Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1. Author Profile: About Claire Fagin -- Part I: Nursing in the Public Eye: Professional Leadership Issues -- 2. Nursing as Metaphor -- 3. Nursing Comes of Age -- 4. Nurses' Rights -- 5. Executive Leadership: Improving Nursing Practice, Education, and Research -- 6. Interfacing Successfully in the Interdisciplinary Group -- 7. Nursing and Consumerism -- 8. Nursing and the Managed Care Marketplace -- 9. The Abandonment of the Patient: The Impact of For-Profit Health Care -- Part II: Preparing Future Nurses: Leadership in Education -- 10. Preparing Students for Leadership -- 11. An Agenda for Nursing Education -- 12. Institutionalizing Faculty Practice -- Part III: Making a Difference-One Example -- Introduction -- 13. The Case for Rooming in When Young Children Are Hospitalized -- Part IV: Looking Ahead -- 14. Y2K: Nurses Can Turn on the Heat in Health Care -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Y -- Z.