolve Conflict? |
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273 | (2) |
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What Are Some Basic Guidelines for Which Technique to Use? |
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275 | (2) |
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Dealing with Difficult People |
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277 | (8) |
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What Are Some Techniques for Handling Difficult People? |
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277 | (4) |
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281 | (2) |
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What Is the Solution for Dealing with Anger? |
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283 | (2) |
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Sexual Harassment in the Workplace |
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285 | (3) |
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What Is Sexual Harassment? |
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286 | (1) |
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287 | (1) |
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288 | (1) |
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289 | (22) |
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290 | (7) |
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290 | (1) |
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What Are Your Biologic Rhythms, and How Do You Use Them? |
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290 | (1) |
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What Is Meant by Left- and Right-Brain Dominance, and Where Is my Brain? |
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291 | (1) |
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How Can I Manage my Physical Environment? |
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292 | (1) |
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What About All the Paperwork---How Can I Manage It? |
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293 | (1) |
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What About Managing the Telephone? |
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294 | (1) |
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What About All That E-Mail? |
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294 | (1) |
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How Can I Deal with All the Interruptions? |
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295 | (1) |
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How Can I Manage my Calendar? |
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295 | (2) |
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297 | (2) |
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How Do I Deal with Procrastination? |
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297 | (2) |
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299 | (1) |
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What About Delegation and Time Management? |
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300 | (1) |
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300 | (2) |
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300 | (1) |
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Prioritize with the ABCD System |
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300 | (1) |
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301 | (1) |
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Managing Time in the Clinical Setting |
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302 | (6) |
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Get Organized Before the Shift Report |
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302 | (1) |
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302 | (3) |
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305 | (1) |
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Request Consistent Patient Assignments Whenever Possible |
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306 | (1) |
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Organize Your Work by Patient |
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306 | (1) |
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Develop and Use Assertive Communication |
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306 | (1) |
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What About Delegating and Time Management? |
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306 | (1) |
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How Do I Know What and When I Can Delegate? |
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307 | (1) |
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308 | (3) |
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Delegation in the Clinical Setting |
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311 | (22) |
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What Does Delegation Mean? |
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312 | (2) |
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314 | (1) |
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315 | (3) |
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316 | (1) |
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Is There Anything I Cannot Delegate? |
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316 | (2) |
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318 | (3) |
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How Can I Use Outcomes in Delegating? |
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319 | (2) |
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321 | (3) |
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How Can I Determine the Strengths and Weaknesses of Team Members? |
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321 | (1) |
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What Are the Causes of Performance Weaknesses? |
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322 | (2) |
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324 | (2) |
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How Can I Get the Delegate to Understand What I Want? |
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324 | (2) |
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326 | (3) |
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How Can I Effectively Give and Receive Feedback? |
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326 | (3) |
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329 | (4) |
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Unit V Current Issues in Health Care |
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The Health Care Organization and Patterns of Nursing Care Delivery |
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333 | (26) |
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What Are Some Important Challenges Currently Facing Health Care? |
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334 | (1) |
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334 | (1) |
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How Does Managed Care Change Reimbursement Patterns? |
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334 | (1) |
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What Is the Impact of Managed Care on Health Care Entities? |
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335 | (1) |
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What Is Meant by Integrated Health Care Delivery Systems? |
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336 | (1) |
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How Does Case Management Support Managed Care? |
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336 | (3) |
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What Tools Are Used to Support Case Management? |
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339 | (3) |
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342 | (1) |
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How Do We Know That Critical Pathways and Disease-Management Protocols Reflect the Latest and Best Practice? |
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342 | (1) |
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343 | (3) |
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What Can Be Done to Recruit Nurses to the Profession? |
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344 | (1) |
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How Can Health Care Organizations Retain Nurses? |
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344 | (2) |
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346 | (3) |
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What Are the Effects of Various Patterns of Nursing Care Delivery? |
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349 | (8) |
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What Is the Total Patient Care or Private Duty Model? |
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349 | (1) |
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What Is Functional Nursing? |
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350 | (1) |
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351 | (1) |
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352 | (1) |
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What Is Patient-Focused Care? |
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353 | (1) |
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What Is the Most Effective Model of Nursing Care? |
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353 | (1) |
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What Is the Impact of Staffing Patterns on the Quality of Care? |
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353 | (1) |
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How Are Nursing Work Assignments Determined? |
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354 | (2) |
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What About Scheduling Patterns? |
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356 | (1) |
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What About the Use of Overtime? |
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356 | (1) |
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357 | (2) |
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Economics of the Health Care Delivery System |
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359 | (18) |
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What Are the Trends Affecting the Rising Costs of Health Care? |
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360 | (2) |
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360 | (1) |
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360 | (2) |
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What Is the Effect of Changing Clinical Practice on Economics? |
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362 | (1) |
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Introduction to Economics |
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362 | (2) |
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What Are the Choices About Amount of Spending? |
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362 | (1) |
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What Are the Choices About Services to Provide? |
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362 | (2) |
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What Are the Choices About Methods to Produce Health Care? |
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364 | (3) |
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What Are Choices About Allocation? |
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364 | (3) |
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367 | (8) |
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What Are the Basic Concepts of Budgets? |
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367 | (1) |
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What Are the Types of Budgets? |
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368 | (4) |
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Fiscal Responsibility to the Patient |
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372 | (1) |
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Fiscal Responsibility to the Employing Institution |
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373 | (2) |
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375 | (2) |
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Political Action in Nursing |
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377 | (24) |
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What Exactly Is Politics? |
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379 | (3) |
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What Other Strategies Would You Suggest? |
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381 | (1) |
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What Are the Skills That Make up a Nurse's Political Savvy? |
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381 | (1) |
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What Is Power, and Where Does It Come from? |
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382 | (2) |
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Law 1: Power Invariably Fills Any Vacuum |
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382 | (1) |
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Law 2: Power Is Invariably Personal |
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382 | (1) |
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Law 3: Power Is Based on a System of Ideas and Philosophy |
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383 | (1) |
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Law 4: Power Is Exercised Through and Depends on Institutions |
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383 | (1) |
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Law 5: Power Is Invariably Confronted with and Acts in the Presence of a Field of Responsibility |
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383 | (1) |
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Another Way to Look at Power and Where to Get It |
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383 | (1) |
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Networking Among Colleagues |
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384 | (1) |
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385 | (10) |
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What About Trade-offs, Compromises, Negotiations, and Other Tricks of the Trade? |
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385 | (1) |
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How Do I Go About Participating in the Election Process? |
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386 | (1) |
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What Is a Political Action Committee? |
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387 | (3) |
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After Getting Them Elected, Then What? |
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390 | (5) |
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Controversial Political Issues Affecting Nursing |
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395 | (3) |
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Proposed Uniform Core Licensure Requirements |
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395 | (1) |
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Nursing and Collective Bargaining |
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396 | (1) |
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Equal Pay for Work of Comparable Value or Comparable Worth? |
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397 | (1) |
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398 | (3) |
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Collective Bargaining: Traditional and Non-Traditional Approaches |
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401 | (24) |
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When Did the Issue of Collective Bargaining Begin? |
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402 | (2) |
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The Evolution of Collective Bargaining in Nursing |
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404 | (1) |
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Who Represents Collective Bargaining in Nursing? |
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404 | (4) |
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Non-Traditional Collective Bargaining |
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404 | (2) |
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CAN and UAN: What Are the Common Issues? |
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406 | (2) |
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The Debate over Collective Bargaining |
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408 | (12) |
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Collective Bargaining: Perspectives of the Traditional Approach |
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408 | (6) |
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How Can Nurses Control Their Own Practice? |
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414 | (2) |
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Collective Bargaining: Perspectives of the Non-Traditional Approach |
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416 | (4) |
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420 | (1) |
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420 | (1) |
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421 | (4) |
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425 | (30) |
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426 | (27) |
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426 | (3) |
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429 | (12) |
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Controversial Ethical Issues Confronting Nursing |
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441 | (12) |
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453 | (2) |
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455 | (50) |
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457 | (2) |
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Where Does ``the Law'' Come from? |
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457 | (2) |
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Court Actions Based on Legal Principles |
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459 | (1) |
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Legal Control over Nursing Practice |
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460 | (4) |
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What Are the Legal Aspects of Licensure? |
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461 | (2) |
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What About the Impaired Nurse? |
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463 | (1) |
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Who Knows About the Disciplinary Actions Against Nurses? |
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463 | (1) |
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464 | (1) |
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464 | (22) |
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465 | (1) |
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Basic Elements of Malpractice |
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465 | (5) |
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Applying ``Causation'' to the Case Study |
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470 | (3) |
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Who Might Have Liability (Responsibility) in a Claim? |
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473 | (3) |
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What Defenses Might Be Available in Malpractice Claims? |
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476 | (1) |
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What Evidence Can Help Me in a Lawsuit? |
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476 | (4) |
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How Can I Avoid a Malpractice Claim? |
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480 | (6) |
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486 | (5) |
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Invasion of Privacy and Breaches of Privilege and Confidentiality |
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487 | (2) |
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Miscellaneous Intentional Torts and Other Civil Rights Claims Involved with Employment |
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489 | (1) |
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What Is a Defense to Intentional Torts? |
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489 | (2) |
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491 | (1) |
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What Criminal Acts Pose a Risk to the Nurse? |
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491 | (1) |
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Risk Management and Quality Improvement |
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492 | (5) |
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How Do I Protect Myself and my Patient from All These Risks? |
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492 | (2) |
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494 | (1) |
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What About Individual Malpractice Insurance? |
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494 | (1) |
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What Is Institutional Coverage? |
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495 | (1) |
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What Should I Ask About Institutional Coverage? |
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495 | (1) |
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What Happens When I Go to Court? |
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496 | (1) |
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Controversial Legal Issues Affecting Nursing |
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497 | (3) |
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Health Care Costs and Payment Issues |
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497 | (2) |
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Health Care Delivery Issues |
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499 | (1) |
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Issues About Life-and-Death Decisions |
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499 | (1) |
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500 | (5) |
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Unit VI Contemporary Nursing Practice |
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Cultural and Spiritual Awareness |
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505 | (16) |
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506 | (4) |
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What Is Meant by Cultural Competence? |
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506 | (1) |
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What Practice Issues Are Related to Cultural Competence? |
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506 | (3) |
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What Is the Meaning of Spirituality? |
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509 | (1) |
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Cultural and Spiritual Assessment |
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510 | (6) |
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What Are Cultural and Spiritual Beliefs About Illness and Cures? |
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510 | (4) |
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How Do You Assess Spiritual Need? |
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514 | (2) |
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516 | (5) |
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521 | (30) |
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Standards of Quality Health Care Management |
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522 | (2) |
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What Is Root Cause Analysis? |
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522 | (2) |
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524 | (1) |
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History and Evolution of Quality in Health Care |
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524 | (4) |
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525 | (1) |
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526 | (1) |
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526 | (2) |
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528 | (2) |
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What Are Patient Safety Goals? |
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528 | (2) |
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Monitoring Quality of Health Care |
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530 | (5) |
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What Is Quality Assurance? |
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530 | (2) |
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How Do We Monitor Quality? |
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532 | (1) |
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What Is an Indicator and a Metric? |
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532 | (1) |
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532 | (2) |
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What Is Performance Improvement? |
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534 | (1) |
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What Are the Barriers to Quality Improvement? |
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534 | (1) |
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Quality Improvement Methods |
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535 | (1) |
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Tools and Processes for Continuous Quality Improvement |
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536 | (2) |
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536 | (2) |
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538 | (12) |
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540 | (1) |
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541 | (5) |
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546 | (1) |
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546 | (1) |
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547 | (3) |
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Health Care Provider Credentialing for Quality Improvement |
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550 | (1) |
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550 | (1) |
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551 | (22) |
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552 | (5) |
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What Is Nursing Informatics? |
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552 | (1) |
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The Certification Process |
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553 | (1) |
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554 | (1) |
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555 | (2) |
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557 | (1) |
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Information Management and Knowledge Generation |
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557 | (1) |
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Professional Practice, Trends, and Issues |
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557 | (4) |
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What Are Regulatory and Accreditation Requirements? |
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557 | (2) |
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559 | (1) |
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559 | (1) |
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560 | (1) |
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Clinical Information Systems |
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561 | (4) |
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What Is a Clinical Information System (CIS)? |
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562 | (1) |
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What Is the Computerized Patient Record (CPR)? |
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562 | (3) |
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565 | (1) |
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566 | (1) |
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Using the Internet: The Next Generation of Health Care Delivery |
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566 | (2) |
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568 | (1) |
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Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) |
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568 | (1) |
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What Can a PDA Do to Help Me? |
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568 | (1) |
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Evaluating Internet Resources |
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569 | (1) |
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What Do I Need to Know to Evaluate an Internet Resource? |
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569 | (1) |
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570 | (3) |
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Using Nursing Research in Practice |
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573 | (12) |
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The Need for Nursing Practice Based on Research |
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574 | (1) |
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What Is Nursing Research Utilization |
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574 | (5) |
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What Are the Steps for Nursing Research Utilization? |
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574 | (4) |
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Research Utilization: What Is It Not? |
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578 | (1) |
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A Comparison of Process: Research Utilization Compared with Nursing Research and the Conduct of Research |
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579 | (1) |
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How Is the Use of Research in Practice Different from Conducting Research? |
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579 | (1) |
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What Is the Relationship Between Nursing Theory and Research Utilization? |
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580 | (1) |
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Defining Your Practice Context |
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581 | (2) |
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What Are the Health, Social, and Ethical Characteristics of the Patient Population Being Served? |
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581 | (1) |
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What Are the Health Care Delivery Characteristics of Your Setting? |
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581 | (1) |
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What Are the Motivators and Barriers for Incorporating Nursing Research into Your Practice? |
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581 | (1) |
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What Is Evidence-Based Practice? |
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582 | (1) |
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The National Institute of Nursing Research |
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583 | (1) |
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583 | (1) |
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The Agency for Health Care Research and Quality |
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584 | (1) |
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584 | (1) |
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584 | (1) |
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585 | (16) |
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Questions to Ask When Starting a New Position |
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586 | (1) |
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Ergonomic Hazards for Health Care Workers |
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586 | (2) |
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588 | (5) |
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Workplace Violence: A Growing Concern in Health Care |
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593 | (2) |
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Miscellaneous Workplace Issues |
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595 | (1) |
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Dealing with Staffing Shortages |
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596 | (4) |
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600 | (1) |
| Appendix A: Boards of Nursing |
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601 | (8) |
| Appendix B: National Nursing Organizations |
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609 | (8) |
| Appendix C: American Nurses Association Constituent Member Associations |
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617 | (10) |
| Appendix D: Canadian Nursing Organizations |
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627 | (2) |
| Index |
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