The Colerain Vocational Center in Cincinnati offers a training program to high school home economics students through which they become patient-activity coordinators for residents in nursing homes. The activities of the trainees serve to meet the needs of older adults in the community. (EC)

Criterion referenced measurement is one method which can be utilized to evaluate the learner's achievement of the objectives of continuing education programs and an invaluable mechanism whereby program effectiveness can be evaluated. How to set up an instructional module using a criterion referenced base (subject matter, objectives, test…

Suggested are indirect and direct ways in which nurse educators can broaden their participation in quality assurance programs for patient care. Two of these are: appropriate preparation of their students and contribution of their own expertise to the process in the clinical practice setting. (Author/MS)

There are many ways in which long-term care facilities attempt to cope with the mental health problems of the elderly. The author reviews five factors crucial to effective care for the aged in these facilities. (Author/RK)

Evaluation guidelines designed by nurse educators for undergraduate clinical nursing students include a modified rating scale of behaviorally stated expectations about students' knowledge and skills. Both students and teachers liked the frequent feedback and consistent expectations of the new guidelines. (MF)

The educator planning continuing education programs for nurses should move from a unidimensional focus which examines only the internal determinants of the nursing profession to a wholistic focus embracing a community orientation. This article presents a model comprised of five elements for use in planning continuing nursing education programs.…

To develop better guidelines for its use, the experiential service setting is examined ethically and the conditions under which this setting can and cannot be used as a learning laboratory are specified. (TA)

This study focuses on the relationship of intensity of religious commitment to use of indirect life-threatening behavior among elderly, chronically ill hospital patients. Findings indicate intensity of religious commitment is a potentially more meaningful measure of religiosity than formal church membership. (Author)

Night shift nursing home aides who received in-service training in behavior therapy designed and implemented intervention programs for two of their most difficult residents. Describes programs and their outcomes. Discusses use of staff members as agents of behavior change. (Author/NB)

A survey of 20 public health schools and 240 university schools of nursing found that nuclear war related content was most likely to be appear in disaster nursing and in environmental health courses. Innovative curricula included political action projects for nuclear war prevention. (FMW)

The possible impact of doctoral nursing programs on nursing education is examined from historical and current perspectives, and the relationship of research to other faculty functions and responsibilities is examined. (MSE)

Assigned 27 demented elderly nursing home residents to either reminiscence group therapy, supportive group therapy, or a no-treatment control group. Results showed the self-reported level of depression in participants given reminiscence therapy was positively affected compared with participants in the supportive therapy and control groups.…

Reviews physical and mental factors that influence the reading habits of older Americans. Discusses their motivations for reading, reading programs for institutionalized elders, ways to encourage older people to use the public library, and other ways to encourage older people to read. (SKC)

The paper describes the development, content, and evaluation of an indigeniously produced video training package in the developing country of Zimbabwe which is designed for local personnel (nurses, nurses' aides, trainee nurses, and teachers) working with severely retarded and multiply handicapped children and young adults. (DB)

Analyzed interprofessional agreements (N=26) between nurses and social workers when rating older patients on their physical self-maintenance abilities, mental status, and dispositions to social interaction with other residents of a home for the aged. Findngs showed significant intercorrelations of physical self-maintenance abilities and mental…