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100 1 _aHuston, Carol Jorgensen.
245 1 0 _aProfessional issues in nursing :
_bchallenges & opportunities /
_cCarol J. Huston.
260 _aPhiladelphia :
_bLippincott Williams & Wilkins,
_cc2006.
300 _axvii, 509 pages. ;
_c26 cm.
_billustration. :
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aEntry 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? --
505 0 _aCollective 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.
650 0 _aNursing
_zUnited States.
650 1 2 _aNursing
_xtrends.
650 2 2 _aEthics, Nursing.
650 2 2 _aNurse's Role.
650 2 2 _aNursing
_xmanpower.
650 2 2 _aProfessional Competence.
856 4 1 _3Table of contents
_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0513/2005015351.html
856 4 2 _3Publisher description
_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0712/2005015351-d.html
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