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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 | |