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2012

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Sondra Z. Koff

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2012

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State University of New York Press

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01 février 2012

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9780791485170

Langue

English

Although they represent a significant majority of American health care providers, nurses have had only a limited influence on policy developments in the health care and political systems. Helping to understand why the profession has remained a "sleeping giant," Nurse Educators and Politics focuses on a primary socialization agent to the profession: nursing faculty members. Using survey data, Sondra Z. Koff examines nurse educators' attitudes toward select public policies and political participation, as well as their political and organizational activism. These findings are related to nursing's professional history and are discussed in a broader political context to better understand nurses' behavior in the decision-making process.

Preface

1. Nursing and the Political Arena

2. Nurse Educators: Who Are They and with Whom Do They Affiliate?

3. Nurse Educators: Political Behavior and Public Policies

4. Conclusion

References

Index

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Publié par

State University of New York Press

Date de parution

01 février 2012

EAN13

9780791485170

Langue

English

Nurse Educators and Politics

Sondra Z. Koff

Nurse Educators and Politics

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Nurse Educators and Politics

Sondra Z. Koff

State University of New York Press

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Koff, Sondra Z. Nurse educators and politics / Sondra Z. Koff. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0791460738 (alk. paper) 1. Nursing. 2. Nursing—Political aspects. teaching. I. Title.

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Preface

Chapter 1 Nursing and the Political Arena

Contents

Chapter 2 Nurse Educators: Who Are They and with Whom Do They Affiliate?

Chapter 3 Nurse Educators: Political Behavior and Public Policies

Chapter 4 Conclusion

References

Index

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Preface

Over time conversations with friends who are nurses and my experi ences on health care boards that included nurses revealed a striking lack of political consciousness on the part of representatives of the nursing profession. This shortcoming and its high cost to the profes sion were startling to me, even though I was aware that professional leaders for some time have been writing about the price of political insensitivity and the minimal response to their warnings. My curios ity was stimulated and this book is the result. In an attempt to understand the category’s behavior, this effort focuses on a primary socialization agent to the profession: nursing faculty members. Their culture, values and role modeling are critical determinants of the behavior of nurses on the political stage. Given the sparse interaction between the social sciences and nursing, my in tention was to write a work of use to two constituencies: students of the social sciences and health care. I wanted to familiarize those in health care with certain basic political science concepts and to expose those in the social sciences to some fundamentals of the nursing pro fession. I hope I have achieved my goal. In writing this book I was fortunate to be able to draw on the talents of several capable individuals. Two persons who might have been coauthors had not distance, new responsibilities, and a change in career paths occurred must be singled out for attention. I had the pleasure of sharing many a dinner and hours of telephone conversa tion with Mary Germain, associate professor, State University of New

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