Professional issues in nursing : challenges & opportunities / Carol J. Huston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Huston, Carol Jorgensen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nursing--United States.

Nursing.

Nursing--trends.

Ethics, Nursing.

Nurse's Role.

Workforce.

Professional Competence.

United States.

Medical Subjects:

Nursing--trends.

Ethics, Nursing.

Nurse's Role.

Nursing.

Workforce.

Professional Competence.

Physical Description:

xvii, 509 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, [2006]

Summary:

Using a thought-provoking approach that fosters critical thinking and values clarification, this textbook examines the full range of professional issues facing contemporary nursing. Coverage includes critical issues such as the nursing shortage, mandatory staffing ratios, violence in nursing, legal and ethical issues, plus the latest HIPAA regulations, career advancement and evaluations, and best practices for today and the future. Chapters are grouped into five categories--furthering the profession, workforce issues, workplace issues, legal and ethical issues, and professional power. Each chapter presents multiple perspectives on a topic and ends with thought-provoking discussion questions. Comprehensive lists of electronic, news/media, and print resources help students find supplemental information.

Contents:

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 health care 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 competence through licensure, continuing education, and certification

The nursing profession's historic struggle to increase its power base

Professional identity and image

Advanced practice nursing: challenges of role definition, recognition, and reimbursement

Nursing and public policy: getting involved

Nursing's professional associations.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0781748755

OCLC:

60543290