Current Issues in Nursing

DEFINITIONS OF NURSING; Overview The Richness of Nursing; Debate What is Nursing?; Viewpoints; Staff Nurses: Who are They, What do They Do, and What Challenges Do They Face?; Advance Nurse Practitioners: Who are They, What do They Do, and What Challenges Do They Face?; Nurse Administrators: 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 Researchers: Who are They, What do They Do, and What Challenges Do They Face?; Nurse Entrepreneurs: Who are They, What do They Do, and What Challenges Do They Face?; Nurse Informatists: Who are They, What do They Do, and What Challenges Do They Face?; International Nursing Leaders: Past and Present; CHANGING INFORMATION; Overview Data, Information, Knowledge ; Debate Nursing Theory, Nursing Research, and Nursing Practice: Connected or Separate; Viewpoints; Classification Systems, Integrated Information Systems: Building Blocks for Transforming Data into Nursing Knowledge; Toward a Revolution in Thinking: The OPT Model of Clinical Reasoning; Benchmarking: A Tool for Management Decision Making; The Internet and Electronic Information; Research Utilization: Necessity or Luxury; The International Classification for Nursing Practice; CHANGING EDUCATION; Overview Nursing Education in Transition; Debate Nursing Education for the 21st Century: Old Traditions and New Challenges; Viewpoints; The Changing Pool of Students; Advancing Community-Based, Community-Focused Nursing Education: Challenge for the Change; Clinical Education in the Nursing Home Becomes a Step Toward a Community-Based Curriculum; The Changing Face of Graduate Education: A Viewpoint; Critical Thinking: What is it and How Do We Teach It?; Distance Learning: An Integral Part of Transforming the University and Nursing Education; New Teaching Strategies and Technologies; Decreasing Nursing Education Costs: Where is the Bottom Line?; Development of Models of International Exchange t