N & HC: Perspectives on Community articles from July 1996

N & HC: Perspectives on Community archives from July 1996

Assessing firearm safety in inner-city homes.(Institutions Confront Change)
July 1, 1996... My partner and I were assigned to visit Steve, a 20-year-old, insulin-dependent diabetic with bilateral lower extremity amputations. He lived with his 68-year-old grandmothers, his 10-year-old sister, and his 28-year-old aunt in an inner-city...

Financing nursing education in an era of managed care.(Institutions Confront Change)
July 1, 1996... A dominant feature of most current U.S. health care reform initiatives is a reliance on managed care as a method for containing costs. The impact that the managed care strategy will have on the financing of nursing education is not yet fully...

Promoting collaboration in community health nursing.(Institutions Confront Change)
July 1, 1996... How can we promote the Collaborative skills so necessary for working with groups of people? Although prevention and primary care are pursued by an increasing number of advanced nurse practitioners, I fear that in the process of reorganizing...

Statewide articulation plan for nursing education: a study of change.(Institutions Confront Change)
July 1, 1996... Educational articulation in nursing is a timely and necessary change. It is a paradigm shift that allows for differences in ways of knowing and learning. It is said change takes at least a decade. So it is with nursing education. There has...

Creating your own computer-assisted instruction & interactive videodisc programs.(Institutions Confront Change)
July 1, 1996... Computer-assisted instruction (CAI) and interactive videodisc (IVD) are popular teaching-learning strategies for both primary and supplementary instructional purposes (Burke, 1990; Clark,1991; Ebner et al., 1984; Gaston, 1988; Nicastro et al.,...

Skill. (nursing skills and the art of nursing)
July 1, 1996... There's this word that caught my eye as I sifted through the pages of a nursing journal that landed on my desk: multiskilling. It appeared in an article that also featured the words downsizing and restructuring. The gist of the piece seemed be...

NLN to contest Department of Education recommendation to withdraw recognition of NLN's accreditation program; NLN will continue to accredit.(National League for Nursing)
July 1, 1996... We received the final report from the staff of the U.S. Department of Education on June 3, and I am disappointed to have to tell you that their recommendation to the National Advisory Commiteee on Institutional Quality and Integrity (NACIQI)...