Strategies for the Future of Nursing: Changing Roles, Responsibilities, and Employment Patterns of Registered Nurses: Changing Roles, ... Nurses (JOSSEY BASS/AHA PRESS SERIES) - Hardcover

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EDWARD O'NEIL, Ph.D., is codirector and founder of the Center for the Health Professions at the University of California, San Francisco. JANET COFFMAN is associate director, Workforce Policy and Analysis, of the Center for the Health Professions.

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The explosive growth of managed health care has generated dramatic changes in professional practice and hospital organization. No group has been more profoundly affected by these trends than the country?s 2.5 million registered nurses?the largest group of health care providers n the United States. How can the nursing of profession adapt to this new environment? How can individual nurses prepare for these changes?

In Strategies for the Future of Nursing, experts in nursing administration, education, and research offer insights into the most recent trends in employment for registered nurses and outline key strategies for strengthening nursing services. Written for all health care leaders working in hospital settings, health care systems, and educational environments, this vital resource, addresses important and timely issues that

? Demonstrate how a competency-based approach to staffing can influence education and training

? Reveal why the political constraints of public spending for health care services for the elderly and disabled are likely to restrict growth in RN employment in publicly funded ambulatory settings and nursing homes

? Explain how technological advances--coupled with pressures to contain costs and prevent illness--are transforming nurses? roles and responsibilities in ambulatory and home health settings

? Identify the factors that fuel the demand for registered nurses with B.S.N. degrees and RNs with M.S. degrees in administration and specialized clinical fields

? Detail the knowledge and skills required of RNs in medical management roles

? Describe the factors that are shaping demand for the fastest-growing segment of the nursing workforce?advanced practice nurses (APNs)

This essential resource is filled with illustrative examples, useful graphs, and tables that can help health care leaders meet the complex challenges of nursing education and practice in the 21st century.

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The explosive growth of managed health care has generated dramatic changes in professional practice and hospital organization. No group has been more profoundly affected by these trends than the country's 2.5 million registered nurses the largest group of health care providers in the United States. How can the nursing of profession adapt to this new environment? How can individual nurses prepare for these changes? In Strategies for the Future of Nursing, experts in nursing administration, education, and research offer insights into the most recent trends in employment for registered nurses and outline key strategies for strengthening nursing services. Written for all health care leaders working in hospital settings, health care systems, and educational environments, this vital resource, addresses important and timely issues that demonstrate how a competency-based approach to staffing can influence education and training. Reveal why the political constraints of public spending for health care services for the elderly and disabled are likely to restrict growth in RN employment in publicly funded ambulatory settings and nursing homes. Explain how technological advances--coupled with pressures to contain costs and prevent illness--are transforming nurses' roles and responsibilities in ambulatory and home health settings. Identify the factors that fuel the demand for registered nurses with B.S.N. degrees and RNs with M.S. degrees in administration and specialized clinical fields. Detail the knowledge and skills required of RNs in medical management roles. Describe the factors that are shaping demand for the fastest-growing segment of the nursing workforce advanced practice nurses (APNs)This essential resource is filled with illustrative examples, useful graphs, and tables that can help health care leaders meet the complex challenges of nursing education and practice in the 21st century.