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Current Issues in Nursing
ISBN: 9780323012768 | 0323012760
Edition: 6thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Mosby
Pub. Date: 2/14/2001
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Chapters in this outstanding text are grouped into sections focusing on major themes. Each features an overview, a debate chapter, and several viewpoint chapters. This format gives students the opportunity fo analyze conflicting viewpoints and encourages critical thinking. The text boasts a well-known and well-respected author group, allowing students to learn from recognized leaders in the field. (Includes a FREE MERLIN website. at:www.harcourthealth.com/merlin/Dochterman/current/)
| Definitions of Nursing | |
| What is nursing: Staff nurses working in hospitals, Who they are, What they do, 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 researche... MORE | |
| Changing Information | |
| Nursing theory, nursing research, and nursing practice: Connected or separate? | |
| Standardized terminologies and Iintegrated 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 challe | |
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