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040			_cMANILA TYTANA COLLEGES LIBRARY
090			_aCIR RT 82 H87 2006
100	1		_aHuston, Carol Jorgensen
245	1	0	_aProfessional issues in nursing : _bchallenges and opportunities / _cCarol J. Huston.
260			_aPhiladelphia : _bLippincott Williams & Wilkins, _c2006.
300			_axvii, 509 p. ; _c26 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505			_aCollective bargaining and the professional nurse -- Assuring provider competency through licensure, continuing education, and certification -- The nursing profession's historic struggle to increase its power base -- Professional identity and image -- Advanced practice nursing: the challenges of role definition, recognition, and reimbursement -- Nursing and public policy: getting involved -- Nursing's professional associations.
505			_aEntry into practice: an elusive dream or a critical professional need? -- Differentiated nursing practice: maximizing resources or dividing an already divided profession? -- Defining evidence-based best practices -- Socialization and mentoring -- The current nursing shortage: causes, consequences, and solutions -- Importing foreign nurses -- Distance learning: one strategy for furthering nursing education and easing the nursing shortage -- Unlicensed assistive personnel and the registered nurse -- Diversity in the nursing workforce -- Mandatory staffing ratios: are they working? -- Mandatory overtime in nursing: how much? how often? -- Violence in nursing: the expectations and the reality -- Technology in the healthcare workplace: benefits, limitations, and challenges -- Medical errors: an ongoing threat to quality health care -- Whistle-blowing in nursing -- The chemically impaired nurse: discipline or treatment? --
650		0	_aNursing _zUnited States.
650	1	2	_aNursing _xtrends.
650	2	2	_aEthics, Nursing.
650	2	2	_aNurse's Role.
650	2	2	_aNursing _xmanpower.
650	2	2	_aProfessional Competence.
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