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Informationen zum Autor WIN TADD is Senior Research Fellow in the Academic Department of Geriatric Medicine, University of Wales, College of Medicine, where she is involved in a number of European research projects. Klappentext This text focuses on various issues that impact directly on professional nursing practice. Each chapter is written by an acknowledged expert and offers nurses the opportunity to increase their understanding of the similarities and differences in national approaches to a range of issues. Each of the authors has considerable experience of European health care and their contributions offer a multinational view that will stimulate discussion and debate. They explore a range of topics of importance to professional nursing practice with perspectives drawn from the UK, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Spain, Belgium, Denmark and Ireland. Zusammenfassung This text focuses on various issues that impact directly on professional nursing practice. Each chapter is written by an acknowledged expert and offers nurses the opportunity to increase their understanding of the similarities and differences in national approaches to a range of issues. Each of the authors has considerable experience of European health care and their contributions offer a multinational view that will stimulate discussion and debate. They explore a range of topics of importance to professional nursing practice with perspectives drawn from the UK, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Spain, Belgium, Denmark and Ireland. Inhaltsverzeichnis Challenges and Issues in Nursing; W.Tadd The Nurse's Role, Present and Future; G.Evers Evidence-Based Practice The Role of Nursing Research; S.Holm Nursing's Role in Shaping European Health Policy; T.Keighley Political Activity and the Nurse A Professional Duty; M.Ardnt Interprofessional Relationships: Collaboration or Confrontation; M.Gasu The Nurse: Autonomous Professional or Subservient Worker?; A.Scott Do Nurses Have a Special Claim to be Patient Advocates?; P.Allmark How Effective are Codes of Nursing Ethics?; A.Edgar Professional Self-Regulation in Nursing; R.Pyne....