Three-day inservice training programs are being conducted by the Michigan Division of Services for the Blind to assist nursing home personnel in working with visually impaired residents. (CL)

Presented as "tribes," the health professions of nursing and medicine are discussed in terms of their areas of conflict, historical development, and professional interest via a comparative transcultural "experience" wherein the two subcultures are approached ethnographically. (JC)

Although gender, race, and class are often perceived as three separate issues, the intersection of gender, race, and class holds true, whether the researcher is trying to analyze the elements of a group's identity or trying to analyze the social structures that create this identity. A symposium was organized around three separate narrative…

A survey was conducted to gather information on full-time nurse faculty salaries and related information such as gender, year of birth, race/ethnicity, degree level, rank, level and area of teaching, and tenure status. Findings, presented in numerous data tables, provide a benchmarking resource for comparing salary data on an academic and a…

Based on a survey of master's level nurse practitioner (NP) educational programs, this report presents data on: (1) types of programs and their characteristics; (2) programs by NP role preparation (single track, dual track, or combined NP/clinical nurse specialist); (3) course content areas included in core master's and clinical (didactic and/or…

An instructional design team, composed of experts in nursing, education, and media production, is used at the University of Wisconsin School of Nursing, Madison, to produce instructional units for a new curriculum. The authors summarize steps of team/faculty communications, team methodology, and factors influencing the team's effectiveness. (EA)

A learning experience developed by the author with three phases of death is described as utilized in the undergraduate nursing program at the University of Texas School of Nursing. (DS)

An example of how one clinical nurse specialist functions in her primary role of practitioner and how, despite the role's mobility and lack of structure, she has cultivated the traits and skills needed to be a designer as well as an implementer of care working in a colleague relationship with physicians. (AJ)

Describes a project called Subregional Approach to Improved Nursing Care, the central focus of which is to provide better use of human resources for improvement of patient care. (GB)

Article weighs the advantages of using closed circuit television for inservice training against the cost of video equipment and finds the balance in favor of the former. (GB)

Article reports on efforts to evaluate and to document behavioral changes which occur in nursing practice and on efforts to determine the effect of continuing education on patient care. (GB)