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9780323012768

Current Issues in Nursing

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  • ISBN13:

    9780323012768

  • ISBN10:

    0323012760

  • Edition: 6th
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-02-14
  • Publisher: Mosby
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Summary

Chapters in this outstanding text are grouped into sections focusing on major themes. Each features an overview, a debate chapter, and several viewpoint chapters. This format gives students the opportunity fo analyze conflicting viewpoints and encourages critical thinking. The text boasts a well-known and well-respected author group, allowing students to learn from recognized leaders in the field. (Includes a FREE MERLIN website. at:www.harcourthealth.com/merlin/Dochterman/current/)

Table of Contents

Definitions of Nursing
What is nursing: Staff nurses working in hospitals, Who they are, What they do, What are their challenges?
Advanced nurse practitioners: Who are they, what do they do, and what challenges do they face?
Nurse executives: Who are they, what do they do, and what challenges do they face?
Nursing faculty: Who are they, what do they do, and what challenges do they face?
Nurse researchers: Who are they, what do they do, and what challenges do they face?
Changing Information
Nursing theory, nursing research, and nursing practice: Connected or separate?
Standardized terminologies and Iintegrated information systems: Building blocks for transforming data into nursing knowledge
Evidence-based practice: A tool for clinical and managerial decision making
Benchmarking: A tool for management decision making
Use of distance technology for education, practice, and research
Information exchange in the Year 2010
The century ahead: Old traditions and new challenges for nursing education
Changing methods of Education
Use od distance technology for international nursing education
Broadening clinical education in basic nursing programs
Broadening clinical education in APN graduate education programs
Critical thinking: What is it and how do we teach it?
Collaborative institutional approaches to nursing education
Moving the care: From hospital to home, from nurses to whom?
Ambulatory care nursing: Challenges for the 21st century
Current issues in emergency nursing 2000
Recent changes and current issues in gerontological nursing
Hospice care: Underutilzed and misunderstood
Recent changes and current issues in adult health/medical-surgical nursing practice
Recent changes and current issues in parish nursing
Recent changes and current issues in perioperative nursing
Recent changes and current issues in psychiatric nursing
Alternative and complementary therapies: An overview and issues
Can quality of care be maintained in a managed care system?
Standards and guidelines: Have they made any difference?
The use of clinical pathways: Do they improve quality?
Outcomes management for quality improvement
The problems with healthcare customer satisfaction surveys
Licensure in nursing: Old and new approaches
Performance evaluation: Measuring clinical competencies
The increasing use of unlicensed assisstive personnel (UAP): The erosion or devotion of nursing?
Leadership in transition
Nurses in non-nursing leadership positions
Community-based academic health centers
Nursing centers: New opportunities and continuing challenges
Better together: developing education-community linkages to enhance professional practice for the 21st century
Shared governance models in nursing: What is shared, who governs, and who benefits?
From a medical care system for a few to a comprehensive health care system for all
Business coalitions in an electronic age: Surviving in local and global markets
Nursing in a political era
The corporatization of health care: Mergers and acquisitions
Nurse practitioners: Issues within a managed care environment
Contracting for nursing services
Controlling health care costs: Regulation vs. competition
Managed care, prospective payment and reimbursement trends: Impact implications for nursing
Costs of home care for persons with disability
Paradigm shift: Taking care of patients and taking care of business
Reimbursement for alternative providers
Financial management for patient care managers
Colaboration between nurses and physicians in the 21st century: What is it? Does it exist? Why does it matter?
Feminism and nursing: Reclaiming Nightengale's vision
Entering collegial relationships: The demise of nurse as victim
Collaboration between medical and nursing education in community-based settings
Nurse practitioners and physician assistants: Separated at birth
Conflict and collaboration: Relationships and challe
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