Current Issues in Nursing

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Edition: 7th
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Pub. Date: 2006-03-15
Publisher(s): Mosby
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Summary

Analyze conflicting viewpoints and synthesize your own thoughts on the demands being made on the nursing profession and the difficult issues affecting health care today.

Table of Contents

Section One DEFINITIONS OF Nursing
Overview
The Richness of Nursing
2(3)
Perle Slavik Cowen
Sue Moorhead
Debate
What Is Nursing and Why Do We Ask?
5(6)
Meridean L. Maas
Viewpoints
Staff Nurses Working in Hospitals: Who They Are, What They Do, and What Are Their Challenges?
11(6)
Victoria T. Grando
Clinical Nurse Specialists: Who They Are, What They Do, and What Are Their Challenges?
17(7)
Jo Ann Appleyard
Ann Henrick
Nurse Practitioners: Who They Are, What They Do, and What Are Their Challenges?
24(9)
Patricia Clinton
Nurse Executives: Critical Thinking for Rapid Change
33(4)
Sueellen Pinkerton
Rose Rivers
Nursing Faculty: Opportunities and Challenges
37(8)
Paula R. Mobily
Anita M. Stineman
Nurse Researchers: Who They Are, What They Do, and What Are Their Challenges?
45(12)
Nancy A. Stotts
Deirdre Wipke-Tevis
Section Two CHANGING EDUCATION
Overview
Nursing Education in Transition
54(3)
Perle Slavik Cowen
Sue Moorhead
Debate
The Future of Nursing Education: Educational Models for Future Care
57(11)
Mary T. Champagne
Viewpoints
Educational Challenges: The Crisis in Quality
68(18)
Kathryn J. Dolter
International Graduate Nursing Education: A Critical Examination
86(7)
Michele J. Upvall
Critical Thinking: What Is It and How Do We Teach It?
93(7)
Sharon Staib
Collaborative Institutional Approaches to Nursing Education
100(5)
V. Jane Muhl
Pam Scheibel
Using Academic-Service Collaborative Partnerships to Expand Professional Nursing Programs
105(7)
Chris L. Latham
Integrating Nursing Theory, Nursing Research, and Nursing Practice
112(11)
Howard Karl Butcher
Standardized Terminologies and Integrated Information Systems: Building Blocks for Transforming Data Into Nursing Knowledge
123(11)
Suzane Bakken
Leanne M. Currie
Electronic Information and Methods for Improving Education: Realities and Assumptions
134(5)
Jo Eland
Web-Based Education
139(11)
Diane J. Skiba
Section Three CHANGING PRACTICE
Overview
A Nurse Is Not a Nurse Is Not a Nurse
146(4)
Perle Slavik Cowen
Sue Moorhead
Debate
Moving the Care: From Hospital to Home
150(21)
Lucille A. Joel
Viewpoints
Adult Health Medical-Surgical Nursing Practice: Recent Changes and Current Issues
171
Cecelia Gatson Grindel
Noel Kerr
Alternative and Complementary Therapies: Recent Changes and Current Issues
167(4)
Charlotte Eliopoulos
Ambulatory Care Nursing: Challenges for the Twenty-First Century
171(12)
Sheila A. Haas
Ida M. Androwich
Gerontological Nursing: Recent Changes and Current Issues
183(9)
Mary Zwygart-Stauffacher
Marilyn J. Rantz
Hospice and Palliative Care: Recent Changes and Current Issues
192(6)
Jeanne A. Martinez
Parish Nursing: Recent Changes and Current Issues
198(6)
P. Ann Solari-Twadell
Pediatric Nursing: Recent Changes and Current Issues
204(8)
Marilyn J. Hockenberry
Rosalind Bryant
Cheryl Rodgers
Perinatal Nursing: Recent Changes and Current Issues
212(7)
Kathleen Rice Simpson
Perioperative Nursing: Recent Changes and Current Issues
219(6)
Nancy Girard
Psychiatric Nursing: Recent Changes and Current Issues
225(10)
Gail W. Stuart
Forensic Nursing: Recent Changes and Current Issues
235(17)
Virginia A. Lynch
Disease Management: Are Nurses Ready?
252(11)
Rufus Howe
Section Four QUALITY IMPROVEMENT
Overview
Role of Nursing in Achieving Quality Health Care Systems
260(3)
Kathryn J. Dolter
Debate
Institute of Medicine Recommendations: Can We Meet the Challenges?
263(7)
Ada Sue Hinshaw
Viewpoints
Nursing Care Priority Area: Patient Safety
270(13)
Audrey Nelson
Gail Powell-Cope
Leadership by Example: Resources for Nurses Involved in Health System Process Improvements
283(12)
Kathryn J. Dolter
Nursing Care Priority Area: Prevention
295(8)
Janet D. Allan
Nursing Care Priority Area: Chronic Conditions
303(9)
Connie Davis
Nursing Care Priority Area: Frailty, Palliative, End of Life
312(12)
June R. Lunney
Section Five GOVERNANCE
Overview
Challenges to Nursing Leadership in a Changing Nursing Practice World
322(2)
Perle Slavik Cowen
Sue Moorhead
Debate
Who Should Provide Nursing Care?
324(8)
Polly Gerber Zimmermann
Viewpoints
Leadership in Transition in Acute Care Hospitals
332(8)
Colleen J. Goode
Kathy A. Boyle
Nursing Employment Issues: Unions, Mandatory Overtime, Patient/Staff Ratios
340(8)
Thomas R. Clancy
Catherine H. Abrams
Shared Governance Models in Nursing: What Is Shared, Who Governs, and Who Benefits
348(17)
Janet P. Specht
Meridean L. Maas
Section Six HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS
Overview
System Reform: Opportunity or Threat?
362(3)
Perle Slavik Cowen
Sue Moorhead
Debate
From a Medical Care System for a Few to a Comprehensive Health Care System for All
365(6)
Mary Margaret Mooney
Viewpoints
Business Coalitions: Defining, Purchasing, and Providing Health Care
371(10)
Patricia Hinton Walker
Karen L. Elberson
Sandra C. Garmon Bibb
The Challenge: Participate in the Era of Politics---Choose an Ideology and Lead
381(9)
Catherine Dodd
The Corporatization of Health Care: Mergers and Acquisitions
390(10)
Marjorie Beyers
Nurse Practitioners: Issues Within a Managed Care Environment
400(7)
Rufus Howe
Contracting for Nursing Services
407(5)
Donna Zazworsky
Magnet Designation: Gold Standard for Nursing Excellence
412(6)
Rose Rivers
Sueellen Pinkerton
Section Seven HEALTH CARE COSTS
Overview
A Concern for Costs
416(2)
Perle Slavik Cowen
Sue Moorhead
Debate
Controlling Health Care Costs: Is There an Answer?
418(11)
Joseph W. York
Mary M. Gibson
Viewpoints
Managed Care, Prospective Payment, and Reimbursement Trends: Impact and Implications for Nursing
429(20)
P. J. Maddox
The Costs of Home Health Care: Changes and Challenges
449(6)
Mary Ann Anderson
Mara Clarke
Marie E. Dusio
Reimbursement for Alternative Providers
455(14)
Judy Lee
Impact of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
469(6)
Ann M. Rhodes
Drugs Are Too Cheap
475(9)
Tess Judge-Ellis
Bernard Sorofman
Section Eight ROLE CHALLENGES, COLLABORATION, AND CONFLICT
Overview
Colleagues and Conflict
482(2)
Perle Slavik Cowen
Sue Moorhead
Debate
Collaboration Issues Between Nurses and Physicians
484(15)
Gail Keenan
Dana Tschannen
Viewpoints
Feminism and Nursing: Reclaiming Nightingale's Vision
499(7)
Peggy L. Chin
Entering Collegial Relationships: The Demise of Nurse as Victim
506(6)
Adele W. Pike
Meridean L. Maas
Health Professions Education in Community-Based Settings: A Collaborative Journey
512(8)
Joellen B. Edwards
Susan Grover
Joy E. Wachs
Some Reflections on Conflict Resolution in Nursing: The Implications of Negotiating at an Uneven Table
520(15)
Phyllis Beck Kritek
Section Nine CULTURAL DIVERSITY
Overview
Diversity in Nursing: A Challenge for the United States
532(3)
Perle Slavik Cowen
Sue Moorhead
Debate
Why Isn't Nursing More Diversified?
535(9)
Maria R. Warda
Minority Representation in Nursing: Is Cultural Competency in Nursing Achievable and When?
544(15)
Patricia T. Castiglia
Nursing at the Crossroads: Men in Nursing
559(10)
Vern L. Bullogh
Bridging Cultures: Blacks and Nursing
569(9)
Betty Pierce Dennis
Narrowing the Health Disparities Gap: Asians and Pacific Islanders and Nursing
578(8)
Jillian Inouye
Bridging Cultures: Hispanics/Latinos and Nursing
586(7)
Sara Torres
Helen Castillo
Bridging Cultures: American Indians and Nursing
593(18)
Bette Keltner
Debra Smith
Mechem Slim
Section Ten ETHICS, LEGAL, AND SOCIAL ISSUES
Overview
Ethical, Legal, and Social Concerns in a Changing Health Care World
608(3)
Perle Slavik Cowen
Sue Moorhead
Debate
Ethics of Health Care Reform: Should Health Care Be Rationed?
611(9)
Karen Dunn Lopez
Viewpoints
The Nurse as Patient Advocate: Is There a Conflict of Interest?
620(6)
Karen Markus
Ethical Issues and Resources for Nurses Across the Continuum
626(7)
Margo R. Zink
Jeanne Potter
Kristi Chirlin
Sexual Harassment
633(6)
Anne M. Fiedler
Health Care for the Poor and Underserved
639(6)
Sara Groves
Legal, Ethical, and Moral Considerations in Caring for Individuals With Alzheimer's Disease
645(7)
Nancy Edwards
Advance Directivies: Promoting Self-Determination or Hampering Autonomy
652(8)
Diane K. Kjervik
Managed Care and the Violation of Ethical Principles: Research Vignettes
660(8)
Mary Cipriano Silva
Kathleen O. Williams
Learning a Practice of Uncertainty: Clinical Ethics and the Nurse
668(16)
Laurie Zoloth
Section Eleven VIOLENCE PREVENTION AND CARE: THE ROLE OF NURSING
Overview
Violence: The Expanding Role of Nursing in Prevention and Care
680(4)
Perle Slavik Cowen
Sue Moorhead
Child Maltreatment: Developmental and Health Effects
684(18)
Perle Slavik Cowen
Child Neglect Prevention: The Pivotal Role of Nursing
702(25)
Perle Slavik Cowen
Care of African American Women Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence
727(5)
Janette Y. Taylor
Nursing Care: Victims of Violence-Elder Mistreatment
732(6)
Kristin Lemko
Terry Fulmer
Nursing Care: Preventive Gun Safety
738(5)
Mary Fran Hazinski
Nursing Care During Terrorist Events
743(7)
Terry Fulmer
Rose P. Knapp
Rebecca A. Terranova
Ian Portelli
Nursing Practice in Homeland Security
750(12)
Mary W. Chaffee
Roberta P. Lavin
Lynn A. Slepski
Nursing in Wars
762(6)
Richard Garfield
Anne Marie Rafferty
Bioterrorism and Emerging Infections: Emergency Preparedness for Nurses
768(10)
Terri Rebmann
Nursing Care: Combat--Jungles to Deserts
778(10)
Catherine H. Abrams
Section Twelve INTERNATIONAL NURSING
Overview
Nursing: A Global View
784(4)
Perle Slavik Cowen
Sue Moorhead
Nursing in Southern Africa: An Overview of Health Care, Nursing Education, and Practice
788(8)
Esther Salang Seloilwe
Sheila Dinotshe Tlou
Nursing in Canada: An Overview of Health Care, Nursing Education, and Practice
796(8)
Janet C. Ross-Kerr
Nursing in Britain: An Overview of Health Care, Nursing Education, and Practice
804(10)
June Clark
Nursing in Japan: Meeting the Health Care Challenges of the Twenty-First Century
814(7)
Teruko Takahashi
Cheryl L. Brandi
Nursing in Latin America: An Overview of Health Care, Nursing Education, and Practice
821(7)
Maria Mercedes Duran De Villalobos
Nursing in Russia: An Overview of Health Care, Nursing Education, and Practice
828(15)
Linda S. Smith
Nursing in the Gambia: An Overview of Health Care, Nursing Education, and Practice
843
Kenneth Culp

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