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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.

Contents:

Foreword ix Risa Lavizzo-Mourey Preface xi Susan B. Hassmiller Editors Introduction xiii Diana J. Mason, Stephen L. Isaacs, and David C. Colby Acknowledgments xv REVIEW OF THE NURSING FIELD 1 AN ORIGINAL ARTICLE THE NURSING PROFESSION: DEVELOPMENT, CHALLENGES, AND OPPORTUNITIES 3 Diana J. Mason THE HISTORY OF NURSING AND THE ROLE OF NURSES 83 REPRINTS 1. NOTES ON NURSING: WHAT IT IS, AND WHAT IT IS NOT 85 Florence Nightingale 2. THE NATURE OF NURSING 89 Virginia Henderson 3. A CARING DILEMMA: WOMANHOOD AND NURSING IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE 101 Susan Reverby 4. NURSING AS METAPHOR 115 Claire M. Fagin and Donna Diers 5. STAGES OF NURSING S POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT: WHERE WE VE BEEN AND WHERE WE OUGHT TO GO 119 Sally Solomon Cohen, Diana J. Mason, Christine Kovner, Judith K. Leavitt, Joyce Pulcini, and Julie Sochalski 6. KNOWLEDGE DEVELOPMENT IN NURSING: OUR HISTORICAL ROOTS AND FUTURE OPPORTUNITIES 133 Susan R. Gortner NURSING EDUCATION AND TRAINING 149 REPRINTS 7. THE GOLDMARK REPORT 151 Committee on Nursing Education 8. CAREER PATHWAYS IN NURSING: ENTRY POINTS AND ACADEMIC PROGRESSION 169 C. Fay Raines and M. Elaine Taglaireni 9. NURSING THE GREAT SOCIETY: THE IMPACT OF THE NURSE TRAINING ACT OF 1964 181 Joan E. Lynaugh ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSING 195 REPRINTS 10. ROLE AND QUALITY OF NURSE PRACTITIONER PRACTICE: A POLICY ISSUE 197 Connie Mullinix and Dawn P. Bucholtz 11. PRIMARY CARE OUTCOMES IN PATIENTS TREATED BY NURSE PRACTITIONERS OR PHYSICIANS: A RANDOMIZED TRIAL 207 Mary O. Mundinger, Robert L. Kane, Elizabeth R. Lenz, Annette M. Totten, Wei- Yann Tsai, Paul D. Cleary, William T. Friedewald, Albert L. Siu, and Michael L. Shelanski 12. NURSE- MIDWIVES AND NURSE ANESTHETISTS: THE CUTTING EDGE IN SPECIALIST PRACTICE 227 Donna Diers 13. LESSONS LEARNED FROM TESTING THE QUALITY COST MODEL OF ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSING (APN) TRANSITIONAL CARE 249 Dorothy Brooten, Mary D. Naylor, Ruth York, Linda P. Brown, Barbara Hazard Munro, Andrea O. Hollingsworth, Susan M. Cohen, Steven Finkler, Janet Deatrick, and JoAnne M. Youngblut 14. REACHING CONSENSUS ON A REGULATORY MODEL: WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR APRNs? 263 Joan M. Stanley THE NURSING WORKFORCE/NURSING SHORTAGES 271 REPRINTS 15. IMPLICATIONS OF AN AGING REGISTERED NURSE WORKFORCE 273 Peter I. Buerhaus, Douglas O. Staiger, and David I. Auerbach 16. GLOBAL NURSE MIGRATION 287 Barbara L. Nichols, Catherine R. Davis, and Donna R. Richardson QUALITY, SAFETY, AND COST 299 REPRINTS 17. NURSE- STAFFING LEVELS AND THE QUALITY OF CARE IN HOSPITALS 301 Jack Needleman, Peter I. Buerhaus, Soeren Mattke, Maureen Stewart, and Katya Zelevinsky 18. HOSPITAL NURSE STAFFING AND PATIENT MORTALITY, NURSE BURNOUT, AND JOB DISSATISFACTION 317 Linda H. Aiken, Sean P. Clarke, Douglas M. Sloane, Julie Sochalski, and Jeffrey H. Silber 19. NURSE STAFFING IN HOSPITALS: IS THERE A BUSINESS CASE FOR QUALITY? 331 Jack Needleman, Peter I. Buerhaus, Maureen Stewart, Katya Zelevinsky, and Soeren Mattke SPECIALTY PRACTICE IN NURSING 343 REPRINTS 20. LONG- TERM CARE POLICY ISSUES 345 Charlene Harrington 21. THE FUTURE OF HOME CARE 357 Karen Buhler-Wilkerson 22. FOLLOW THE MONEY: FUNDING STREAMS AND PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING 367 Kristine M. Gebbie 23. SWAMP NURSE 375 Katherine Boo 24. ROLE OF THE SCHOOL NURSE IN PROVIDING SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICES 393 American Academy of Pediatrics Council on School Health Afterword 401 Donna E. Shalala and Linda Burnes Bolton The Editors 403