This article reports on school staff's and occupational health nurses' development project (2001-2004), which aimed to promote school staff's occupational wellbeing by activities to maintain the ability to work in 12 comprehensive schools in Finland. The effects of the project were evaluated based on a follow-up study questionnaire presented to…

To ascertain the specific determinants that should be considered when instituting continuing nursing education programs, a survey of nurses was conducted. Based on 425 responses, seven determinants were identified, including the need to do prestigious work, interest in increasing one's knowledge base, and special needs related to the employing…

The study reported here describes the development and testing of a curriculum model to extend the role of public health nurses into community nurse practitioners (CNP). The content is presented in six chapters. The first chapter overviews the conceptual framework for the CNP role and then describes the three-course sequence comprising the CNP…