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| Contributors | |
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| Reviewers | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Nurses, Nursing, and the Healthcare System | |
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| Nursing Issues: A Call to Political Action | |
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| Significance for Nurses | |
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| Significance for the Profession | |
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| Nursing Practice as Political Action | |
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| Framing the Topic | |
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| Analyzing the Issue | |
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| Barriers to Resolution | |
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| Devising Strategies for Resolution | |
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| Lobbying Strategies | |
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| Canadian Healthcare | |
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| The Importance of Understanding Canada's Healthcare "System" | |
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| The Canada Health Act (CHA) | |
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| So What Does this Mean? | |
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| What Lies Ahead? | |
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| Nurses Leading to Influence Change | |
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| Nursing Education and Healthcare in Qu�bec | |
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| Nursing Education and Research | |
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| Analysis of the Issue | |
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| Historical Questions | |
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| Socio-Cultural Questions | |
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| Political Questions | |
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| Stepping into the Future: Challenges with Health Transfer in First Nations Communities | |
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| Diversity of the First Peoples | |
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| European Relationship with First Nations | |
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| Cultural Resurgence of First Nations and Community Development | |
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| Miyupimaatissiium: Being Alive Well | |
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| Healthcare in Northern and Isolated Communities | |
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| Climate for Change: Nursing in First Nations Communities | |
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| Issues in Contemporary Nursing Leadership | |
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| Complexity Theory and Leadership | |
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| Situating the Topic: The Nature of the Issue | |
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| Articulating the Issue | |
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| Barriers to Addressing the Issue | |
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| Strategies for Addressing the Issue | |
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| Policy: The Essential Link in Successful Transformations | |
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| Policy, Politics, and Professionalism | |
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| History and Background: Perspectives on Policy | |
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| Influencing Policy | |
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| Keys to Success | |
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| The Influence of Organizational Structures and Regulation | |
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| Canadian Nurses Association and International Council of Nurses | |
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| Canadian Nurses Association: The National Voice of Nurses in Canada Since 1908 | |
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| Student Members of CNA | |
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| CNA History | |
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| CNA Responds to the Challenges of 21st Century Nursing | |
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| Advancing Leadership in Health Human Resources Planning | |
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| International Policy and Development | |
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| Fostering Canadian Leadership within ICN | |
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| International Health Partnerships | |
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| Providing Leadership to Promote Quality Professional Practice Environments | |
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| Regulatory Policy | |
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| CNA Future Issues and Priorities | |
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| Nursing and the Healthcare System: Issues and Priorities | |
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| The International Council of Nurses: A Historical Perspective | |
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| Regulating Nursing | |
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| Standardization and Credentialing | |
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| The Global Shortage of Nurses | |
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| Advancing Nursing Practice | |
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| The ICN in the 21st Century | |
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| Canadian Provincial and Territorial Professional Associations and Colleges | |
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| Regulation | |
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| Regulation of Nursing | |
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| Issues in Regulation | |
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| Nurses' Unions: Where Knowledge Meets Know-How | |
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| Historical Influences | |
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| Organizing Practices of Professional Nurses | |
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| Emergence of Union Practices | |
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| Transformations in Health Care | |
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| Transformations in Unions | |
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| CNA Influences on the Move to Unionization | |
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| Changes in Nurses' Thinking About Collective Bargaining | |
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| The Gendered Nature of Issues Surrounding Collective Bargaining | |
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| Nurses' Workplaces | |
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| Collective Bargaining | |
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| Unions Today and Tomorrow | |
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| Nurses' Unions and Political Action | |
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| Bringing Research to Action | |
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| Issues Related to Knowledge Generation and Dissemination | |
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| Challenges and Change in Undergraduate Nursing Education | |
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| Framing the Topic | |
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| Analyzing the Issues | |
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| Barriers and Strategies: Issues in Perspective | |
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| Graduate Education | |
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| History of Graduate Nursing Education in Canada | |
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| Practice Realities and Challenges for Graduate-Prepared Nurses | |
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| Issues and Controversies in Graduate Education | |
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| Challenges for Graduate-Prepared Nurses | |
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| Strategies for Advancing Graduate Education | |
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| The Political Nature of Knowledge Generation and Utilization: Nursing Research in Canada | |
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| Situating the Topic | |
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| Articulating the Topic as an Issue | |
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| Analyzing the Issue: Ways of Understanding | |
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| Understanding the Relevance of Research for Nursing Practice Politically | |
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| Strategies to Address Issues of Nursing Research | |
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| Nursing, Technology, and Informatics: Understanding the Past and Embracing the Future | |
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| Relationship between Nursing and Technology | |
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| Nursing Informatics | |
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| Applications of Nursing Informatics and Technology in Practice | |
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| Issues in the Application of Biomedical Technology and Nursing Practice | |
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| Issues in the Allocation of Technology in Education | |
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| Issues in Adopting Technology in Nursing Education | |
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| Future of Technology in Education and Practice | |
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| Changing Picture: From "Medical Rounds" to Interprofessional Practice | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Significance for Nurses and for the Profession | |
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| Situating the Topic and Framing the Issue | |
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| (Further) Analyzing the Issue | |
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| Recognizing Barriers, Devising Strategies: Creating Possibilities Within Constraints | |
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| The Gendered Nature of Nursing | |
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| Articulating the Issue for Nursing | |
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| Analyzing the Issue | |
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| Barriers to and Strategies for Issue Resolution | |
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| Workplace Realities | |
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| Issues Arising from the Nature of Nurses' Work and Workplaces | |
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| The Nature of Nurses' Work | |
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| The Nature of Nurses' Workplaces | |
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| The Significance of Nurses' Work Issues | |
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| Issues Arising in Nurses' Work and Workplaces | |
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| Barriers to Resolving Work and Workplace Issues | |
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| Strategies for Resolving Work and Workplace Issues | |
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| The Nursing Shortage: Assumptions and Realities | |
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| Nature of the Nursing Shortage | |
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| Framing and Analyzing the Issue | |
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| Barriers to Resolution of the Nursing Shortage | |
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| Strategies for Resolution | |
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| Rural Nursing in Canada | |
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| Understanding the Issues | |
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| Situating the Topic: Framing the Issue | |
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| Resolution: Constraints and Possibilities | |
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| The Challenges of Holistic Nursing Practice | |
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| What is Holistic Nursing? | |
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| Holism in Nursing: 20th Century Developments | |
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| Modern Holistic Nursing: What We Can Learn from Professional Organizations | |
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| Practicing Holistic Nursing Today: Issues and Challenges | |
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| Opening Conversations: Dilemmas and Possibilities of Spirituality and Spiritual Care | |
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| Introduction to the Topic: Opening the Conversation About Spirituality | |
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| Situating the Topic: Personal and Professional Assumptions | |
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| Situating the Topic: Understanding Spiritual Practices Historically | |
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| Significance of the Topic for Nursing: Embracing the Tensions | |
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| Articulating the Topic as an Issue: Practice Dilemmas | |
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| Identifying Barriers: Furthering Our Understanding | |
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| Generating Strategies: Future Possibilities | |
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| Ethical and Legal Issues in Nursing | |
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| Situating the Topic: What is Ethics? | |
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| Articulating the Issue | |
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| Analyzing Issues: Ways of Understanding | |
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| Barriers to Resolving Ethical Dilemmas | |
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| Strategies for Resolving Ethical Dilemmas | |
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| Issues in Healthcare for an Aging Population | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Situating the Topic | |
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| Framing the Issue | |
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| Appreciating Diversity in Aging and Health | |
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| Healthy Aging | |
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| Barriers to Healthy Aging | |
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| Strategies for Resolution | |
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| Orientating to Difference: Beyond Heteronormative Sexualities | |
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| Beyond Heteronormative Sexualities: Articulating the Topic for Nursing | |
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| Articulating the Topic as an Issue | |
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| Analyzing the Issue: Ways of Understanding | |
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| Barriers to Resolution | |
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| Strategies for Resolution | |
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| Environmental Health and Nursing | |
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| Historical Links between Environment and Health | |
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| Current Environmental Issues: Climate Change and Global Warming | |
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| Environmental Health Hazards | |
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| Socio-political Analysis | |
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| Strategies to Overcome Barriers | |
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| Interpersonal Violence and Abuse: Ending the Silence | |
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| The Many Forms of Interpersonal Violence | |
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| Historical Perspectives on Violence and Abuse | |
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| Statistics in the Canadian Context | |
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| Understanding Violence: Theoretical Perspectives | |
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| Impact on Health and the Healthcare System | |
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| Issues for Nurses and the Nursing Profession | |
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| Barriers to Resolution | |
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| Strategies for Resolution | |
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| Looking Back, Moving Forward: The Promise of Nursing in the 21st Century | |
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| The Promise of Nursing in the 21st Century | |
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| Persistence and Tension: Themes in Nursing's Transformation | |
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| Index | |