Nursing Education Perspectives articles from September 2006

Nursing Education Perspectives archives from September 2006

The changing face of faculty and governance.(President's Message)
September 1, 2006... AS FACULTY AND STUDENTS return to campus in the fall, new faculty will be joining all of our faculty assemblies. Older and younger, representing different generational groups and practice backgrounds, new faculty members bring to our...

What ever happened to faculty governance?(From the Editors)
September 1, 2006... Since 1916, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) has been concerned with meaningful participation of faculty in the governance of academic institutions. Forty years ago, in 1966, the AAUP issued a Statement on Government of...

Problem Solving for Better Health.(Education News)
September 1, 2006... The Dreyfus Health Foundation's (DHF) Problem Solving for Better Health--Nursing (PSBHN[TM]) program engages nurse educators and students to assume a more active leadership role in health care, particularly in disadvantaged communities. PSBHN...

Troops to teacher program.(Education News)
September 1, 2006... Illinois Senator Dick Durbin is leading a bipartisan effort to adopt a six-year pilot program aimed at encouraging nurses leaving the military to become nurse educators. Endorsed by the NLN and based on a program created in 1994 that has...

NLN audio/web seminars from the NLN.(UPCOMING)(Calendar)
September 1, 2006... OCTOBER 17 Transforming Nursing Education: The Oregon Experience Christine A. Tanner, PhD, RN Paula Gubrud-Howe, MS, RN Louise Shores, EdD, RN OCTOBER 24 Building Partnerships in Innovation: The Texas Tech Alliance...

Thank you.
September 1, 2006... The Nursing Education Perspectives editorial staff acknowledges with thanks the following individuals who participated in the peer review process during the past year. Marsha Howell Adams * Susan A. Albrecht Anita C. All Lisa...

Jerry.(Faculty Matters)
September 1, 2006... JERRY WHITE, PhD, RN, CNE, is an associate professor at the College of Nursing and Allied Health at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, recognized in 2005 as an NLN Center of Excellence in Nursing Education[TM] for creating environments...

Building a home for the science of nursing education: developing the NLN web-based repository.(Quick Reads)
September 1, 2006... IN RECENT YEARS, teacher-scholars in nursing education have demonstrated a growing interest in basing their teaching practice on evidence (1-5). With evidenced-based teaching, a trend consistent with evidence-based medicine (6) and...

Certification: the mark of distinction for nursing faculty.
September 1, 2006... Between September 28, 2005 and July 31, 2006, the following 287 individuals earned the new NLN Certified Nurse Educator ([CNE.sup.CM]) credential. Certification recognizes academic nursing education as a specialty area of practice and an...

Defining the professional responsibilities of academic nurse educators: the results of a national practice analysis.
September 1, 2006... ABSTRACT In February 2005, the National League for Nursing's Academic Nurse Educator Certification Program and its testing service partner, Applied Measurement Professionals, Inc. (AMP), conducted a study designed to determine the professional...

The evolution of educational information systems and nurse faculty roles.
September 1, 2006... ABSTRACT Institutions of higher education are purchasing and/or designing sophisticated administrative information systems to manage such functions as the application, admissions, and registration process, grants management, student records,...

Student perceptions of caring in online baccalaureate education.
September 1, 2006... ABSTRACT The concept of caring in nursing education is foundational. Knowledge development regarding caring in face-to-face classroom settings, effective online teaching approaches, differences between online and face-to-face classroom...

Assessing the critical thinking skills of faculty: what do the findings mean for nursing education?
September 1, 2006... ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was twofold: to determine the critical thinking skills of nurse faculty and to examine the relationship between epistemological position and critical thinking. Most participants reported having no education on...

The evaluation of students' reflective writing for evidence of critical thinking.
September 1, 2006... ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to establish interrater reliability of the Critical Thinking Scale (CTS), a teacher-accessible tool designed to measure the critical thinking of baccalaureate nursing students as evidenced in their...

Jonas and Kovner's Health Care Delivery in the United States.
September 1, 2006... Jonas and Kovner's Health Care Delivery in the United States edited by Anthony R. Kovner, PhD, and James R. Knickman, PhD; New York: Springer Publishing, 2005; 753 pages, $74.95 hardcover, $48.95 softcover Health care delivery in the United...

Nurses on the Move: Migration and the Global Health Care Economy.
September 1, 2006... by Mireille Kingma, PhD, RN; Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005; 288 pages, $24.95 (paper) Discussions among nurse executives in recent years have focused repeatedly on issues involved in the recruitment of internationally educated...

Women's health.(NEW RESOURCES)
September 1, 2006... Women's Health: A Resource Guide for Nurses is edited by Dr. Pamela Dickerson and published by the Oncology Nursing Society. Written in a question-and-answer format, the guide addresses commonly asked questions on women's health in clear,...

ICN mobile libraries.(NEW RESOURCES)
September 1, 2006... Building on the success of the International Council of Nursing Mobile Library project, now present in more than 120 African communities, a new collaboration launched by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Merck Sharp & Dohme, and the ICN is...

Nursing's Future.(NEW RESOURCES)
September 1, 2006... Charting Nursing's Future is a new health policy brief series from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation designed to help nurse leaders and other policy makers address the nursing shortage, improve the work environment, and better understand...

Cherokee films.(NEW RESOURCES)
September 1, 2006... For the past two years, Cherokee Uniforms has been working on the production of two film versions of A Nurse I Am. Both the 32-minute instructional film and the 62-minute documentary feature recipients of the national Cherokee Inspired Comfort...

Violence Against Women.(NEW RESOURCES)
September 1, 2006... Nursing students in every clinical area must learn to screen for domestic violence, a topic included in the NCLEX blueprint under Psychosocial Adaptation. To bring the learning experience alive, the College of DuPage has developed a multimedia...

Pain Control.(NEW RESOURCES)
September 1, 2006... The American Pain Society and the Greater Philadelphia Pain Society have collaborated on a new handbook, Pain Control in the Primary Care Setting. A key objective is to introduce primary care providers to evidence-based, practical strategies...

SmartDraw graphics.(NEW RESOURCES)
September 1, 2006... The SmartDraw Healthcare Solution is a software package that makes it easy to create anatomical diagrams, patient education charts, and other educational material. Users have access to medical illustrations from Lippincott and Elsevier's Netter...

Mosby's nursing consult: www.mdconsultannex.com/resources/.(ON THE WEB)
September 1, 2006... MNC is a comprehensive online resource with easy search capability for practicing nurses. It features current information on brand-name medications, daily news updates, resources for evidence-based practice, and patient education handouts in...

dLife Free Personal Websites: www.myDiabetesEducator.org.(ON THE WEB)
September 1, 2006... Designed as a free tool for connecting patients with diabetes educators, these websites can be personalized for making appointments and checking support group topics, times, and locations. Patients have full-time access for downloading logs and...

Calendar.(Calendar)
September 1, 2006... OCTOBER 12-14 "Improving Life: Development and Dissemination of Nursing Innovation," the 2006 National Congress on the State of the Science in Nursing Research, sponsored by CANS, the Council for the Advancement of Nursing Science, in...

Got large lecture hall classes? Use clickers.(Emerging Technologies CENTER)
September 1, 2006... I HAVE TO ADMIT IT. I teach online courses in our graduate program in health care informatics exclusively and rarely enter a classroom. HOWEVER, I periodically guest lecture in health policy and undergraduate professional nursing courses and...

Roxborough Memorial Hospital School of Nursing.(Faculty NOTES)
September 1, 2006... Roxborough Memorial Hospital School of Nursing, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has named Dolores Alabrodzinski, MSN, RN, director of nursing education. She is former director of nursing education for the Episcopal School of Nursing and the...

Fairmont State University.(Faculty NOTES)
September 1, 2006... Sharon Boni, DNSc, RN, has been named dean of the School of Nursing and Allied Health Administration at Fairmont State University in West Virginia. She is former associate dean for student services at the School of Nursing at Excelsior College...

John Cutcliffe, PhD, BSc(Hon)Nursing, RMN, RGN, RPN.(Faculty NOTES)
September 1, 2006... John Cutcliffe, PhD, BSc(Hon)Nursing, RMN, RGN, RPN, is the recipient of the David G. Braithwaite Professorship for the College of Nursing and Health Sciences at the University of Texas-Tyler. He previously served as adjunct professor of...

Florida A&M University.(Faculty NOTES)
September 1, 2006... Mary Graham, EdD, RN, is now dean of the School of Nursing at Florida A&M University, Tallahassee. She had been dean of the School of Nursing at Tennessee State University where she was also a professor.

Barbara Heller, EdD, RN, FAAN.(Faculty NOTES)
September 1, 2006... Barbara Heller, EdD, RN, FAAN, Rauschenbach Distinguished Professor and executive director of the Center for Health Workforce Development at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, has joined Laureate Education, Inc. as vice president of...

Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University.(Faculty NOTES)
September 1, 2006... Kenneth Hepburn, PhD, has been appointed to the newly created position of associate dean for research at the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. He held a similar role at the University of Minnesota,...

Indiana University School of Nursing.(Faculty NOTES)
September 1, 2006... Pamela M. Ironside, PhD, RN, a member of the NLN Board of Governors and the Nursing Education Perspectives Editorial Board, is now associate professor and director of the Center for Nursing Education Research at Indiana University School of...

College Misericordia.(Faculty NOTES)
September 1, 2006... Cynthia Mailloux, PhD, RN, has been appointed associate professor and chair of the Department of Nursing at College Misericordia, Dallas, Pennsylvania. In 2001, she received the Teaching Excellence Award from Penn State Worthington Scranton in...

University of Central Florida.(Faculty NOTES)
September 1, 2006... President George W. Bush has appointed Karen Dow Meneses, PhD, RN, professor of nursing at the College of Health and Public Affairs at the University of Central Florida, Orlando, to a six-year term on the National Cancer Advisory Board. In...

Michigan State University College of Nursing.(Faculty NOTES)
September 1, 2006... Mary Mundt, PhD, RN, has been named dean of the Michigan State University College of Nursing, East Lansing. She has served as dean of the School of Nursing at the University of Louisville in Kentucky and director of the Center for Cancer...

Donna Nielsen, MS, ANP, RN.(Faculty NOTES)
September 1, 2006... Donna Nielsen, MS, ANP, RN, professor of nursing at Tompkins Cortland Community College in Dryden, New York, received a State University of New York Chancellor's and Tompkins Cortland Community College Trustees' Award for Excellence in...

University of Michigan.(Faculty NOTES)
September 1, 2006... Kathleen Potempa, DNSc, RN, FAAN, will join the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, as dean of the School of Nursing effective October 1. She currently serves as vice president and dean of the School of Nursing at Oregon Health and Science...

Ellen B. Rudy, PhD, RN, FAAN.(Faculty NOTES)
September 1, 2006... The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses has honored Ellen B. Rudy, PhD, RN, FAAN, with the 2006 Marguerite Rodgers Kinney Award for a Distinguished Career. Dr. Rudy, now a senior consultant for the National Institutes of Health and a...

Adelphi University School of Nursing.(Faculty NOTES)
September 1, 2006... Marybeth Ryan, PhD, RN, has been named regional winner of the Nursing Spectrum Excellence Award for Teaching. An associate professor at the Adelphi University School of Nursing, she will become program director of the new master's degree in...

California State University.(Faculty NOTES)
September 1, 2006... Vincent Salyers, EdD, RN, is now associate professor and assistant planning director for a new entry-level master of science in nursing program at California State University, Fullerton.

In memoriam.(Faculty NOTES)(Obituary)
September 1, 2006... Rena Boyle, the first dean at the College of Nursing at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, died on July 10 at the age of 91. As dean from 1967 to 1979, Dr. Boyle implemented a career ladder for the associate, baccalaureate, and master's...

Executive summary from the Nursing Data Review, Academic Year 2004-2005, Baccalaureate, Associate Degree, and Diploma Programs.(Headlines from the NLN)
September 1, 2006... Applications Are Up, But Admissions Growth Dips, Perhaps Signaling End of Upward Trend Applications, Institutional Selectivity, and Yield Rates Nursing school applications have surged in recent years, rising more than 59 percent over the past...

A nurse's camaraderie, compassion, and service in Iraq.(End NOTE)
September 1, 2006... "WE KNEW WE WERE NEEDED WHEN WE ARRIVED in the 31st Combat Support Hospital," explained Karen O'Brien, BSN, RN, upon her arrival in Balad, Baghdad. "The hospital staff had been working 12-hour days and they were very happy to see us....