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By Perle Cowen, PhD, RN, Associate Professor, College of Nursing, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA Sue Moorhead, PhD, RN, Associate Professor, Director, Center for Nursing Classification, College of Nursing, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Description Current Issues in Nursing provides a forum for knowledgeable debate on the important issues that nurses face today. Through the past six
editions it has provided information and viewpoints of developments that continue to impact the delivery of health care and the nursing
profession. This book provides the opportunity to analyze conflicting viewpoints and to synthesize one's own thoughts on the demands
being made on the nursing profession and the difficult issues affecting today's health care delivery. Comments from users and reviewers
have continued to praise the book for its in-depth discussion of critical issues, solid organization of material, and encouragement of
independent thinking.
Contents
Section 1 Definitions of Nursing
The richness of nursing
1. What is nursing and why do we ask?
2.
Staff nurses working in hospitals: Who are they, what do they do, and what challenges do they face?
3. Clinical nurse specialists:
Who are they, what do they do, and what challenges do they face?
4. Nurse practitioners: Who are they, what do they do, and what
challenges do they face?
5. Nurse executives: Critical thinking for rapid change
6. Nursing faculty: Opportunities and
challenges
7. Nurse researchers: Who are they, what do they do, and what challenges do they face?
Section 2
Changing Education
Nursing education in transition
8. The future of nursing education: Educational models for
future care
9. Educational challenges: The crisis in quality
10. International graduate nursing education: A critical
examination
11. Critical thinking: What is it and how do we teach it?
12. Collaborative institutional approaches to nursing
education
13. Using academic-service collaborative partnerships to expand professional nursing programs
14. Integrating
nursing theory, nursing research and nursing practice
15. Standardized terminologies and integrated information systems: Data
into nursing knowledge
16. Electronic information and methods for improving education realities - assumptions
17. Web-based
education
Section 3 Changing Practice
A nurse is not a nurse is not a nurse
18. Moving the
care: From hospital to home
19. Adult health/medical-surgical nursing practice: Recent changes and current issues
20.
Alternative and complementary therapies: Recent changes and current issues
21. Ambulatory care nursing: Challenges for the 21st
century
22. Gerontological nursing: Recent changes and current issues
23. Hospice and palliative care: Recent changes and
current issues
24. Parish nursing: Recent changes and current Issues
25. Pediatric nursing: Recent changes and current
issues
26. Perinatal nursing: Recent changes and current issues
27. Perioperative nursing: Recent changes and current issues
28.
Psychiatric nursing: Recent changes and current issues
29. Forensic nursing: Role and technique
30. Disease management:
Are nurses ready?
Section 4 Quality Improvement
Nursing's role in achieving quality health care systems
31.
Institute of Medicine Recommendations: Can we meet the challenges?
32. Nursing care priority area: Patient safety
33. Leadership
by example: Resources for nurses in health system process improvements
34. Nursing care priority area: Prevention
35.
Nursing care priority area: Chronic
36. Nursing care priority area: Frailty, palliative, end of life
Section
5 Governance
Challenges to nursing leadership in a changing nursing practice world
37. Who should provide nursing
care?
38. Leadership in transition in acute-care hospitals
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