Full Description
With a varied collection of readings focusing on contemporary issues in professional nursing, this new book introduces students to the many perspectives affecting nurses and society. This text incorporates both nursing and non-nursing literature, covering such issues as education and role transition, governance, and cost containment. Articles are organized from simple to complex, making it easy for faculty to assign readings to beginning, intermediate, and advanced students. The author provides an introduction for each section of articles, framing them in historical, political, and sociocultural settings.
Contents
* The Risk of Not Understanding Nursing History 3 * A Caring DilemmaWomanhood and Nursing in Historical Perspective 10 * Florence Nightingale: Reformer, Reactionary, Researcher 26 * The Fateful Decade, 1890-1900 39 * Nursing and the Great Depression 42 * The Lasting Impact of World War II on Nursing 47 * The Public Image of the Nurse 55 * The Missing Voices in Coverage of Health 74 * Nurse, Interrupted 79 * Nursing Schools Perplexed by Falling Enrollments 89 * The Struggle for Just Compensation 94 * Trouble in Nurse Labor Market? Recent Trends and Future Outlook 106 * Black Nurses in the United States: 1879-1992 122 * Diversity in Nursing: A Challenge for the Profession 128 * Promoting Cultural and Racial Diversity in Nursing: The Need for Political Activism 135 * Alternative Medicine: Values and Risks 145 * Alternative and Complementary Healing: Implications for Nursing 150 * What We May Expect From the Law 171 * Why We Need a Patients' Bill of Rights 175 * The Wrong Rights 182 * Seeking Confidentiality of Medical Records 185 * The Real Meaning of Patient-Nurse Confidentiality 190 * Medical Records: Enhancing Privacy, Preserving the Common Good 201 * Manners, Morals, and Nurses: An Historical Overview of Nursing Ethics 223 * Genetic Engineering: Is it Morally Acceptable? 229 * Fountain of Youth 235 * A World of Immortal Men 237 * Redrawing the Ethics Map 239 * Health Care Rationing in the Aged 243 * "Making the Best of Things": Technology in American Nursing, 1870-1940 262 * Looking to Care or Caring to Look? Technology and the Rise of Spectacular Nursing 279 * Healthcare: Technology in the New Millennium 291 * How Will the Internet Change our Health System? 295 * The Old Homeless and the New Homelessness in Historical Perspective 311 * Helping People off the Streets: Real Solutions to Urban Homelessness 322 * Not Gone, but Forgotten? 327 * Faces of the Uninsured 330 * Myths of the Uninsured 337 * Infection with HIV in the Elderly Population 340 * U.S. Faces TB Threat 350 * The Meaning of Aging and the Future of Social Security 359 * The Age Wave 366 * Ethical and Policy Considerations for Centenarians: The Oldest Old 371 * The Gunfire Dialogues 386 * The Movies Made Me Do It 391 * Media Insensitivity to Victims of Violence 395 * The Least Among Us: Children of Substance-Abusing Parents 402 * Hidden Bruises 406 * Elder Abuse and Neglect 409 * Managed Care Evolution: Where Did it Come From and Where is it Going? 423 * Managed Care: Devils, Angels, and the Truth in Between 432 * What's Behind the Public's Backlash? 441 * Managed Care at a Crossroads 445 * Healing Medicare 459 * What Price Coverage Reform? 469 * Problems with the Medicare Drug Benefit Plan.And What Can Be Done 474 * Free Health Care Does Not Exist 480 * Nursing's Past, Present and Future Political Experiences 486 * Washington: Will Congress Stop Playing Politics With Health Care? 495 * They're Here, They're Gray 502 * A Backward Glimpse 511 * Looking Ahead with the Nursing Profession 514 * Nursing in the Decade Ahead 519 * The Future of the Nursing Profession 525
