Careful use of technology in education may enhance the ability of the nursing education profession to educate nurses for practice, prepare future nurse educators, and advance nursing science. To take full advantage of technology, several factors must be addressed. Superior distance education programs require substantial institutional financial…

Conventional education programs socialize the nurse for one way of functioning, but, for effective practitioner performance, the nurse must develop a different concept of her nursing identity. Increased knowledge and skills will not alone make the nurse a practitioner; there must be a role change. (Author)

A description of a group leadership course for nurses concentrating on the use, formation, and dynamics of groups within the context of clinical public health nursing in the community includes objectives and content areas (identifying needs, and considering self-concepts and interpersonal relationships). (AG)

The educational preparation and use of nurse-midwives working with other health team members has helped reduce the maternal and infant mortality and morbidity rate in Mississippi. The development of the program employed is described. (AG)

Discusses the health occupations preparatory developments at the University of Iowa. (Author/RK)

Student nurses at Scott and White Memorial Hospital (Temple, Texas) were given a library orientation lecture, followed up by a project of compiling a bibliography on a topic illustrating different forms of library materials and using library tools. (JS)

A coordinated council met to establish ground rules to coordinate the activities of various organizations and educational institutions interested in and concerned with the continuing education of nurses in Ohio. Their purpose was to provide all nurses with opportunities to increase their knowledge and skills for the delivery of health care. (RB)

Nursing practice in itself may serve as a stimulus for research, thus setting in motion a constantly flowing interchange between the realities of that practice, theory development, and scientific investigation. (Editor)

Gerontological nursing (the care of the elderly) as a specialization for registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, and nursing aides is discussed with respect to training and qualifications, employment outlook, and earnings for each group. (JT)

A research course for nursing students examines the stages of the research process in increasing depth. It alternates lectures with journal clubs, seminars in which students present critiques of research-based articles they have read. (SK)

Student nurses presented an interactive play on sexual health promotion to 14- to 18-year olds, to whom they were close in age. The nursing students experienced great empathy with the secondary students and gained personal and professional skills. (SK)

Protocol-guided observations in 15 Israeli hospitals were used to grade nursing activities. The presence of nursing students in hospitals improved the quality of care provided by 67 nurses compared to their performance in the absence of students. (Contains 30 references.) (JOW)

Nurses from 37 universities (n=1,596) were asked about course experiences in relation to 28 specialties. Experiences in eldercare, outpatients, and surgery left many discouraged. Certain specialties appeared to have features that encouraged or discouraged aspirations regardless of course experience. Experiences had more effect on long-term career…