Graduate programs at the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing are designed to enlarge students' knowledge of research and its relevance to their particular types of practice and to enhance students' precision in using the scientific approach to identify phenomena of concern and to solve nursing and health care problems. (Author)

The number of elderly expected to live into the next century calls for creative inclusion of this population in learning experiences for student nurses. Retirement communities offer a rich environment for interaction and learning and encourage students to consider the limitless possibilities for nursing interventions with the elderly. (Author/JOW)

The Vanderbilt University School of Nursing changed its program for acute care nurse practitioners to keep up with the constantly changing health care system. The new curriculum model emphasizes diagnostic reasoning and therapeutic management. (JOW)

Psychiatric nursing faculty practice offers the academic nurse opportunity to generate salary support and integrate students into the real world of mental health care. It promotes scholarship and knowledge-building and has a direct impact on the lives of patients. (Author/JOW)

Private schools of nursing must redefine themselves, take risks, respond to predictions of futurists, anticipate forces and trends in the national and international health care market, define their survival strategies, and justify their costs. (Author)

Vanderbilt University School of Nursing used the Batalden model of systems improvement to change its program. The model analyzes services and products, customers, social community need, and customer knowledge to approach improvements in a systematic way. (JOW)

Describes the baccalaureate nursing program for Native Americans in Ganado, Arizona. Closed in 1951, it is reopening with an emphasis on community health. The program, run by Northern Arizona University, is the first school of nursing for Native Americans. (JOW)

A formal cooperative partnership in Arizona brings together nursing educators and practicing nurses as colleagues to improve the socialization of new graduates. A culture of parallel missions is slowly being changed to a culture of interdependence and mutual responsibility. (SK)

In the nurse practitioner-managed primary health care clinic at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, flexible faculty workloads have been established to facilitate faculty practice at the clinic. (Author/JOW)

In Georgia, 15 nursing programs collaborated on a statewide articulation model to facilitate mobility of registered nurses into bachelor's degree nursing programs. The model standardizes entry into all bachelor's programs without threatening individual program autonomy. (SK)

The collaboration between the Frontier Nursing Service and the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing provides a way for those with associate degrees in midwifery to obtain a baccalaureate degree in nursing and become eligible for advanced training in midwifery. Distance learning facilitates instruction for the geographically dispersed midwives.…