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This collection of readings is the companion to The Nurse's Guide to Managed Care, which is a text designed to provide a broad overview of the managed health care system as it relates to nursing. Articles were selected for this collection to present a point of view not found in the text, to present more depth to a subject, or to provoke discussion. The readings parallel the chapters in the text. You'll find 40 insightful and thought-provoking articles that will help to facilitate an understanding of the concepts in The Nurse's Guide to Managed Care and draw out discussions of issues ranging from patient care quality to nursing ethics to integrity.
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Contents: NURSING AT THE CROSSROADS * Profession Building in the New Health Care System * Nursing and Threats to Patient and Nurse Safety and Quality of Patient Care * NURSING AND MANAGED CARE: A REALITY CHECK * Is It Design or Decline? Conflicts in Reengineering * The Entrepreneurial Personality: Building a Sustainable Future for Self and the Profession * THE EVOLVING HEALTH CARE SYSTEM * Strategic Implications of Developing Integrated Levels of Care * CHANGING HOSPITALS IN A CHANGING ENVIRONMENT * Integrating Information Technology with an Outcomes Management Program * NURSING CARE IS MANAGED CARE * Essentials for Successful Patient Care Redesign * Staff Mix Models: Complementary or Substitution Roles for Nurses * NURSING ETHICS IN A MANAGED CARE SYSTEM * The Impact of Ethical Climate on Job Satisfaction of Nurses * Dirty Hands: The Underside of Marketplace Health Care * The Synergistic Relationship between Ethics and Quality Improvement: Thriving in Managed Care * Strength of Character through the Ethics of Nursing * REENGINEERING NURSING * Consumer-Focused Preadmission Testing: A Paradigm Shift * The Connection Delivery Model: Reengineering Nursing To Provide Care Across the Continiuum * CHANGE: THE NEW CONSTANT * Stress Resulting from Change and Restructuring: A Cognitive Approach * Nurse Executives in the 1990s: Empowered or Oppressed? * Understanding and Managing Change in Health Care Organizations * STAFF TRANSITION * Nurse Leaders: Roles Driving Organizational Transition * THE NURSING STUDIES: IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING * The Challenge for Education in a Transformed Health Care System * Building Healthier Communities in a Managed Care Environment: Opportunities for Advanced Practice Nurses * DIFFERENTIATED PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE: WHAT IS IT? * Differentiated Primary Care and Evidence-Based Practice: The Columbia Nursing Experiment * Assessing, Developing, and Maintaining Staff's Competency in Times of Restructuring * MANAGED CARE STRATEGIES FOR THE FUTURE * Case Management as a Tool for Clinical Integration * Disease Staff Management in Diabetes Care * NURSING FOR THE FUTURE * Delivery-of-Care Systems Using Clinical Nursing Assistants: Making It Work * Crystal Ball Gazing: Back to the Future * CAREER ISSUES IN MANAGED CARE DELIVERY SYSTEMS * Care of the Self for the Nurse Entrepreneur * Floating: A Nurse's Nightmare * CAREER DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES IN MANAGED CARE * Career Journeys: How to Be a Successful Clinical Nurse Specialist: Be a Willow Tree * Are You Your Resume? * Your Career and Job Success * NURSING AND UNIONS: DO THEY MIX? * Can You Create a Professional Practice Model in a Unionized Setting? * Addressing the State of the Labor Union * THRIVING IN THE NEW ENVIRONMENT * The Nurse as Senior Health Care Executive * Congruency between Nurses' Values and Job Requirements: A Call for Integrity * MANAGED CARE BUSINESS SKILLS * 1995 Fast Track: Cost Reduction and Improvement * NURSES AS POLITICAL HEALTH CARE ACTIVISTS * Nurses Can Influence Public Policy * The Nurse Executive as Health Policy Champion * Policy Imperatives for Nursing in an Era of Health Care Restructuring * IS YOUR ORGANIZATION MANAGED-CARE FRIENDLY? * Readiness, Action, and Resolve for Change: Do Health Care Leaders Have What It Takes?
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Susan Turner
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ISBN-13: 9780834212350
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