A report on the Nursing Shortage Reduction Act of 1987, a bill to amend Title VIII of the Public Health Service Act, is presented. The bill would establish programs to reduce the shortage of professional nurses. A special advisory committee consisting of representatives of professional nursing and other organizations, hospitals, and experts in…

A description is provided of a third-year registered nursing course entitled "The History and Physical," designed to help the student acquire knowledge and skills in the areas of taking the history of an individual and physical assessment. The opening sections present information on course prerequisites, grading procedures, and meeting times;…

Describes the use of bio-medically significant materials to teach a self-pacing chemistry laboratory course to nursing majors. Indicates that the student can learn from the course to determine values of body fluid constituents, about their variations among healthy populations, and about difficulties inherent in making such measurements. (CC)

Given the high cost of health care, it is imperative that all institutions involved in preparing health care personnel, whether in associate or degree programs, cooperate to achieve the highest quality of preparation at the lowest cost. (Author/PG)

Advocates the coexistence of three types of nursing, education, 3-, 2-, and 4-year programs, until the relative merits of each can be determined, thereby determining quality, not cost. (PG)

Nursing students in a theory course on alcoholism, with no accompanying practicum, developed empathy and understanding through studying relevant concepts exemplified in works of popular literature which they read, analyzed, and discussed. (AJ)

This packet contains an instructor's guide and student materials for a competency-based course on assisting with patient nutritional needs for practical nursing students in Florida. The program is designed to teach students to help feed patients, to assess their nutritional needs, and to monitor their intake of food and fluids. The instructor's…

A suit was brought by Frances B. Davis against Southeastern Community College, which had denied her admission to its nursing program because of her serious hearing disability. (An audiologist's report indicated that she cannot understand speech directed to her except by lipreading.) She alleged that this denial constituted a violation of section…

Representatives of 15 nursing programs participated in the conference conducted by the Nursing Advisory Service of the National League for Nursing and the National Tuberculosis and Respiratory Disease Association, with the Assistance of the Department of Baccalaureate and Higher Degree Programs of the National League for Nursing and cosponsored by…

To determine nursing tasks and make curriculum recommendations based on these tasks, a survey instrument of nursing tasks was developed by a project committee, validated by the National Technical Advisory Committee for Nursing, and administered to 450 nursing personnel representing 48 hospitals and extended care facilities. An 88 percent response…

To survey and analyze nursing resources and nursing education in Florida in order to make recommendations for future educational planning, data were gathered from the literature, state agencies, and a stratified random sampling by questionnaire of 1,921 licensed nurses within the State. The findings indicated that unmet needs for nursing services…

This is the 1968 biennial census of nurse-faculty members teaching in nursing programs and in cooperating institutions providing clinical experiences for students in nursing. It is intended as an overview of current conditions and a basis for future estimates and planning. As of January 1968, 20,077 full-time and 3,554 part-time nurse-faculty…

National data on nurses and nursing are organized into the following sections: (1) The Nursing Profession and Society, (2) The Structure and Nature of the Nursing Profession, with subsections on nursing in the general hospital and related facilities, nursing in the mental hospital and related facilities, community nursing, occupational health…

Among the several conditions which fostered the development of an open-circuit televised nursing course for Registered Nurses at Boston College was the limited availability of baccalaureate level programs in nursing for the Registered Nurse outside the Metropolitan Boston area. It was hoped that a televised course would permit wider access to…

A study was conducted to: (1) ascertain the nature and extent of continuing education for nurses in the Genesee Region of New York State, (2) determine if an interest exists among health care and educational agencies for a cooperative effort to plan, develop, and produce continuing education activities for nurses, and (3) provide one data source…