Focusing on innovative and cost-effective alternatives to traditional, custodial, and institutional health care systems, the papers in these proceedings identify the contributions of nursing and the benefits for patients of the new national emphasis on cost-effective health care. The proceedings contain: (1) "Trends in Health Promotion:…

This publication is a compilation of highlights from papers presented at the Associate Degree Nursing (ADN) project's regional conferences during 1983-84. Papers address pertinent issues in ADN education and practice. "AD Education: Are the Parameters Real?" (Julia Perkins) examines the parameters of associate degree nursing education from a…

Learning style preferences of a group of nursing students was analyzed to determine whether the development of self-instructional modular learning packages would be an educationally sound means for presenting didactic content to students. A total of 38 junior baccalaureate nursing students completed the Canfield Learning Styles Inventory. Results…

A medical-surgical nursing course was reorganized using seven key concepts (chronicity, mobility, body image, rehabilitation, acuteness, invasiveness, and depression of function) as a teaching base. Emphasis was given to nursing roles, interventions, and learning transfer to varied nursing situations. (EA)

A 1972 follow-up study of graduates of the masters program in nursing service administration at the University of Iowa revealed that a large majority found their choice of major to be appropriate and satisfying. Assessment of graduates' employment records and professional activities indicated a successful graduate training program. (EA)

Text, illustrations, and exercises are utilized in this set of three learning modules to instruct nurses and nursing students in patient observation and assessment skills. The first module, "The ABC's of Observation" by Freda Cooper, provides psychiatric nurses and technicians with guidelines for determining the mental status of incoming…

Two forms of continuing education (CE) in nursing exist--voluntary and mandatory for continued employment, membership in an organization, or maintaining licensure to practice in the profession. Lack of nurses' participation on a voluntary basis was chosen as one rationale to determine if mandatory CE should be legislated in Indiana. A replication…

The document outlines a curriculum designed to teach appropriate nursing skills to students and to prepare them for career opportunities available in health occupations. It is presented in 10 units offering basic information under the headings of: overview of health occupations; communications; medical terminology; fundamental principles of human…

Specific aims of Phase III, planned as a 4-year program, included: (1) evaluating the efficiency of three instruments--Nursing Sentence Completions (NSC), Nurse Attitudes Inventory (NAI), and Luther Hospital Sentence Completions (LHSC)--for the prediction of success early in nursing school, (2) developing attitudinal area scores for the three…

The purpose of the program has been to provide tutoring and remedial services to assist nursing students to graduate and enter the labor force. During the fall 1968 semester, 239 freshmen of five City University of New York (CUNY) colleges received 1,801 hours of assistance from student tutors drawn from CUNY. During the spring 1969 semester, 142…

The American Nurses' Association endorses the concept of continuing education for all registered nurses as one of the means by which nurses can maintain competence and meet the standards of practice developed by the profession. In nursing, continuing education consists of systematic learning experiences designed to enlarge the knowledge and skills…

Designed to be used by those responsible for providing library resources for educational units in nursing, this publication contains standards and suggestions for evaluating the library resources for university, collegiate, and diploma nursing or practical nursing programs. Standards are provided for: (1) The Library Collection, including…

A project was designed to investigate the use and effectiveness of an instructional design system in which systematically prepared materials, in conjunction with automated devices, were used to teach manipulative nursing skills on an independent study basis. This report presents the problem of designing and constructing such instructional…

A feasibility study explored the use of the telelecture technique for continuing nursing education in the state of West Virginia. Telelecture is a two-way amplified communications system designed to bring together individuals and/or groups by means of a regular telephone network. The results of the study showed that it is an effective technique…

Men nurse stereotypes (former corpsmen, homosexuals, or those seeking administrative positions) were challenged by results of an open-ended questionnaire survey of 15 male nursing students. In addition to the role conflicts all nurses experience, men in nursing face: isolation and loneliness, lack of role models, and others' stereotyped ideas.…