Nursing Education Perspectives articles from January 2006

Nursing Education Perspectives archives from January 2006

Flattening the nursing world.(President's Message)
January 1, 2006... JANUARY IS THAT HALFWAY TIME through the academic year when New Year's resolutions are either well in hand or well forgotten, classes have resumed, and spring break is not nearly close enough for anyone. As we begin 2006, an interesting...

Blinking: the art of clinical judgment?(From the Editor)
January 1, 2006... ALTHOUGH I FEEL AS IF I AM THE LAST SEMI-INTELLECTUAL to have read Malcolm Gladwell's Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (1), I picked it up shortly after it was first published early in 2005. My immediate reaction to this new book...

Riverside community college/case western partnership.(Education News)
January 1, 2006... Searching for creative and innovative partnerships is a typical practice for the dean and department chair of the associate degree program at Riverside Community College, the fourth largest ADN program in California. Since their program was...

Nursing and allied health database.(Education News)
January 1, 2006... Elsevier Bibliographic Databases has introduced the beta version of EMCare, a new bibliographic database drawn from more than 2,700 international source titles, including close to 2 million records from the nursing, allied health, and...

University of Jordan PhD in nursing.(Education News)
January 1, 2006... With 8,000 RNs in the country, the University of Jordan has inaugurated its first PhD in nursing program, designed to promote nursing education, practice, and research at the national and international levels. Eight students are currently...

AS AN ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF NURSING in a stepwise baccalaureate program for RNs at Weber State University, Ogden, Utah, Kathleen L. Sitzman, MS, RN, is heavily involved in developing and maintaining online and on-campus curricula.(Faculty Matters)
January 1, 2006... AS AN ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF NURSING in a stepwise baccalaureate program for RNs at Weber State University, Ogden, Utah, Kathleen L. Sitzman, MS, RN, is heavily involved in developing and maintaining online and on-campus curricula. Kathy is...

Strong minds, healing hands, and compassionate hearts: developing a contemporary and creative twist on tradition.(Quick Reads)
January 1, 2006... STRUGGLING TO ADAPT TO CHANGING SOCIAL FORCES and hold on to core values that confirm his identity, Tevye, the dairyman and father of five daughters in the well-known play Fiddler on the Roof, notes that without tradition, "our lives would be...

Creating new futures in nursing education: envisioning the evolution of e-nursing education.(CREATING NEW FUTURES)
January 1, 2006... ABSTRACT This article discusses the explosion of technology and its impact on nursing education in the face of a nurse educator shortage. An attempt is made to answer the following questions: What incremental changes in technology do we have...

Innovations in clinical simulation: application of Benner's theory in an interactive patient care simulation.(CLINICAL SIMULATION)
January 1, 2006... ABSTRACT This article introduces the University of Maryland Baltimore School of Nursing clinical simulation protocol structure and lessons learned while using this protocol in a mandatory learning experience for over 190 adult health students....

The population-focused analysis project for teaching community health.(COMMUNITY HEALTH)
January 1, 2006... ABSTRACT New instructional methodologies that foster student inquiry, critical thinking, accountability, group work, and self-mastery skills must be created to meet the challenges of modern community health nursing. Bold steps need to be taken...

Evidence-based program requirements: evaluation of statistics as a required course.(STATISTICS PREREQUISITE)
January 1, 2006... ABSTRACT A retrospective student record review was conducted to determine how achievement in a prerequisite statistics course related to achievement in nursing research courses and the overall program for undergraduate and graduate nursing...

Academic dishonesty, bullying, incivility, and violence: difficult challenges facing nurse educators.(CHALLENGES FOR EDUCATORS)
January 1, 2006... Prior to the NLN Education Summit 2005, the authors took part in a conference call to discuss some of the difficulties and challenges faced by faculty in schools of nursing. Familiar with the growing body of published work on troublesome...

Calendar.(CHALLENGES FOR EDUCATORS)(Calendar)
January 1, 2006... FEBRUARY 10-12 The Society for Health Systems 18th Annual Conference, "Addressing the National Mandate for Change," in San Diego, CA; contact J. Milczarski, 777/349-1106; www.shsweb.org. 17-18 "Improving the Quality of End-of-Life Care...

NLN research grants / request for proposals.(Resource Center)
January 1, 2006... Three new features have been added to the 2006 NLN Research Grants Program: 1) Priority will be given to proposals that indicate formal partnerships between experienced and beginning researchers. 2) Preference will be given to proposals where...

Standardized health records.(NEW RESOURCES)
January 1, 2006... Although much of the work needed to standardize health information is under way, each effort is independent and proceeding at its own pace. The federal Commission on Systemic Interoperability has issued recommendations pinpointing 14 steps for...

Nurse author/editor.(NEW RESOURCES)
January 1, 2006... In March 2006, Blackwell Publishing will take over the publication of the quarterly newsletter, Nurse Author & Editor. Free and online, Nurse Author & Editor will continue to offer advice on writing quality manuscripts and finding publishing...

A new journal for students.(NEW RESOURCES)
January 1, 2006... Community-Campus Partnerships for Health is organizational partner in Context, a new peer reviewed electronic journal for health professional students working to improve the health of communities. Papers are accepted on a rolling basis. For...

Working with older patients.(NEW RESOURCES)
January 1, 2006... The National Institute on Aging has revised Working with Your Older Patient: A Clinician's Handbook as a useful free tool for students, new practitioners, and primary care providers. Along with a comprehensive list of national resources, the...

My medicare matters.(NEW RESOURCES)
January 1, 2006... Using vans and on-the-ground teams, My Medicare Matters[TM] will provide a continuous presence in 27 states during the six-month Medicare Part D enrollment period, which ends May 15, 2006. Working with community organizations, educators will...

www.an nanurse.org/aging American nephrology nurses' association.(ON THE WEB)
January 1, 2006... As part of a larger initiative to provide better nursing care to older adults, the ANNA has launched this web resource Containing links, articles, and education events on general gerontologic care as well as information specific to persons...

www.musc.edu/tide teaching immunization delivery and evaluation.(ON THE WEB)
January 1, 2006... Organized as four self-contained modules, TIDE is a nontraditional web-based interactive curriculum designed to give faculty and practitioners a flexible tool to teach and learn immunization delivery and evaluation. Clinical scenarios trigger...

Test success: test-taking techniques for beginning nursing students (4th ed.).
January 1, 2006... Test Success: Test-Taking Techniques for Beginning Nursing Students (4th ed.) Patricia M. Nugent, EdD, RN, and Barbara A. Vitale, MA, RN; Philadelphia: F. A. Davis, 2004; 395 pages, $28.95 Designed to provide nursing students with...

Giving Voice to What We Know: Implementing Margaret Newman's Theory of Health as Expanding Consciousness in Nursing Practice, Research, and Education.
January 1, 2006... Giving Voice to What We Know: Implementing Margaret Newman's Theory of Health as Expanding Consciousness in Nursing Practice, Research, and Education edited by Carol Picard, PhD, RN, and Dorothy Jones, EdD, RN, FAAN; Sudbury, MA: Jones and...

Beyond Method: Philosophical Conversations in Healthcare Research and Scholarship.
January 1, 2006... Beyond Method: Philosophical Conversations in Healthcare Research and Scholarship edited by Pamela M. Ironside, PhD, RN: Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005, 368 pages; $60.00 (paperback, $24.95) Fourth in a series entitled...

Pivotal Moments in Nursing: Leaders Who Changed the Path of a Profession.
January 1, 2006... Pivotal Moments in Nursing: Leaders Who Changed the Path of a Profession by Beth P. Houser, MS, RN, FNP-C, and Kathy N. Player, EdD, RN; Indianapolis, IN: Sigma Theta Tau International, 2004; 320 pages, $29.95 Speaking of 12 major nursing...

Faculty notes.
January 1, 2006... Rojann Alpers, PhD, RN, associate professor at the Arizona State University College of Nursing, Phoenix, has been named director of the new Office for International Nursing and Healthcare. The Institute of Medicine and the National Academy...

In memoriam.(Obituary)
January 1, 2006... Margretta Madden Styles, past president of the American Nurses Association, the International Council of Nurses, the California Board of Registered Nursing, and the American Nurses Credentialing Center, died on November 20 at the age of 75. Dr....

The 2005 word of the year: podcast.(Emerging Technologies Center)
January 1, 2006... IN DECEMBER, the editors of the New Oxford American Dictionary declared podcast the 2005 word of the year. They defined the term as "a digital recording of a radio broadcast or similar program, made available on the Internet for downloading to...

A first step toward reform: results of the faculty survey on innovation.(Headlines from the NLN)
January 1, 2006... Charged with stimulating the educational community to think in new ways about teaching and learning, the NLN Nursing Education Advisory Council (NEAC) appointed the Task Group on Innovation in 2003. The purpose of the group was to enhance...

Teacher.(End NOTE)
January 1, 2006... TEACHER is to be read from the bottom up, starting with the column to the left. Once you reach the top, read the right-hand column, again from bottom to top. It will become apparent that mid-way in the second column, students take on more and...