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Download full textHing, Esther; Cypress, Beulah K. – 1981
As the American population increases, the health problems of older women will be of greater concern to health planners, because it is the elderly woman who most often survives to old age and has greater need of services. Data from the National Health Survey was used to determine characteristics, conditions, management, and outcomes of patients at…
Descriptors: Females, Geriatrics, Health Needs, Health Services
Drazen, Erica; Metzger, Jane – 1981
To provide a compendium of methodologies on cost impacts of automated hospital information systems (AHIS), this report sponsored by the National Center for Services Research identifies, reviews, and summarizes ten studies on information systems which manage patient care data. The studies were identified by a literature search and those that…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cost Effectiveness, Evaluation Methods, Health Services
Wolman, Jean – 1981
This module on owning and operating a nursing service is one of 36 in a series on entrepreneurship. The introduction tells the student what topics will be covered and suggests other modules to read in related occupations. Each unit includes student goals, a case study, and a discussion of the unit subject matter. Learning activities are divided…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Advertising, Business Administration, Business Education
Wojcik, Bonnie; And Others – 1977
Text, illustrations, and exercises are utilized in these four learning modules to instruct parents and nursing students in topics related to child care and development. The first module, "Growth and Development: Let's Test Your Baby's Reflexes" by Bonnie Wojcik, describes the behavioral signs that are indicative of eight normal primitive…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Child Rearing, Cleft Palate, Hygiene
Ostrander, Betty; And Others – 1977
Text, illustrations, and reinforcement exercises are utilized in these nine learning modules to instruct nurses and expectant mothers in topics related to pre-natal care, labor, and post-partum readjustment. The first module, "Pre-Natal Evaluation" by Betty Ostrander, teaches the nurse to diagnose toxemia of pregnancy. The second module,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Birth, Clinical Diagnosis, Diseases
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Select Committee on Aging. – 1980
This report of a congressional subcommittee hearing focuses on the status of day care programs for the elderly. Opening statements by subcommittee members consider the need for programs, costs, government involvement, and abuse of the elderly. Summarized statements by witnesses examine the value of various day care programs as alternatives to…
Descriptors: Adult Day Care, Adult Programs, Family Relationship, Health Needs
Henschke, John A. – 1981
From October, 1977, through December, 1979, 13 one-day continuing education workshops were given by the University of Missouri Extension for nurses and other health-care professionals. A total of 520 different health care professionals attended the sessions, with multiple registrations bringing the total enrollment in the program to 925. Programs…
Descriptors: Extension Education, Followup Studies, Health Personnel, Nurses
Kirkpatrick, Rhoda L. – 1979
The purpose of this study was to construct a model for the design, development, and direction of continuing education programs for registered nurses at John C. Calhoun Community College. The model was based on data from various professional conferences; a review of the literature on continuing education in general and concepts of learning theory;…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Community Colleges, Educational Objectives, Medical Education
Macaranas, Federico M. – 1979
The reduction of social inequalities through education is widely believed to be possible. In the past decade however, social scientists have increasingly questioned the posited conventional relationship between education and socio-economic equality. Factors other than the number of years and/or the quality of schooling have to be considered in…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Chinese Americans, Education Work Relationship, Educational Attitudes
Belock, Shirley – 1980
The transcripts of the 40 students who graduated from Castleton State College (CSC) with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing in 1977, 1978, or 1979 were examined to determine whether registered nurses who graduated from associate degree programs earned higher grade point averages (GPA's) than registered nurses who graduated from hospital-based…
Descriptors: Associate Degrees, Bachelors Degrees, College Transfer Students, Comparative Analysis
National League for Nursing, New York, NY. – 1979
A directory of doctoral programs in nursing lists programs alphabetically by state and institution, indicating private or state control, the name and title of the program administrator, available study emphases, and degree type offered (Ph.D., D.N.S., Ed.D., etc.). Twenty-one programs in 15 states are included. Also listed are federal agencies…
Descriptors: Administrators, Doctoral Degrees, Doctoral Programs, Federal Programs
Jackson, Janette – 1978
An instructor's manual and student activity guide on practical nursing are provided in this set of prevocational education materials which focuses on the vocational area of health occupations. (This set of materials is one of ninety-two prevocational education sets arranged around a cluster of seven vocational offerings: agriculture, home…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Behavioral Objectives, Instructional Materials, Learning Activities
Curtis, Ruth V. – 1978
These guidelines for developing and maintaining a library in a resident nursing home, for use by either staff members or volunteers, recommend an individual survey of each resident as a way of determining reading preferences and deciding what materials should be ordered. Other areas examined are the location of the library, including space and…
Descriptors: Guides, Information Sources, Institutional Libraries, Library Acquisition
Keene, James W. – 1968
A followup study of the 1966 and 1967 graduates of the registered nurses program at Foothill College (Calif.) sought to identify characteristics which distinguished students who completed the program from those who did not graduate, analyze scores on the state licensing examination for the licensing of nurses to determine what significant…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, College Students, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Research
Bertram, Charles L.; And Others – 1977
This report describes a project that developed and field tested a model for projecting state-wide manpower needs in the allied health and nursing occupations in West Virginia and presents projections made for sixteen allied health and nursing occupations in the Charleston area. The content of the report is presented in three sections. The first…
Descriptors: Employment Patterns, Employment Projections, Employment Statistics, Health Occupations
