Professional issues in nursing
Subtitle: challenges & opportunities
By: Carol J. Huston.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 451
ISBN-13: 9781605473956
Subjects: Nursing -- United States; Nursing -- trends; Ethics, Nursing; Nurse's Role; Nursing -- manpower; Professional Competence
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Entry into practice : the debate rages on / Carol Huston; title: Evidence based practice / Suzanne Prevost and Sheron Salyer; title: Distance learning : one strategy for furthering nursing education and easing the nursing shortage / Cathy McPhee; title: Using simulation to teach nurses / Sherry Fox and Rebekah Damazo; title: The current nursing shortage : causes, consequences, and solutions / Carol Huston; title: Importing foreign nurses / Carol Huston; title: Unlicensed assistive personnel and the registered nurse / Carol Huston; title: Socialization and mentoring / Jeanne Madison; title: Diversity in the nursing workforce / Carol Huston; title: Mandatory minimum staffing ratios : are they working? / Carol Huston; title: Mandatory overtime in nursing : how much? how often? / Carol Huston; title: Violence in nursing : the expectations and the reality / Charmaine Hockley; title: Technology in the health care workplace : benefits, limitations, and challenges / Carol Huston; title: Medical errors : an ongoing threat to quality health care / Carol Huston; title: Whistleblowing in nursing / Carol Huston; title: Impaired nursing practice / What Are the Issues? / Jennifer Lillibridge; title: Collective bargaining and the professional nurse / Carol Huston; title: Assuring provider competency through licensure, continuing education, and certification / Carol Huston; title: The nursing profession's historic struggle to increase its power base / Carol Huston; title: Professional identity and image / Carol Huston; title: Advanced practice nursing : challenges of role definition, recognition, and reimbursement / Peggy Rowberg; title: Nursing and public policy : getting involved / Catherine Dodd and Clair Hauser Carr; title: Nursing's professional associations / Marjorie Beyers.