Nurses Activism
Published Jun 9, 2002
NRSKarenRN, BSN, RN
10 Articles; 18,353 Posts
Thanks BROWNNS46...found this at Lipencott's website from link posted re Nursing2002 magazine.
Nursing Issues in the 21st Century - Perspectives from the Literature, Softbound
Author(s): Eleanor C. Hein, RN, EdD
ISBN: 0-7817-3017-1
Date: February 2001
Price:#39.95
Table of Contents
1. The Risk of Not Understanding Nursing History 3
2. A Caring Dilemma: Womanhood and Nursing in Historical Perspective 10
3. Florence Nightingale: Reformer, Reactionary, Researcher 26
4. The Fateful Decade, 1890-1900 39
5. Nursing and the Great Depression 42
6. The Lasting Impact of World War II on Nursing 47
7. The Public Image of the Nurse 55
8. The Missing Voices in Coverage of Health 74
9. Nurse, Interrupted 79
10. Nursing Schools Perplexed by Falling Enrollments 89
11. The Struggle for Just Compensation 94
12. Trouble in Nurse Labor Market? Recent Trends and Future Outlook 106
13. Black Nurses in the United States: 1879-1992 122
14. Diversity in Nursing: A Challenge for the Profession 128
15. Promoting Cultural and Racial Diversity in Nursing: The Need for Political Activism 135
16. Alternative Medicine: Values and Risks 145
17. Alternative and Complementary Healing: Implications for Nursing 150
18. What We May Expect From the Law 171
19. Why We Need a Patients' Bill of Rights 175
20. The Wrong Rights 182
21. Seeking Confidentiality of Medical Records 185
22. The Real Meaning of Patient-Nurse Confidentiality 190
23. Medical Records: Enhancing Privacy, Preserving the Common Good 201
24. Manners, Morals, and Nurses: An Historical Overview of Nursing Ethics 223
25. Genetic Engineering: Is it Morally Acceptable? 229
26. Fountain of Youth 235
27. A World of Immortal Men 237
28. Redrawing the Ethics Map 239
29. Health Care Rationing in the Aged 243
30. "Making the Best of Things": Technology in American Nursing, 1870-1940 262
31. Looking to Care or Caring to Look? Technology and the Rise of Spectacular Nursing 279
32. Healthcare: Technology in the New Millennium 291
33. How Will the Internet Change our Health System? 295
34. The Old Homeless and the New Homelessness in Historical Perspective 311
35. Helping People off the Streets: Real Solutions to Urban Homelessness 322
36. Not Gone, but Forgotten? 327
37. Faces of the Uninsured 330
38. Myths of the Uninsured 337
39. Infection with HIV in the Elderly Population 340
40. U.S. Faces TB Threat 350
41. The Meaning of Aging and the Future of Social Security 359
42. The Age Wave 366
43. Ethical and Policy Considerations for Centenarians: The Oldest Old 371
44. The Gunfire Dialogues 386
45. The Movies Made Me Do It 391
46. Media Insensitivity to Victims of Violence 395
47. The Least Among Us: Children of Substance-Abusing Parents 402
48. Hidden Bruises 406
49. Elder Abuse and Neglect 409
50. Managed Care Evolution: Where Did it Come From and Where is it Going? 423
51. Managed Care: Devils, Angels, and the Truth in Between 432
52. What's Behind the Public's Backlash? 441
53. Managed Care at a Crossroads 445
54. Healing Medicare 459
55. What Price Coverage Reform? 469
56. Problems with the Medicare Drug Benefit Plan.And What Can Be Done 474
57. Free Health Care Does Not Exist 480
58. Nursing's Past, Present and Future Political Experiences 486
59. Washington: Will Congress Stop Playing Politics With Health Care? 495
60. They,re Here, They,re Gray 502
61. A Backward Glimpse 511
62. Looking Ahead with the Nursing Profession 514
63. Nursing in the Decade Ahead 519
64. The Future of the Nursing Profession 525
Looks interesting...Anyone have this book? Think I check at local college library.
Brownms46
1 Article; 2,394 Posts
You're welcome NRSKarenRN..:). Wow this does sound interesting! Good Post!