Professional issues in nursing : challenges & opportunities /
Huston, Carol Jorgensen.
Professional issues in nursing : challenges & opportunities / Carol J. Huston. - Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2006. - xvii, 509 pages. ; illustration. : 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Entry into practice: an elusive dream or a critical professional need? -- Differentiated nursing practice: maximizing resources or dividing an already divided profession? -- Defining evidence-based best practices -- Socialization and mentoring -- The current nursing shortage: causes, consequences, and solutions -- Importing foreign nurses -- Distance learning: one strategy for furthering nursing education and easing the nursing shortage -- Unlicensed assistive personnel and the registered nurse -- Diversity in the nursing workforce -- Mandatory staffing ratios: are they working? -- Mandatory overtime in nursing: how much? how often? -- Violence in nursing: the expectations and the reality -- Technology in the healthcare workplace: benefits, limitations, and challenges -- Medical errors: an ongoing threat to quality health care -- Whistle-blowing in nursing -- The chemically impaired nurse: discipline or treatment? -- Collective bargaining and the professional nurse -- Assuring provider competency through licensure, continuing education, and certification -- The nursing profession's historic struggle to increase its power base -- Professional identity and image -- Advanced practice nursing: the challenges of role definition, recognition, and reimbursement -- Nursing and public policy: getting involved -- Nursing's professional associations.
0781748755 (alk. paper)
2005015351
Nursing--United States.
Nursing--trends.
Ethics, Nursing.
Nurse's Role.
Nursing--manpower.
Professional Competence.
RT 82 / .H87 2006
610.73
WY 16 / H972p 2006
Professional issues in nursing : challenges & opportunities / Carol J. Huston. - Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2006. - xvii, 509 pages. ; illustration. : 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Entry into practice: an elusive dream or a critical professional need? -- Differentiated nursing practice: maximizing resources or dividing an already divided profession? -- Defining evidence-based best practices -- Socialization and mentoring -- The current nursing shortage: causes, consequences, and solutions -- Importing foreign nurses -- Distance learning: one strategy for furthering nursing education and easing the nursing shortage -- Unlicensed assistive personnel and the registered nurse -- Diversity in the nursing workforce -- Mandatory staffing ratios: are they working? -- Mandatory overtime in nursing: how much? how often? -- Violence in nursing: the expectations and the reality -- Technology in the healthcare workplace: benefits, limitations, and challenges -- Medical errors: an ongoing threat to quality health care -- Whistle-blowing in nursing -- The chemically impaired nurse: discipline or treatment? -- Collective bargaining and the professional nurse -- Assuring provider competency through licensure, continuing education, and certification -- The nursing profession's historic struggle to increase its power base -- Professional identity and image -- Advanced practice nursing: the challenges of role definition, recognition, and reimbursement -- Nursing and public policy: getting involved -- Nursing's professional associations.
0781748755 (alk. paper)
2005015351
Nursing--United States.
Nursing--trends.
Ethics, Nursing.
Nurse's Role.
Nursing--manpower.
Professional Competence.
RT 82 / .H87 2006
610.73
WY 16 / H972p 2006