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Professional issues in nursing : challenges and opportunities /

Title:
Professional issues in nursing : challenges and opportunities /
Author:
Huston, Carol Jorgensen, author.
Format:
Book
Institution:
MCPHS Worcester, MCPHS Boston
Contents:
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.
Online access:
No online access
Library holdings:
MCPHS Circulation - Boston Campus
RT82 .H87 2017 – Available
MCPHS Circulation - Manchester Campus
RT82 .H87 2017 – Available
MCPHS Circulation - Worcester Campus
RT82 .H87 2017 – Available