Current Issues In Nursing, 8th Edition
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Current Issues in Nursing provides a forum for knowledgeable debate on the important issues that nurses face today. This resource provides the opportunity to analyze conflicting viewpoints and develop your own thoughts on demands being made for the nursing profession and the difficult issues affecting today's health care delivery. Continually praised for its in-depth discussion of critical issues, solid organization of material, and encouragement of independent thinking, you’ll find this text a valuable resource in the modern world of nursing.
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- Offers comprehensive and timely coverage of the issues affecting nursing education and practice.
- UNIQUE! Over 100 well-known contributors offer their expert insights and analysis.
- UNIQUE! Viewpoint chapters present controversial issues to showcase pressing issues facing nursing today.
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- New content covering the following topics:
- The Challenges of Nursing on an International Level
- Health Care Systems and Practice
- Ethics, Legal, and Social Issues
- The Changing Practice
- Professional Challenges, Collaboration, & Conflict
- Violence Prevention and Care: Nursing’s Role
- Definitions of Nursing
- Changing Education
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Section 1 Defining Nursing from a Variety of Roles
The Richness of Nursing
1 What is Nursing, Why Do We Ask, and How Will Nursing be Better Understood?
2 Staff Nurses Working in Hospitals: Who Are They, What Do They Do, and What Are Their Challenges?
3 Clinical Nurse Specialists: Education and Practice Issues
4 Nurse Practitioners: Taking Their Place in the Health Care Arena
5 Nurse Executives: Critical Thinking for Rapid Change
6 The Nurse as Chief Executive Officer (NEW)
7 Nurse Educators: Issues That Affect the Profession
8 Nurse Researchers: Who Are They, What Do They Do, and What Are Their Challenges?
Section 2 Nursing Education in Transition
Nursing Education in Transition
9 Creating the Future of Nursing Education: Challenges and Opportunities
10 Educational Challenges: Quality in Pre-Licensure Nursing Education
11 Graduate Nursing Education: A Critical Examination from a Global Perspective
12 International Collaborative Institutional Approaches to Nursing Education (NEW)
13 Using Academic-Service Collaborative Partnerships to Expand Professional Nursing Programs
14 Creating the Nursing Theory-Research-Practice Nexus
15 E-Learning
Section 3 Changing Practice
A Nurse Is Not a Nurse Is Not a Nurse
16 Moving the Care from Hospital to Home
17 Adult Health Nursing Practice: Current Changes & Issues
18 Alternative and Complementary Therapies: Recent Changes and Current Issues
19 Ambulatory Care Nursing: Challenges for the Twenty-First Century
20 Gerontological Nursing: Recent Changes and Current Issues
21 Hospice and Palliative Care: One Solution for Improving U.S. Health Care?
22 Pediatric Nursing: Recent Changes and Current Issues
23 Perinatal Nursing: Recent Changes and Current Issues
24 Perioperative Nursing: Recent Changes and Current Issues
25 Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing: Recent Changes and Current Issues
26 Forensic Nursing: Recent Changes and Current Issues
27 Occupational Health Nursing: Recent Changes and Current Issues (NEW)
28 Genetics, Genomics and Current Issues for Professional Nursing (NEW)
Section 4 Information Technology Challenges (NEW)
The Impact of Technology on Health Care (NEW)
29 Nursing: A Profession Evolving with the Use of Informatics and Technology (NEW)
30 Standardized Terminologies and Integrated Information Systems: Building Blocks for Transforming Data into Nursing Knowledge
31 Nursing Informatics: Partnerships at the Crossroads of Practice and Research (NEW)
32 Sustaining a Focus Group Devoted to Standardized Language Development (NEW)
33 Why Health Information Technology Standards and Harmonization are Important (NEW)
34 Personal Health Records as a Tool for Improving the Delivery of Health Care (NEW)
35 Global Challenges of Electronic Records for Nursing (NEW)
Section 5 Health Care Systems and Practice
The Impact of Evolving Health Care Systems on Nursing
36 From a Medical Care System for a Few to a Comprehensive Health Care System for All
37 The Challenge: Participate in the Era of Politics – Choose an Ideology and Lead
38 Defining Health Disparities from Three Viewpoints: Reducing Inequality in Health Care (NEW)
39 Magnet Designation: Creating New Synergies
40 The Research Imperative for the Nurse Executive (NEW)
41 Laying the Foundation for Evidence-Based Practice for Nurse Residents
42 Determining Staffing Needs Based on Patient Outcomes versus Nursing Interventions (NEW)
43 Impact of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
44 Trends in Long-Term Care (NEW)
Section 6 Health Care Organization and Finance
Identifying and Controlling Health Care Costs
45 Controlling Health Care Costs: Balancing Public and Private Solutions
46 Business Coalitions: Shaping Health Reform Through Technology and Science
47 Mergers and Acquisitions
48 The Cost of Home Health Care: Changes and Challenges
49 Drugs Are Too Cheap
Section 7 Professional Challenges, Collaboration, & Conflict
Challenges, Collaboration, and Conflict
50 Collaboration between Nurses and Physicians: The Need for a Broader View
51 Health Professions Education in Community-Based Settings: A Collaborative Journey
52 Overcoming Polarity in Nursing (NEW)
53 Expanding into the Twenty-First Century: Men in Nursing
54 Nursing Employment Issues: Increasing Unionization in Nursing
55 Managing Generational Issues in Nursing: Preserving the Future of the Profession (NEW)
Section 8 Cultural Inclusiveness
Diversity in Nursing: A Challenge for the United States
56 Should Nursing Be More Diversified?
57 Minority Representation in Nursing: Diversity, Cultural Competency and Racism—
The Challenge Persists
58 Bridging Cultures: Blacks and Nursing
59 Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and Nursing: Narrowing the Health Disparities Gap
60 Bridging Cultures: Hispanics/Latinos and Nursing
61 Bridging Cultures: American Indians and Nursing
Section 9 Ethics, Legal, and Social Issues
Ethical, Legal, and Social Concerns in a Changing Health Care World
62 Ethics of Health Care Reform: Should Health Care be Rationed?
63 The Nurse as Patient Advocate: Is There a Conflict of Interest?
64 Ethical Nursing Practice: It’s All About Relationship
65 Harassment and Discrimination Issues in Nursing
66 Health Care for the Poor and Underserved
67 Legal, ethical, and moral considerations in caring for individuals with diminished capacity
68 Nurses’ Role in Patients’ Advance Directives: Facilitation or Reduction of Patient Autonomy?
69 Environmental Disasters: Nurse Preparedness for Radiation & Chemical Events (NEW)
70 Disaster Nursing and the American Red Cross (NEW)
71 The Greening of Health Care (NEW)
Section 10 Violence Prevention and Care: Nursing’s Role
Violence: The Expanding Role of Nursing in Prevention and Care
72 Child Maltreatment: Nursing Considerations