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Professional issues in nursing : challenges & opportunities / Carol J. Huston.
- Title
- Professional issues in nursing : challenges & opportunities / Carol J. Huston.
- Author
- Huston, Carol Jorgensen.
- Publication
- Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2006.
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- Description
- xvii, 509 p. : ill.; 26 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 1. Entry into practice : an elusive dream or a critical professional need? -- 2. Differentiated nursing practice : maximizing resources or dividing an already divided profession? -- 3. Defining evidence-based best practices -- 4. Socialization and mentoring -- 5. The current nursing shortage : causes, consequences, and solutions -- 6. Importing foreign nurses -- 7. Distance learning : one strategy for furthering nursing education and easing the nursing shortage -- 8. Unlicensed assistive personnel and the registered nurse -- 9. Diversity in the nursing workforce -- 10. Mandatory staffing ratios : are they working? -- 11. Mandatory overtime in nursing : how much? : how often? -- 12. Violence in nursing : the expectations and the reality -- 13. Technology in the health care workplace : benefits, limitations, and challenges -- 14. Medical errors : an ongoing threat to quality health care -- 15. Whistle-blowing in nursing -- 16. The chemically impaired nurse : discipline or treatment? -- 17. Collective bargaining and the professional nurse -- 18. Assuring provider competence through licensure, continuing education, and certification -- 19. The nursing profession's historic struggle to increase its power base -- 20. Professional identity and image -- 21. Advanced practice nursing : challenges of role definition, recognition, and reimbursement -- 22. Nursing and public policy : getting involved -- 23. Nursing's professional associations.
- ISBN
- 0781748755 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2005015351
- OCLC
- ocm60543290
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries