Professional issues in nursing : challenges and opportunities / Carol J. Huston, RN, MSN, MPA, DPA, FAAN, Emerita Professor, School of Nursing, California State University, Chico, California.
Entry into practice: the debate rages on -- Evidence-based practice -- Developing effective leaders to meet 21st-Century health care challenges -- Advanced practice nursing: where is the DNP today? -- Is there a nursing shortage? -- Importing foreign nurses -- Unlicensed assistive personnel and the registered nurse -- Diversity in the nursing workforce -- Mandatory minimum staffing ratios: are they needed? -- Mandatory overtime in nursing: how much? How often? -- Violence in nursing: the expectations and the reality -- The use of social media in nursing: pitfalls and opportunities -- Medical errors: an ongoing threat to quality health care -- Using simulation to teach nurses -- Can clinical reasoning be taught? -- New graduate RN transition to practice programs -- MOOCS and virtual learning spaces: a withering of the traditional classroom -- Academic integrity in nursing education: is it declining? -- Whistle-blowing in nursing -- Impaired nursing practice: is progress being made? -- 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 -- Nursing, policy, and politics: understanding the connection: nurses' role in the policy process -- Professional nursing associations.
Summary:
"Professional Issues in Nursing: Challenges & Opportunities features contemporary and enduring issues in professional nursing. Designed to be used in both pre- and post-licensure nursing programs, the text has an undiluted focus on professional issues in nursing and includes many timely workplace issues, workforce issues, legal and ethical issues, nursing education, and issues related to professional power and furthering the nursing profession. Unlike other 'issues and trends' textbooks that cover everything from nursing research to nursing theory, this text is devoted to the 'hot topics' of the time which allows students to begin to prepare for the realities of nursing practice. Each chapter begins with Learning Objectives and an overview of the professional issues being discussed. Multiple perspectives on each issue are then identified in an effort to reflect the diversity of thought found in the literature as well as espoused by experts in the field and varied professional nursing and health care organizations. Discussion Points encourage readers to pause and reflect on specific questions. These questions can be completed by students independently or used as group work in class. The 'Consider This' features also encourages active learning, critical thinking, and values clarification by the users. In addition, at least one research study is profiled in every chapter in 'Research Study Fuels the Controversy, ' an effort to promote evidence-based analysis of the issue. Each chapter concludes with Conclusions about the issues discussed, questions for additional discussion, and a comprehensive and current reference list. Each chapter also includes multiple displays, boxes, and tables to allow for a good reading experience and to help the user visualize important concepts. Some of the new 'hot topics' that this edition focuses on are the use of social media in nursing, teaching clinical reasoning, MOOCs and virtual learning spaces, and academic integrity in nursing education. New or updated content has been added throughout the book to reflect cutting-edge trends in health care and nursing education, including an ever-increasing demand for quality and safety in the workplace for patients as well as workers; workforce projections and changing population demographics; the impact of health care reform; the IOM recommendations put forth in The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health; changing nursing education paradigms and increasingly virtual learning environments; and the challenges and opportunities, while providing nursing care and nursing education in an increasingly global, rapidly changing, technology-driven world"--Provided by publisher.
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