Nursing Issues in the 21st Century

[NRSKarenRN, BSN, RN]

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]

You're welcome NRSKarenRN..:). Wow this does sound interesting! Good Post!