The Nursing Profession
Development, Challenges, and Opportunities
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Beschreibung
The Nursing Profession: Development, Challenges, andOpportunities is designed to be a resource for those who areinterested in or touched by nursing. This book is designed in partto complement the report by the Institute of Medicine on the futureof nursing. Readers--whether researchers or practitioners,foundation or government officials, students, or simply lay peopleinterested in nursing--should use this volume to gain a betterunderstanding of the nursing profession and the issues with whichthose in the field and related fields are grappling. Major topicsinclude:
* The history of nursing
* The nursing profession
* Current issues and challenges, including the nursing shortage,educating and training nurses, utilizing advanced practice nursesto their fullest, quality and cost, long-term care, community-basedcare, gender and power, and new areas for nursing
* A vision for the future
The book begins with a comprehensive review of the nursing fieldby Diana Mason, the Rudin Professor of Nursing at theHunter-Bellevue School of Nursing, City University of New York, andformer Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Nursing.Mason's chapter is followed by reprints of twenty-five of themost influential or significant articles on nursing--some ofthem classic pieces dating back to Florence Nightingale, otherspresenting more current thinking on critical issues. This kind ofsource material is rarely found in one place.
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Diana J. Mason
Themen in »The Nursing Profession«
Cancer & Palliative Care Nursing Gesundheits- u. Sozialwesen Health & Social Care Krankenpflege Nursing Nursing Special Topics Öffentlicher Gesundheitsdienst u. Gesundheitspolitik Pflege i. d. Krebs- u. Palliativmedizin Public Health Services & Policy Spezialthemen Krankenpflege