The Nursing Profession: Development, Challenges, and Opportunities -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Editors' Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Review of the Nursing Field -- The Nursing Profession: Development, Challenges, and Opportunities -- The History of Nursing and the Role of Nurses -- 1. Notes on Nursing: What It Is, And What It Is Not -- 2. The Nature of Nursing -- 3. A Caring Dilemma: Womanhood and Nursing in Historical Perspective -- 4. Nursing as Metaphor -- 5. Stages of Nursing's Political Development: Where We've Been and Where We Ought to Go -- 6. Knowledge Development in Nursing: Our Historical Roots and Future Opportunities -- Nursing Education and Training -- 7. The Goldmark Report -- 8. Career Pathways in Nursing: Entry Points and Academic Progression -- 9. Nursing the Great Society: The Impact of the Nurse Training Act Of 1964 -- Advanced Practice Nursing -- 10. Role and Quality of Nurse Practitioner Practice: A Policy Issue -- 11. Primary Care Outcomes in Patients Treated By Nurse Practitioners or Physicians: A Randomized Trial -- 12. Nurse-Midwives and Nurse Anesthetists: The Cutting Edge in Specialist Practice -- 13. Lessons Learned From Testing the Quality Cost Model of Advanced Practice Nursing (APN) Transitional Care -- 14. Reaching Consensus On A Regulatory Model: What Does This Mean For APRNs? -- The Nursing Workforce/Nursing Shortages -- 15. Implications of an Aging Registered Nurse Workforce -- 16. Global Nurse Migration -- Quality, Safety, and Cost -- 17. Nurse-Staffing Levels and the Quality of Care in Hospitals -- 18. Hospital Nurse Staffing and Patient Mortality, Nurse Burnout, and Job Dissatisfaction -- 19. Nurse Staffing In Hospitals: Is There A Business Case For Quality? -- Specialty Practice in Nursing -- 20. Long-Term Care Policy Issues -- 21. The Future of Home Care.

22. Follow the Money: Funding Streams and Public Health Nursing -- 23. Swamp Nurse -- 24. Role of the School Nurse in Providing School Health Services -- Afterword -- The Editors.