02995nam a2200289Ia 4500008004100000020002200041050002000063099001000083100002800093245006200121250001700183264005600200300004800256500008900304505139100393520064201784521001202426590002002438591002902458650002802487650003602515650003802551650003602589650004402625942001902669999001702688230719s2017    xx            000 0 und d  a978-1-4963-3439-8  aRT 82 H969 2017  a17192  aHuston, Carol Jorgensen10aProfessional issues in nursing/cHuston, Carol Jorgensen.  a4th edition.  aPhiladelphia, PennsylvaniabWolters Kluwer, c2017.  axii, 408 pages : billustrations ; c23 cm.  aIncludes bibliographical references and index. ; Reaccession from 2012. ; Softcover.  aEntry 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  aThis 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  aNURSING  aGraduate school  a/Huston, Carol Jorgensen  aNursingzUnited States.  aEthics, NursingzUnited States.  aNursingxManpowerzUnited States.  aNursingxTrendszUnited States.  aProfessional competencezUnited States.  2lcchRiRTcGS  c88615d88615