TY  - BOOK
AU  - McIntyre,Marjorie
AU  - Thomlinson,Elizabeth
AU  - McDonald,Carol
TI  - Realities of Canadian nursing: professional, practice, and power issues 
SN  - 0781761328
AV  - RT6.A1 R435 
U1  - 610.73/0971 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Philadelphia
PB  - Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
KW  - Nursing
KW  - Canada
KW  - Nurses
N1  - Contents: Nurses, nursing, and the health care system -- Nursing issues; a call to political action -- The nurse practitioner movement: recurring issues -- Canadian health care system -- Innovation and contemporary nursing leadership -- Health and nursing policy: a matter of politics, power, and professionalism -- Policy as the lever for effecting change -- International council of nurses -- Canadian nurses association -- Canadian provincial and territorial professional associations and colleges -- International regulation: nursing in Germany and  the Netherlands -- Undergraduate education: development and politics -- Graduate education -- Nursing competence: constructing persons and a form  of life -- Nursing technology and informatics: an easy or uneasy alliance? -- The realities of Canadian nursing research -- Issues arising from the nature of nurses' work and workplaces - Unionization: collective bargaining in nursing -- Ethical  and legal issues in nursing -- Issues of gender and power: the significance attributed to nurses' work -- The consumer movement -- Violence and abuse: ending the silence -- Environmental health and nursing -- When difference matters: the politics of privilege and marginality -- Challenges for the new millennium: nursing in first nations communities -- Opening the conversation: dilemmas and possibilities of spirituality and spiritual care -- Professional, practice, and power issues:thinking back, looking ahead
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0510/2005008134.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0712/2005008134-d.html
ER  -