The issues presented in this article are understanding and subsequently eliminating nursing's replicability, dealing with the economics of the profession, and establishing an equitable colleagual relationship with physicians. All three of these issues bear a direct relationship to nursing's ability to control its practice, faced by most nurses in…

Discusses the design, implementation, and evaluation of a work-study clinical nursing course designed to allow student nurses to experience the realities of professional nursing. The authors report the reactions of faculty, nursing staff, and students to the experience. (Author/CT)

This article describes how one commercially available system, the Classroom Teacher Support System (CTSS), has been adapted to an individualized nursing program for computer assisted testing. (RAO)

It is advantageous to have two kinds of nurses and two kinds of programs. Eliminating ambiguity simplifies curricular problems and makes it less likely that the associate degree nurses will be misused and also makes it easier for teachers to know what to teach and for prospective nurses to choose a program. (CT)

A 2-day workshop involving students in roles as patients and nurses was conducted which helped students to put together the isolated skills they had learned in modules and integrate them into their clinical practice. (TA)

The California Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory and California Critical Thinking Skills Test were administered to 328 nursing students. There were significant differences in disposition scores between sophomores and juniors/seniors. Weak truth-seeking disposition scores appeared at all levels. (SK)

Peer groups of nursing students met five times per semester. Data from experimental (n=45, n=22) and control (n=44, n=31) groups in spring and fall were collected at three points. Emotional well-being and professional socialization were not enhanced by group experiences; 40% described the groups as completely negative. (Contains 51 references.)…

Presents a nursing model for the integration of health service research into policy formation, including doctoral programs and fellowships. Asserts that empowered nurses can change the country's health policy. (JOW)

Biographies of 177 American nursing leaders who were born before 1890 r deceased by 1988 were analyzed to identify commonalities in their backgrounds. Similarities in background characteristics were found when they were compared with achievers of Renaissance Italy, eighteenth-century Scotland, and nineteenth-century German Jews. (Author/MLW)

Nurses must leave nursing to advance their careers. A rigorous preprofessional science preparation and nursing education at the baccalaureate level followed by a clinical internship is proposed. Nurses would be able to achieve specialty education either by graduate education or through experience and continuing nursing education. (Author/MLW)

A capsule look at nursing scholarship is presented. The purpose of nursing research is to test, refine, and advance the knowledge on which rests improved education; clinical judgment, and cost-effective, safe, and ethical nursing care. The National Center for Nursing Research is discussed. (MLW)

Investigated the relationship between death fear, attitudes toward the elderly, and personal anxiety about aging in nursing home employees. Nursing professionals (registered nurses or licensed practical nurses) had lower levels of death concern than nursing assistants, and results also indicated that nursing assistants displayed significantly…

Describes the Healing Web project, which brings together nursing educators and nursing leaders to manage the transition from the present to the future of nursing education and service. The goal of the Healing Web is to create a values-based curriculum that could generate the support of all. (JOW)

Nursing education in Iran has been influenced by cycles of religious and political change, including fluctuations in women's status, the modernization attempts of the Pahlavi Dynasty, and the shift from secular science-based education and health care back to a system based on religious and cultural principles in the Islamic Republic of Iran. (SK)

Junior nursing students participated as research subjects in a faculty study, collected data for a student project on health attitudes, and analyzed both studies' findings. Thus, they learned about the research process through participation in several different phases. (SK)