Interviewed 198 nursing home residents and 34 primary nurse caregivers regarding perceptions and preferences of resident participation in health care decisions. Approximately 40 percent of residents reported being told nothing about their medical conditions; another 40 percent reported being told everything. Concordance between residents' and…

Administrative staff (N=49) of not-for-profit nursing homes identified 103 autonomy-enhancing programs for mentally impaired. Programs were encompassed within six categories: special resident programming, structural and environmental adaptations, staff training, family programming, staff deployment, and ethics initiatives. (Author/NB)

Statistical and legal analysis of California nursing home admission agreements indicated that agreements limited autonomy of nursing home residents in important ways, including constraints on resident's right to make health care decisions and other basic personal choices, entitlement to due process or grievance procedures, and right to informed…

More than half of nursing students who were surveyed felt that health care workers should be allowed to refuse to treat seropositive patients. Nursing faculty must teach students how to protect themselves from exposure to human immunodeficiency virus and to deal with the ethical and moral issues involved. (JOW)

The authors describe an elective course on international perspectives in nursing offered to graduate and undergraduate students at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing. The course included a three-week trip to the United Kingdom during which students visited various hospitals and schools of nursing. (CH)

The authors describe a course for senior nursing students in providing patient education to older adults who are no longer in the hospital. Topics covered in the class include body changes as a result of aging, pharmacokinetics, and patient adherence. (CH)

Describes program of short-term rehabilitation care provided to elderly patients through collaboration between hospital and nursing home. Discusses program planning and implementation experiences, patient satisfaction, and rehabilitation outcomes. Notes that program, although successful, was discontinued due to financial and interorganizational…

Examined public and private costs for nursing home applicants participating in Virginia Nursing Home Pre-Admission Screening Program. Found that applicants diverted to community care were less dependent and had greater informal supports than those admitted, and that public and private payments for community care were lower than for nursing home…

Expresses reservations concerning McConnel's (1984) application of the life table technique to the risk of institutionalization. Presents alternative interpretations as well as estimates of the probability of institutionalization that are substantially lower than McConnel's. (Author/ABB)

Describes a nursing education model that links education and service. The authors describe the purpose and objectives of the model, research missions, areas of joint responsibility between the assistant deans of the school of nursing and the education director of the medical college, and implementation plans. (CT)

The authors studied the question, "Is there an equitable exchange of resources between education programs and service agencies that cooperate in educating nursing students?" They surveyed nursing school faculty, staff nurses, and administrators for their opinions on various intangible resources the two provide. The findings indicate the exchange…

Considers impoverishment as a consequence of continuous institutionalization in a nursing home to be a public policy problem and the plight for any older Americans. Discusses one form of long-term care (LTC) insurance, the continuing care retirement community or life care community, and contrasts this small LTC self-insurance group with two other…

Academic nursing administrators and faculty must remember the special character and purpose of the parent university or college when determining nursing curricula, extrainstitutional service roles, and faculty qualifications and expectations. The program must reflect its role as an accepted professional discipline of the institution. (MSE)

Describes an elective, upper-level course on caring for terminally ill patients, designed for baccalaureate nursing students. Discusses the hospice concept and its background, course design, communication with dying patients and their families, and outcomes of the course as measured by a pretest and two posttests. (CH)

Two groups of nursing students were taught test taking skills, and one group was also taught learning team methods. Using scores on the State Board Examination, comparisons were made between the two groups and a control group. Results are discussed. (Author/MT)