Current Issues in Nursing by Perle Slavik Cowen, Sue Moorhead

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Synopsis

Current Issues in Nursing provides a forum for knowledgeable debate on the important issues that nurses face today. Through the past six editions it has provided information and viewpoints of developments that continue to impact the delivery of health care and the nursing profession. This book provides the opportunity to analyze conflicting viewpoints and to synthesize one's own thoughts on the demands being made on the nursing profession and the difficult issues affecting today's health care delivery. Comments from users and reviewers have continued to praise the book for its in-depth discussion of critical issues, solid organization of material, and encouragement of independent thinking.

• Offers comprehensive and timely coverage of the issues affecting nursing education and practice.
• Provides insights and analyses of over 100 well-known and respected nursing leaders.
• Each section is presented in a consistent format beginning with an overview chapter, followed by a debate chapter, and concluding with several viewpoint chapters to present varying views of the topics.
• Presents provocative and often controversial discussions in the viewpoint chapters to encourage the reader to think critically about the issues.

• Updated table of contents improves the flow of material.
• A new section on violence prevention and care includes nine new chapters on cutting-edge topics such as terrorist events, homeland security, nursing in wars, bioterrorism, and much more.
• Six new chapters focus on the overall quality improvement of nursing practice.
• Three new chapters examine the evolution and expansion of the nursing profession.
• Two new chaptersaddress the definition and role of nursing in the current health care setting.
• Two new chapters take a contemporary look at HIPPAA and the current health care cost trends.
• Two new chapters explore educational trends developing in the nursing world.
• A new chapters on employment and management issues including dealing with unions, health care systems, and patient to staff ratios

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Current Issues in Nursing provides a forum for knowledgeable debate on the important issues that nurses face today. Through the past six editions it has provided information and viewpoints of developments that continue to impact the delivery of health care and the nursing profession. This book provides the opportunity to analyze conflicting viewpoints and to synthesize one's own thoughts on the demands being made on the nursing profession and the difficult issues affecting today's health care delivery. Comments from users and reviewers have continued to praise the book for its in-depth discussion of critical issues, solid organization of material, and encouragement of independent thinking.

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Reviewer:Carole A. Kenner, RNC, DNS, FAAN (University of Oklahoma College of Nursing)
Description:This book presents the challenges that nurses face in today's healthcare arena, using a viewpoint and debate format to get beyond a factual presentation of the material. The previous edition was published in 2001.
Purpose:The purpose is to provide a forum for respectful professional debate on the issues that affect the contemporary healthcare environment. These worthy objectives are met.
Audience:The audience is undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and international students. While the editors suggest this has a nursing focus, the book could be used with interdisciplinary students as well.
Features:The content reflects the challenges for all advanced practice nurses, faculty-educators and researchers, and staff nurses. Topics include the old familiar ones of the definition of nursing from bedside to research, the future of nursing education, the international educational challenges, and service learning models. The book moves into new areas with emphasis on business coalitions, politics, corporatization of healthcare, healthcare costs, forensic nursing as a growing specialty, and bioterrorism. The unique way these chapters are divided into viewpoint presentations, stating one side of an issue, to debate presentations, giving both sides of an issue, is a wonderful teaching strategy.
Assessment:To date, there is no contemporary issues book that uses the viewpoint/debate format. None cover the breadth of topics that this book does. This edition fills a gap in current nursing issues texts.