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Chapters in this outstanding text are grouped into sections focusing on major themes. Each section features an overview, a debate chapter and several viewpoint chapters. This format gives students the opportunity to analyse conflicting viewpoints and encourages critical thinking. Current Issues in Nursing boasts a well-known and well-respected author group, allowing students to learn from recognised leaders in the field.

Table of Contents:
DEFINITIONS OF NURSING * What is nursing * Staff nurses working in hospitals: Who they are, what they do, and 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 andIintegrated 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 challenges * Some reflections on conflict resolution in nursing: The implications of negotiating at an uneven table * Why isn't nursing more diversified? * Minority representation in nursing education programs: Increasing cultural competence * Finally we have arrived: Men in nursing * Bridging cultures: African Americans and nursing * Bridging cultures: Asian/Pacific Islanders and nursing * Bridging cultures: Hispanic/Latinos and nursing * Bridging cultures: American Indians and nursing * The ethics of health care reform: Should rationing strategies target the elderly? * Legal implications for professional practice * Ethical issues and resources for nurses across the continuum * Sexual harassment * Pediatric nursing and TV viewing: An opportunity to affect children's health * Child neglect preventive interventions: Nursing' s role * Alzheimer's disease: Legal, ethical, and moral considerations * Advance directives: challenges for nurses and patients * Just managing: Ethical obligations and the managed healthcare marketplace * An overview of health care and nursing education and practice in Africa *An overview of health care and nursing education and practice in Canada * An overview of health care and nursing education and practice in Britain * An overview of health care and nursing education and practice in Japan * An overview of health care and nursing education and practice in Latin America * An overview of health care and nursing education and practice in Russia


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780323012768
  • Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
  • Publisher Imprint: Mosby
  • Edition: Revised edition
  • Language: English
  • Weight: 996 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0323012760
  • Publisher Date: 19 Mar 2001
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 254 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Width: 203 mm


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