Purpose: Creative expression (CE) programs are emerging interventions to improve the quality of care and life of persons with dementia (PWDs) in long-term care settings. However, limited empirical evidence exists to support the effectiveness of these programs. Here, we report the findings from an assessment of the impact of TimeSlips (TS), a group…

The nurses in this study stated that films are a valuable teaching modality and have a positive impact on audience interest, subsequent performance, and the entire educational process. (Author)

Trends in nursing research in Sweden are first discussed in relation to nursing education. Beyond the university, two "roots" of nursing research are investigated: (1) The first studies included analysis of the working conditions of nursing care; and (2) Later research topics covered nurse-patient relations and patients' needs. The…

The proposed model has three components--setting, student, and subject--which, appropriately utilized, bring organization and unity to the phenomena with which the curriculum deals. (Author)

The bibliography includes references on various aspects of associate degree nursing programs from 1951 to 1968. Books, periodical articles, pamphlets, and doctoral projects are listed. (JK)

Describes the Teaching Nursing Home Program that links nursing schools with nursing homes, pooling personnel and resources for the benefit of the institutions and society. The program seeks to extend to nursing homes the benefits that have been enjoyed by hospitals because of educational and service linkages with schools of medicine and nursing.…

Reviewed empirical evidence relevant to taboos for aged sexuality and measured the attitudes of 114 graduate nursing students toward a 68-year-old woman. Nurses read a vignette which either contained or excluded information about the woman's sexual activity and exhibited a statistically significant bias favoring the sexually active version. (JAC)

As part of an ongoing effort to gather information on the impact of college courses on students academic skills, a small group of nursing students (n=35) at Boise State University, Idaho, enrolled in an upper division nursing course agreed to take the Academic Profile, a test that measures general academic skills. The results for these nursing…

A procedure for identifying a nurse's professional abilities and deficits and establishing a learning program appropriate to individual needs includes five steps: assessment, identification of the problem, solution, implementation, and evaluation. (AG)

Discusses the history of health care in Latin America in the twentieth century. Indicates that nurses provide most of the health care and that there is a need to enhance the nursing education programs in Latin America. (JOW)

Discusses the barriers blocking communication between nursing education and nursing service. Notes that the gap between the two is too infrequently bridged. Recommends changes in the nursing curriculum regarding nursing care plans, discharge planning, and patient planning. (JOW)

Compares epistemological changes resulting from alphabetization in ancient Greece to similar changes in nursing education. Three dynamics are explored: sedimentation of words, growth of criticism, and the new rationality. Suggests that criticism is a positive change, the devaluing of sensory and experiential knowledge a negative change. Contains…

A partnership between a research university and a minority-serving institution created a research enrichment and apprenticeship program for minority nursing students. The program provides students an opportunity to experience nursing research with the goal of increasing the number of minority researchers in nursing. (Contains 11 references.) (JOW)

Nursing students (n=23) rated their self-efficacy in nursing behaviors and clinical preceptors (n=24) rated their self-efficacy in helping students with the behaviors. Students' self-efficacy increased after the preceptorship; preceptors' scores remained high both before and after. The value of the preceptorship was supported. (SK)