Listed are the senior colleges and universities with educational units which offer baccalaureate and master's degree programs in nursing that are accredited by the Department of Baccalaureate and Higher Degree Programs of the National League for Nursing. Continued approval for accreditation is based on periodic reevaluation through revisits and…

Text, illustrations, and exercises are utilized in this set of four learning modules designed to instruct nursing students in techniques and equipment utilized for intramuscular injections. The first module, "Equipment for Intramuscular Injections" by Ellie Dunkleman, presents guidelines for selecting needles of the proper length and…

Text, illustrations, and exercises are utilized in this set of four learning modules designed to instruct nurses and nursing students in writing objective clinical reports. The first module, "Nursing Notes in POMR" by Roberta L. Andrews, discusses the four components of a nursing report written under the Problem-Oriented Medical Record…

This publication includes six papers presented at the 1979 meeting of the Council on Collegiate Education for Nursing. Specific presentations made were (1) Entry into Practice: History, Trends, and Issues, by Virginia Barker; (2) The Appropriate Preparation for Licensure Is the Associate Degree, by Virginia Allen; (3) The Appropriate Preparation…

THE ASSOCIATE DEGREE NURSING PROGRAM IN CALIFORNIA WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1958. THE PROGRAM IS OFFERED IN 32 OF THE STATE'S JUNIOR COLLEGES (80 NATIONALLY) AND ALMOST ONE-THIRD OF ALL CANDIDATES APPLYING FOR NURSE LICENSURE EXAMINATIONS COME FROM THESE SCHOOLS. THE IDEA WHICH LED TO THIS TYPE OF PROGRAM WAS FIRST DEVELOPED BY MILDRED L. MONTAG IN HER…

The field of nursing education has expanded rapidly in the 1960's. With more associate degree nursing programs and the overall enrollment growth, the junior college has become more involved with this aspect of public health service. The W.K. Kellogg Foundation and individual researchers have shown that nursing programs at the junior college level…

This report of the Coordinating Board's Nursing Project Council is the culmination of three years' intensive effort to provide the State of Texas with a plan on which those responsible for helping meet the health care needs can rely in determining where nurses are needed, what their educational preparation should be, and how the nurses can be…

The Nursing training Act of 1975 revises and extends the nursing training authorities provided under Title VIII of the Public Health Service Act for a three-year period, thus providing aid to nursing training through September 30, 1978. It provides two new, separate authorities for the support of Advanced Nursing Training and Nursing Practitioner…

The purpose of the project was to determine what goals, content, and learning experiences in psychiatric-mental health nursing should be included in diploma and associate degree education for nursing in the light of present-day trends in nursing and psychiatric care. The report follows the sequence of the project: (1) selection of associate degree…

The need for a system of nursing education has never been greater. This project's goal was to emphasize a coordinated structure of educational programs for all nurses in the south. The text concerns new directions in health care, implications for nursing education, and assessing nursing needs. Southern nursing programs are then examined by type,…

Nurses today are faced with the problem of choosing from a proliferating array of alternatives, both when they decide what type of nursing education to pursue and when they must choose between the many occupational directions they face on graduation from nursing school. Recognizing these recent developments in both education and health, the…

The author proposes a doctor of nursing degree for the professional practice of nursing, with entry at the postbaccalaureate level. She describes the rationale for the doctorate and the characteristics needed for programs leading to that degree. (MF)

Preparation for quality assurance in nursing care must begin in basic nursing education, continue through the graduate and doctoral levels, and be provided for practicing nurses through continuing education activities, according to the author. She discusses the meaning of quality assurance and its integration into the nursing curriculum. (MF)

One hundred fifty-two senior nursing students at a traditionally Black college participated in a study to determine the effect on academic performance of: (1) test-taking instruction; (2) a combination of test-taking instruction with cooperative learning procedures; or (3) no intervention. Spring semester grades were used to represent academic…

The author defines faculty practice as a means of faculty development. She focuses on the Faculty Practice Program at New York University Medical Center. That program allows nursing faculty to practice as part of the Medical Center staff during the summer. (CH)