Two approaches were used to predict State Board Examinations (SBE) results for students in four schools of nursing. Multiple regression was used to predict scores of 191 nurses who graduated and took the SBE. Discriminant function analysis was used for 375 nursing students to predict students who would take and pass the SBE from those who would…

A project to demonstrate how a team of instructor/consultants could function on a regional basis to help upgrade inservice education programs in nursing homes was conducted. The design of this Nursing Home Training Program was structured to allow for changes in demonstrated services in accordance with reactions of participants. An advisory and an…

A guide is presented for the purpose of providing a simple, basic outline for program development of inservice education for nursing personnel who care for the chronically ill and aged in extended care facilities. The following topics are included: (1) inservice education defined, (2) responsibility for inservice education, (3) educational…

This study sought to determine the extent of existing in-service education programs in health care available in northeast central Nebraska and to determine if there was a need for a Community Health Education Consortium (CHEC). Two questionnaires were developed for the study and were mailed to hospitals and nursing homes in a 22 county area; 86%…

The article describes a community college program which prepares licensed vocational nurses to become registered nurses. The program stresses recognition of individual student differences and skills, provides individual and group counseling, and promotes understanding of the role change. (MS)

Describes a Family Nurse Practitioner Program that has effectively improved the distribution of primary health care manpower in rural areas. Program characteristics include selection of personnel from areas of need, decentralization of clinical and didactic training sites, competency-based portable curriculum, and circuit-riding institutionally…

Examines some of the difficulties encountered when elderly married couples apply for admission to an institution. (HMV)

To evaluate the effectiveness of their master's degree program, the University of Kentucky college of nursing surveyed graduates and their employers on the adequacy of the graduates' educational preparation for their positions. Results do not indicate a need for any substantive change in curriculum. (MF)

The author states that a hospital inservice education department must function as a management tool in delivering quality care to patients and that the nursing inservice educator should provide input into administration decisions that have educational implications. She describes an ineffective packaged program used in one hospital without…

Need for additional college education or career change is becoming common for registered nurses who are graduates of hospital diploma programs. This creates challenges for career planning and placement professionals, including counseling of R.N.s with a variety of majors and needs who wish to enter fields other than hospital nursing. (Author)

Single-subject reversal designs were used in teaching elderly nursing-home residents to change dependency behavior and to reacquire and maintain self-feeding skills. Fast control of self-feeding was obtained. Results are discussed. (Author)

The course, Pharmacy and the Skilled Nursing Facility, is the second clinical component for baccalaureate students at the University of the Pacific. On- and off-campus locations provide students with opportunities to simulate the consultant pharmacist and to master a systematic approach to monitoring long-term-care patient therapy. (Author/LBH)

An elective course in public policy is suggested as one way nurses can become knowledgeable about the legislative process and the realities of the political arena so they may influence the outcome of health related bills. (TA)

Problems that confront nursing education and the quality of doctoral preparation are discussed in this article and include the steep rise in requests from nurses for admission into doctoral programs and tight university budgets; other concerns are the development of scholars and sharing research findings. (TA)

Nursing students who believed that they were in control of their own destinies performed better on a reading comprehension test when a woman administered the test than when a man administered the test. (MKM)