Current issues in nursing / edited by Joanne Comi McCloskey, Helen Kennedy Grace.

Includes bibliographical reerences and index.

Sect. 1. Definitions of Nursing -- Overview: The richness of nursing / Joanne Comi McCloskey and Helen Kennedy Grace. 1. What is nursing? / Donna Diers. 2. Staff nurses: Who are they, what do they do, and what challenges do they face? / Lyndia Flanagan. 3. Clinical nurse specialists and nurse practitioners: Who are they, what do they do, and what challenges do they face? / Ann Henrick and JoAnn Appleyard. 4. Nurse executives: Who are they, what do they do, and what challenges do they face? / Barbara Volk Tebbitt. 5. Nursing faculty: Who are they, what do they do, and what challenges do they face? / Carole A. Anderson. 6. Nurse researchers: Who are they, what do they do, and what challenges do they face? / Nancy A. Stotts. 7. Nurse entrepreneurs: Who are they, what do they do, and what challenges do they face? / Lynda Juall Carpenito and Margo C. Neal. 8. Nurse informaticists: Who are they, what do they do, and what challenges do they face? / Mary N. McAlindon. 9. International nursing leaders past and present / Verna Huffman Splane and Richard Splane -- Sect. 2. Changing Information -- Overview: Data, information, knowledge / Joanne Comi McCloskey and Helen Kennedy Grace. 10. Nursing theory, nursing research, and nursing practice: Connected or separate? / Mary A. Blegen and Toni Tripp-Reimer. 11. Classification systems and integrated information systems: Building blocks for transforming data into nursing knowledge / Suzanne Bakken Henry and Mori Costantino. 12. Toward a revolution in thinking: The OPT model of clinical reasoning / Daniel J. Pesut, JoAnne Herman and Latrell P. Fowler. 13. Benchmarking: A tool for management decision making / Carolyn Hope Smeltzer, Scott Leighty and Ruth Williams-Brinkley. 14. The Internet and electronic information / Susan M. Sparks. 15. Research utilization: Necessity or luxury? / Marita G. Titler. 16. The international classification for nursing practice / June Clark -- Sect. 3. Changing Education -- Overview: Nursing education in transition / Joanne Comi McCloskey and Helen Kennedy Grace. 17. Nursing education for the 21st century: Old traditions and new challenges / Dorothy D. Camilleri. 18. The changing pool of students / Geraldine Polly Bednash. 19. Advancing community based-community focused nursing education: Challenge for change / Bernadine M. Lacey. 20. Clinical education in the nursing home becomes a step toward a community-based curriculum / Verle Waters, Elaine Tagliareni and Andrea Mengel [et al.]. 21. The changing face of graduate education / Richard W. Redman and Shake Ketelian. 22. Critical thinking: What is it and how do we teach it? / Kathleen Krichbaum, Marsha Lewis and Laura Duckett. 23. Distance learning: An integral part of transforming the university and nursing education / Marilyn L. Rothert, Geraldine J. Talarczyk and Susan M. Awbrey. 24. New teaching strategies and technologies / Charlene E. Clark. 25. Decreasing nursing education costs: Where is the bottom line? / Patricia R. Forni and Paulette Burns. 26. Development of models of international exchange to upgrade nursing education / Mary V. Fenton -- Sect. 4. Changing Practice -- Overview: A nurse is not a nurse is not a nurse / Joanne Comi McCloskey and Helen Kennedy Grace. 27. Moving the care site from hospital to home: Whose turf? / Lucille A. Joel. 28. Ambulatory care nursing: Concerns and challenges / Ida M. Androwich and Sheila A. Haas. 29. Recent changes and current issues in community nursing / Carole A. Gutt. 30. Recent changes and current issues in emergency nursing / Marilyn Rice and Deborah S. Smith. 31. Recent changes and current issues in gerontological nursing / Mary Zwygart-Stauffacher and Marilyn J. Rantz. 32. Recent changes and current issues in medical-surgical nursing practice / Marilyn S. Fetter and Cecelia Gatson Grindel. 33. Recent changes and current issues in pediatric nursing / Jody L. Kurtt and Ginette Budreau. 34. Recent changes and current issues in perinatal nursing / Dorothy Brooten. 35. Issues in perioperative nursing / Victoria M. Steelman. 36. Recent changes and current issues in psychiatric nursing / Gail W. Stuart. 37. Reflections on primary health care in developing countries / Barbara Robertson -- Sect. 5. Quality Improvement -- Overview: Preserving quality in an era of cost control / Joanne Comi McCloskey and Helen Kennedy Grace. 38. Improving quality of care: Can managed care make a difference? / Michelle Vruwink and Maria Mitchell. 39. Standards and guidelines: Do they make any difference? / Susan L. Dean-Baar. 40. The use of clinical pathways: Do they improve quality? / Susan Park Kyzer. 41. Total quality management, redesign, reengineering: What's the difference? / Pamela Klauer Triolo, Susan O. Hendricks and Dawn A. Duncan. 42. How can the quality of nursing practice be measured? / Karen S. Martin and Diann L. Martin. 43. Validating clinical competence: Old and new approaches / Carolyn J. Yocom. 44. Ensuring quality in a managed care system / Dulcelina Albano Stahl. 45. Self-care nursing as a contribution to quality improvement in health: A Latin American experience / Ilta Lange and Sonia Jaimovich -- Sect. 6. Governance -- Overview: Challenges to nursing leadership in a changing practice world / Joanne Comi McCloskey and Helen Kennedy Grace. 46. The increasing use of unlicensed assistive personnel: The erosion or elevation of nursing? / Polly Gerber Zimmermann. 47. Leadership in transition / Karlene Kerfoot. 48. Nurses in nonnursing leadership positions / Beverly L. Malone. 49. Community-based academic health centers: The CCHERS model / Patricia Maguire Meservey. 50. Nursing centers: Where are they and what are they doing? / Sally Peck Lundeen. 51. Developing professional-community partnerships / Sharon Farley. 52. Shared governance models in nursing: What is shared, who governs, and who benefits? / Meridean L. Maas, Janet P. Specht and Cheryl L. Ramler. 53. Flex-time and self-scheduling: Transitional leadership tools / Karen S. Wulff. 54. International nursing: The role of the International Council of Nurses and the World Health Organization / Virginia M. Ohlson and Margretta Madden Styles -- Sect. 7. Health Care Systems -- Overview: System reform -- opportunity or threat? / Joanne Comi McCloskey and Helen Kennedy Grace. 55. From a medical care system for a few to a comprehensive health care system for all / Helen Kennedy Grace. 56. Toward a comprehensive health care system: Using a grassroots consumer effort / Marlene Lawrence. 57. Toward a comprehensive health care system: Business and provider coalitions / Patricia Hinton Walker. 58. Toward a comprehensive health care system: Example of a statewide system / Cecelia Capuzzi. 59. Nursing practice in a political era / Marla E. Salmon. 60. Dangerous liaisons: Nursing, consumers, and the managed care marketplace / Claire M. Fagin and Leah F. Binder. 61. The future of academic health centers in a cost-driven market / Connie Curran. 62. The Canadian health care system: Overview and issues / Janet C. Ross Kerr -- Sect. 8. Health Care Costs -- Overview: A concern for costs / Joanne Comi McCloskey and Helen Kennedy Grace. 63. Controlling health care costs: Regulation versus competition / Mohan L. Garg, Eve Pinsker and Helen Kennedy Grace. 64. How changes in payment systems are affecting nurses / Peter I. Buerhaus. 65. An in-home program of disability prevention and health promotion for older persons / Harriet Udin Aronow, Marcia N. Gold and Karen E. Yuhas [et al.]. 66. Are nurses getting paid what they are worth? / Donna Sullivan Havens and Mary Etta Mills. 67. The costs of safety precautions to reduce risk of exposure to bloodborne pathogens / Diana C. McPherson and Marguerite McMillian Jackson. 68. Financing health care costs in Australia / Jennifer Maria Ann Bichel -- Sect. 9. Role Transitions -- Overview: Colleagues and conflict / Joanne Comi McCloskey and Helen Kennedy Grace. 69. Collaboration between nurses and physicians: What is it? Does it exist? Why does it matter? / Judith Gedney Baggs. 70. Feminism and nursing / Peggy L. Chinn. 71. Entering collegial relationships: The demise of nurse as victim / Adele W. Pike.

Purpose is to provide a forum for knowledgeable discussion on important issues that concern all of today's nurses, so that intelligent decision making can occur. The issues are identified and addressed in sections.

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