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Redman, Barbara, Ed.; Cassells, Judith M., Ed. – 1990
This book provides a blueprint for educators and administrators who are considering the development of a Registered Nurse/Bachelor of Science in Nursing (RN/BSN) program and describes state-of-the-art education programs. It includes case examples for successful programs and information on implementation. The chapters were chosen to make the…
Descriptors: Advanced Courses, Bachelors Degrees, Degrees (Academic), Graduate Study
Department of Health and Human Services, Seattle, WA. Region 10. – 1981
The demand for long term care is growing as the population in need of services becomes older and frailer, and as the nature of the family, the economy, and the health care system changes. To investigate the long term care system, its characteristics, trends, financing, policies, availability, and quality of care, 700 health care professionals,…
Descriptors: Community Health Services, Cost Effectiveness, Delivery Systems, Disabilities
Wilson, Janie Menchaca; And Others – 1987
An open-entry/open-exit competency-based nursing career ladder model was developed to demonstrate the articulation process from high school through licensed vocational nursing (LVN), associate degree nursing (ADN), and baccalaureate degree-level nursing (BSN) programs. The model was based on data obtained from a review of the literature on (1)…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Associate Degrees, Bachelors Degrees, Career Ladders
Dinham, Sarah M. – 1989
This paper focuses on the special considerations affecting professional schools seeking to assess the nature, quality and effects of their undergraduate programs. Advocating a comprehensive effort as the most promising means by which assessment can positively influence teaching and learning, the discussion addresses the unique characteristics of…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accreditation (Institutions), Architectural Education, Certification
Saxe, Ellen; And Others – 1990
This report describes the Imperial Valley College nursing program, a program developed to provide for the nursing needs of Imperial County, California. The program provides part-time education to help train nursing assistants and to allow nursing assistants to upgrade their skills to vocational nurse level and vocational nurses to become…
Descriptors: Associate Degrees, College Programs, Competence, Course Content
Shale, Doug; Garrison, D. Randy – 1989
This paper describes an audio teleconferencing system enhanced with a microcomputer-based telewriting system and examines its application in the delivery of university courses in statistics, microcomputer applications in special education, nursing issues, introductory writing, and staff development for teachers. The actual application of the…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Distance Education, Higher Education, Instructional Design
Millican, Julie E. – 1986
The objective of a study was to determine if academic achievement in nursing courses could be used to predict success on the National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN). It investigated the relationship between NCLEX outcomes and academic achievement in theory and clinical courses and the relationship between NCLEX…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Associate Degrees, Educational Research
Gardiner, Mary; Martin, Linda – 1985
A description is provided of the development and evaluation of a preceptorship program for nursing students at Red Deer College (Alberta). Introductory remarks describing the decision to initiate a preceptorship program in January, 1982, are followed by a section discussing the need for a preceptorship program to provide senior students with…
Descriptors: Clinical Experience, Community Colleges, Foreign Countries, Internship Programs
Lyness, Ann L. – 1985
This study investigated whether an interactive video system of instruction taught cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) as effectively as traditional instruction. Using standards of the American Heart Association, the study was designed with two randomized groups to be taught either by live instruction or by interactive video. Subjects were 100…
Descriptors: College Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, Conventional Instruction, First Aid
Smith, Gregory C.; Nehrke, Milton F. – 1987
Staff and residents of settings for the aged often hold substantially different views of their shared environment, and the literature suggests that these perceptual discrepancies transcend such factors as degree of institutional totality, quality of care, and differences in personal characteristics among staff and residents. Despite the…
Descriptors: Employee Attitudes, Institutional Environment, Institutional Personnel, Institutionalized Persons
World Health Organization, Copenhagen (Denmark). Regional Office for Europe. – 1984
This booklet is the report of the Working Group on Children and Family Breakdown: The Positive Role of Nurses and Midwives, which was convened by the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe and was attended by members of health disciplines, representatives of community groups, and journalists from the nursing and popular press. These…
Descriptors: Children, Family Problems, Family Structure, Foreign Countries
Fitz, Don; Simon, Judith – 1987
Because of administrative difficulties, therapeutic services provided at a nursing home by Project Adapt, through the St. Louis (Missouri) Regional Community Placement Program, were discontinued. At 2-month intervals, from June through December, 1986, 10 residents from the home where services were discontinued were compared with 10 and 15…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Comparative Analysis, Geriatrics, Gerontology
Snowden, Fraser; Taylor, Maxine – 1979
A syllabus for the "Health and Humanities" interdisciplinary course at Northwestern State University, Louisiana, is presented. An introduction suggests that with the proliferation of technological advances in the field of health care, there is a need for reconsideration of many moral, ethical, legal, and humanistic questions. Information…
Descriptors: Age Discrimination, College Programs, Course Descriptions, Course Objectives
Wyly, M. Virginia; And Others – 1988
The Nurse-Parent Training Project, developed in cooperation with Children's Hospital of Buffalo (New York), was designed to provide developmental supportive care for premature infants, and to reduce stress while optimizing neurobehavioral development. A program was conducted to train nurses working in neonatal intensive care nurseries, to enable…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Development, Child Development, Hospitalized Children
Ellis, Betty – 1988
This annotated bibliography covers aspects of health and health care in Appalachia or specific states of the region: West Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, Kentucky, Georgia, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Ohio, Virginia, Alabama. There are 357 entries ranging from 1932 to 1988 (15 entries were published before 1960). Materials listed include…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Annotated Bibliographies, Children, Health
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