As a primary Canadian nursing text, this comprehensive work is designed to prepare students for identification, articulation, and critical analysis of contemporary relevant nursing issues. Revolving around the changing nature and realities in the Canadian nursing field, its organizational framework includes professional regulation, health care systems, leadership, education, research, ethics, and legal issues. It also contains features such as reflective questions, points to remember, and leader snapshots. There are also lists of Web sites relevant to chapter content, and a Connection Web site that provides annual updates twice per year
As a primary Canadian nursing text, this comprehensive work is designed to prepare students for identification, articulation, and critical analysis of contemporary relevant nursing issues. Revolving around the changing nature and realities in the Canadian nursing field, its organizational framework includes professional regulation, health care systems, leadership, education, research, ethics, and legal issues. It also contains features such as reflective questions, points to remember, and leader snapshots. There are also lists of Web sites relevant to chapter content, and a Connection Web site that provides annual updates twice per year
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Verlagsort
Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für die Erwachsenenbildung
Für Beruf und Forschung
Illustrationen
36 illustrations, 60 tables
Maße
Höhe: 235 mm
Breite: 187 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-0-7817-3443-1 (9780781734431)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Overview 1. Introduction to Nursing Issues: Implications for nurses, the nursing profession and the Canadian health care system 2. The Nursing Shortage: Historical Links and Current Understandings 3. The Canadian Health Care System and Canadian Nurses 4. Health and Nursing Policy: A Matter of Politics, Power and Professionalism 5. Policy is the Lever for Affecting Change Part II Regulatory Power Overview 6. International Council of Nurses 7. Canadian Nurses Association 8. Canadian Provincial/Territorial Professional Organizations and Colleges 9. International Regulation: Nursing in Germany and the Netherlands Part III Making the Breadth and Scope of Practice Visible Overview 10. Undergraduate Education: Development and Politics 11. Graduate Education 12. Nursing Competence: Constructing Persons and a Form of Life 13. Nursing, Technology and Informatics: An Easy or Uneasy Alliance? 14. The Realities of Canadian Nursing Research Part IV Workplace Realities Overview 15. Issues Arising From the Nature of Nurses' Work 16. The Workplace Environment 17. Unionization: Collective Bargaining in Nursing 18. Ethical and Legal Issues in Nursing 19. Issues of Gender and Power: The Significance Attributed to Nurses' Work Part V Societal Issues: Challenges for Nursing Practice Overview 20. The Consumer Movement 21.Violence and Abuse: Ending the Silence 22. Environmental Health and Nursing 23. When Difference Matters: Politics of Privilege and Marginality 24. Challenges for the New Millennium: Nursing in First Nations Communities 25. The Spirit of Nursing: Ghost of our Past or Force for Our Future? Part VI Leadership and Change Overview 26. Innovation and Contemporary Leadershi
