This document identifies the essential elements of clinical support for the entire nursing academic mission: undergraduate and graduate education, faculty practice, and research. In addition, it describes the facilitators and barriers to clinical access, particularly focusing on the dynamic nature of the health care delivery system. Among 11…

The extended or external degree approach is considered as a method by which registered nurses may complete a baccalaureate degree. (Author/RK)

Discusses problems in establishing a nursing science theory and which are related to the utilization of basic science theory in professional research and study. (Author/RK)

Focuses on learning through fictional encounters for conceptual development and emphasizes professional educating rather than training in discussing nursing education. (RK)

Describes a revised curriculum that emphasizes auto-tutorial study through the use of a wide range of mediated learning materials. (Editor)

This program demonstrates the feasibility of training highly motivated undereducated nurses aides to become licensed practical nurses. (BH)

Discusses recommendations of the National Commission for the Study of Nursing and Nursing Education. During its study, one of the most salient problems in all nursing soon emerged as that of continuing education. (PT)

The author cites studies that demonstrate the value of peer group techniques for reinforcing learning in educational settings. She reviews the literature on peer group learning in nursing education, and presents a peer group teaching-learning strategy that she developed for a course in community health and psychiatric nursing. (Author/CT)

High quality care and teaching in a nursing home require organization of an active medical staff that enhances and does not distract from a physician's commitment to his practice in the office and hospital. The medical residency program at the Jewish Home for the Elderly of Fairfield, Connecticut, is described. (MLW)

Identifies four categories of information required to develop realistic training programs in Third World countries. A description of the development of a set of workshops on nursing in connection with the Ministry of Health in a sub-Saharan African nation illustrates the effect of these types of information on program development. (JJD)