Nursing issues in the 21st century : perspectives from the literature / edited by Eleanor C. Hein.
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Philadelphia :
Lippincott,
[2001]
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Ch. I. Links to the Past
- 1. The Risk of Not Understanding Nursing History
- 2. A Caring Dilemma: Womanhood and Nursing in Historical Perspective
- 3. Florence Nightingale: Reformer, Reactionary, Researcher
- 4. The Fateful Decade, 1890-1900
- 5. Nursing and the Great Depression
- 6. The Lasting Impact of World War II on Nursing
- Ch. 2. Nurses: A Professional Reality Check
- 7. The Public Image of the Nurse
- 8. The Missing Voices in Coverage of Health
- 9. Nurse, Interrupted
- 10. Nursing Schools Perplexed by Falling Enrollments
- 11. The Struggle for Just Compensation
- 12. Trouble in the Nurse Labor Market? Recent Trends and Future Outlook
- Ch. 3. Cultural Diversity: A Celebration of Differences
- 13. Black Nurses in the United States: 1879-1992
- 14. Diversity in Nursing: A Challenge for the Profession
- 15. Promoting Cultural and Racial Diversity in Nursing: The Need for Political Activism
- 16. Alternative Medicine: Values and Risks
- 17. Alternative and Complementary Healing: Implications for Nursing
- Ch. 4. The Legal Responsibilities of Practice
- 18. What We May Expect From the Law
- 19. Why We Need a Patients' Bill of Rights
- 20. The Wrong Rights
- 21. Seeking Confidentiality of Medical Records
- 22. The Real Meaning of Patient-Nurse Confidentiality
- 23. Medical Records: Enhancing Privacy, Preserving the Common Good
- Ch. 5. Ethics: The Moral Boundaries of Practice
- 24. Manners, Morals, and Nurses: An Historical Overview of Nursing Ethics
- 25. Genetic Engineering: Is it Morally Acceptable?
- 26. Fountain of Youth
- 27. A World of Immortal Men
- 28. Redrawing the Ethics Map
- 29. Health Care Rationing in the Aged
- Ch. 6. Computers, the Internet and Nursing: Riding the Information Wave
- 30. "Making the Best of Things": Technology in American Nursing, 1870-1940
- 31. Looking to Care or Caring to Look? Technology and the Rise of Spectacular Nursing
- 32. Healthcare: Technology in the New Millennium
- 33. How Will the Internet Change Our Health System?
- Ch. 7. Populations at Risk
- 34. The Old Homeless and the New Homelessness in Historical Perspective
- 35. Helping People off the Streets: Real Solutions to Urban Homelessness
- 36. Not Gone, but Forgotten?
- 37. Faces of the Uninsured
- 38. Myths of the Uninsured
- 39. Infection with HIV in the Elderly Population
- 40. U.S. Faces TB Threat
- Ch. 8. Living Longer: Are We Ready?
- 41. The Meaning of Aging and the Future of Social Security
- 42. The Age Wave
- 43. Ethical and Policy Considerations for Centenarians: The Oldest Old
- Ch. 9. Violence: Is Anyone Safe?
- 44. The Gunfire Dialogues
- 45. The Movies Made Me Do It
- 46. Media Insensitivity to Victims of Violence
- 47. The Least Among Us: Children of Substance-Abusing Parents
- 48. Hidden Bruises
- 49. Elder Abuse and Neglect
- Ch. 10. Delivering Health Care: At What Cost?
- 50. Managed Care Evolution: Where Did It Come From and Where Is It Going?
- 51. Managed Care: Devils, Angels, and the Truth in Between
- 52. What's Behind the Public's Backlash?
- 53. Managed Care at a Crossroads
- Ch. 11. Economics: Dollars and "No Sense"?
- 54. Healing Medicare
- 55. What Price Coverage Reform?
- 56. Problems with the Medicare Drug Benefit Plan. And What Can Be Done
- 57. Free Health Care Does Not Exist
- Ch. 12. Politics: Do We Make a Difference?
- 58. Nursing's Past, Present, and Future Political Experiences
- 59. Washington: Will Congress Stop Playing Politics With Health Care?
- 60. They're Here, They're Gray
- Ch. 13. Back to the Future
- 61. A Backward Glimpse
- 62. Looking Ahead with the Nursing Profession
- 63. Nursing in the Decade Ahead
- 64. The Future of the Nursing Profession
- Index.