Nursing Education Perspectives articles from January 2003

Nursing Education Perspectives archives from January 2003

Antidote to violence: forgiveness. (President's Message).
January 1, 2003... As the professional organization that serves as the voice and the home for nursing faculty, the NLN expresses its condolences to the academic community in nursing for the tragic loss of Robin Rogers, Barbara Monroe, and Cheryl MeGaffie, our...

Anger within nursing. (From the Editor).
January 1, 2003... The recent killing of three nurse faculty members by a distraught student at the University of Arizona College of Nursing caused us all to pause. As faculty, we have known both angry colleagues and angry students, those who have lost their way...

Are you man enough to be a nurse? (Education News).
January 1, 2003... Oregon does not have an overall nurse recruitment problem: its educational system presently turns away two to three times the qualified nursing applicants it can accommodate. However, consistent with the rest of the country, less than 10...

Recruitment and retention of faculty. (Education News).
January 1, 2003... "Who will be the faculty of the future?" was the question posed to the members of the Task Group on Recruitment and Retention of Nurse Educators, one of several task groups developed as a result of the NLN's reorganization into four advisory...

Calendar.
January 1, 2003... FEBRUARY 16-21 "The Impact of Global Issues on Women and Children," sponsored by McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario; contact Dr. B. Majumdar, 905/525-9140, x27533, www.fhs.mcmaster.ca.slru. MARCH 12-15 "Let's Get...

Debra. (Faculty Matters).
January 1, 2003... Debra Bartel is district coordinator for the practical nursing program at Indian Capital Technology Center, which has four campuses in Oklahoma and a capacity enrollment of 98 students. She has been involved in practical nursing education for...

Reframing nursing education to renew the profession: the keynote address from the NLN Education Summit 2002.
January 1, 2003... Welcome TO THE NLN EDUCATIONAL SUMMIT AND TO MAKING HISTORY, It all started in 1873 with the graduation of the first nursing student, Linda Richards. Twenty years later, a group of educators, meeting at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, formed the...

Handling anger in the teacher-student relationship.
January 1, 2003... ABSTRACT Educators across the nation are voicing concern about increases in student incivility, anger, and violence. This article explores causes, manifestations, and consequences of nursing students' anger. Recommendations are offered to...

Barriers to creating a more culturally diverse nursing profession: linguistic bias in multiple-choice nursing exams.
January 1, 2003... ABSTRACT As part of a grant to recruit and retain multicultural and economically disadvantaged nursing students, funding was approved for a study analyzing multiple-choice nursing course exams for linguistic and cultural bias. Nineteen exams,...

Predicting NCLEX-RN success: can it be simplified?
January 1, 2003... ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to compare a simple, easily calculated method for predicting student success on the nursing licensure exam (NCLEX-RN) with more statistically complex methods of prediction. The Risk Appraisal Instrument...

2002 Index: Nursing Education Perspectives volume 23, numbers 1-6.
January 1, 2003... AUTHOR INDEX Adams J, Gilman B: Students take the professor home, Nov/Dec: 282-285 (11 ref) Alexander JG, McDaniel GS, Baldwin MS, Money BJ: Promoting, applying and evaluating problem-based learning in the undergraduate nursing...

No Place Like Home: a History of Nursing and Home are in the United States.
January 1, 2003... by Karen Buhler-Wilkerson, PhD, RN, FAAN; Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001; 293 pages, $48.00 Buhler-Wilkerson's historical account provides a sense of the struggles and honor in the changing role of the home care nurse. With...

Complementary/Alternative Therapies in Nursing.
January 1, 2003... edited by Mariah Snyder, PhD, RN, FAAN, and Ruth Lindquist, PhD, RN; New York: Springer Publishing, 2002; 352 pages, $49.95 This fourth edition of Complementary/Alternative Therapies in Nursing is a clear and logical exploration of...

Critical Care Nursing of the Elderly.
January 1, 2003... edited by Terry T. Fulmer, PhD, RN, FAAN, Marquis D. Foreman, PhD, RN, FAAN, Mary Walker, PhD, RN, FAAN, and Kristen J. Montgomery, PhD, RN, IBCLC; New York: Springer Publishing, 2001; 430 pages, $43.95 As any critical care nurse can...

New resources. (Resource Center).
January 1, 2003... The Cancer No One Has to Have A revised educational booklet, "The Cancer Nobody Has to Have and How to Stop It," contains vital information on lifestyle choices and the latest recommendations for the prevention of colorectal cancer issued...

On the web. (Resource Center).
January 1, 2003... www.npecweb.org National Pain Education Council This interactive multimedia web-site contains state-of-the art information on chronic pain arranged for easy accessibility by practitioners in a range of specialty areas. Among the important...

Librarians and nurses, learning together. (Resource Center).
January 1, 2003... A pre-conference symposium on May 3, 2003, just before the Medical Library Association Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA, will be of special interest to nurse educators. The symposium is sponsored by the Nursing and Allied Health Resources...

University of Florida College of Nursing. (Announcements).
January 1, 2003... Ann Horgas, PhD, RN, associate professor at the University of Florida College of Nursing, Gainesville, and core faculty member with the UF Institute on Aging, has been honored with the Springer Award in Geriatric/Gerontologic Nursing,...

University of Virginia School of Nursing. (Announcements).
January 1, 2003... Arlene Keeling, PhD, RN, has been named director of the Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry at the University of Virginia School of Nursing. She is director of the Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Program in the School of Nursing's master's...

University of Illinois. (Announcements).
January 1, 2003... Amelia Mangay-Maglacas, DrPH, RN, FRCN, who conceptualized, designed, and facilitated the establishment of the Global Network of WHO Collaborating Centers for Nursing/Midwifery Development, was presented with the 2002 International...

Oregon Health and Science University. (Announcements).
January 1, 2003... Lillian M. Nail, PhD, RN, FAAN, the Dr. May E. Rawlinson endowed professor of nursing and senior scientist at the Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, is the 2002 recipient of the Oncology Nursing Society Distinguished Researcher...

Director of Education Services for the American Nephrology Nurses' Association. (Announcements).
January 1, 2003... Sally Russell, MN, RN, BC, formerly a faculty member in a diploma school of nursing, has been appointed Director of Education Services for the American Nephrology Nurses' Association.

New Director for Research joins the NLN. (News From Research and Professional Development).
January 1, 2003... Dr. Linbania Jacobson (Lin) joined the NLN as Director for Research on January 6. A resident of New York City, Dr. Jacobson earned her baccalaureate degree in nursing from New York University and her master's and doctorate from Teachers...

Request for proposals. (NLN Update).
January 1, 2003... The NLN Nursing Education Research Grants Program reflects a commitment by the organization to become a leading provider of funds to support nursing education research, particularly research related to one of the NLN Priorities for Research in...

Developing the Science of Nursing Education. (News From Research and Professional Development).
January 1, 2003... On April 4-5, the NLN will offer "Exploring the New Pedagogies: Developing the Science of Nursing Education," a conference to address the science that underlies curriculum development and other areas basic to nursing education. This conference,...

RN and PN Achievement Tests offered at no charge. (News From Assessment and Evaluation).
January 1, 2003... The NLN has announced a special offer that allows schools of nursing to administer one or more Achievement Tests at no charge during this academic year. This offer applies only to tests not used during the last academic year. There is a $50...

The 2002 NLN Education Summit annual meeting: engaging higher education in renewing the nursing profession. (Nursing League for Nursing).
January 1, 2003... Anaheim, California / September 19-22, 2002 During these first years of the 21st century, the American public has been increasingly cognizant of the serious shortage of nurses and the need to educate nurses for the realities of today's...

We are nurses: reflections of a colleague. (End Note).
January 1, 2003... The morning of October 28, 2002, was sunny, clear and crisp. There was no forecast of the dark cloud that was about to descend over Tucson. There was no prediction of the criminal storm that was about to strike the...