Describes attitude sets characterized as ethics as intuition, ethics as foreign language, and ethics as irrelevant to practice among nurses and physicians and the consequences they engender. Addresses strategies to bridge the gap between ethics knowledge and clinical practice, including interdisciplinary ethics education. (JOW)

The recommendations for nurses to become culturally competent fall into two categories. The first focuses on the content and structure of the encounter between provider and patient; the second charges providers with becoming knowledge about the culture of their patients. Cultural competence is really nursing competence--the capacity to be equally…

Community health nurses serve individuals, families, and groups as they contribute to the health of the population as a whole. Public health nurses' clients are groups, families, and individuals but only as they are members of larger populations described as being at high risk. (JOW)

Describes a course to teach students how to set up and successfully run an entrepreneurial nursing business--something more nurses will be attempting in the next decade. (Author)

Feminist approaches in nursing education have the potential to reconceptualize nursing curricula. Ideally, they can also reframe women's health care. (JOW)

Story telling, an age-old human craft, is a powerful tool for contextualizing and humanizing nursing knowledge and facilitating deeper understanding of oneself and others. It contrasts with the rhetoric surrounding reflective practice. (SK)

Used data from nursing homes (n=33) to analyze nursing homes' response to requests to participate in field study. Multiple organizational characteristics predicted responsiveness. Facilities with greater financial resources were more likely to grant access. Stable administration and local facility control predicted higher response rates of nurses.…

A study to describe conditions under which nursing exerts self-regulation focused on the responses of nurses and nurse administrators (n=38) to colleagues who are considered to be in breach of professional practice codes and on actions typically initiated in such situations. Found that supervisors operate on the basis of well-established…

Nursing leaders such as Florence Nightingale, Linda Richards, Mary Adelaide Nutting, and Annie Goodrich were all encouraged by mentors to develop professionally. Most successful professionals have had at least one mentor. (SK)

Surveyed older community dwellers' (n=250) beliefs, fears, and expectations of one day entering a nursing home, and background factors. Results indicated that beliefs regarding care-related issues were more important determinants of their reactions to nursing homes than were the risks their own situation entailed. (Author/ABL)

Discusses the ERIC system as it relates to nursing education information and materials. Describes ERIC, how to access it, and how to submit materials for possible inclusion into the ERIC database. (JOW)

In interviews with 16 female nursing students, caring was a motivator, but power and empowerment for self and others were the most fully developed reasons for choosing nursing. They showed scant interest in practical motivations such as salary, security, and working conditions. (SK)

A literature review was used to develop a model of role transition, identifying factors shaping nurses' understanding of the role shift from hospital practice to home-care nursing. Orientation and education aimed at minimizing role strain were recommended. (SK)

Causal factors contributing to errors in medication administration should be thoroughly investigated, focusing on systems rather than individual nurses. Unless systemic causes are addressed, many errors will go unreported for fear of reprisal. (Contains 42 references.) (SK)

A survey of 15 genetics nurses reveals both grassroots and top-down approaches to advancing genetics in nursing practice, research, and education. As genome-based health care spreads, nursing should concentrate on bringing genetics into clinical practice and scholarship. (Contains 33 references.) (SK)