Nursing Education Perspectives articles from January 2004

Nursing Education Perspectives archives from January 2004

Innovation in nursing education.(President's Message)
January 1, 2004... The latest report from the Institute of Medicine on patient safety, Keeping Patients Safe: Transforming the Work Environment of Nurses, is another effort to improve the quality of health care (1). Its focus is the key role that nurses play with...

Starting a student-focused teaching revolution.(From the Editor)
January 1, 2004... RECENTLY, HUNDREDS OF PHYSICIANS, members of the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP), started a Patient-Centered Care Revolution. At their annual meeting in October 2003, hundreds of physicians took the Patient-Focused Care Pledge as...

Aligned, statewide nursing program in Wisconsin.(Education News)
January 1, 2004... Faculty and administrators from each of Wisconsin's 16 technical colleges recently completed a two-year, collaborative curriculum development project focused on alleviating the state's nursing shortage. Developed in collaboration with the...

Improving child care in Georgia.(Education News)
January 1, 2004... Georgia State University's Byrdine F. Lewis School of Nursing in Atlanta has instituted CAN, the Childcare Advantage Network, which educates child-care health consultants who work with Georgia's day care centers to improve quality and services....

Tobacco-free nurses.(Education News)
January 1, 2004... Nurse educators from California and Ohio, with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, are spearheading a national initiative aimed at helping nurses quit smoking. Linda Sarna, a professor at the UCLA School of Nursing, Dr. Mary Ellen...

Correction.(Education News)(Correction Notice)
January 1, 2004... "ADN Nursing Celebrates Golden Anniversary" (Education News. Nov/Dec 2003) states erroneously that Virginia State College, Norfolk, no longer offers an ADN degree. The school, now known as Norfolk State University, has an ADN program as well as...

Letter to the editor.(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2004... THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF STATE BOARDS OF NURSING (NCSBN) is dismayed by the recent tragic events surrounding the Charles Cullen case, a nurse who admitted to killing patients while on duty. The vast majority of licensed nurses are highly...

Faculty matters.
January 1, 2004... GAIL KOST, MSN. RN, BARBARA CHALKO, MSN, RN,C, and SHARON VINTEN, MSN, RNC, WHNP, colleagues in the School of Nursing at Indiana University, Indianapolis, have created a course for faculty entitled "Clinical Orientation: A New Practice Role,"...

Developing abstracts for workshops and conferences: improve your chance of acceptance.(Quick Reads)
January 1, 2004... Professionals frequently receive calls for abstracts. For nursing faculty members striving to present their work at national and international workshops and conferences, it is extremely important to learn to submit quality abstracts. This is an...

Standardized patient experiences: evaluation of clinical performance and nurse practitioner student satisfaction.
January 1, 2004... ABSTRACT Standardized Patients (people trained to accurately portray a specific patient) have been widely used by medical schools and, to a lesser degree, by schools of nursing as a method for evaluating clinical performance. These trained...

Clinical education initiative in the community: caring for patients with congestive heart failure.
January 1, 2004... ABSTRACT With greater numbers of chronically ill clients cared for in their homes rather than in acute care hospitals, nursing schools need to create and implement innovative strategies for experiences in the community setting. A telephone...

Comfort levels of nursing students regarding clinical assignment to a patient with AIDS.
January 1, 2004... ABSTRACT For educators, preparing nursing students for the care of persons with AIDS is an important responsibility. A review of the literature suggests that many nursing students are fearful of occupational transmission of HIV and that...

TNEEL workshop: interactive methods for teaching end-of-life care.
January 1, 2004... ABSTRACT Nurse educators have identified lack of end-of-life content as a serious deficit in undergraduate nursing education. TNEEL, a new software program with tools for teaching end-of-life topics, was created to help educators overcome this...

Who, when, why, how?(Curriculum Evaluation)
January 1, 2004... ABSTRACT The faculty of a large, Midwestern, public university implemented a community-based baccalaureate curriculum to prepare students for the changing health care environment. Evaluation was planned as the curriculum was developed. The...

Wayne State University College of Nursing.(Announcements)
January 1, 2004... Naomi E. Ervin, PhD, APRN, BC, FAAN, is now assistant dean and associate professor of Family, Community and Mental Health Nursing at Wayne State University College of Nursing, Detroit, MI.

Patty Hale, PhD, FNP, RN, professor of nursing at Lynchburg College, Lynchburg, VA, has been named one of four national winners of the 2003 U.S. Professors of the Year Awards from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.(Announcements)
January 1, 2004... Patty Hale, PhD, FNP, RN, professor of nursing at Lynchburg College, Lynchburg, VA, has been named one of four national winners of the 2003 U.S. Professors of the Year Awards from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education and the...

University of Maryland School of Nursing.(Announcements)
January 1, 2004... Deborah B. McGuire, PhD, RN, FAAN, has joined the faculty of the University of Maryland School of Nursing as a professor in the Department of Organizational Systems and Adult Health.

Daniel J. Pesut, PhD, APRN, BC, FAAN, professor and department chair for Environments for Health at Indiana University School of Nursing-Purdue University, Indianapolis, has been installed as president of Sigma Theta Tau International for a two-year term.(Announcements)
January 1, 2004... Daniel J. Pesut, PhD, APRN, BC, FAAN, professor and department chair for Environments for Health at Indiana University School of Nursing-Purdue University, Indianapolis, has been installed as president of Sigma Theta Tau International for a...

The New York University Division of Nursing has presented its annual MacInnes Award for outstanding achievement in nursing and contributions to practice to Roy Simpson, RNC, CMAC, FNAP, FAAN, Vice President of Nursing Informatics at the Cerner Corporation, Kansas City, MO.(Announcements)
January 1, 2004... The New York University Division of Nursing has presented its annual MacInnes Award for outstanding achievement in nursing and contributions to practice to Roy Simpson, RNC, CMAC, FNAP, FAAN, Vice President of Nursing Informatics at the Cerner...

Teaching immunization practices.(New Resources)
January 1, 2004... Two tools for teaching nurses about immunization are available through a cooperative agreement between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine. "Teaching Immunization Practices for...

Summer institute on evidence-based practice.(New Resources)
January 1, 2004... The goals of the 2004 Summer Institute on Evidence-Based Practice are to build interdisciplinary approaches to improve quality health care and maximize clinical effectiveness through the use of scientific evidence in practice. The deadline for...

National immunization program.(New Resources)
January 1, 2004... More information about immunization education, including customized on-site training courses, is available through the CDC's National Immunization Program. Visit the NIP homepage at www.cdc.gov/nip/ and select resources and publications.

Hand hygiene.(New Resources)
January 1, 2004... A new educational video, "Hand Hygiene: Cleaning Up Our Act," reviews new CDC guidelines for health care settings. Produced for the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology by Envision, Inc., with a grant from 3M...

Rosacea diagnosis.(New Resources)
January 1, 2004... The National Rosacea Society is offering "Understanding Rosacea," a consumer education booklet that contains new diagnostic guidelines and treatment options. Call 888/NO-BLUSH or e-mail rosacea@aol.com.

Audio-web conferences on nursing education.(New Resources)
January 1, 2004... The NLN now offers audio-web conferences on topics of interest to nurse educators. Two conferences are currently scheduled: "Legal Issues in Nursing Education" with Linda Christensen, JD, MSN, RN, February 3, and "Students with Disabilities"...

National diabetes education program.(On the web: www.betterdiabetescare.nih.gov)
January 1, 2004... This is a practical online resource that helps health care providers implement evidence-based, patient-centered care. Topics include team care and community partnerships, as well as examples of best practices and ways to implement change.

STD case series.(On the web: www.STDcases.org)
January 1, 2004... The National Network of STD/HIV Prevention Training Centers provides free online continuing education for health care providers. Cases on this site simulate an actual clinic encounter. Users are asked to take a sexual history, conduct a...

Disaster Nursing and Emergency Preparedness for Chemical, Biological, and Radiological Terrorism and Other Hazards.
January 1, 2004... edited by Tener Goodwin Veenema, PhD, MPH, MS, CPNP; New York: Springer Publishing, 2003; 616 pages, $79.95 With this book, Dr. Veenema has definitely met her objective--presenting the "foundation for best practice in disaster nursing and...

Spirituality in Nursing: From Traditional to New Age (2nd ed.).
January 1, 2004... by Barbara Stevens Barnum, PhD, RN, FAAN; New York: Springer Publishing, 2003; 216 pages, $38.96 The revision of this book is timely. The first edition of Spirituality in Nursing was written when spirituality was just entering nursing's...

Caring for Women Cross-Culturally.
January 1, 2004... edited by Patricia St. Hill, PhD, MPH, RN, Juliene G. Lipson, PhD, RN, FAAN, and Afaff Ibrahim Meleis, PhD, RN, FAAN; Philadelphia: F.A. Davis, 2003; 384 pages, $29.95 Much like the well-known work Culture and Nursing Care: A Pocket Guide...

Trends in registered nurse education programs 1998-2008: summary report.(Headlines from the NLN)
January 1, 2004... IN 1999, the Connecticut Colleagues in Caring Team, led by the Connecticut League for Nursing, conducted a pilot study "to identify how the practices, methodologies, and strategies used in RN nurse education programs changed in the previous...

Calendar.(Headlines from the NLN)(Calendar)
January 1, 2004... FEBRUARY 23-24 The 29th Annual March of Dimes Perinatal Conference, in Chicago, IL; call N. Kemerer, 312/435-4006, or e-mail nkemerer@marchof dimes.com. 26-29 "Global Aging" the 30th Annual Meeting and Leadership Conference of the...

Position statement: innovation in nursing education: a call to reform.
January 1, 2004... Approved by the NLN Board of Governors August 22, 2003 The National League for Nursing's Curriculum Revolution of the late 1980s called for a re-examination of curricular structures and processes: how nursing programs were designed,...

A Sprinkle of snow.(End Note)
January 1, 2004... A Sprinkle of Snow A light burst of snow flurries cascades past my window as I gaze thinking how beautiful nature can be. Something so small as a snowflake brings so much joy only to rapidly disappear as it encounters the...