The Nursing Profession

Tomorrow and Beyond
The Nursing Profession
October 2000 | 1050 pages | Sage US
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Dr. Norma L. Chaska, Ph.D., RN, FAAN is a leader in nursing education and nursing administration. She is widely sought as a consultant for academic administration in universities and for nursing education programs. Prior to her graduate education, Dr. Chaska held numerous clinical and administrative positions in every specialized area of nursing for a total of 15 years of experience in nursing practice. She has had 22 years of experience in nursing education and academic administration.

Throughout her academic career, Dr. Chaska has drawn extensively from her clinical background and experience in services and research settings. A major concern in all of her work is the evolution of nursing as a profession.

The purpose of this new volume is to provide an in-depth global scope and study of nursing as a profession. Specifically, its aim is to project patterns of thought and considerations about the current state of nursing into the future of the 21st Century. The content should cause the reader to reflect, consider, and dialogue regarding the various paths presented to articulate his or her goals for the profession to go forward.

Contents

PART ONE: PROFESSIONALIZATION

  • Building for the Next Century
  • Nursing's Bias as its Glory
  • Nightingale II
  • Nursing in the New Millennium
  • A New Approach to the Regulation of Nursing Practice
  • Mutual Recognition
  • Continued Competence of the Nurse
  • New Attention on an Old Problem
  • Professional Nursing
  • Issues and Ethics
  • Ethics in International Nursing
  • Issues an Questions
  • Legal Perspectives in Nursing Education
  • Federal Health Policy
  • Issues for the Nursing Profession in the 21st Century
  • Professional Associations for the Millennium
  • Surviving or Thriving?
  • Future of Medicare
  • Implications for Nursing Practice, Education, and Research
  • The Future Registered Nurse Workforce in Health Care Delivery
  • Economic Considerations

PART TWO: NURSING EDUCATION

  • From Revolution to Transformation
  • Curriculum Development in a New Millennium
  • Program Evaluation in Nursing Education
  • Distributive Learning Strategies
  • Improving Educational Access in Nursing
  • Teaching and Learning in On-Line Communities of Professional Practice in Nursing
  • Strategies to Successfully Educate Nursing Students in the 21st Century
  • Preparing Tomorrow's Nursing Leaders
  • Changing the Paradigm
  • Interdisciplinary Education for Nursing
  • Global Perspectives on Graduate Nursing Education
  • Opportunities and Challenges
  • Doctoral Nursing Education
  • Approaches to Achieving Quality When Resources are Limited
  • Transitions
  • From Doctoral Preparation to Academic Career
  • Tenure
  • A Continuing Issue for Academic Nursing

PART THREE: NURSING THEORY

  • Directions for Theory Development in Nursing - for an Increased Coherence in the New Century
  • Toward a Theory of Nursing Art
  • Postmodern Nursing and Beyond
  • Utilization of Nursing Knowledge and the Future of the Discipline
  • The Neuman Systems Model
  • A Futuristic Care Perspective
  • An Assessment of Nursing Theories as Guides to Scientific Inquiry

PART FOUR: NURSING RESEARCH

  • Interdisciplinary Efforts, Progress and Promise
  • Cancer Nursing Research
  • Emerging Research Issues in Mobility
  • Nursing Language and Knowledge Development
  • Harvesting Knowledge
  • Conducting and Integrated, Systematic Literature Review
  • Instrumentation Concerns for Multicultural Research
  • Evidence for Theory Based Interventions
  • Research Utilization and Evidence Based Practice
  • Research Preparation in the 21st Century

PART FIVE: NURSING PRACTICE

  • Cultural Competence in a Changing Health Care Environment
  • Informatics for Nursing Practice
  • The Critical Importance of Faculty Practice
  • Partnerships for the New Millennium
  • Developing Clinical Decision-making in a Practice Profession
  • Nursing Practice Reimbursement Issues in the 21st Century
  • Advanced Practice Roles in Nursing
  • Preparation and Scope of Practice
  • Healing Practices in Nursing
  • Community Health Services
  • Now and in the Future
  • Building and Sustaining Community Partnerships
  • Models for Nursing Practice
  • Palliative Care
  • It's Not Just for the Terminally Ill
  • Impact of Home Health Care on Clinical Practice and Education
  • Health Care Consumer Choice
  • A Primary Care Perspective
  • Parish Nursing
  • When the Population Served is a Congregation
  • Issues in Rural Health Care
  • Mobile Nursing Centers for Vulnerable Populations
  • Nursing Centers
  • A Fit for the Future
  • Nursing Entrepreneurship
  • Potential, Plausibility, and Prospects
  • Genetics
  • New Directions for Nursing and Health Care

PART SIX: NURSING ADMINISTRATION - SERVICE

  • Into the Millennium
  • New Structures for Nursing Systems
  • Organizing Nursing in an Integrated Delivery System (IDS)
  • Case Management
  • Tomorrow's Vision
  • Managed Care Health Organizations
  • Implications for Nursing
  • Incorporating Interventions for Social and Environmental Risk Factors Into Nursing Services
  • Climbing Out of the Crab Bucket
  • Strategies for Resolving Conflict Among Nurses
  • Creating Healthy Work Environments for Nursing Practice
  • Nurse Executive Practice for the New Millennium

PART SEVEN: NURSING ADMINISTRATION - ACADEMIC

  • The Changing Role of Faculty and Dean
  • The Impact of a Market-Driven Higher Education System
  • Academic Health Science Centers- Dinosaurs of Models for the Millennium
  • Schools of Nursing in Private and Public Sectors
  • Challenges and Opportunities
  • The Associate Dean
  • The Protean Role
  • Academic Roles and Faculty Development
  • Avoiding the Fatal "By-Pass Operation" in Facilitating Accountability
  • Dynamics of Discernment in Administrative Team Development

PART EIGHT: THE FUTURE OF NURSING

  • Healing Into the Future
  • Re-Creating the Profession of Nursing Through Inner Work
  • The Future of Nursing Education
  • Helping to Determine if Nursing is to Be or Not to Be
  • From Fragmentation to Integration
  • Situation Specific Theories
  • Nursing Research into the 21st Century
  • Challenges and Opportunities
  • Toward a Philosophy of Healing Practices
  • Nursing in the New World of Health Care
  • A Vision or Illusion
  • Looking to the Future of Academic Administrative Leadership
  • View From Another Planet
  • Paths to Make a Difference

Description

Dr. Norma L. Chaska, Ph.D., RN, FAAN is a leader in nursing education and nursing administration. She is widely sought as a consultant for academic administration in universities and for nursing education programs. Prior to her graduate education, Dr. Chaska held numerous clinical and administrative positions in every specialized area of nursing for a total of 15 years of experience in nursing practice. She has had 22 years of experience in nursing education and academic administration.

Throughout her academic career, Dr. Chaska has drawn extensively from her clinical background and experience in services and research settings. A major concern in all of her work is the evolution of nursing as a profession.

The purpose of this new volume is to provide an in-depth global scope and study of nursing as a profession. Specifically, its aim is to project patterns of thought and considerations about the current state of nursing into the future of the 21st Century. The content should cause the reader to reflect, consider, and dialogue regarding the various paths presented to articulate his or her goals for the profession to go forward.

Contents

PART ONE: PROFESSIONALIZATION

  • Building for the Next Century
  • Nursing's Bias as its Glory
  • Nightingale II
  • Nursing in the New Millennium
  • A New Approach to the Regulation of Nursing Practice
  • Mutual Recognition
  • Continued Competence of the Nurse
  • New Attention on an Old Problem
  • Professional Nursing
  • Issues and Ethics
  • Ethics in International Nursing
  • Issues an Questions
  • Legal Perspectives in Nursing Education
  • Federal Health Policy
  • Issues for the Nursing Profession in the 21st Century
  • Professional Associations for the Millennium
  • Surviving or Thriving?
  • Future of Medicare
  • Implications for Nursing Practice, Education, and Research
  • The Future Registered Nurse Workforce in Health Care Delivery
  • Economic Considerations

PART TWO: NURSING EDUCATION

  • From Revolution to Transformation
  • Curriculum Development in a New Millennium
  • Program Evaluation in Nursing Education
  • Distributive Learning Strategies
  • Improving Educational Access in Nursing
  • Teaching and Learning in On-Line Communities of Professional Practice in Nursing
  • Strategies to Successfully Educate Nursing Students in the 21st Century
  • Preparing Tomorrow's Nursing Leaders
  • Changing the Paradigm
  • Interdisciplinary Education for Nursing
  • Global Perspectives on Graduate Nursing Education
  • Opportunities and Challenges
  • Doctoral Nursing Education
  • Approaches to Achieving Quality When Resources are Limited
  • Transitions
  • From Doctoral Preparation to Academic Career
  • Tenure
  • A Continuing Issue for Academic Nursing

PART THREE: NURSING THEORY

  • Directions for Theory Development in Nursing - for an Increased Coherence in the New Century
  • Toward a Theory of Nursing Art
  • Postmodern Nursing and Beyond
  • Utilization of Nursing Knowledge and the Future of the Discipline
  • The Neuman Systems Model
  • A Futuristic Care Perspective
  • An Assessment of Nursing Theories as Guides to Scientific Inquiry

PART FOUR: NURSING RESEARCH

  • Interdisciplinary Efforts, Progress and Promise
  • Cancer Nursing Research
  • Emerging Research Issues in Mobility
  • Nursing Language and Knowledge Development
  • Harvesting Knowledge
  • Conducting and Integrated, Systematic Literature Review
  • Instrumentation Concerns for Multicultural Research
  • Evidence for Theory Based Interventions
  • Research Utilization and Evidence Based Practice
  • Research Preparation in the 21st Century

PART FIVE: NURSING PRACTICE

  • Cultural Competence in a Changing Health Care Environment
  • Informatics for Nursing Practice
  • The Critical Importance of Faculty Practice
  • Partnerships for the New Millennium
  • Developing Clinical Decision-making in a Practice Profession
  • Nursing Practice Reimbursement Issues in the 21st Century
  • Advanced Practice Roles in Nursing
  • Preparation and Scope of Practice
  • Healing Practices in Nursing
  • Community Health Services
  • Now and in the Future
  • Building and Sustaining Community Partnerships
  • Models for Nursing Practice
  • Palliative Care
  • It's Not Just for the Terminally Ill
  • Impact of Home Health Care on Clinical Practice and Education
  • Health Care Consumer Choice
  • A Primary Care Perspective
  • Parish Nursing
  • When the Population Served is a Congregation
  • Issues in Rural Health Care
  • Mobile Nursing Centers for Vulnerable Populations
  • Nursing Centers
  • A Fit for the Future
  • Nursing Entrepreneurship
  • Potential, Plausibility, and Prospects
  • Genetics
  • New Directions for Nursing and Health Care

PART SIX: NURSING ADMINISTRATION - SERVICE

  • Into the Millennium
  • New Structures for Nursing Systems
  • Organizing Nursing in an Integrated Delivery System (IDS)
  • Case Management
  • Tomorrow's Vision
  • Managed Care Health Organizations
  • Implications for Nursing
  • Incorporating Interventions for Social and Environmental Risk Factors Into Nursing Services
  • Climbing Out of the Crab Bucket
  • Strategies for Resolving Conflict Among Nurses
  • Creating Healthy Work Environments for Nursing Practice
  • Nurse Executive Practice for the New Millennium

PART SEVEN: NURSING ADMINISTRATION - ACADEMIC

  • The Changing Role of Faculty and Dean
  • The Impact of a Market-Driven Higher Education System
  • Academic Health Science Centers- Dinosaurs of Models for the Millennium
  • Schools of Nursing in Private and Public Sectors
  • Challenges and Opportunities
  • The Associate Dean
  • The Protean Role
  • Academic Roles and Faculty Development
  • Avoiding the Fatal "By-Pass Operation" in Facilitating Accountability
  • Dynamics of Discernment in Administrative Team Development

PART EIGHT: THE FUTURE OF NURSING

  • Healing Into the Future
  • Re-Creating the Profession of Nursing Through Inner Work
  • The Future of Nursing Education
  • Helping to Determine if Nursing is to Be or Not to Be
  • From Fragmentation to Integration
  • Situation Specific Theories
  • Nursing Research into the 21st Century
  • Challenges and Opportunities
  • Toward a Philosophy of Healing Practices
  • Nursing in the New World of Health Care
  • A Vision or Illusion
  • Looking to the Future of Academic Administrative Leadership
  • View From Another Planet
  • Paths to Make a Difference
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The Nursing Profession

Tomorrow and Beyond


October 2000 | 1050 pages | Sage US

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Dr. Norma L. Chaska, Ph.D., RN, FAAN is a leader in nursing education and nursing administration. She is widely sought as a consultant for academic administration in universities and for nursing education programs. Prior to her graduate education, Dr. Chaska held numerous clinical and administrative positions in every specialized area of nursing for a total of 15 years of experience in nursing practice. She has had 22 years of experience in nursing education and academic administration.

Throughout her academic career, Dr. Chaska has drawn extensively from her clinical background and experience in services and research settings. A major concern in all of her work is the evolution of nursing as a profession.

The purpose of this new volume is to provide an in-depth global scope and study of nursing as a profession. Specifically, its aim is to project patterns of thought and considerations about the current state of nursing into the future of the 21st Century. The content should cause the reader to reflect, consider, and dialogue regarding the various paths presented to articulate his or her goals for the profession to go forward.


Table Of Contents:

  • PART ONE: PROFESSIONALIZATION
  • Building for the Next Century
  • Nursing's Bias as its Glory
  • Nightingale II
  • Nursing in the New Millennium
  • A New Approach to the Regulation of Nursing Practice
  • Mutual Recognition
  • Continued Competence of the Nurse
  • New Attention on an Old Problem
  • Professional Nursing
  • Issues and Ethics
  • Ethics in International Nursing
  • Issues an Questions
  • Legal Perspectives in Nursing Education
  • Federal Health Policy
  • Issues for the Nursing Profession in the 21st Century
  • Professional Associations for the Millennium
  • Surviving or Thriving?
  • Future of Medicare
  • Implications for Nursing Practice, Education, and Research
  • The Future Registered Nurse Workforce in Health Care Delivery
  • Economic Considerations
  • PART TWO: NURSING EDUCATION
  • From Revolution to Transformation
  • Curriculum Development in a New Millennium
  • Program Evaluation in Nursing Education
  • Distributive Learning Strategies
  • Improving Educational Access in Nursing
  • Teaching and Learning in On-Line Communities of Professional Practice in Nursing
  • Strategies to Successfully Educate Nursing Students in the 21st Century
  • Preparing Tomorrow's Nursing Leaders
  • Changing the Paradigm
  • Interdisciplinary Education for Nursing
  • Global Perspectives on Graduate Nursing Education
  • Opportunities and Challenges
  • Doctoral Nursing Education
  • Approaches to Achieving Quality When Resources are Limited
  • Transitions
  • From Doctoral Preparation to Academic Career
  • Tenure
  • A Continuing Issue for Academic Nursing
  • PART THREE: NURSING THEORY
  • Directions for Theory Development in Nursing - for an Increased Coherence in the New Century
  • Toward a Theory of Nursing Art
  • Postmodern Nursing and Beyond
  • Utilization of Nursing Knowledge and the Future of the Discipline
  • The Neuman Systems Model
  • A Futuristic Care Perspective
  • An Assessment of Nursing Theories as Guides to Scientific Inquiry
  • PART FOUR: NURSING RESEARCH
  • Interdisciplinary Efforts, Progress and Promise
  • Cancer Nursing Research
  • Emerging Research Issues in Mobility
  • Nursing Language and Knowledge Development
  • Harvesting Knowledge
  • Conducting and Integrated, Systematic Literature Review
  • Instrumentation Concerns for Multicultural Research
  • Evidence for Theory Based Interventions
  • Research Utilization and Evidence Based Practice
  • Research Preparation in the 21st Century
  • PART FIVE: NURSING PRACTICE
  • Cultural Competence in a Changing Health Care Environment
  • Informatics for Nursing Practice
  • The Critical Importance of Faculty Practice
  • Partnerships for the New Millennium
  • Developing Clinical Decision-making in a Practice Profession
  • Nursing Practice Reimbursement Issues in the 21st Century
  • Advanced Practice Roles in Nursing
  • Preparation and Scope of Practice
  • Healing Practices in Nursing
  • Community Health Services
  • Now and in the Future
  • Building and Sustaining Community Partnerships
  • Models for Nursing Practice
  • Palliative Care
  • It's Not Just for the Terminally Ill
  • Impact of Home Health Care on Clinical Practice and Education
  • Health Care Consumer Choice
  • A Primary Care Perspective
  • Parish Nursing
  • When the Population Served is a Congregation
  • Issues in Rural Health Care
  • Mobile Nursing Centers for Vulnerable Populations
  • Nursing Centers
  • A Fit for the Future
  • Nursing Entrepreneurship
  • Potential, Plausibility, and Prospects
  • Genetics
  • New Directions for Nursing and Health Care
  • PART SIX: NURSING ADMINISTRATION - SERVICE
  • Into the Millennium
  • New Structures for Nursing Systems
  • Organizing Nursing in an Integrated Delivery System (IDS)
  • Case Management
  • Tomorrow's Vision
  • Managed Care Health Organizations
  • Implications for Nursing
  • Incorporating Interventions for Social and Environmental Risk Factors Into Nursing Services
  • Climbing Out of the Crab Bucket
  • Strategies for Resolving Conflict Among Nurses
  • Creating Healthy Work Environments for Nursing Practice
  • Nurse Executive Practice for the New Millennium
  • PART SEVEN: NURSING ADMINISTRATION - ACADEMIC
  • The Changing Role of Faculty and Dean
  • The Impact of a Market-Driven Higher Education System
  • Academic Health Science Centers- Dinosaurs of Models for the Millennium
  • Schools of Nursing in Private and Public Sectors
  • Challenges and Opportunities
  • The Associate Dean
  • The Protean Role
  • Academic Roles and Faculty Development
  • Avoiding the Fatal "By-Pass Operation" in Facilitating Accountability
  • Dynamics of Discernment in Administrative Team Development
  • PART EIGHT: THE FUTURE OF NURSING
  • Healing Into the Future
  • Re-Creating the Profession of Nursing Through Inner Work
  • The Future of Nursing Education
  • Helping to Determine if Nursing is to Be or Not to Be
  • From Fragmentation to Integration
  • Situation Specific Theories
  • Nursing Research into the 21st Century
  • Challenges and Opportunities
  • Toward a Philosophy of Healing Practices
  • Nursing in the New World of Health Care
  • A Vision or Illusion
  • Looking to the Future of Academic Administrative Leadership
  • View From Another Planet
  • Paths to Make a Difference

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