Current Issues In Nursing

<p>Section 1 Defining Nursing from a Variety of Roles</p> <p>The Richness of Nursing</p> <p>1 What is Nursing, Why Do We Ask, and How Will Nursing be Better Understood?</p> <p>2 Staff Nurses Working in Hospitals: Who Are They, What Do They Do, and What Are Their Challenges?</p> <p>3 Clinical Nurse Specialists: Education and Practice Issues</p> <p>4 Nurse Practitioners: Taking Their Place in the Health Care Arena</p> <p>5 Nurse Executives: Critical Thinking for Rapid Change</p> <p>6 The Nurse as Chief Executive Officer (NEW)</p> <p>7 Nurse Educators: Issues That Affect the Profession</p> <p>8 Nurse Researchers: Who Are They, What Do They Do, and What Are Their Challenges?</p> <p>Section 2 Nursing Education in Transition</p> <p>Nursing Education in Transition</p> <p>9 Creating the Future of Nursing Education: Challenges and Opportunities</p> <p>10 Educational Challenges: Quality in Pre-Licensure Nursing Education</p> <p>11 Graduate Nursing Education: A Critical Examination from a Global Perspective </p> <p>12 International Collaborative Institutional Approaches to Nursing Education (NEW)</p> <p>13 Using Academic-Service Collaborative Partnerships to Expand Professional Nursing Programs</p> <p>14 Creating the Nursing Theory-Research-Practice Nexus</p> <p>15 E-Learning </p> <p>Section 3 Changing Practice</p> <p>A Nurse Is Not a Nurse Is Not a Nurse</p> <p>16 Moving the Care from Hospital to Home</p> <p>17 Adult Health Nursing Practice: Current Changes & Issues</p> <p>18 Alternative and Complementary Therapies: Recent Changes and Current Issues</p> <p>19 Ambulatory Care Nursing: Challenges for the Twenty-First Century</p> <p>20 Gerontological Nursing: Recent Changes and Current Issues</p> <p>21 Hospice and Palliative Care: One Solution for Improving U.S. Health Care?</p> <p>22 Pediatric Nursing: Recent Changes and Current Issues</p> <p>23 Perinatal Nursing: Recent Changes and Current Issues</p> <p>24 Perioperative Nursing: Recent Changes and Current Issues</p> <p>25 Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing: Recent Changes and Current Issues</p> <p>26 Forensic Nursing: Recent Changes and Current Issues</p> <p>27 Occupational Health Nursing: Recent Changes and Current Issues (NEW)</p> <p>28 Genetics, Genomics and Current Issues for Professional Nursing (NEW)</p> <p>Section 4 Information Technology Challenges (NEW)</p> <p>The Impact of Technology on Health Care (NEW)</p> <p>29 Nursing: A Profession Evolving with the Use of Informatics and Technology (NEW)</p> <p>30 Standardized Terminologies and Integrated Information Systems: Building Blocks for Transforming Data into Nursing Knowledge</p> <p>31 Nursing Informatics: Partnerships at the Crossroads of Practice and Research (NEW)</p> <p>32 Sustaining a Focus Group Devoted to Standardized Language Development (NEW)</p> <p>33 Why Health Information Technology Standards and Harmonization are Important (NEW)</p> <p>34 Personal Health Records as a Tool for Improving the Delivery of Health Care (NEW)</p> <p>35 Global Challenges of Electronic Records for Nursing (NEW)</p> <p>Section 5 Health Care Systems and Practice</p> <p>The Impact of Evolving Health Care Systems on Nursing</p> <p>36 From a Medical Care System for a Few to a Comprehensive Health Care System for All</p> <p>37 The Challenge: Participate in the Era of Politics – Choose an Ideology and Lead</p> <p>38 Defining Health Disparities from Three Viewpoints: Reducing Inequality in Health Care (NEW)</p> <p>39 Magnet Designation: Creating New Synergies </p> <p>40 The Research Imperative for the Nurse Executive (NEW)</p> <p>41 Laying the Foundation for Evidence-Based Practice for Nurse Residents</p> <p>42 Determining Staffing Needs Based on Patient Outcomes versus Nursing Interventions (NEW)</p> <p>43 Impact of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act </p> <p>44 Trends in Long-Term Care (NEW)</p> <p>Section 6 Health Care Organization and Finance</p> <p>Identifying and Controlling Health Care Costs</p> <p>45 Controlling Health Care Costs: Balancing Public and Private Solutions </p> <p>46 Business Coalitions: Shaping Health Reform Through Technology and Science</p> <p>47 Mergers and Acquisitions </p> <p>48 The Cost of Home Health Care: Changes and Challenges</p> <p>49 Drugs Are Too Cheap</p> <p>Section 7 Professional Challenges, Collaboration, & Conflict</p> <p>Challenges, Collaboration, and Conflict</p> <p>50 Collaboration between Nurses and Physicians: The Need for a Broader View</p> <p>51 Health Professions Education in Community-Based Settings: A Collaborative Journey</p> <p>52 Overcoming Polarity in Nursing (NEW)</p> <p>53 Expanding into the Twenty-First Century: Men in Nursing</p> <p>54 Nursing Employment Issues: Increasing Unionization in Nursing</p> <p>55 Managing Generational Issues in Nursing: Preserving the Future of the Profession (NEW)</p> <p>Section 8 Cultural Inclusiveness</p> <p>Diversity in Nursing: A Challenge for the United States</p> <p>56 Should Nursing Be More Diversified?</p> <p>57 Minority Representation in Nursing: Diversity, Cultural Competency and Racism—</p> <p>The Challenge Persists</p> <p>58 Bridging Cultures: Blacks and Nursing</p> <p>59 Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and Nursing: Narrowing the Health Disparities Gap</p> <p>60 Bridging Cultures: Hispanics/Latinos and Nursing</p> <p>61 Bridging Cultures: American Indians and Nursing</p> <p>Section 9 Ethics, Legal, and Social Issues</p> <p>Ethical, Legal, and Social Concerns in a Changing Health Care World</p> <p>62 Ethics of Health Care Reform: Should Health Care be Rationed?</p> <p>63 The Nurse as Patient Advocate: Is There a Conflict of Interest?</p> <p>64 Ethical Nursing Practice: It’s All About Relationship</p> <p>65 Harassment and Discrimination Issues in Nursing</p> <p>66 Health Care for the Poor and Underserved</p> <p>67 Legal, ethical, and moral considerations in caring for individuals with diminished capacity</p> <p>68 Nurses’ Role in Patients’ Advance Directives: Facilitation or Reduction of Patient Autonomy?</p> <p>69 Environmental Disasters: Nurse Preparedness for Radiation & Chemical Events (NEW)</p> <p>70 Disaster Nursing and the American Red Cross (NEW)</p> <p>71 The Greening of Health Care (NEW)</p> <p>Section 10 Violence Prevention and Care: Nursing’s Role </p> <p>Violence: The Expanding Role of Nursing in Prevention and Care</p> <p>72 Child Maltreatment: Nursing Considerations</p> <p>73 Nursing Care: Preventing Firearm Injuries</p> <p>74 Group Interventions with African American Women Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence</p> <p>75 Nursing Care: Victims of Violence – Elder Mistreatment</p> <p>76 Disaster Nursing during Terrorist Events</p> <p>77 Nursing Practice in Emergency Management and Disaster Preparedness </p> <p>78 Nursing in Wars</p> <p>79 More Nurse Involvement Needed in Infectious Disease Disaster Preparedness </p> <p>80 Compassion Fatigue in Nursing (NEW)</p> <p>Section 11 International Nursing Considerations</p> <p>Issues Abroad</p> <p>81 The Global Nursing Shortage - An Issue of Social Justice (NEW)</p> <p>82 All Hazards Preparedness: Advocating for Mothers and Babies (NEW)</p> <p>83 Nursing At The World Health Organization: The (In)Visibility of Chief Nurses 1951-2009 (NEW)</p> <p>84 Global Health Needs and Priorities in Developing Countries (NEW)</p> <p>85 The Global Health Agenda: Are Nursing and Midwifery Responding? (NEW)</p>