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Seventh Edition
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
39. Nursing employment issues: Unions, mandatory overtime, patient
staff ratios
40. Shared governance models in nursing: What is shared, who governs, and who benefits
Section
6 Health Care Systems
System reform: Opportunity or threat?
41. From a medical care system for a few to a comprehensive
health care system for all
42. Business coalitions: Defining, purchasing and providing health care
43. The challenge:
Participate in the era of politics – chose an ideology and lead
44. The corporatization of health care: Mergers and acquisitions
45.
Nurse practitioners: Issues within a managed care environment
46. Contracting for nursing services
47. Magnet hospitals:
Gold standard for nursing excellence
Section 7 Health Care Costs
A concern for costs
48. Controlling
health care costs: Is there an answer?
49. Managed care, prospective payment, and reimbursement trends: Impact and implications
for nursing
50. The costs of home healthcare: Changes and challenges
51. Reimbursement for alternative providers
52.
Impact of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
53. Drugs are too cheap
Section 8 Role
Challenges, Collaboration, & Conflict
Colleagues and conflict
54. Collaboration issues between nurses and physicians
55.
Feminism and nursing: Reclaiming Nightingale's vision
56. Entering collegial relationships: The demise of nurse as victim
57.
Health professions in community-based settings: A collaborative journey
58. Some reflections on conflict resolution in nursing:
The implications of negotiating at an uneven table
Section 9 Cultural Diversity
Diversity in nursing:
A United States challenge
59. Why isn't nursing more diversified?
60. Minority representation in nursing: Is cultural
competency in nursing achievable and when?
61. Nursing at the crossroads: Men in nursing
62. Bridging cultures: African
Americans and nursing
63. Narrowing the health disparities gap: Asian and Pacific Islanders and nursing
64. Bridging cultures:
Hispanic/Latinos and nursing
65. Bridging cultures: American Indians and nursing
Section 10 Ethics, Legal,
and Social Issues
Ethical and legal concerns in a changing health care world
66. Ethics of health care reform:
Should health care be rationed
67. The nurse as patient advocate: Is there a conflict of interest?
68. Ethical issues and
resources for nurses across the continuum
69. Sexual harassment
70. Health care for poor and underserved
71. Legal,
ethical, and moral considerations in caring of individuals with Alzheimer's Disease
72. Advance directives: Promoting self-determination
or hampering autonomy
73. Managed care and the violation of ethical principles: Research vignettes
74. Learning a practice
of uncertainty: Clinical ethics and the nurse
Section 11 Violence prevention and care: Nursing's role
Violence:
Nursing's expanding role in prevention and care
75. Child maltreatment: Developmental and health effects
76. Child neglect
prevention: Nursing's pivotal role
77. I find myself at therapy's doorstep - Care of African American women survivors of intimate
partner violence
78. Nursing care: Victims of violence-elder mistreatment
79. Nursing care: Preventive gun safety
80.
Nursing care during terrorist events
81. Nursing practice in homeland security
82. Nursing in wars
83. Bioterrorism
and emerging infections: Emergency preparedness for nurses
84. Nursing care: Combat - jungles to deserts
Section
12 International Nursing
Nursing: A global view
85. Nursing in Southern Africa: An overview of health care and
nursing education and practice
86. Nursing in Canada: An overview of health care and nursing education and practice
87.
Nursing in Britain: An overview of health care and nursing education and practice
88. Nursing in Japan: Meeting the healthcare
challenges of the 21st century
89. Nursing in Latin America: An overview of health care and nursing education and practice
90.
Nursing in Russia: An overview of health care and nursing education and practice
91. Nursing in The Gambia: An overview of health
care and nursing education and practice
| Bibliographic details |
Paperback, 896 pages, publication date: MAY-2006
ISBN-13: 978-0-323-03652-8
ISBN-10: 0-323-03652-X
Imprint: MOSBY
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Last update: 30 Nov 2009
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