A consortium of five nursing schools and a hospital established a clinical internship program that increased nurse recruitment and retention and eased orientation and transition. Strategies to overcome turf issues and member resistance emerged. (SK)

Describes the external optometric education program at the Sidney Hillman Health Centre (Chicago, Illinois). Discusses the history of the clinic, its administrative and educational philosophy, and its affiliation with two prominent hospitals and the Illinois College of Optometry. (DB)

A flexible clinical experience for nursing seniors integrates pediatrics, public health, and nursing leadership. Experiences in hospital units, schools, nurse-directed clinics, and home visits expose students to a wide range of settings and issues. (SK)

Poetry can be a powerful tool in teaching students and residents interpersonal and scientific aspects of clinical medicine. Advantages of using poetry include emotional intensity, succinct, portable formulations and communication of encompassing, "existential" truths. Limitations include learners' lack of familiarity with the medium of…

One way to motivate students' interest in physics is to teach it in the context of medicine. Optics, for example, can be taught with examples from the eye. For many years simple optics of lenses has been taught using a model of the eye. However, recent advances in using lasers for ophthalmological (ocular) examinations can be used to increase…

This brief report provides one teaching approach designed to help students and clinicians use the computing facilities available in their agencies to aid their clinical practice, and highlights issues central to this training. The teaching process involves using the computer as a tool, for identifying and operationalizing questions, analyzing data…

A refresher course to facilitate the return of inactive nurses to the work force included a weighted admission system, didactic content, simulated laboratory experiences, and precepted clinical experiences. Recommendations for future course implementation included a systematic evaluation of each participant's knowledge base at the beginning of the…

Describes the Advanced Practicum Clinical Research Project, a project that involved nursing students in actual research with the patients on the unit to which they were assigned for clinical experience. (JOW)

A variety of developments in nursing education in Australia including some innovative and exciting models, educational enterprises between education and industry, and evidence of developing strengths in research and professional alliances on a national level have been discussed recently. This paper presents Simulation to Practice as an example of…

This article presents IISME, a U.S. program that can give educators a real-world experience and that can deepen their subject-matter knowledge. It also presents the experiences of some teachers who are into this program. IISME's summer-fellowship program started out with 40 teachers and 12 companies. The group's growth picked up in 2001, when it…

Purpose: The results of recent survey studies suggest that speech-language pathologists base most of their clinical decisions on information they were taught during their graduate programs, their clinical experience, and the opinions of colleagues (T. Wolf & J. Balderson, 2005; R. Zipoli & M. Kennedy, 2005). This is contrary to the principles of…

Describes the process of developing and evaluating a formative and summative evaluation tool to assess undergraduate nursing students' ability to use the nursing process in a variety of health care settings. (Author)

The Case Western Reserve University School of Nursing collaborated with Yonsei University College of Nursing in Korea in a three-week summer home care nursing program for Korean nurses. Participants gained clinical experience in U.S. home-care nursing. (SK)

Psychiatric nursing students engage in 2-hour per week contacts with mental health clients during group sessions ranging from discussions of health topics to field trips to fitness classes. Students increased empathy, confidence in group leadership, and understanding of the role of psychiatric nurses. (SK)

Nursing students received research training and used clinical assessment tools to gather information from women after cesarean births. The project enhanced skills for clinical assessment and helped students understand the relationship between the nursing process and nursing research. (Contains 16 references.) (SK)