Professional issues in nursing
Subtitle: challenges & opportunities
By: Carol J. Huston.
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 509
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: an elusive dream or a critical professional need?; title: Differentiated nursing practice: maximizing resources or dividing an already divided profession?; title: Defining evidence-based best practices; title: Socialization and mentoring; title: The current nursing shortage: causes, consequences, and solutions; title: Importing foreign nurses; title: Distance learning: one strategy for furthering nursing education and easing the nursing shortage; title: Unlicensed assistive personnel and the registered nurse; title: Diversity in the nursing workforce; title: Mandatory staffing ratios: are they working?; title: Mandatory overtime in nursing: how much? how often?; title: Violence in nursing: the expectations and the reality; title: Technology in the healthcare workplace: benefits, limitations, and challenges; title: Medical errors: an ongoing threat to quality health care; title: Whistle-blowing in nursing; title: The chemically impaired nurse: discipline or treatment?; title: Collective bargaining and the professional nurse; title: Assuring provider competency through licensure, continuing education, and certification; title: The nursing profession's historic struggle to increase its power base; title: Professional identity and image; title: Advanced practice nursing: the challenges of role definition, recognition, and reimbursement; title: Nursing and public policy: getting involved; title: Nursing's professional associations.