Presents descriptions, advantages, and disadvantages of six needs assessment tools which can be used for continuing education: The simple checklist, the reiterated checklist, the Delphi II assessment, "asking," the matrix assessment, and the pyramid assessment. Emphasis is on the Delphi II technique. (TA)

Local interdisciplinary teams from universities in the District of Columbia, Cleveland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina participated in a national project that involved nursing, medicine, and health administration students in experiential learning and continuous improvement in health care settings. (SK)

At entry, 185 nursing, 152 medical, 140 pharmacy, and 111 allied health students were surveyed; all but the medical students were resurveyed two years later following educational interventions. Nursing students displayed more drug use than did pharmacy students, whose curriculum placed more emphasis on drug and alcohol education. (SK)

Nineteen multiple-choice nursing tests containing 673 items were analyzed for test wiseness, irrelevant difficulty in stem or option, linguistic/structural bias, or cultural bias. Twenty-eight types of flaws occurred at least 10 times each. (Contains 28 references.) (SK)

For six weeks, 25 Connecticut seventh graders interviewed senior citizens from a nearby assisted-independent-living facility. By celebrating their senior partners' life experiences, students formulated a better understanding of major events in 20th century American history. During the fifth and sixth weeks, students shared something from their own…

An experienced dean of nursing at a major research university reflects on the leadership requirements of his role and varied relationships with staff, provost, other key administrators, and external constituencies, including donors. Issues discussed include reconciling internal and external roles, creating strategies to achieve institutional…

Argues that nursing home mental health counselors should address nursing home residents' need for assistance in conflict resolution, having meaningful social interactions, and in developing and maintaining feelings of self-worth. Describes benefits of group therapy approach using life review format to help build basic trust and feelings of…

Results from multiple regression analyses revealed that (1) a lack of clinical experience with AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) patients and (2) antihomosexual attitudes were significantly associated with the students' (N=231) lack of HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus)-AIDS knowledge, even after controlling for the effects of exaggerated…

Assessment of student performance in nursing education takes many forms: (1) the Real Clinical Situation Model; (2) the Quasi-Clinical Situation Model; (3) the Clinical Laboratory Simulation Model; and (4) the Clinicam Video Simulation Model. The New York Regents External Degree Program has a highly developed method of examining the proficiency of…

A survey of 167 nurses (41 percent response) and 53 nurse executives (32 percent) classified proficiency levels expected of beginning nurses. Comparison with six associate degree programs found gaps between techniques being taught the on-the-job expectations for nurses in a technologically advanced health care system. (SK)

Methods of using simplified time series analysis (STSA) in evaluating clinical programs are discussed. STSA assists in addressing problems of attrition/augmentation of subjects in programs with changing populations. Combining individually calculated "C" statistics in a simple aggregate analysis of restraint usage by nursing home staff…

Evidence supporting the trend of aging college faculty is explored, especially as it affects nursing education, and the implications of and strategies for dealing with potential detrimental outcomes of the trend are discussed. (MSE)

Nursing literature from 1893-1923 is reviewed for insights into what nurse educators believed to be the role of liberal education in the nursing profession, the anticipated effects of liberal education on nursing, and the relationship of the articulation of these beliefs to the development of collegiate-level nursing programs. (MSE)

A study examined the relationship between determinants of organizational climate, including communication, staff, utilization, interdisciplinary politics, reward and support services, and nurse stability in critical care units. Results indicate significant interunit differences. (MSE)

Discussion of the effects of instruction on the attitudes of nurses focuses on a meta analysis of studies that examined effects of visual media in attitude formation or attitude change in nursing education. Criteria used to guide the selection of studies included are explained, and implications for instructional design are discussed. (76…