Nurse Key

Chapter 49 The Nursing Workforce Mary Lou Brunell and Angela Ross “If we want affordable, patient-centered health care in this country, then we have to make a renewed commitment to…

Chapter 3 Learning the Ropes of Policy, Politics, and Advocacy Judith K. Leavitt, Mary W. Chaffee and Connie Vance “I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how…

Chapter 103 Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Disease A Global Challenge James Mark Simmerman “The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to…

Chapter 101 Nursing in the International Community A Broader View of Nursing Issues Judith A. Oulton “We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible…

Chapter 31 Retail Health Care Clinics Filling a Gap in the Health Care System Donna L. Haugland and Patricia J. Hughes1 “There’s a way to do it better—find it.” —Thomas…

Chapter 93 Taking Action From Sewage Problems to the Statehouse: My Life as an Elected Official Mary L. Behrens “All politics is local.” —Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill, former Speaker of…

Chapter 87 Taking Action A Rough Road in Texas: Advanced Practice Nurses Build a Strong Coalition Lynda Woolbert “You will never change anything by talking to yourselves. Stop complaining to…

Chapter 95 Taking Action A Nurse Practitioner’s Advocacy Efforts in Nevada Elena Lopez-Bowlan “Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not…

Chapter 86 Coalitions A Powerful Political Strategy Rebecca (Rice) Bowers-Lanier “When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.” —Ethiopian proverb Federal health care reform catalyzed the formation of…

Chapter 89 Taking Action The Virginia Nursing Kitchen Cabinet Judith B. Collins and Rebecca (Rice) Bowers-Lanier “The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist…