The Nursing Profession / Public Health/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (ePub)

The Nursing Profession: Development, Challenges, and
Opportunities is designed to be a resource for those who are
interested in or touched by nursing. This book is designed in part
to complement the report by the Institute of Medicine on the future
of nursing. Readers--whether researchers or practitioners,
foundation or government officials, students, or simply lay people
interested in nursing--should use this volume to gain a better
understanding of the nursing profession and the issues with which
those in the field and related fields are grappling. Major topics
include:

* The history of nursing

* The nursing profession

* Current issues and challenges, including the nursing shortage,
educating and training nurses, utilizing advanced practice nurses
to their fullest, quality and cost, long-term care, community-based
care, gender and power, and new areas for nursing

* A vision for the future

The book begins with a comprehensive review of the nursing field
by Diana Mason, the Rudin Professor of Nursing at the
Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing, City University of New York, and
former Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Nursing.
Mason's chapter is followed by reprints of twenty-five of the
most influential or significant articles on nursing--some of
them classic pieces dating back to Florence Nightingale, others
presenting more current thinking on critical issues. This kind of
source material is rarely found in one place.