Faculty from the Lienhard School of Nursing who designed the Clinical Practice Unit--one of the country's first nurse-managed centers--discuss the problems they faced and how they expanded the unit to serve the entire university community with funding from PACE University and the W. K. Kellogg Foundation. (CT)

Discusses problems facing the field of nursing education. Topics include (1) student recruitment, (2) designing a curriculum that balances academic excellence with practical skills training, and (3) the effects of nursing's academic isolation and of technology upon quality. (CH)

The author discusses future trends for society and relates them to future roles and characteristics of nursing. She presents strategies that nursing professionals should use to be prepared for the stated trends. (CH)

Contract grading is explained by way of four types of contracts: teacher made/teacher assigned; teacher made/student assigned; student made/teacher assigned; and student made. Also discusses the responsibilities of teacher and student, implementation of a contractual grading program, and program evaluation. (CT)

Describes a faculty evaluation model that integrates ingredients of personal development, such as self-satisfaction, growth, and improvement, with such rewards as merit pay, wage increases, promotions, and tenure. Discusses criteria; guidelines for their use; the standards for tenure, promotion, and appointment; and the annual review process. (CT)

A typology of research activities (generation of basic, applied, and clinical research; dissemination of findings; and use of findings) considered appropriate to nurses with different levels of educational preparation (ADN, BSN, MSN, DNSc/EdD, and PhD) is presented to assist potential researchers and nurse educators in undertaking realistic and…

A second test was conducted of Cervero's framework that explains the relationship between continuing professional education and performance. A six-week continuing nursing education program was evaluated using both qualitative and quantitative data. The study provides evidence that the one-variable research model is inadequate for explaining the…

The research appraisal checklist, which contains 51 criteria ordered under 8 major research categories, is examined as a method of appraising a nursing research report. Criteria include title, abstract, problem, review of literature, methodology (subjects, instruments, design), data analysis, discussion, and form and style. (CT)

The author poses the following questions and examines the answers: What are schools doing about teaching research at the undergraduate level? Do schools have required research courses or do they integrate information into existing nursing courses? What information are they teaching? (CT)

A hybrid of professional continuing education and Carl Rogers's humanistic philosophy supporting freedom in learning is proposed, and the five principles of the philosophy are examined for their potential for transfer to professional education. (MSE)

A comparison of value preferences of various respondent groups involved in long term nursing home care revealed that although societal values varied by resident status, there were large areas of agreement. Family members of nursing home members, however, most often differed from other groups. (Author/ABB)

Assesses the empirical relationship of the psychosocial variables of empathy, attitudes, and ideological orientation toward treatment (custodial versus therapeutic). Data analysis indicates that a low level of empathy, negative attitudes toward the elderly, and a custodial orientation toward treatment were significantly positively correlated.…

A discussion of the social, economic, and interest group considerations in two nursing education issues, concerning hospital-based versus educational institution training and certification of two levels of nurse, focuses on the situation in New Zealand but makes comparisons with the United States and Great Britain. (MSE)

Employed Nominal Group and Delphi techniques of group decision-making to identify and determine relative intensity of stressors of nursing home administrators in Texas. Revealed that most stressful conditions involved relations with persons and agencies outside the nursing home: state agencies, legislators, general public, and relatives of…

Innovations such as the value-added approach will provide means of responding to the changes facing nursing education in the 1980s and beyond. The approach used at Northeast Missouri State University is described. (MLW)