The 40 schools of practical nursing in Ohio have been challenged, along with all vocational education programs, by the State Board of Education to meet the need for a modern vocational and career education system. One of the goals that must be achieved to meet this challenge is to ensure successful completion of at least 80 percent of the students…

This paper is based on the premise that culture creates realities that include a repertoire of symbol interpretations and communication patterns on which people automatically draw, and that this pattern is as manifest in professional cultures as it is in national or ethnic cultures. The paper takes a systematic look at hospital nursing culture,…

This study examined and compared learning style differences between students who were registered nurses working for a bachelor's degree and generic student nurses who were working for a nursing degree as well as a bachelor's degree. The population surveyed included all registered nursing students and a selected number of generic student nurses…

Nursing programs leading to an associate degree in nursing, which are accredited by the National League for Nursing as of December 1975, are listed alphabetically by state. (Author/EC)

A survey was conducted of nursing faculty participation in professional organizations. A survey instrument was developed and submitted to three faculty in two schools of nursing for critique of content validity; questions related to both demographics and membership and participation in the Florida Nurses Association/American Nurses Association…

A structure is proposed by which nurse educators may unravel the contradictions in learning style research and see more clearly the importance of learning style theory and its applications to nursing education and nursing practice. The application of learning style theory most evident in the nursing literature appears to encompass four major…

Westbrook College, a residential college specializing in undergraduate education at the two year level came to grips with change through improving the teaching-learning process. (Author/RK)

An elective on poverty and its relevance to health is offered to nursing and non-nursing students at Duke University School of Nursing, Durham, North Carolina to help students gain insight into what it meaans to be poor. Student experiences include reading, observation, discussion, simulation through game playing, and clinical experiences. (EA)

The development, purpose, and future are reviewed of Nurses' Educational Funds, Inc., an independent organization that grants and administers scholarships to registered nurses for post-RN study. (EA)

A model for incorporating selected nursing practitioner skills at the University of Rochester School of Nursing (New York) begins the teaching of physical assessment skills with the neurological examination in the first year of the undergraduate nursing major. (EA)

Text, illustrations, and exercises are utilized in a set of five learning modules designed to instruct nursing students in a variety of clinical skills. The first module, "Down the Tube: Insertion of a Nasogastric Tube" by Clarice Bates, describes materials and procedures used to insert a nasogastric tube through the nose and esophagus…

College administrators, nursing administrators, and nursing instructors, aware of the shortage of nursing teachers in junior colleges, discussed their best kind of preparation. It was generally agreed they must not only be subject specialists, with broad general education, but must also be prepared specifically as teachers for the junior college.…

Twenty Licensed Practical Nurses (LPN) became Registered Nurses (RN) in a pilot program giving partial academic credit for their LPN training and building on their existing skills. The program revolved around three needs: (1) trained nurses; (2) eliminating the notion that jobs were dead-end; and (3) achieving upward mobility for hospital staff.…