Professional Issues in Nursing
Challenges and Opportunities
Published on 1. September 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
528 pages
978-0-7817-4875-9 (ISBN)
Description
Using a thought-provoking approach that fosters critical thinking and values clarification, this textbook examines the full range of professional issues facing contemporary nursing. The coverage includes critical issues such as the nursing shortage, mandatory staffing ratios, violence in nursing, legal and ethical issues, plus the latest HIPAA regulations, career advancement and evaluations, and best practices for today and the future. The chapters are grouped into five categories - furthering the profession, workforce issues, workplace issues, legal and ethical issues, and professional power. Each chapter presents multiple perspectives on a topic and ends with thought-provoking discussion questions. Comprehensive lists of electronic, news/media, and print resources help students find supplemental information.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Philadelphia
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 203 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
907 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7817-4875-9 (9780781748759)
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Book
06/2009
2nd Edition
Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
€73.23
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Content
<ol> Unit 1: Furthering the Profession 1 Entry Into Practice: An Elusive Dream or a Critical Professional Need? 3 Differentiated Nursing Practice: Maximizing Resources or Dividing an Already Divided Profession? 21 Defining Evidence-Based Best Practices 46 Socialization and Mentoring 65 Unit 2: Workforce Issues 83 The Current Nursing Shortage: Causes, Consequences, and Solutions 85 Importing Foreign Nurses 108 Distance Learning: One Strategy for Furthering Nursing Education and Easing the Nursing Shortage 127 Unlicensed Assistive Personnel and the Registered Nurse 147 Diversity in the Nursing Workforce 166 Unit 3: Workplace Issues 187 Mandatory Staffing Ratios: Are They Working? 189 Mandatory Overtime in Nursing: How Much? How Often? 207 Violence in Nursing: The Expectations and the Reality 226 Technology in the Health Care Workplace: Benefits, Limitations, and Challenges 248 Medical Errors: An Ongoing Threat to Quality Health Care 268 Unit 4: Legal and Ethical Issues 293 Whistle-blowing in Nursing 295 The Chemically Impaired Nurse: Discipline or Treatment? 314 Collective Bargaining and the Professional Nurse 328 Assuring Provider Competence Through Licensure, Continuing Education, and Certification 348 Unit 5: Professional Power 369 The Nursing Profession's Historic Struggle to Increase Its Power Base 371 Professional Identity and Image 391 Advanced Practice Nursing: Challenges of Role Definition, Recognition, and Reimbursement 412 Nursing and Public Policy: Getting Involved 435 Nursing's Professional Associations 460 Index 489