| Description |
xii, 451 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Contents: Entry into practice : the debate rages on / Carol Huston -- Evidence based practice / Suzanne Prevost and Sheron Salyer -- Distance learning : one strategy for furthering nursing education and easing the nursing shortage / Cathy McPhee -- Using simulation to teach nurses / Sherry Fox and Rebekah Damazo -- The current nursing shortage : causes, consequences, and solutions / Carol Huston -- Importing foreign nurses / Carol Huston -- Unlicensed assistive personnel and the registered nurse / Carol Huston -- Socialization and mentoring / Jeanne Madison -- Diversity in the nursing workforce / Carol Huston -- Mandatory minimum staffing ratios : are they working? / Carol Huston -- Mandatory overtime in nursing : how much? how often? / Carol Huston -- Violence in nursing : the expectations and the reality / Charmaine Hockley -- |
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Contents: Technology in the health care workplace : benefits, limitations, and challenges / Carol Huston -- Medical errors : an ongoing threat to quality health care / Carol Huston -- Whistleblowing in nursing / Carol Huston -- Impaired nursing practice / What Are the Issues? / Jennifer Lillibridge -- Collective bargaining and the professional nurse / Carol Huston -- Assuring provider competency through licensure, continuing education, and certification / Carol Huston -- The nursing profession's historic struggle to increase its power base / Carol Huston -- Professional identity and image / Carol Huston -- Advanced practice nursing : challenges of role definition, recognition, and reimbursement / Peggy Rowberg -- Nursing and public policy : getting involved / Catherine Dodd and Clair Hauser Carr -- Nursing's professional associations / Marjorie Beyers |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Nursing -- United States.
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| Author |
Huston, Carol Jorgensen.
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| LC no. |
2009008823 |
| ISBN |
9781605473956 alkaline paper |
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1605473952 alkaline paper |
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