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Product Description: American nurses have changed in the last generation. This transformation is manifested in their education, clinical responsibility, and in the huge increase in their numbers relative to the population. During recent decades the scope of nurses' practice expanded to include many new responsibilities, including work formerly in the province of physicians, as well as entirely new functions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Content addresses the ethics of nursing, professional nursing issues, nursing productivity, and politics and finance. Issues include leadership during changing times, issues central to patient care, health care reform, effective restructuring, empowerment, personalized care in a standardized world, advanced licensure, and more...read more

Product Description: Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. Text for nursing students on issues and trends that affect nursing as a profession, such as professional organizations and health policy. 28 U.S. contributors. DNLM: Nursing-trends - United States.