The author describes a self-styled professional development program, which involved a 6-week experience working with the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education's (WICHE) regional research program. The author notes that the experience helped her in remaining current in the field while also engaging in scholarly activities. (TA)

Nursing education can accommodate learning disabled nursing students if programs are flexible and teaching methods are adjusted to include choice of learning modality, the self-paced learning mastery approach, simulation of patient problem-solving modules, use of the computer to aid record keeping, and testing accommodations. (Author/DB)

The author discusses the need of undergraduate nursing students for theory instruction. She describes the nursing program at D'Youville College, which infuses theory into the curriculum. (CH)

Explored attitudes toward the elderly of nursing personnel (N=101) employed in long-term care settings. Also investigated the impact of an experiential education program on the attitudes of nursing personnel providing daily care for the aged. Results tend to contradict several popularly held beliefs. (Author/ABB)

Discusses five interrelated roles for graduates of associate degree nursing programs (provider of care, client teacher, communicator, manager of client care, and member within the profession of nursing) and examines 11 assumptions basic to the scope of practice for graduates of associate degrees nursing programs. (CT)

A study to explore the frequency with which U.S. schools of nursing have made an organizational response to the mandate to link nursing education and practice and to describe the organizational responses identified is described. An organizational response was defined as the sponsoring of a clinical project. (Author/MLW)

Discusses the nature and scope of the problem of accepting and integrating handicapped students into professional nursing programs. Provides insights and strategies to help nurse educators work with students handicapped by a hearing loss. (JOW)

In fall 2001 staff of the Los Rios Community College District Office of Institutional Research collaborated with occupational deans, academic deans, and faculty to develop and administer a survey of former nursing (RN and LVN) students. The survey was designed to determine how well courses had met the needs of former nursing students who earned…

This study was designed to investigate brief group therapy for underachievement and remediation for deficiencies in basic skills to determine their effectiveness in reducing the attrition rate of nursing students. (Authors/JA)

Describes the use of video tape recordings to provide an efficient and satisfactory modiality for teaching nurses about neurological and neurosurgical nursing. (GB)

The Continuing Education faculty at the University of Colorado School of Nursing considers the evaluation of the long range effects of their continuing education courses a major concern as well as a problem area. (Author)

The curriculum that is described in this paper was conceived as a means of developing rigorous scientific thinking in students and to develop a cognitive style that would enable students to use the theory and content of science in imaginative ways while caring for patients. (Authors)

Examines efforts to bring nursing up to professional status and higher occupational prestige through the development of a unique knowledge base for nursing; upgrading of the nursing curriculum; curriculum emphasis on interpersonal rather than technical aspects of nursing; and attempts to attain greater responsibility for nurses. (Author/MJL)