Number 1: January 2007

Overview and Summary

• Overview and Summary: Power to Influence Patient Care: Who Holds the Keys?
  Fran Beall, APRN, BC (January 31, 2007)

Articles

• Power and Empowerment in Nursing: Looking Backward to Inform the Future
  Milisa Manojlovich PhD, RN, CCRN (January 31, 2007)
• Influencing Health Care in the Legislative Arena
  Sheila Abood, PhD, RN (January 31, 2007)
• The Power of Professional Nursing Practice – An Essential Element of Patient and Family Centered Care
  P Ponte; G Glazer; E Dann; K McCollum; A Gross; R Tyrrell; P Branowicki; P Noga; M Winfrey; M Cooley; S Saint-Eloi; C Hayes; P Nicholas; D Washington (January 31, 2007)
• Patients and Nurses: A Powerful Force
  Roswyn Hakesley-Brown, MPhil, RN; Beverly Malone, PhD, RN, FAAN (January 31, 2007)

Article on Previously Published Topic

• Difficult Professional Choices: Deciding Between the PhD and the DNP in Nursing
  Jo A. Loomis, MS, FNP-C; Barbara Willard, ND, RN; Jayne Cohen, DNSc, RNC (December 22, 2006)
• Using Theory to Interpret Beliefs in Migrants Diagnosed with Latent TB
  Lora L. Wyss, PhD, RN, CNS;M. Kay Alderman, EdD (November 16, 2006)

Columns

• Ethics: What Would You Do? Ethics and Infection Control
  Ruth Ludwick, PhD, RN.C, CNS; Mary Cipriano Silva, PhD, RN, FAAN (November 6, 2006)
• Information Resources: Is it Time to Visit the Blogosphere?
  Barbara F. Schloman, PhD, AHIP (October 20, 2006)