Amazon.com description: Product Description: ISSUES AND TRENDS IN NURSING addresses the evolution, current status, and future direction of nursing education and practice. It presents historical, political, legal, ethical, and cultural underpinnings and integrates these themes through a comprehensive scope of issues affecting the nursing profession. The book's strengths include its readability, range of topics, and quality of coverage of the history of nursing, economics of health care, social policy and health care delivery, urban and rural nursing, international nursing, and political awareness. The third edition features a new chapter on computers in nursing, expanded coverage of the realities of managed care and recent changes, and expanded coverage of practical information such as job seeking, time management, networking, and strategies for avoiding burnout. New Critical Thinking activities have been added to make the book more interactive and engaging. A more inviting design makes the book more visually interesting.

• Integrates various factors that influence the delivery of health care in many different settings, including rural, urban and international to prepare the student for practice in a range of settings.
• Discusses critical issues that affect nurses today and in the future to assist students in preparing for future practice.
• Presents viewpoints of well-known contributors to encourage consideration of different perspectives.
• Includes chapter-opening objectives to pique students' interest and set the context of material to follow.
• Includes addresses of nursing organizations and the state boards of nursing in the appendices, providing important contact information.