Inservice educators must incorporate humanistic approaches in their offerings. Nursing service administrators should delegate to staff development personnel only those activities that are clearly educational in nature. (Author/JOW)

Discusses the onset and organization of Nursing Inservice Educators of the Greater Milwaukee Area, NISE. Objectives of the group are to assist inservice educators in their professional growth and development by promoting the sharing of ideas among inservice educators in health facilities in Greater Milwaukee area and by identifying mutual problems…

Discusses the growth and development of the Continuing Education in Nursing Department, a part of the School of Nursing at the University of Southern Mississippi. Curriculum development inservice programs, workshops, conferences. (RB)

Suggests that hospital personnel and manufacturers' representatives collaborate to teach inservice courses for nurses with nurse-instructors handling the basic science review. (DS)

Author describes an inservice program shared by 5 hospitals in southwestern Minnesota. (MB)

Describes a program instituted by the 3rd and 4th district of Minnesota Nurse's Association for those who develop and coordinate educational programs for their staff. (MB)

The Department of Continuing Education and Training at the Bronx Municipal Hospital Center takes on the responsibility for orienting all nursing service personnel, conducting specialty area nursing courses, training nurses aides and generally providing nursing education that allows nurses to keep up with growing responsibilities. (Author/RK)

Describes how fourteen principles of adult education provide the conceptual framework for performance competencies to guide the daily practice of instructors in the centralized inservice department of a large acute-care hospital. (JOW)

The author describes an educational program that not only accounts for past endeavors but also helps plan for future programs. (Author/LF)

All health personnel at Conemaugh Valley Memorial Hospital Johnstown, Pennsylvania, were involved in the planning, coordination, and evaluation of three inservice education programs. (MW)

This study evaluated the effectiveness of two teaching methods to determine which is more effective in enhancing the knowledge base of participating nurses: the preceptor model embodies decentralized instruction by a member of the nursing staff, and the formal teaching model uses centralized teaching by the inservice education department. (JOW)

"Dying and Death in Critical Care Practice" was a one-day continuing education offering designed for registered nurses who practiced in settings such as emergency rooms, intensive care units, coronary care units, and operating rooms. The workshop was part of a continuing education curriculum in critical care nursing. (SSH)