| Description |
xiii, 351 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
1. Nursing at the Crossroads. Profession Building in the New Health Care System / Kenneth R. White and James W. Begun. Nursing and Threats to Patient and Nurse Safety and Quality of Patient Care / Patricia A. Rowell and D. Kathy Milholland -- 2. Nursing and Managed Care: A Reality Check. Is It Design or Decline? Conflicts in Re-engineering / Tim Porter-O'Grady. The Entrepreneurial Personality: Building a Sustainable Future for Self and the Profession / Gregory Crow -- 3. The Evolving Health Care System. Strategic Implications of Developing Integrated Levels of Care / Harriet S. Gill and Michael Rovinsky -- 4. Changing Hospitals in a Changing Environment. Integrating Information Technology with an Outcomes Management Program / Linda Cole and Susan Houston -- 5. Nursing Care is Managed Care. Essentials for Successful Patient Care Redesign / Diane Schaming Hupp. Staff Mix Models: Complementary or Substitution Roles for Nurses / Linda McGillis Hall -- 6. Nursing Ethics in a Managed Care System. The Impact of Ethical Climate on Job Satisfaction of Nurses / Jacob Joseph and Satish P. Deshpande. Dirty Hands: The Underside of Marketplace Health Care / Wanda K. Mohr and Margaret M. Mahon. The Synergistic Relationship between Ethics and Quality Improvement: Thriving in Managed Care / Kathleen Mitchell, Katherine Cardone Uehlinger and Janet Owen. Strength of Character through the Ethics of Nursing / Gladys L. Husted and James H. Husted -- 7. Reengineering Nursing. Consumer-Focused Preadmission Testing: A Paradigm Shift / Mary Ellen Clyne and Mary Forlenza. The Connection Delivery Model: Reengineering Nursing To Provide Care across the Continuum / Jeanne Donlevy and Bonnie Pietruch -- 8. Change: The New Constant. Stress Resulting from Change and Restructuring: A Cognitive Approach / Steven B. Dowd and Norman E. Bolus. Nurse Executives in the 1990s: Empowered or Oppressed? / Susan Jo Roberts. Understanding and Managing Change in Health Care Organizations / Kyoko Nagaike -- 9. Staff Transition. Nurse Leaders: Roles Driving Organizational Transition / Debra Bumsted Hernandez, Linda Berger Spivack and Cheryl Zwingman-Bagley -- 10. The Nursing Studies: Implications for Nursing. The Challenge for Education in a Transformed Health Care System / Marjorie M. Heinzer, Terry McGoldrick and Sharon McLane. Building Healthier Communities in a Managed Care Environment: Opportunities for Advanced Practice Nurses / Sara E. Barger -- 11. Differentiated Professional Practice: What is it? Differentiated Primary Care and Evidence-Based Practice: The Columbia Nursing Experiment / Annette M. Totten, Elizabeth R. Lenz and Mary O. Mundinger. Assessing, Developing, and Maintaining Staff's Competency in Times of Restructuring / Elvira Miller, Joan Marie Flynn and Juliet Umadac -- 12. Managed Care Strategies for the Future. Case Management as a Tool for Clinical Integration / Marianne E. Weiss. Disease State Management in Diabetes Care / Catherine E. Cooke -- 13. Nursing for the Future. Delivery-of-Care Systems Using Clinical Nursing Assistants: Making It Work / Susan Warner Salmond. Crystal Ball Gazing: Back to the Future / Diana Taylor -- 14. Career Issues in Managed Care Delivery Systems. Care of the Self for the Nurse Entrepreneur / Vicki D. Lachman. Floating: A Nurse's Nightmare? / Kenneth Brownson and Steven B. Dowd -- 15. Career Development Strategies in Managed Care. Career Journeys: How To Be a Successful Clinical Nurse Specialist - Be a Willow Tree / Vivian S. Sternweiler. Are You Your Resume? / Deborah A. Straka. Your Career and Job Success / Deborah A. Straka -- 16. Nursing and Unions: Do they Mix? Can You Create a Professional Practice Model in a Unionized Setting? / Paula Marchionno. Addressing the State of the (Labor) Union / Steve Davis -- 17. Thriving in the New Environment. The Nurse as Senior Health Care Executive / Kathryn J. McDonagh. Congruency between Nurses' Values and Job Requirements: A Call for Integrity / JoEllen Goertz Koerner -- 18. Managed Care Business Skills. 1995 Fast Track: Cost Reduction and Improvement / Robert J. Panzer, Deborah N. Tuttle and Rosemarie M. Kolker -- 19. Nurses as Political Health Care Activists. Nurses Can Influence Public Health Policy / Maureen Whitman. The Nurse Executive as Health Policy Champion / Judith G. Berg. Policy Imperatives for Nursing in an Era of Health Care Restructuring / David Keepnews and Geri Marullo -- 20. Is Your Organization Managed Care Friendly? Readiness, Action, and Resolve for Change: Do Health Care Leaders Have What It Takes? / C. David Hardison |
| Notes |
Collection of previously published articles |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Managed care plans (Medical care)
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Nursing services -- Administration.
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Nursing -- Effect of managed care on.
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Nursing Services -- organization & administration.
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Case Management -- organization & administration.
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Managed Care Programs -- organization & administration.
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| Author |
Turner, Susan Odegaard.
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Aspen Reference Group (Aspen Publishers)
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| LC no. |
98050336 |
| ISBN |
0834213265 (paperback) |
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