Massachusetts alone needs an estimated 5,000 nurses, and the shortage is deepening. Nurses are retiring and quitting faster than new nurses can be trained. In this article, the author describes Bunker Hill Community College's Welcome Back Center, a workforce development program that has thus far helped 47 internationally educated nurses from 29…

A qualitative study using grounded theory was conducted to examine the reasons that a sample of undergraduate baccalaureate nursing students withdrew from their nursing programs. The sample consisted of 11 nursing students who left generic baccalaureate nursing programs located in an urban area of a southeastern state. A semi-structured interview…

Evidence-based practice is highly valued in health care literature at this time. But research suggests that U.S. RNs face many obstacles when implementing evidence-based practice including a lack of value for research in practice (Pravikoff et al, 2005). Additional obstacles may exist for traditional U.S. BSN nursing students who may not value the…

A hypothetical model was formulated to explore factors that influenced academic and clinical achievement for undergraduate nursing students. Sixteen latent variables were considered including the students' background, gender, type of first language, age, their previous successes with their undergraduate nursing studies and status given for…

The 40 schools of practical nursing in Ohio have been challenged, along with all vocational education programs, by the State Board of Education to meet the need for a modern vocational and career education system. One of the goals that must be achieved to meet this challenge is to ensure successful completion of at least 80 percent of the students…

This paper is based on the premise that culture creates realities that include a repertoire of symbol interpretations and communication patterns on which people automatically draw, and that this pattern is as manifest in professional cultures as it is in national or ethnic cultures. The paper takes a systematic look at hospital nursing culture,…

This study examined and compared learning style differences between students who were registered nurses working for a bachelor's degree and generic student nurses who were working for a nursing degree as well as a bachelor's degree. The population surveyed included all registered nursing students and a selected number of generic student nurses…

Nursing programs leading to an associate degree in nursing, which are accredited by the National League for Nursing as of December 1975, are listed alphabetically by state. (Author/EC)

A survey was conducted of nursing faculty participation in professional organizations. A survey instrument was developed and submitted to three faculty in two schools of nursing for critique of content validity; questions related to both demographics and membership and participation in the Florida Nurses Association/American Nurses Association…

A structure is proposed by which nurse educators may unravel the contradictions in learning style research and see more clearly the importance of learning style theory and its applications to nursing education and nursing practice. The application of learning style theory most evident in the nursing literature appears to encompass four major…

Westbrook College, a residential college specializing in undergraduate education at the two year level came to grips with change through improving the teaching-learning process. (Author/RK)

An elective on poverty and its relevance to health is offered to nursing and non-nursing students at Duke University School of Nursing, Durham, North Carolina to help students gain insight into what it meaans to be poor. Student experiences include reading, observation, discussion, simulation through game playing, and clinical experiences. (EA)

The development, purpose, and future are reviewed of Nurses' Educational Funds, Inc., an independent organization that grants and administers scholarships to registered nurses for post-RN study. (EA)

A model for incorporating selected nursing practitioner skills at the University of Rochester School of Nursing (New York) begins the teaching of physical assessment skills with the neurological examination in the first year of the undergraduate nursing major. (EA)