Huston, Carol Jorgensen. <br/><br/>
Professional issues in nursing :  challenges & opportunities / 
Carol J. Huston. 
 - Philadelphia :  Lippincott Williams & Wilkins,  c2006. 
 - xvii, 509 pages. ;  illustration. :  26 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0781748755 (alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2005015351 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Nursing--United States.<br/>Nursing--trends.<br/>Ethics, Nursing.<br/>Nurse's Role.<br/>Nursing--manpower.<br/>Professional Competence.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>RT 82  / .H87 2006 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>610.73 
<br/><br/><label>National Library of Medicine Call No.: </label>WY 16  / H972p 2006