Nursing and Health Care Perspectives articles from March 2001

Nursing and Health Care Perspectives archives from March 2001

Cassandra's Legacy and the Core Values of Nursing
March 1, 2001... IN MAY, we will once again celebrate nursing and nurses. Our annual Nurses Week celebration coincides with the birth month of Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern secular nursing. I believe that during this period of rapid change, it is...

The Best Scientists Do Not the Best Teachers Make
March 1, 2001... TO KNOW IS NOT TO KNOW HOW TO TEACH. Often we find that those who are most knowledgeable about a particular subject are not those who are best equipped to communicate that knowledge to others. Think of the classic stereotype -- the "scientist"...

Education News
March 1, 2001... Integrating Primary and Mental Health Care in an Innovative Educational Model Beginning in the 1960s, the deinstitutionalization of people with serious and persistent mental illness (SPMI) outplaced a vulnerable population into the community...

Pioneers in the Forefront of Integration
March 1, 2001... IN THEIR TIME, THEY WERE GIANTS, AND THEIR LEGACY ENDURES. Most notable about the contributions of Estelle Massey Riddle Osborne and Mabel Keaton Staupers as outstanding black leaders of the 20th century were the passion and perseverance they...

Faculty Matters
March 1, 2001... Pam In 1998, Pam completed a postgraduate family nurse practitioner certificate from the University of Virginia. She currently practices per diem in an FNP-staffed emergency clinic and part time in an internal medicine practice. She has...

WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT IN NURSING: Priming the Pipeline
March 1, 2001... ABSTRACT The current nursing shortage is predicted to be longer term and more protracted than previous shortages. It is therefore essential that schools of nursing develop new ways of preparing the nursing workforce and attracting potential...

A REGIONAL COLLABORATION FOR EDUCATIONAL AND CAREER MOBILITY: The Nursing Education Mobility Action Group
March 1, 2001... ABSTRACT Recognizing the need for a regional collaborative systems approach to provide opportunities for access to higher levels of educational preparation for nurses, the Nurse Executive Committee of the Center for Health Affairs in Cleveland,...

Moving toward a Model for Nursing Education and Practice
March 1, 2001... ABSTRACT Economic pressures have created the need for an educational system that prepares nurses to work in increasingly complex environments. Nursing leaders from one baccalaureate program and five community colleges in a rural area have worked...

A Transdisciplinary Model for Curricual Revision
March 1, 2001... ABSTRACT Graduates of healths professions programs need to be able to function in integrated health care delivery systems and demonstrate the ability to provide comprehensive, quality, and cost-effective care as members of an interdisciplinary...

Educating Undergraduate Nursing Students as Birth Companions
March 1, 2001... ABSTRACT Birth companions, or doulas, are labor attendants who are taught to provide emotional support to the laboring woman and hands-on skills that help reduce pain and enhance labor progress. Students in this baccalaureate nursing program may...

Analysis and Evaluation of Contemporary Nursing Knowledge: Nursing Models and Theories.(Review)
March 1, 2001... Analysis and Evaluation of Contemporary Nursing Knowledge: Nursing Models and Theories by Jacqueline Fawcett, PhD, RN, FAAN; Philadelphia: F.A. Davis, 2000; 688 pages, $49.95 I have several responses to the argument that nursing models...

Resource Center
March 1, 2001... NEW RESOURCES Medicare Rights The Medicare Rights Center has published three new booklets to help older adults and people with disabilities understand how to pay for their health care and what to do when Medicare payments or services are...

Announcements.(appointments)
March 1, 2001... Marianne Borelli, PhD, RN, has been appointed assistant professor in the Department of Behavioral and Community Health at the University of Maryland School of Nursing, Baltimore. Martha Kelly, EdD, RN, former manager of educational...

Research and Professional Development
March 1, 2001... Noted Figure in Higher Education to Keynote Summit 2001 Arthur Levine, PhD, president and professor of education at Teachers College, Columbia University, will be the keynote speaker at the NLN Education Summit 2001, which takes place in...

Assessment and Evaluation
March 1, 2001... Critical Thinking With the support of Cross Country University and American Mobile Healthcare, A&E is engaged in the process of developing a multiple-choice test that assesses the critical thinking abilities of students in RN nursing...

Strategies to Reverse the Nursing Shortage.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Asserting that the current nursing shortage is "very real and very different from any experienced in the past," the four member associations belonging to the Tri-Council for Nursing have issued a White Paper entitled "Strategies to Reverse...

Changes in the Professional Staff.(National .League for Nursing Accrediting Commission)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... A number of changes are taking place at the National .League for Nursing Accrediting Commission. Eric Linden, PhD, joined NLNAC as associate director in December 2000. Prior to this position, Dr. Linden was associate dean of curriculum and...

Chap An Independent Organization.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... CHAP, the nation's first home care accrediting body, founded by the NLN over 40 years ago, has been purchased by Mr. Melvin Lev. Its status as a not-for-profit organization will not change and its headquarters will remain at 61 Broadway in...

NLNAC 501(c)(3) Status: What Are the Implications?
March 1, 2001... A historical milestone has been established. Articles of Incorporation, creating the NLNAC as a 501(c)(3) corporation in New York State, were signed in November 2000 to become effective in 2001. Now, a number of legal steps are being taken to...

A Door Swinging between Two Worlds
March 1, 2001... Picture a door that has the ability to swing back and forth between two rooms. Now picture the door magically separating two different worlds instead of two rooms. The door enters and leaves each world as it pleases. On one side, the world is...