Nursing Education Perspectives articles from January 2005

Nursing Education Perspectives archives from January 2005

Finding nursing's voice in 2005.(President's Message)
January 1, 2005... THIS LAST YEAR ended with one of the most devastating human disasters known to man. The tsunami of 2004 killed almost 300,000 people and destroyed villages, homes, businesses, and other infrastructures needed for humans to survive. The impact...

Beginnings.(From the Editor)
January 1, 2005... JANUARY IS TRADITIONALLY a time of reflection. As was announced in the previous issue, 2005 marks the 25th year of publication of the NLN's peer-reviewed journal, now titled Nursing Education Perspectives. We will celebrate this anniversary...

What is new at your school of nursing?(Education News)
January 1, 2005... Please contact Leslie Block, Managing Editor NURSING EDUCATION PERSPECTIVES National League for Nursing 61 Broadway, New York, NY 10006 fax 212/812-0393, e-mail lblock@nln.org

Student engagement report.(Education News)
January 1, 2005... Established in 2001 as a project of the Community College Leadership Program at the University of Texas at Austin, the Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE) is designed to produce information about community college quality and...

Nursing students in Cambodia.(Education News)
January 1, 2005... A twice-weekly television show in Cambodia follows the lives of five nursing students and a student doctor as they complete their studies and work in a hospital. The BBC World Service Trust created the soap, "Roscheath Chiveth," as part of a...

Grand Canyon University.(Education News)
January 1, 2005... Grand Canyon University, Phoenix, Arizona, and St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center have announced the creation of a new, integrated nursing program. Students will be taught by faculty from the university and the hospital at both locations....

Editor's note.
January 1, 2005... I HAVE WRITTEN IN PREVIOUS ISSUES ABOUT how important it is for nurse faculty, as individuals, to serve as ambassadors for our profession among the young people we encounter. I personally try to speak with young people who are seeking...

Diane.(Faculty Matters)
January 1, 2005... DIANE HAMILTON, PHD, RN, a professor at the Bronson School of Nursing, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, is a specialist in psychiatric-mental health nursing and nursing history. Diane explains how these interests came together. Her...

Perspectives on improving nursing's public image.
January 1, 2005... HALF A CENTURY AGO it may not have been absolutely essential for the general public to be informed about nursing and its implications for health care. Today the situation has so vastly changed that this view no longer holds true. The public is...

Commentary.
January 1, 2005... The Beatrice J. Kalisch and Philip A. Kalisch research on nursing portrayal in the media was signaled by this now classic article in 1980. Both authors saw nursing as a key to solving the "health care crisis" at the time, making health care...

The Texas model of differentiated entry-level competencies of graduates of nursing programs.
January 1, 2005... ABSTRACT The Board of Nurse Examiners and the Board of Vocational Nurse Examiners for the state of Texas updated the state's competency-based education model in collaboration with stakeholders in nursing service, state nursing organizations,...

Preventing violence in an academic setting: one school of nursing's approach.
January 1, 2005... ABSTRACT Workplace violence occurs in many different contexts, including academic settings. However, the types of violence that make headlines are less common than the everyday behaviors that, left unchecked, may lead to extreme situations....

Developing the research pipeline: increasing minority nursing research opportunities.
January 1, 2005... ABSTRACT The need to increase the number of minority nurses in policy and leadership positions in health care administration, academia, and research has been acknowledged. Limited academic and research training opportunities are available...

How can I help you? How can you help me? Transforming nursing education through partnerships.
January 1, 2005... WHAT IF WE TOLD YOU that partnerships are a way to put the glitter back in your eyes and the spring back in your step? Something that makes you jump out of bed in the morning energized to start your day? Would you be interested? More than that,...

Calendar.(Calendar)
January 1, 2005... FEBRUARY 4-7 Boot Camp for New Nurse Educators, sponsored by DI Associates, in Albuquerque, NM; contact D. Blach, 888/625-9930; www.northark.edu/ahec. 16-20 The International Critical Incident Stress Foundation 8th World Congress on...

Call for Abstracts.(Resource Center)
January 1, 2005... THE NURSING EDUCATION ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF TEACHERS COLLEGE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, has issued a Call for Abstracts for the 42nd Annual Isabel Maitland Stewart Nursing Research Conference, April 29, 2005. The theme is "Globalization of Nursing...

Tsunami relief.(New Resources)
January 1, 2005... The International Council of Nurses has posted guidelines and resources on its website for nurses who are seeking to respond to the need for relief assistance in the earthquake and tsunami hit region of South Asia. Visit www.icn.ch/PR01_05.htm....

Summer Genetics Institute.(New Resources)
January 1, 2005... Applications are available for the National Institute of Nursing Research Summer Genetics Institute, June 6-July 29, 2005. This intensive research training program is designed for faculty, graduate students, and advanced practice nurses. It...

EOL planning.(New Resources)
January 1, 2005... Two end-of-life planning videos have been re-released by the Society for Critical Care Medicine. The family version addresses advance planning, pain management, and life support withdrawal, among other topics. The professional version features...

New publications by nurses.(Resource Center)
January 1, 2005... Cortney Davis, whose poetry and essays have appeared as End Notes in Nursing Education Perspectives, has a new collection of poetry published in 2004 by the University of Nebraska Press. Leopold's Maneuvers is winner of the Prairie Schooner...

Teaching compassion.(New Resources)
January 1, 2005... A new 45-minute video from the Adventures in Caring Foundation serves as an introductory seminar for health professionals. Featuring real nurses and physicians at work with real patients, the video is sold with a leader guide and handouts...

Cancer stories.(New Resources)
January 1, 2005... For two years, students and faculty at the Perley Isaac Read School of Journalism at West Virginia University followed cancer patients and their families throughout their daily lives. This project resulted in the publication of Cancer Stories:...

Immunization education for migrants.(New Resources)
January 1, 2005... Texas Tech University Health Service Center at El Paso has developed the "Adventure of Pepin," a brief video cartoon and comic book series available in a Spanish/English format. The series was developed to supplement Vaccine Information...

Nursing Education Research.(Resource Center)
January 1, 2005... Proposals are due March 1 for NLN Nursing Education Research Grants. This program provides funds to support nursing education research, particularly research related to one or more of the NLN Priorities for Research in Nursing Education....

National Institute of Nursing Research.(On The Web)
January 1, 2005... http://ninr.nih.gov/research/ The website of the NINR Division of Intramural Research has been revised to ensure that research training opportunities, resources, applications, and contact forms are more accessible than before. Visit this...

Discussion-Based Online Teaching to Enhance Student Learning: Theory, Practice and Assessment.
January 1, 2005... Discussion-Based Online Teaching to Enhance Student Learning: Theory, Practice and Assessment by Tisha Bender, PhD; Sterling, VA: Stylus Press, 2003; 206 pages, $24.95 The title of this book provides an overview of the contents in a...

Understanding the Work of Nurse Theorists.
January 1, 2005... Understanding the Work of Nurse Theorists by Kathleen Sitzman and Lisa Wright Eichelberger; Boston: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 2004; 185 pages, $34.95 Nursing theory can be difficult for students at all levels to understand. Designed...

Annual Review of Nursing Education, Vol. I.
January 1, 2005... Annual Review of Nursing Education, Vol. I edited by Marilyn Oermann, PhD, RN, FAAN, and Kathleen T. Heinrich, PhD, RN; New York: Springer Publishing, 2003; 392 pages, $52.95 Are you seeking innovations to enliven your teaching? Are you...

People of the year: bloggers.(Emerging Technologies Center)
January 1, 2005... READING THIS TITLE, you probably wonder what it has to do with nursing education. As you will see, there is a method to my madness in choosing this topic. This is your opportunity to learn why Peter Jennings, on the December 30, 2004, ABC News...

Patricia G. Archbold, DNSc, RN, FAAN, Elnora E. Thompson Distinguished Professor at the School of Nursing, Oregon Health Sciences University, received the Doris Schwartz Gerontological Nursing Research Award for her breakthrough research in the area of family care for frail elders.(Faculty Notes)
January 1, 2005... Patricia G. Archbold, DNSc, RN, FAAN, Elnora E. Thompson Distinguished Professor at the School of Nursing, Oregon Health Sciences University7, received the Doris Schwartz Gerontological Nursing Research Award for her breakthrough research in...

Cecil Community College.(Faculty Notes)
January 1, 2005... Mary Way Bolt, EdD, RN, professor and associate dean of nursing, Allied Health and Health Sciences, has been named rice president of academic programs at Cecil Community College, North East, Maryland.

Judith C. Drew, PhD, RN, has been appointed the Joseph B. and Mary Alice Collerain Professor of Nursing at the University of Texas Medical Branch School of Nursing in Galveston.(Faculty Notes)
January 1, 2005... Judith C. Drew, PhD, RN, has been appointed the Joseph B. and Mary Alice Collerain Professor of Nursing at the University of Texas Medical Branch School of Nursing in Galveston. Diane Heliker, PhD, RN, has been appointed to the Edgar and Grace...

Lt. Col. Paula Goodman, MSN, RN, who retired this summer, was named 2004 Clinical Instructor of the Year by the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists.(Faculty Notes)
January 1, 2005... Lt. Col. Paula Goodman, MSN, RN, who retired this summer, was named 2004 Clinical Instructor of the Year by the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists. She was director of nurse anesthesia clinical training for the Uniformed Services...

Deborah Henderson, PhD, RN, associate professor of nursing at Ohio University-Zanesville, received the Shining Star of Excellence award.(Faculty Notes)
January 1, 2005... Deborah Henderson, PhD, RN, associate professor of nursing at Ohio University-Zanesville, received the Shining Star of Excellence award from Lifeline of Ohio for supporting and educating hospital staff and nursing students about organ and...

Elizabeth Howard, PhD, RN, NP, associate professor at Northeastern University School of Nursing, Boston, received the Distinguished Alumna Award from the University of Massachusetts Amherst School of Nursing.(Faculty Notes)
January 1, 2005... Elizabeth Howard, PhD, RN, NP, associate professor at Northeastern University School of Nursing, Boston, received the Distinguished Alumna Award from the University of Massachusetts Amherst School of Nursing. She started the first neonatal...

The American Journal of Nursing has awarded the AJN-Beatrice Renfield Caring for the Caregiver Award to Rita Hillman for her commitment to fighting the nursing shortage through financial support of projects to support nurses' career development.(Faculty Notes)
January 1, 2005... The American Journal of Nursing has awarded the AJN-Beatrice Renfield Caring for the Caregiver Award to Rita Hillman for her commitment to fighting the nursing shortage through financial support of projects to support nurses' career...

Hospice and Palliative Nurses Foundation.(Faculty Notes)
January 1, 2005... The Hospice and Palliative Nurses Foundation Board of Directors has elected officers. Incoming president is Jane Kirschling, DNS, RN, dean of the College of Nursing and Health Professions, University of Southern Maine, Portland. Cynda Rushton,...

Journal of Forensic Nursing.(Faculty Notes)
January 1, 2005... Louanne Lawson, PhD, RN, FAAN, chair of the doctoral program at the College of Nursing, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, has been named editor of the Journal of Forensic Nursing, which will be published quarterly starting this...

Army Nurse Corps Col. Julia Boland Paparella (Ret.), MSEd, MSLS, RN, associate professor emerita of the College of Nursing, Villanova University, was awarded the Legion of Honor by the government of France for her participation in the liberation of France during the D-Day invasion of June 1944.(Faculty Notes)
January 1, 2005... Army Nurse Corps Col. Julia Boland Paparella (Ret.), MSEd, MSLS, RN, associate professor emerita of the College of Nursing, Villanova University, was awarded the Legion of Honor by the government of France for her participation in the...

Norma Martinez Rogers, PhD, RN, associate professor of family nursing care at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, was honored.(Faculty Notes)
January 1, 2005... Norma Martinez Rogers, PhD, RN, associate professor of family nursing care at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, was honored by the National Association of Hispanic Nurses as the National Hispanic Nurse of the Year.

Becker College.(Faculty Notes)
January 1, 2005... Judith L. Tuori, MSN, APRN, BC, has been named director of the nursing program at Becker College, Worcester, Massachusetts.

In memoriam.(Faculty Notes)(Obituary)
January 1, 2005... Ruth Dalrymple, former dean at the University of Cincinnati College of Nursing, died in December at the age of 88. Prior to joining the faculty in Cincinnati in 1968, she was director of the baccalaureate department at the University of North...

Substantive innovation in nursing education: shifting the emphasis from content coverage to student learning.(Headlines from the NLN)
January 1, 2005... In 2002, the NLN's Nursing Education Advisory Council (NEAC) discussed ways to provide guidance to nurse educators in all types of programs about how to balance increasing demands to cover more and more content (e.g., gerontology, genetics,...

Nursing education perspectives came to life in 1980. What else happened in 1980?(End Note)
January 1, 2005... Iran and Iraq were at war. Six United States embassy aides escaped from Dan with Canadian help in the continuing Iran hostage affair. Mount St. Helens, which had been a dormant volcano since 1857, erupted. The United States boycotted...