Realities of Canadian nursing : professional, practice, and power issues

McIntyre, Marjorie, RN, Ph. D. (Added Author). Thomlinson, Elizabeth. (Added Author). McDonald, Carol. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0781761328
Physical Description: xxii, 474 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2006.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

1. Nursing issues : a call to political action / Marjorie McIntyre, Elizabeth Thomlinson and Carol McDonald -- 2. The nurse practitioner movement : recurring issues / Marjorie McIntyre and Carol McDonald -- 3. Canadian health care system / Janet Storch -- 4. Innovation and contemporary nursing leadership / Deborah Tamlyn and Sandra Reilly -- 5. Health and nursing policy : a matter of politics, power, and professionalism / Heather Clarke -- 6. Policy as the lever for effecting change / Judith Shamian, Judith Skelton-Green and Michael Villeneuve -- 7. International Council of Nurses / Geertje Boschma, Barbara Brush and Meryn Stuart -- 8. Canadian Nurses Association / Ginette Lemire Rodger -- 9. Canadian provincial and territorial professional associations and colleges / Laurel Brunke -- 10. International regulation : nursing in Germany and the Netherlands / Hanneke van Maanen -- 11. Undergraduate education : development and politics / Diana Davidson Dick and Betty Cragg -- 12. Graduate education / Sally Thorne -- 13. Nursing competence : constructing persons and a form of life / Mary Ellis Purkis and Sioban Nelson -- 14. Nursing technology and informatics : an easy or uneasy alliance? / W. Dean Care, David Gregory, Christina Whittaker and Wanda Chernomas -- 15. The realities of Canadian nursing research / Dorothy Pringle -- 16. Issues arising from the natures of nurses' work and workplaces / Carol McDonald and Marjorie McIntyre -- 17. Unionization : collective bargaining in nursing / Marjorie McIntyre and Carol McDonald -- 18. Ethical and legal issues in nursing / Laurie Hardingham -- 19. Issues of gender and power : the significance attributed to nurses' work / Carol McDonald -- 20. The consumer movement / Isobel Boyle -- 21. Violence and abuse : ending the silence / Elizabeth thomlinson -- 22. Environmental health and nursing / Elizabeth Thomlinson -- 23. When difference matters : the politics of privilege and marginality / Christine Ceci -- 24. Challenges for the new millennium : nursing in first nations communities / Fjola Hart Wasekeesikaw -- 25. Opening the conversation : dilemmas and possibilities of spirituality and spiritual care / Anne Bruce, Carol McDonald and Marjorie McIntyre -- 26. Professional, practice, and power issues : thinking back, looking ahead / Carol McDonald, Marjorie McIntyre and Elizabeth Thomlinson.