03002nam a2200289Ia 4500 230719s2017 xx 000 0 und d 978-1-4963-3439-8 RT 82 H969 2017 17192 Huston, Carol Jorgensen Professional issues in nursing/ Huston, Carol Jorgensen. 4th edition. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Wolters Kluwer, 2017. xii, 408 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ; Reaccession from 2012. ; Softcover. 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 This text 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 NURSING Graduate school /Huston, Carol Jorgensen Nursing United States. Ethics, Nursing United States. Nursing Manpower United States. Nursing Trends United States. Professional competence United States. lcc R RT GS 88615 88615