Nursing and Health Care Perspectives articles from July 1999

Nursing and Health Care Perspectives archives from July 1999

Reform & Renewal
July 1, 1999... During its 106 years of existence, the National League for Nursing has had the opportunity for both leadership and "followership" for issues of national import. As the oldest national nursing organization in the United States (established in...

Problem-Based Learning
July 1, 1999... The Ida Moffett School of Nursing is one of five undergraduate departments at Samford University that is revising its curriculum to include Problem-Based Learning. The project benefits from an endowment grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts. PBL,...

HEALTH CHANNEL CONSORTIUM.(televised education for health professionals)
July 1, 1999... Eight institutions are now members of an academic consortium that develops and accredits continuing education programs for health professionals delivered to hospitals through the Health Channel, a 24-hour satellite programming service. The...

PALLIATIVE CARE.
July 1, 1999... The University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and Genesis ElderCare, the nation's third largest long-term care provider, have been awarded a three-year grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to evaluate an innovative palliative care...

TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS.(telemedicine for children)
July 1, 1999... Lamar University of Beaumont, the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, and the Stephen F. Austin University Division of Nursing, of Nacogdoches, are partners in a telehealth clinic for school-aged children who have disabling,...

CASE WESTERN RESERVE.(nursing education programs)
July 1, 1999... The Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing is hosting a Summer Nursing Research Institute focused on childbearing, childrearing, and caregiving research. Selected fellows participate in a State of the Science Conference on a variety of...

Nursing Education in the 1960s: Revolt and Reform
July 1, 1999... EDITOR'S NOTE: As nurse educators embark on a journey to transform nursing education, our history is instructive. As noted by Dr Fondiller in the following account, the 1960s were characterized by passion, revolt, and reform. Out of this turmoil...

The Challenge of Chance with Creative Collaboration
July 1, 1999... THE MAJOR TRANSITIONS IN THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM OF THE 1990s AND THE NEED TO MAKE DO WITH FEWER RESOURCES AND LESS FUNDING HAVE BROUGHT ABOUT CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION AS WELL AS FRUSTRATION AND TURMOIL. In Santa Clara County, California, south...

The Development of Online Courses for Undergraduate Nursing Education
July 1, 1999... A FACULTY PERSPECTIVE The delivery of content in education does not necessarily mean that learning has taken place. Education requires interaction between students and instructors, and students of all ages learn better and retain information...

Effects of Web-Based Instruction on Learning Behaviors of Undergraduate and Graduate Students
July 1, 1999... WEB-BASED INSTRUCTION requires transformation from traditional teaching strategies to directed independent learning. Careful attention must be given to the creation of effective interactive learning experiences that foster student-to-student and...

Competency Model 101
July 1, 1999... The Process of Developing Core Competencies As the fee-for-service era comes to a close and providers are faced with emerging managed care systems, the nursing profession struggles with the dilemma of the five rights: assuring the right nurse...

We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese.(Review)
July 1, 1999... We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese by Elizabeth M. Norman, PhD, RN, FAAN; New York: Random House, 1999; 352 pages, $26.95 In Beth Norman's wonderful book, We Band of Angels,...

Asian Voices: Asian and Asian American Health Educators Speak Out.(Review)
July 1, 1999... Asian Voices: Asian and Asian American Health Educators Speak Out edited by Lin Zahn, PhD, RN; Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett, 1999; 256 pages, $31.25 In this timely book, Asian and Asian American health educators share their...

Resource Center
July 1, 1999... NEW RESOURCES Pandora's Box Pediatric health problems are often the result of the stress and chaos of family problems. To aid clinicians in establishing communication about sensitive issues with patients and their families, the Children of...

CHAP Update Corner
July 1, 1999... WELCOME to the first CHAP Update Corner. As president of CHAP -- the Community Health Accreditation Program -- I would like to introduce myself and the organization. * CHAP is a wholly owned subsidiary of NLN, established in the early 1960s as a...

NLNAC Frequently Asked Questions
July 1, 1999... What is NLNAC's position about the verification of prior learning? In response to questions about whether having a valid and current RN license can -- or should -- be used for verification of prior learning at the lower division undergraduate...

The Nursing Renaissance
July 1, 1999... NEW WAYS OF BEING, LEARNING AND LEADING A BUTTERFLY IN FLIGHT served as the overall symbol of the National League for Nursing's biennial convention in June 1999. The metamorphosis of the I butterfly -- its transformation from the cocoon --...

NLN Honors Nursing Leaders
July 1, 1999... Nine outstanding individuals and two institutions were presented with NLN awards at the gala Awards Dinner in the Loews Hotel Grand Ballroom on Tuesday evening. Dr. Lucie Young Kelly, chair of the Awards Committee, presided over the event. ...

NEWS FROM: Professional Development.
July 1, 1999... Delphi Survey of Nursing Faculty Educators interested in adding their voice to the NLN Delphi Survey of Nursing Faculty are invited to participate in Round Three, the final round, available from the NLN website (www.nln.org) or by calling...

NEWS FROM: NLN Press.(National League for Nursing)
July 1, 1999... Books from the NLN Councils A nine-member task force chaired by Pat Irons, MA, RN, the current chair of the Council for Associate Degree Programs, has completed the revision of the Educational Outcomes of Associate Degree Nursing...

News from: The Practice Councils.
July 1, 1999... Brainstorming Together Retiring and new chairs of the NLN practice councils met during the biennial convention at a special brainstorming session in anticipation of the Open Forum on Council Structure. This was the second joint meeting...

Hildegard Peplau
July 1, 1999... THE MOTHER OF PSYCHIATRIC NURSING Hildegard Peplau, who dies on March 17, has inspired countless nurses, who gained from her an expanded understanding about the therapeutic use of self. HILDEGARD PEPLAU is fondly remembered by nurses...