Nursing Education Perspectives articles from September 2005

Nursing Education Perspectives archives from September 2005

The End of a Presidency.(President's Massage)
September 1, 2005... AS MY PRESIDENCY COMES TO AN END, I think back to four years ago when I became president-elect, just after 9/11. That year, the annual NLN Education Summit was also held in Baltimore, and attendance was remarkable considering the national...

Critical thinking: how do we know it in nursing education and practice?(From the Editor)
September 1, 2005... In this issue of Nursing Education Perspectives, we have included two articles focused on critical thinking in nursing. Both reflect scholarly analysis, yet from different points of view. Phyllis Turner reviewed the nursing literature from 1982...

Faculty higher education act.(Education News)
September 1, 2005... Representative Carolyn McCarthy of New York, who worked as a nurse before running for Congress in 1996, has introduced new legislation supported by the NLN, the Nurse Faculty Higher Education Act, H.R. 3173. This legislation seeks to alleviate...

State of Vermont.(Education News)
September 1, 2005... Under a new state program, schools of nursing in Vermont can offer new faculty $10,000 on top of their salaries to help repay student loans. Schools have been given $50,000 to start a program that lawmakers hope will increase the number of...

Support for immigrant nurses.(Education News)
September 1, 2005... Clackamas Community College in Oregon assists qualified nurses from foreign countries already living in the state to become certified to practice. Many participants in the Workforce Improvement with Immigrant Nurses program (WIN) are refugees...

Calendar.(Education News)(Calendar)
September 1, 2005... OCTOBER 9-11 National Institute of Nursing Research Council for the Advancement of Nursing Science 2005 Special Topics Conference, "Clinical Intervention Research to Improve Health," 20th Anniversary Science Symposium, and Nightin Gala, in...

National Cancer Policy Forum.(Faculty Notes)
September 1, 2005... Betty R. Ferrell, PhD, RN, FAAN, research scientist in the City of Hope Cancer Center's Department of Nursing Research and Education, has been appointed to the National Cancer Policy Forum, a new Institute of Medicine initiative that makes...

Butler County Community College.(Faculty Notes)
September 1, 2005... Elizabeth A. Gazza, MSN, RN, FACCE, is now dean for nursing and allied health at Butler County Community College in Butler, Pennsylvania.

University of South Carolina School of Nursing in Columbia.(Faculty Notes)
September 1, 2005... Peggy O'Neill Hewlett, PhD, RN, FAAN, has been named dean of the University of South Carolina School of Nursing in Columbia. She comes to USC from the University of Mississippi Medical Center School of Nursing, where she was director of the...

University of Maryland School of Nursing's Institute for Nurse Educators.(Faculty Notes)
September 1, 2005... Louise S. Jenkins, PhD, RN, associate professor, Department of Organizational Systems and Adult Health, and Carol O'Neil, PhD, RN, assistant professor, Department of Family and Community Health, have been appointed co-directors of the...

Teaching and Learning in Nursing.(Faculty Notes)
September 1, 2005... Maris Lown, MS, RN, has been named editor of Teaching and Learning in Nursing, the new official publication of the National Organization for Associate Degree Nursing, a quarterly peer reviewed journal that will be published by Elsevier...

Louise McGee, MS, RN, professor of nursing at Tompkins Cortland Community College in Dryden, NY, received the 2005 State University of New York Chancellor's/Tompkins Cortland Community College Trustees' Award for Excellence in Faculty Service.(Faculty Notes)
September 1, 2005... Louise McGee, MS, RN, professor of nursing at Tompkins Cortland Community College in Dryden, NY, received the 2005 State University of New York Chancellor's/Tompkins Cortland Community College Trustees' Award for Excellence in Faculty Service....

In memoriam.(Faculty Notes)(Obituary)
September 1, 2005... Rozella Schlotfeldt, a professor and dean at Case Western Reserve University's Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, died July 23 at age 91. She served on the national task force that prompted the 1964 Nurse Training Act, which provided...

Susan.(Faculty Matters)
September 1, 2005... SUSAN PIERCE, an associate professor, Northwestern State University of Louisiana College of Nursing, is a contributor to "Essential Nursing References" in this issue of Nursing Education Perspectives. This list of references is authored by...

Assumptions and realities of the NCLEX-RN.
September 1, 2005... ABSTRACT Every three years the National Council of State Boards of Nursing conducts a practice analysis to verify the activities that are tested on the licensure exam (NCLEX-RN). Faculty can benefit from information in the practice analysis to...

In nursing education and practice as defined in the literature.(CRITICAL THINKING)
September 1, 2005... ABSTRACT Critical thinking is frequently discussed in nursing education and nursing practice literature. This article presents an analysis of the concept of critical thinking as it applies to nursing, differentiating its use in education and...

A crisis in critical thinking.
September 1, 2005... ABSTRACT Aggregate results for competency assessment of new registered nurses using the Performance Based Development System indicate that most new graduates do not meet expectations for entry-level clinical judgment ability. This article...

Community-based nursing education of prelicensure students: settings and supervision.
September 1, 2005... ABSTRACT This study of prelicensure nursing programs had a fourfold purpose: I) describe what community-based settings are being used by faculties in associate degree (AD) and baccalaureate degree (BSN) programs to provide community-based...

Impact of a service-learning project on nursing students.
September 1, 2005... ABSTRACT This article describes the incorporation of a service-learning project in a maternal-infant health course in a baccalaureate nursing program. Partnership goals between university faculty and project Early Head Start were to develop and...

The second-degree accelerated program as an innovative educational strategy: new century, new chapter, new challenge.
September 1, 2005... ABSTRACT This article discusses one institution's experience with a one-year, accelerated second-degree program and the role such programs play as part of a solution to the current nursing shortage. Key Words Accelerated Nursing...

Bonding of nursing practice and education through research.(LOOKING FORWARD / LOOKING BACK: NURSING EDUCATION PERSPECTIVES Celebrates 25 Years in 2005)
September 1, 2005... ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN SEPTEMBER 1984, THIS ARTICLE BY DR. JEANETTE LANCASTER WAS FIRST-PLACE WINNER OF THE THIRD ANNUAL AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN WRITING, CO-SPONSORED BY HUMANA INC., THE NATIONAL LEAGUE FOR NURSING, AND NURSING & HEALTH CARE....

Interagency council on information resources for nursing.(Essential Nursing References)(Directory)
September 1, 2005... This list was edited by Susan Kaplan Jacobs, Chair, Essential Nursing References Committee, and compiled from the contributions of the following representatives of ICIRN member agencies: Margaret (Peg) Allen, Richard Barry, Leslie Block,...

Preparing for evidence-based practice: revisiting information literacy.(Emerging Technologies Center)
September 1, 2005... AS WE REDESIGN NURSING CURRICULA or develop courses for an evidence-based practice (EBP) world, it is important to consider the essential role of informatics. Recent work by colleagues affirms that an informatics infrastructure is an essential...

A Guide to Culturally Competent Health Care.
September 1, 2005... A Guide to Culturally Competent Health Care by Larry D. Purnell, PhD, RN, FAAN, and Betty J. Paulanka, EdD, RN; Philadelphia: F.A. Davis, 2004; 512 pages, $24.95 Where can you assess for cyanosis on a dark-skinned person of Arab heritage?...

Simulators in Critical Care and Beyond.
September 1, 2005... Simulators in Critical Care and Beyond edited by William F. Dunn, MD; Des Plaines IL: Society for Critical Care Medicine, 2004; 128 pages, $60 ($45 for SCCM members) Newcomers to simulation will benefit from the tremendous amount of...

Transforming Nurses' Stress and Anger.
September 1, 2005... Transforming Nurses' Stress and Anger by Sandra P. Thomas, PhD, RN, FAAN; New York: Springer Publishing, 2004; 318 pages, $36.95 An invaluable and timely resource, Transforming Nurses' Stress and Anger shares the perspectives of nurses,...

Caring Science as Sacred Science.
September 1, 2005... Caring Science as Sacred Science by Jean Watson, PhD, RN, HNC, FAAN; Philadelphia: F.A. Day, is, 2004; 242 pages, $36.95 Jean Watson, a professor at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center School of Nursing in Denver, holds the...

New resources.(Resource Center)
September 1, 2005... The Institute for Healthcare Advancement, a nonprofit organization that provides a wide variety of educational and community health care services, has prepared an advance health care directive available through its website www.iha4heahh.org....

On the web.(Resource Center)
September 1, 2005... www.vitalsmarts.com. Vital Smarts This private company and the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses surveyed patients and learned that failure to confront health care practitioners is a frequent cause of medical errors. This...

Constituent leagues: professional investments that make a difference.(Headlines from the NLN)
September 1, 2005... In 2001, the NLN Board of Governors agreed that the time had come to establish uniform standards to amalgamate the constituent leagues and bring about managerial and functional uniformity, For many years, NLN constituent leagues (CLs)...

The 2005 Tour of Hope.(End NOTE)
September 1, 2005... DR. JOAN KING, director of the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing's Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Program, has been selected to ride across the United States with 23 other teammates on the 2005 Bristol-Myers Squibb Tour of Hope. Tour de...