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Leadership &
Management • Issues & Trends
Professional Issues in Nursing:
Challenges &Opportunities, Fourth Edition
Carol J. Huston, MSN, MPA, DPA
978-1-49633-439-8 • February 2016 • Softbound • 7” x 9” • 448 pp. • 9 Illus. • 100Tables
Designed to be used in both pre- and post-licensure nursing programs,
Professional Issues in Nursing: Challenges andOpportunities
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 “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 be “in the know” rather than be in the camp of students unprepared
to maneuver the political and social issues that impact their role as a
nurse.
Table of Contents
Unit 1:
Furthering the Profession
Ch. 1: Entry Into Practice: The Debate Rages
On, (Carol J. Huston),
Ch. 2: Evidence-Based Practice, (Suzanne S.
Prevost and Cassandra D. Ford)
Ch. 3: Developing Effective Leaders to Meet
21st Century Health Care Challenges,
(Bernadette M. Melnyk, Kathy Malloch, and
Lynn Gallagher-Ford),
Ch. 4: Advanced Practice Nursing: Where is
the DNP Today? (Margaret Rowberg),
Unit 2:
Workforce Issues
Ch. 5: Is There a Nursing Shortage? (Carol
J. Huston),
Ch. 6: Importing Foreign Nurses, (Carol J.
Huston),
Ch. 7: Unlicensed Assistive Personnel and the
Registered Nurse, (Carol J. Huston),
Ch. 8: Diversity in the Nursing Workforce,
(Carol J. Huston),
Unit 3:
Workplace Issues
Ch. 9: Mandatory Minimum Staffing Ratios:
Are They Working? (Carol J. Huston),
Ch. 10: Mandatory Overtime in Nursing:
How Much? How Often? (Carol J. Huston),
Ch. 11: Violence in Nursing: The Expectations
and the Reality, (Charmaine Hockley),
Ch. 12: The Use of Social Media in Nursing:
Pitfalls and Opportunities, (Perry Gee),
Ch. 13: Medical Errors: An Ongoing Threat
to Quality Health Care, (Carol J. Huston),
Unit 4:
Nursing Education Issues
Ch. 14: New Graduate RN Transition to
Practice Programs (Nurse Residencies),
(Deloras Jones and Nikki West),
Ch. 15: MOOCS and Virtual Learning
Spaces: A Withering of the Traditional
Classroom, (Pam Jeffries, Khadijah Mitchell,
April Clayton, Emily Jones, and Cynthia
Foronda)
Ch. 16: Academic Integrity in Nursing
Education: Is it Declining? (George Carl
Pittman)
Unit 5:
Legal and Ethical Issues
Unit 6:
Professional Power
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