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Leadership&Management • Issues &Trends
Professional Issues inNursing:
Challenges&Opportunities,ThirdEdition
Carol J.Huston,MSN,MPA,DPA
978-1-4511-2833-8 • February2013 • Softbound • 7” x9” •528pp. •2 Illus. • 100Tables
Using an approach that fosters critical thinking andvalues clarification,
this textbook examines the full range of professional issues facing
contemporary nursing. Coverage includes critical issues such as the
nursing shortage, mandatory staffing ratios, violence in nursing,
legal and ethical issues, plus the latest HIPAA regulations, career
advancement and evaluations, and best practices for today and the
future.
Content has alsobeenupdated throughout thebook to reflect cutting-
edgetrends inhealthcare includingthe impactofhealthcare reform,and
recommendations from the Institute of Medicine (IOM). This edition
promises tobe an integral tool toproviding effectivenursing care in an
increasinglyglobal, rapidly changing, technologydrivenworld.
Features
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NEW!
Chaptersondevelopingeffective leaders tomeet 21st
centuryhealthcare challenges aswell as theuseof residencies for
newgraduatenurses as a transition topracticehavebeenadded,
whilea chapteronblending thenewessentialsof baccalaureate
educationanddistance learningeducation isdeleted.
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NEW!
Newor updated content has beenadded throughout the
book to reflect cutting-edge trends inhealthcare includingan
ever increasingdemand forqualityand safety in theworkplace for
patients aswell asworkers; the impactof healthcare reform; the
IOM recommendations put forth in
TheFutureofNursing: Leading
Change,AdvancingHealth
;workforceprojections and changing
populationdemographics; and the challenges andopportunities
whichaccompanyprovidingnursing care inan increasinglyglobal,
rapidly changing, technologydrivenworld.
Table of Contents
Unit1:
Furthering theProfession
Ch. 1: Entry intoPractice:TheDebate
RagesOn
Ch. 2: EvidenceBasedPractice
Ch. 3: 21stCentury LeadershipChallenges
forNurses
Ch. 4: Using Simulation toTeachNurses
Unit2:
Workforce Issues
Ch. 5:TheCurrentNursing Shortage:
Causes, Consequences, and Solutions
Ch. 6: Importing ForeignNurses
Ch. 7: UnlicensedAssistive Personnel and the
RegisteredNurse
Ch. 8: Socialization andMentoring
Ch. 9:Diversity in theNursingWorkforce
Ch. 10: Residencies forNewGraduate
Nurses as aTransition toPractice
Unit3:
Workplace Issues
Ch. 11:MandatoryMinimum Staffing
Ratios: AreTheyWorking?
Ch. 12:MandatoryOvertime inNursing:
HowMuch?HowOften?
Ch. 13: Violence inNursing:The
Expectations and theReality
Ch. 14:Technology in theHealthCare
Workplace: Benefits, Limitations, and
Challenges
Ch. 15:Medical Errors: AnOngoingThreat
toQualityHealthCare
Unit4:
Legal andEthical Issues
Ch. 16:Whistle blowing inNursing
Ch. 17: ImpairedNursing Practice:What Are
WeDoingAbout It?
Ch. 18: CollectiveBargaining and the
ProfessionalNurse
Ch. 19: Assuring ProviderCompetency
throughLicensure, ContinuingEducation,
andCertification
Unit5:
Professional Power
. . . Abridged tofit