Strategies for the Future of Nursing : Changing Roles, Responsibilities, and Employment for Registered Nurses (Jossey Bass Health Series) - Hardcover

O'Neil, Edward; Coffman, Janet

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0787940283 ISBN 13: 9780787940287

Publisher: Jossey-Bass Inc Pub, 1998

Synopsis

Adapting to the Changing Medical System

This timely resource answers your most urgent questions about the nursing profession today. The field of nursing has drastically changed as a result of hospital reorganizations under managed care systems. This is clearly evidenced in the substantial decrease in the total number of jobs available for registered nurses.

The book offers insights into the most recent trends in RN employment and outlines key strategies for strengthening nursing services. You'll learn tactics for adapting the profession of nursing to an outpatient-based medical system. You'll also discover ways in which individual nurses can successfully prepare for these changes.

This book should be read by anyone concerned about the future of health care in this country. Ed O'Neill and his colleagues provide important advice about how nursing can address the national dilemma of providing cost-effective health care to everyone.
--Marla Salmon, Sc.D., RN, FAAN, associate dean and director of graduate studies, University of Pennsylvania

About this title

From the Back Cover:

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 workforce¾advanced 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.

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass Inc Pub
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0787940283
• ISBN 13: 9780787940287
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 233