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| Definitions of Nursing | |
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| Overview | |
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| The Richness of Nursing | |
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| Debate | |
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| What Is Nursing and Why Do We Ask? | |
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| Viewpoints | |
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| Staff Nurses Working in Hospitals: Who They Are, What They Do, and What Are Their Challenges? | |
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| Clinical Nurse Specialists: Who They Are, What They Do, and What Are Their Challenges? | |
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| Nurse Practitioners: Who They Are, What They Do, and What Are Their Challenges? | |
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| Nurse Executives: Critical Thinking for Rapid Change | |
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| Nursing Faculty: Opportunities and Challenges | |
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| Nurse Researchers: Who They Are, What They Do, and What Are Their Challenges? | |
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| Changing Education | |
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| Overview | |
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| Nursing Education in Transition | |
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| Debate | |
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| The Future of Nursing Education: Educational Models for Future Care | |
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| Viewpoints | |
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| Educational Challenges: The Crisis in Quality | |
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| International Graduate Nursing Education: A Critical Examination | |
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| Critical Thinking: What Is It and How Do We Teach It? | |
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| Collaborative Institutional Approaches to Nursing Education | |
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| Using Academic-Service Collaborative Partnerships to Expand Professional Nursing Programs | |
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| Integrating Nursing Theory, Nursing Research, and Nursing Practice | |
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| Standardized Terminologies and Integrated Information Systems: Building Blocks for Transforming Data Into Nursing Knowledge | |
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| Electronic Information and Methods for Improving Education: Realities and Assumptions | |
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| Web-Based Education | |
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| Changing Practice | |
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| Overview | |
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| A Nurse Is Not a Nurse Is Not a Nurse | |
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| Debate | |
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| Moving the Care: From Hospital to Home | |
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| Viewpoints | |
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| Adult Health Medical-Surgical Nursing Practice: Recent Changes and Current Issues | |
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| Alternative and Complementary Therapies: Recent Changes and Current Issues | |
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| Ambulatory Care Nursing: Challenges for the Twenty-First Century | |
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| Gerontological Nursing: Recent Changes and Current Issues | |
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| Hospice and Palliative Care: Recent Changes and Current Issues | |
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| Parish Nursing: Recent Changes and Current Issues | |
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| Pediatric Nursing: Recent Changes and Current Issues | |
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| Perinatal Nursing: Recent Changes and Current Issues | |
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| Perioperative Nursing: Recent Changes and Current Issues | |
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| Psychiatric Nursing: Recent Changes and Current Issues | |
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| Forensic Nursing: Recent Changes and Current Issues | |
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| Disease Management: Are Nurses Ready? | |
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| Quality Improvement | |
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| Overview | |
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| Role of Nursing in Achieving Quality Health Care Systems | |
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| Debate | |
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| Institute of Medicine Recommendations: Can We Meet the Challenges? | |
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| Viewpoints | |
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| Nursing Care Priority Area: Patient Safety | |
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| Leadership by Example: Resources for Nurses Involved in Health System Process Improvements | |
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| Nursing Care Priority Area: Prevention | |
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| Nursing Care Priority Area: Chronic Conditions | |
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| Nursing Care Priority Area: Frailty, Palliative, End of Life | |
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| Governance | |
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| Overview | |
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| Challenges to Nursing Leadership in a Changing Nursing Practice World | |
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| Debate | |
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| Who Should Provide Nursing Care? | |
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| Viewpoints | |
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| Leadership in Transition in Acute Care Hospitals | |
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| Nursing Employment Issues: Unions, Mandatory Overtime, Patient/Staff Ratios | |
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| Shared Governance Models in Nursing: What Is Shared, Who Governs, and Who Benefits | |
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| Health Care Systems | |
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| Overview | |
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| System Reform: Opportunity or Threat? | |
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| Debate | |
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| From a Medical Care System for a Few to a Comprehensive Health Care System for All | |
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| Viewpoints | |
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| Business Coalitions: Defining, Purchasing, and Providing Health Care | |
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| The Challenge: Participate in the Era of Politics-Choose an Ideology and Lead | |
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| The Corporatization of Health Care: Mergers and Acquisitions | |
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| Nurse Practitioners: Issues Within a Managed Care Environment | |
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| Contracting for Nursing Services | |
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| Magnet Designation: Gold Standard for Nursing Excellence | |
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| Health Care Costs | |
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| Overview | |
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| A Concern for Costs | |
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| Debate | |
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| Controlling Health Care Costs: Is There an Answer? | |
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| Viewpoints | |
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| Managed Care, Prospective Payment, and Reimbursement Trends: Impact and Implications for Nursing | |
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| The Costs of Home Health Care: Changes and Challenges | |
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| Reimbursement for Alternative Providers | |
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| Impact of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) | |
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| Drugs Are Too Cheap | |
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| Role Challenges, Collaboration, and Conflict | |
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| Overview | |
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| Colleagues and Conflict | |
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| Debate | |
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| Collaboration Issues Between Nurses and Physicians | |
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| Viewpoints | |
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| Feminism and Nursing: Reclaiming Nightingale's Vision | |
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| Entering Collegial Relationships: The Demise of Nurse as Victim | |
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| Health Professions Education in Community-Based Settings: A Collaborative Journey | |
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| Some Reflections on Conflict Resolution in Nursing: The Implications of Negotiating at an Uneven Table | |
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| Cultural Diversity | |
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| Overview | |
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| Diversity in Nursing: A Challenge for the United States | |
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| Debate | |
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| Why Isn't Nursing More Diversified? | |
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| Minority Representation in Nursing: Is Cultural Competency in Nursing Achievable and When? | |
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| Nursing at the Crossroads: Men in Nursing | |
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| Bridging Cultures: Blacks and Nursing | |
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| Narrowing the Health Disparities Gap: Asians and Pacific Islanders and Nursing | |
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| Bridging Cultures: Hispanics/Latinos and Nursing | |
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| Bridging Cultures: American Indians and Nursing | |
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| Ethics, Legal, and Social Issues | |
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| Overview | |
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| Ethical, Legal, and Social Concerns in a Changing Health Care World | |
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| Debate | |
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| Ethics of Health Care Reform: Should Health Care Be Rationed? | |
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| Viewpoints | |
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| The Nurse as Patient Advocate: Is There a Conflict of Interest? | |
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| Ethical Issues and Resources for Nurses Across the Continuum | |
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| Sexual Harassment | |
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| Health Care for the Poor and Underserved | |
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| Legal, Ethical, and Moral Considerations in Caring for Individuals With Alzheimer's Disease | |
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| Advance Directives: Promoting Self-Determination or Hampering Autonomy | |
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| Managed Care and the Violation of Ethical Principles: Research Vignettes | |
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| Learning a Practice of Uncertainty: Clinical Ethics and the Nurse | |
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| Violence Prevention and Care: The Role of Nursing | |
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| Overview | |
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| Violence: The Expanding Role of Nursing in Prevention and Care | |
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| Child Maltreatment: Developmental and Health Effects | |
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| Child Neglect Prevention: The Pivotal Role of Nursing | |
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| Care of African American Women Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence | |
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| Nursing Care: Victims of Violence-Elder Mistreatment | |
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| Nursing Care: Preventive Gun Safety | |
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| Nursing Care During Terrorist Events | |
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| Nursing Practice in Homeland Security | |
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| Nursing in Wars | |
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| Bioterrorism and Emerging Infections: Emergency Preparedness for Nurses | |
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| Nursing Care: Combat-Jungles to Deserts | |
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| International Nursing | |
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| Overview | |
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| Nursing: A Global View | |
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| Nursing in Southern Africa: An Overview of Health Care, Nursing Education, and Practice | |
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| Nursing in Canada: An Overview of Health Care, Nursing Education, and Practice | |
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| Nursing in Britain: An Overview of Health Care, Nursing Education, and Practice | |
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| Nursing in Japan: Meeting the Health Care Challenges of the Twenty-First Century | |
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| Nursing in Latin America: An Overview of Health Care, Nursing Education, and Practice | |
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| Nursing in Russia: An Overview of Health Care, Nursing Education, and Practice | |
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| Nursing in the Gambia: An Overview of Health Care, Nursing Education, and Practice | |
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