Discusses a simple method for comparing nursing models, using a four-step framework: assessment, diagnosis plan, implementation, and evaluation. Uses four nursing models as illustrations--Henderson, Orem, Neuman, and Roy. (JOW)

Includes "Now More than Ever" (Fahy); "Healing at Home" (photo essay); "Amelia Greenwald: Pioneer in International Public Health Nursing" (Mayer); "Alaska's Watched Pot" (Nord); and "Gertrude Weld Peabody: Unsung Patron of Public Health Nursing Education" (Doona). (JOW)

Reviews nursing research focusing on long-term care facilities from 1984 to 1988. Discusses (1) past reviews of gerontological nursing research, (2) a current search of long-term care nursing research, (3) current trends, and (4) suggestions for research on such topics as research utilization, Alzheimer's disease, and the nursing home environment.…

If new technologies are to be reliable, easy to learn, and adaptable to changes in the health care environment, it is essential for the nursing profession to be actively involved in their development. (JOW)

Describes Rosemary Rizzo Parse's Man-Living-Health theory that was used to describe how gerontological nursing knowledge could be developed through a nursing conceptual model that includes a defined practice and research methodology. (Author/JOW)

Describes a research model designed to investigate the shift in the care delivery site from the acute care institution to the home and community. Transitional care may soon become familiar jargon in community health care. (JOW)

Describes the content of a health policy course designed to meet the needs of nurses and identifies strategies to make the course meaningful for students. (Author)

A Navajo legend describes a web woven by Spider Woman that saved the people during a great flood. This article uses the imagery of the web to help education and service think more clearly about nursing's future. The Healing Web project seeks to educate nurses in a futuristic differentiated model. (Author/JOW)

Nursing is in the process of developing its own science that must not be proclaimed if it does not reflect the world of values interwoven with the world of fact. (JOW)

Discusses five interrelated roles for graduates of associate degree nursing programs (provider of care, client teacher, communicator, manager of client care, and member within the profession of nursing) and examines 11 assumptions basic to the scope of practice for graduates of associate degrees nursing programs. (CT)

Presents a nursing model for the integration of health service research into policy formation, including doctoral programs and fellowships. Asserts that empowered nurses can change the country's health policy. (JOW)

Describes the Healing Web project, which brings together nursing educators and nursing leaders to manage the transition from the present to the future of nursing education and service. The goal of the Healing Web is to create a values-based curriculum that could generate the support of all. (JOW)

Claims that much of the work of nursing is hidden, therefore decreasing the societal status and perceived value of nurses. Analyzes the sorts of nursing work that are invisible and undervalued. (JOW)

Only when nurses as a collective body understand clearly their product and function can they get on and stay on a path that permits the independent organization and delivery of service within the ever-widening and competitive health services field. (Author)

Community health nurses serve individuals, families, and groups as they contribute to the health of the population as a whole. Public health nurses' clients are groups, families, and individuals but only as they are members of larger populations described as being at high risk. (JOW)