Current issues in nursing.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cowen, Perle Slavik.

Moorhead, Sue.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nursing.

Ethics, Nursing.

Nurse's Role.

Nursing Care.

Medical Subjects:

Nursing.

Ethics, Nursing.

Nurse's Role.

Nursing Care.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 837 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Edition:

Eighth edition / [edited by] Perle Slavik Cowen, Sue Moorhead.

Place of Publication:

St. Louis, Mo. : Mosby Elsevier, [2011]

Summary:

"This book fully explore the issues that have changed and are changing the delivery of health care and the nursing profession. It's comprehensive and timely coverage addresses the complex issues affecting nursing education and practice; a total of 26 new chapters have been added to ensure that you have the most up-to-date and relevant information for your career; over 100 well-known and respected nursing leaders offer their expert insights and analysis; unique, consistent format introduces each section with an overview chapter, followed by a debate chapter, and concluding with several viewpoint chapters; debate chapters help you comprehend conflicting viewpoints and synthesize your own thoughts on a variety of topics; and its viewpoint chapters present controversial discussions to encourage you to think critically about the issues."--BOOK JACKET.

Contents:

1. Defining nursing from a variety of roles. The richness of nursing / Perle Slavik Cowen and Sue Moorhead

What is nursing, why do we ask, and how will nursing be better understood / Meridean L. Maas

Staff nurses working in hospitals: who are they, what do they do, and what are their challenges? / Ellen Cram

Clinical nurse specialists: education and practice issues / Kelly A. Goudreau

Nurse practitioners: taking their place in the health care arena / Kathy J. Morris

Nurse executives: critical thinking for rapid change / SueEllen Pinkerton and Rose Rivers

The nurse as chief executive office / Nancy A. Formella

Nurse educators: issues that affect the profession / Anita M. Stineman and Paula R. Mobily

Nurse researchers: who are they, what do they do, and what are their challenges? / Nancy A. Stotts and Deidre D. Wipke-Tevis

2. Changing education. Nursing education in transition / Perle Slavik Cowen and Sue Moorhead

Creating the future of nursing education: challenges and opportunities / Theresa M. Valiga and Mary Champagne

Educational challenges: quality in prelicensure nursing education / Kathryn J. Dolter

Graduate nursing education: a critical examination from a global perspective / Michele J. Upvall

International collaborative institutional approaches to nursing education / Tess Judge-Ellis and Connie Trowbridge

Using academic-service collaborative partnerships to expand professional nursing programs / Christine L. Latham

Creating the nursing theory-research-practice nexus / Howard K. Butcher

E-learning / Diane J. Skiba

3. Changing practice. Nursing specialities / Perle Slavik Cowen and Sue Moorhead

Moving the care from hospital to home / Lucille A. Joel

Adult health nursing practice: recent changes and current issues / Cecelia Gatson Grindel and Mary E. Grindel

Alternative and complementary therapies: recent changes and current issues / Charlotte Eliopoulos

Ambulatory care nursing: challenges for the twenty-first century / Sheila A. Haas and Ida M. Androwich

Gerontological nursing: recent changes and current issues / Kathleen C. Buckwalter

Hospice and palliative care: one solution for improving U.S. health care? / Jeanne M. Martinez

Pediatric nursing: recent changes and current issues / Cheryl Rodgers, Marilyn J. Hockenberry, and Rosalind Bryant

Perinatal nursing: recent changes and current issues / Kathleen Rice Simpson

Perioperative nursing: recent changes and current issues / Nancy J. Girard

Psychiatric mental health nursing: recent changes and current issues / Gail W. Stuart

Forensic nursing: recent changes and current issues / Virginia A. Lynch

Occupational health nursing: recent changes and current issues / Kennith R. Culp and Sandra L. Ramey

Genetics, genomics, and current issues for professional nursing / Debra L. Schutte

4. Information technology practices. The impact of technology on health care / Perle Slavik Cowen and Sue Moorhead

Nursing: a profession evolving with the use of informatics and technology / Marisa L. Wilson

Standardized terminologies and integrated information systems: building blocks for transforming data into nursing knowledge / Suzanne Bakken and Leanne M. Currie

Nursing informatics: partnerships at the crossroads of practice and research / Karen A. Monsen and Karen S. Martin

Sustaining a focus group devoted to standardized language development / Sandra L. Bellinger and Cathy J. Konrad

Why health information technology standards and harmonization are important? / Audrey E. Dickerson

Personal health records as a tool for improving the delivery of health care / Mikyoung Lee

Global challenges of electronic records for nursing / Anne Casey

5. Health care systems and practice. The impact of evolving health care systems on nursing / Perle Slavik Cowen and Sue Moorhead

From a medical care system for a few to a comprehensive health care system for all / Mary Margaret Mooney

The challenge: participate in the era of politics

choose an ideology and lead / Catherine Dodd

Defining health disparities from three viewpoints: reducing inequality in health care / Joyce Newman Giger

Magnet designation: creating new synergies / Rose Rivers and SueEllen Pinkerton

The research imperative for the nurse executive / SueEllen Pinkerton, Kathy A. Jankowski, and Matthew Leshy

Laying the foundation for evidence-based practice for nurse residents / Colleen J. Goode, Carolyn Sanders, Jo Ann Del Monte, Denis Chon, Alyson Dare, Lee Anne Jones Merrifield, Jennifer Nguyen, and Megan M. Smith

Determining staffing needs based on patient outcomes versus nursing interventions / Sharen Eck Birmingham, Kate Nell, and Noriko Abe

Impact of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act / Ann M. Rhodes

Trends in long-term care / Janet Pringle Specht and Geri Kirkbride

6. Health care organization and finance. Identifying and controlling health care costs / Perle Slavik Cowen and Sue Moorhead

Controlling health care costs: balancing public and private solutions / Joseph W. York and Mary M. Gibson

Business coalitions: shaping health reform through technology and science / Patricia Hinton Walker and Michelle R. Troseth

Mergers and acquisitions / Marjorie Beyers

The cost of home health care: changes and challenges / Mary Ann Anderson, Carol Bailey, Gary L. Bargstadt, and O. Ed Reitz

Drugs are too cheap / Tess Judge-Ellis and Bernard Sorofman

7. Professional challenges, collaboration, and conflict. Challenges, collaboration, and conflict / Perle Slavik Cowen and Sue Moorhead

Collaboration between nurses and physicians: the need for a broader view / Karen Dunn Lopez and Gail Keenan

Health professions education in community-based settings: a collaborative journey / Joellen B. Edwards, Susan M. Grover, and Joy E. Wachs

Overcoming polarity in nursing / Elaine S. Scott

Expanding into the twenty-first century: men in nursing / Todd N. Ingram

Nursing employment issues: increasing unionization in nursing / Thomas Clancy

Managing generational issues in nursing: preserving the future of the profession / Sue Moorhead

8. Cultural inclusiveness. Diversity in nursing: a challenge for the United States / Perle Slavik Cowen and Sue Moorhead

Should nursing be more diversified? / G. Rumay Alexander

Minority representation in nursing: diversity, cultural competency, and racism

the challenge persists / Patricia T. Castiglia

Bridging cultures: blacks and nursing / Betty Pierce Dennis

Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and nursing: narrowing the health disparities gap / Hyejin Park and Jillian Inouye

Bridging cultures: Hispanics/Latinos and nursing / Sara Torres and Helen Castillo

Bridging cultures: American Indians and nursing / Bette Keltner Jacobs, Debra Smith, and Mechem Slim

9. Ethical, legal, and social issues. Ethical, legal and social concerns in a changing health care world / Perle Slavik Cowen and Sue Moorhead

Ethics of health care reform: should health care be rationed? / Karen Dunn Lopez

The nurse as patient advocate: is there a conflict of interest? / Karen Markus

Ethical nursing practice: it's all about relationship / Wendy Austin

Harassment and discrimination issues in nursing / Anita J. Szczepanski

Health care for the poor and underserved / Sara Groves

Legal, ethical, and moral considerations in caring for individuals with diminished capacity / Nancy Edwards

Nurses' role in patients' advance directives: facilitation or reduction of patient autonomy? / Susan E. Young and Diane K. Kjervik

Environmental disasters: nurse preparedness for radiation and chemical events / Tener Goodwin Veenema

All-hazards preparedness: advocating for mothers and babies / Lisa Summers and Robbie Prepas

Disaster nursing and the American Red Cross / Janice Springer, Cheryl K. Schmidt, and Kay Farrell

The greening of health care / Barbara Sattler and Denise B. Choiniere

10. Violence prevention and care : nursing's role. Violence: the expanding role of nursing in prevention and care / Perle Slavik Cowen and Sue Moorhead

Child maltreatment: nursing considerations / Perle Slavik Cowen and Jessica P. Cowen

Nursing care: preventing firearm injuries / Mary Fran Hazinski

Group interventions with African American women survivors of intimate partner violence / Janette Y. Taylor

Nursing care: victims of violence

elder mistreatment / Terry Fulmer and Jamie L. Blankenship

Disaster nursing during terrorist events / Ian Portelli, Terry Fulmer, and Mollie C. Marr

Nursing practice in emergency management and disaster preparedness / Mary W. Chaffee

More nurse involvement needed in infectious disease disaster preparedness / Terri Rebmann

Compassion fatigue in nursing / Charles R. Figley and Maryann Abendroth

11. Global nursing considerations. Issues abroad / Perle Slavik Cowen and Sue Moorhead

The global nursing shortage

an issue of social justice / Barbara Anderson and Katherine Camacho Carr

Nursing in wars / Richard Garfield and Anne-Marie Rafferty

Nursing at the World Health Organization: the (in)visibility of chief nurses 1951-2009 / Marjorie A. Jueche

Global health needs and priorities in developing countries / Mary Anne Mercer

The global health agenda: are nursing and midwifery responding? / Katherine Camacho Carr and Barbara Anderson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780323065719

0323065716

OCLC:

477051879