Nursing Education Perspectives articles from March 2005

Nursing Education Perspectives archives from March 2005

Basic rights, health care, and public policy: as faculty, we also have a very important role to play. We must communicate how the faculty shortage stands in the way of increasing the number of nurses who are available to provide health care in the United States. Writing to our representatives in Congress is one way each of us can share information about the impact of the nursing shortage and influence public policy.(President's Message)
March 1, 2005... As I write this message, I am preparing to travel to Ethiopia where I am involved in an educational development project sponsored by the Carter Center, funded by USAID. This project involves the participation of seven universities in...

Creating an inclusive science for nursing education.(Guest Editorial)
March 1, 2005... NO ONE WOULD ARGUE that research-based nursing practice is not needed or that there should not be a science of nursing. That would be an anathema. Yet, how are students best prepared for practice in ways that reflect the research base of our...

Clinical doctorate in nursing.(Education News)
March 1, 2005... The New York State Regents approved and registered Columbia University's Doctor of Nursing Practice (DrNP) degree, which was approved by the Columbia University Trustees in June 2004. The degree builds on advanced practice at the master's level...

Health Care Ethics.(Education News)
March 1, 2005... St. Louis University in Missouri, through its Center for Health Care Ethics, has established a new graduate-level certificate in health care ethics. The program was established to foster clinical ethics skills and knowledge needed by ethics...

Environmental health.(Education News)
March 1, 2005... A study conducted by the National Environmental Education and Training Foundation and published in the November 2004 issue of Environmental Health Perspectives points to a need for the inclusion of environmental health topics in nursing and...

Faculty matters.
March 1, 2005... MARGIE WILLIAMS has been on the faculty at Blessing-Rieman College of Nursing since 1986, shortly after the school began offering a four-year baccalaureate program. She teaches a variety of courses in the RN track, including health promotion...

Recalling the Curriculum Revolution: innovation with research.(Converging Conversations)
March 1, 2005... AS NURSING EDUCATION PERSPECTIVES CELEBRATES ITS 25TH ANNIVERSARY, it is important to revisit the Curriculum Revolution as a historic movement. Between 1989 and 1994, the National League for Nursing held four conferences that led to the...

Working together, creating excellence: the experiences of nursing teachers, students, and clinicians.
March 1, 2005... ABSTRACT This study, conducted to inform the development and implementation of the National League for Nursing Centers of Excellence in Nursing Education Program[TM], provides a hermeneutical analysis of the common experiences and shared...

Teaching nursing without lecturing: critical pedagogy as communicative dialogue.
March 1, 2005... ABSTRACT This article is an interpretive analysis of the author's method of teaching nursing to a diverse student body in an associate degree program. Rather than lecturing, the author and her colleagues facilitate small-group discussions,...

Enacting connectedness in nursing education: moving from pockets of rhetoric to reality.
March 1, 2005... ABSTRACT Nursing education research points to lack of faculty support as a factor in nursing students' voluntary or involuntary withdrawal from nursing education programs. Moreover, despite global trends toward educational processes grounded in...

A framework for designing, implementing, and evaluating simulations used as teaching strategies in nursing.
March 1, 2005... ABSTRACT This article presents a framework that can be used to design, implement, and evaluate simulations used for teaching strategies in nursing education. Components of the framework include best practices in education, student factors,...

Using portfolios to evaluate achievement of population-based public health nursing competencies in baccalaureate nursing students.
March 1, 2005... ABSTRACT Public health nurses from 13 local public health agencies and nurse educators from five schools of nursing developed population-based public health nursing competencies for new graduates and novice public health nurses. Educators in...

Accelerated nursing programs: what do we know?
March 1, 2005... ABSTRACT Accelerated nursing programs, also referred to as second-degree programs, are targeted to students who enter with a baccalaureate or higher degree in a field other than nursing. While these programs are rapidly increasing across the...

Conversations in Critical Thinking and Clinical Judgment.
March 1, 2005... Conversations in Critical Thinking and Clinical Judgment edited by Marilynn Jackson, PhD, MA, RN, Donna D. Ignatavicius, MS, RN, Cm, and Bette Case, PhD, RN, BC; Pensacola, FL: Pohl Publishing, 2004; 296 pages, $36.95 Critical thinking can...

Mental Wellness in Aging: Strengths-Based Approaches.
March 1, 2005... Mental Wellness in Aging: Strengths-Based Approaches edited by Judah L. Ronch, PhD, and Joseph A. Goldfield, MSW; Baltimore: Health Professions Press, 2003; 416 pages, $41.95 This book begins with a tantalizing glimmer of the future, shifts...

Thinking About Teaching and Learning: Developing Habits of Learning with First Year College and University Students.
March 1, 2005... Thinking About Teaching and Learning: Developing Habits of Learning with First Year College and University Students by Robert Leamnson, PhD, Sterling, VA: Stylus Press, 1999; 256 pages, $22.50 As anyone who teaches first-year college...

Do your students wiki?(Emerging Technologies Center)
March 1, 2005... I FIRST BECAME AWARE OF A WIKI LAST YEAR when a student submitted a paper and quoted from the Wikipedia (1), an open access encyclopedia and probably the best known wiki project on the web (2). Being the good faculty member, I immediately went...

National Institute of Nursing Research.(Faculty Notes)
March 1, 2005... The National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) has announced the appointment of Mary E. Kerr, PhD, RN, FAAN, as its new deputy director. Dr. Kerr served as the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Health System's chair in nursing science...

The Vanderbilt School of Nursing.(Faculty Notes)
March 1, 2005... The Vanderbilt School of Nursing has named Jana Lauderdale, PhD, RN, the school's first assistant dean for cultural diversity. She will work with the VUSN Admissions Office to enhance existing minority recruitment, create a new home for...

Carolyn W. Mosley.(Faculty Notes)
March 1, 2005... Carolyn W. Mosley, PhD, RN, CS, FAAN, a professor and associate dean of academic administration at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans, was inducted in January into the Louisiana State Nurses Association Hall of...

Constance Brewer Koomey Professorship in Nursing.(Faculty Notes)
March 1, 2005... Elizabeth Reifsnider, PhD, RN, has been named associate dean for research and appointed to the Constance Brewer Koomey Professorship in Nursing at the University of Texas Medical Branch School of Nursing in Galveston. She has a strong research...

Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing.(Faculty Notes)
March 1, 2005... Jessica Roberts, RN, a 2003 graduate of the University of Florida with bachelor's degrees in nursing and sociology, is the first recipient of the Ellen Levi Zamoiski Doctoral Fellowship at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing. She is...

CIN Plus.(Faculty Notes)
March 1, 2005... Linda Q. Thede, PhD, RN, BC, a faculty member at Excelsior College in Albany, NY, is the new editor of CIN Plus, which is published by Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins.

American Assembly of Men in Nursing.(Faculty Notes)
March 1, 2005... The American Assembly of Men in Nursing has honored Bruce Wilson, PhD, RN, CNS, C, associate professor of nursing at the University of Texas, Pan American, Edinburg, as recipient of the 2004 Luther Christman Award. Dr. Wilson, who has compiled...

In memoriam.(Faculty Notes)(Obituary)
March 1, 2005... Nell Watts, MSN, RN, FAAN, who headed the organization now known as the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International, for two decades, died on February 28. Ms. Watts taught at Indiana University and served as executive director of...

Determining the current state of Clinical Nursing Education.(Headlines from the NLN)
March 1, 2005... THE NLN DEPARTMENT OF RESEARCH is conducting a new survey. Clinical Nursing Education in Pre-Licensure RN Programs, which will remain online until April 17. Faculty and administrators selected to participate in the survey have been provided...

Calendar.(Calendar)
March 1, 2005... APRIL 6-10 The National Student Nurses' Association 53rd Annual Convention, "Breaking the Mold: Breakthrough to Nursing," in Salt Lake City, UT; www.nsna.org. 7-11 The 30th Annual Conference of the American Academy of Ambulatory Care...

The rocker.(End Note)
March 1, 2005... MY FIRST CLINICAL ADJUNCT POSITION became the reason that I pursued my master's degree and made the decision to teach nursing full time. It was one random act of love and kindness from my clinical group that redirected my life and the goals...