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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. This resource provides
the opportunity to analyze conflicting viewpoints and develop your own thoughts on demands being made for the nursing profession and
the difficult issues affecting today's health care delivery. Continually praised for its in-depth discussion of critical issues, solid
organization of material, and encouragement of independent thinking, you'll find this text a valuable resource in the modern world of
nursing.
Contents
Section 1 Definitions of Nursing
The Richness of Nursing
1. What is Nursing, Why Do
We Ask, and How Will Nursing be Better Understood?
2. Staff Nurses Working in Hospitals: Who Are They, What Do They Do, and What
Are Their Challenges?
3. Clinical Nurse Specialists: Education and Practice Issues
4. Nurse Practitioners: Taking Their
Place in the Health Care Arena
5. Nurse Executives: Critical Thinking for Rapid Change
6. The Nurse as Chief Executive
Officer
7. Nurse Educators: Issues Impacting the Profession
8. Nurse Researchers: Who Are They, What Do They Do, and What
Are Their Challenges?
Section 2 Changing Education
Nursing Education in Transition
9. Creating the Future of Nursing Education: Challenges and Opportunities
10. Educational Challenges: Quality in Pre-Licensure
Nursing Education
11. Graduate Nursing Education: A Critical Examination from a Global Perspective
12. International Collaborative
Institutional Approaches to Nursing Education
13. Using Academic-Service Collaborative Partnerships to Expand Professional Nursing
Programs
14. Creating the Nursing Theory-Research-Practice Nexus
15. E-Learning
Section 3 Changing
Practice
A Nurse Is Not a Nurse Is Not a Nurse
16. Moving the Care from Hospital to Home
17. Adult Health Nursing Practice: Current Changes & Issues
18. Alternative and Complementary Therapies: Recent Changes
and Current Issues
19. Ambulatory Care Nursing: Challenges for the Twenty-First Century
20. Gerontological Nursing: Recent
Changes and Current Issues
21. Hospice and Palliative Care: One Solution for Improving US Health Care?
22. Pediatric Nursing:
Recent Changes and Current Issues
23. Perinatal Nursing: Recent Changes and Current Issues
24. Perioperative Nursing: Recent
Changes and Current Issues
25. Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing: Recent Changes and Current Issues
26. Forensic Nursing:
Recent Changes and Current Issues
27. Occupational Health Nursing: Recent Changes and Current Issues
28. Genetics, Genomics
and Current Issues for Professional Nursing
Section 4 Information Technology Challenges
The
Impact of Technology on Healthcare
29. Nursing: A Profession Evolving with the Use of Informatics and Technology
30. Laying the Foundation for Evidence-Based Practice for Nurse Residents
31. Nursing Informatics Partnerships at the Crossroads
of Practice and Research
32. Personal Health Records
33. Why Health Information Technology Standards and Harmonization
are Important
34. Standardized Terminologies and Integrated Information Systems: Building Blocks for Transforming Data into Nursing
Knowledge
35. Sustaining a Focus Group Devoted to Standardized Language Development
36. Global Challenges of Electronic
Records for Nursing
Section 5 Health Care Systems and Practice
Evolving Health Care Systems
Impact on Nursing
37. From a Medical Care System for a Few to a Comprehensive Health Care System for All
38. The
Challenge: Participate in the Era of Politics – Choose an Ideology and Lead
39. The Research Imperative for the Nurse Executive
40. Magnet Designation: Creating New Synergies
41. Determining staffing needs based on outcomes vs treatment
42.
Impact of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
43. Trends in Long Term Care
44. Defining Health
Disparities from Three Viewpoints: Reducing Inequality in Health Care
Section 6 Healthcare organization and finance
Identifying and Controlling Health Care Costs
45. Controlling Health Care Costs: Balancing Public and Private
Solutions
46. Business coalitions: Defining, purchasing, and providing health care
47. Mergers and Acquisitions
48.
The Cost of Home Health Care: Changes and Challenges
49. Drugs Are Too Cheap
Section 7 Professional
Challenges, Collaboration, & Conflict
Colleagues and Conflict
50. Collaboration between Nurses
and Physicians: The Need for a Broader View
51. Health Professions Education in Community-Based Settings: A Collaborative Journey
52. Overcoming Polarity in Nursing
53. Expanding into the Twenty-First Century: Men in Nursing
54. Nursing Employment
Issues: Increasing Unionization in Nursing
55. Managing Generational Issues in Nursing: Preserving the Future of the Profession
Section 8 Cultural Inclusiveness
Meeting the Diversity Challenges in Providing Nursing Care
56. Should Nursing Be More Diversified?
57. Minority Representation in Nursing: Diversity, Cultural Competency and Racism?
The Challenge Persists
58. Bridging Cultures: Blacks and Nursing
59. Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and Nursing:
Narrowing the Health Disparities Gap
60. Bridging Cultures: Hispanics/Latinos and Nursing
61. Bridging Cultures: American
Indians and Nursing
Section 9 Ethics, Legal, and Social Issues
Ethical, Legal, and Social
Concerns in a Changing Health Care World
62. Ethics of Health Care Reform: Should Health Care Be Rationed?
63.
The Nurse as Patient Advocate: Is There a Conflict of Interest?
64. Ethical Nursing Practice: It's All About Relationship
65. Harassment and Discrimination Issues in Nursing
66. Health Care for the Poor and Underserved
67. Legal, Ethical,
and Moral Considerations in Caring for Individuals with Diminished Capacity
68. Nurses' Role in Patients' Advance Directives:
Facilitation or Reduction of Patient Autonomy?
69. Environmental Disasters: Nurse Preparedness for Radiation & Chemical Events
70. Disaster Nursing and the American Red Cross
71. The Greening of Health Care
Section 10 Violence
Prevention and Care: Nursing's Role
Violence: The Expanding Role of Nursing in Prevention and Care
72. Child Maltreatment: Developmental and Health Effects
73. Nursing Care: Preventing Firearm Injuries
74. Group Interventions
with African American Women Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence
75. Nursing Care: Victims of Violence – Elder Mistreatment
76. Disaster Nursing during Terrorist Events
77. Nursing Practice in Emergency Management and Disaster Preparedness
78.
Nursing in Wars
79. More Nurse Involvement Needed in Infectious Disease Disaster Preparedness
80. Compassion Fatigue in
Nursing
Section 11 International
Nursing: A Global View
81. The Global
Nursing Shortage?An Issue of Social Justice
82 . All Hazards Preparedness: Advocating for Mothers and Babies
83. Nursing
At the World Health Organization: The (In) Visibility of Chief Nurses 1951-2009
84. Global Health Needs and Priorities in Developing
Countries
85. The Global Health Agenda: Are Nursing and Midwifery Responding?
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