A working knowledge of governmental health and welfare services can help nursing students in their professional work. The self-instructional module described by the author outlines the structure of government health and welfare agencies, explains the different types of benefits, and aims at clarifying personal values regarding the economically…

Offers a rationale for involvement of nursing doctoral programs in health services research, which examines health care delivery. Presents recommendations of the Re-envisioning the Ph.D. project, which identified problems in doctoral programs. (Contains 46 references.) (SK)

As part of a course in Senior Nursing Practice in Community Health, ten senior nursing students were encouraged to explore the possibilities for practicing leadership skills by developing individual service projects. The program results exceeded all expectations. (AG)

Discusses the history of health care in Latin America in the twentieth century. Indicates that nurses provide most of the health care and that there is a need to enhance the nursing education programs in Latin America. (JOW)

This specialized program offers both undergraduate and graduate students a variety of study and learning experiences. It offers three modes of study to provide scope and depth of understanding of alcoholism: substantive, integrated, and independent study. (Author/MW)

Nursing educators are torn between producing graduates who are employable in the health care marketplace and educating nurses who are capable of transforming the health care system. One way to resolve this conflict is to make caring a core value in the hidden curriculum--the way students are taught to think and feel as nurses. (Author)

Aspects of the development of medical and nursing education make primary health care just one of medicine's specialities when it is actually the essence of the nursing profession. The author contends that primary care as an academic discipline within nursing is really the general discipline and should be so conceptualized. (MF)

Contains 355 references. Categories include administration/managed care, AIDS, anatomy/physiology, cancer, cardiovascular, communicable diseases, communication, community health, critical care, diet/nutrition, emergency, ethics, family, fundamentals, geriatrics, health promotion, home health, infection, intravenous, diagnosis, legal, long-term…

The educational preparation and use of nurse-midwives working with other health team members has helped reduce the maternal and infant mortality and morbidity rate in Mississippi. The development of the program employed is described. (AG)

Attempts a functional operational definition of "community" to be used by community health nurses and students in their daily practice. States that community can refer to the context or arena in which change operates, or it can be the source of environmental or social factors viewed as less than desirable. (CT)

To combat extreme health conditions in Armenia, nurses and physicians were given pretraining in community health at home and additional training in the United States on change strategies and community-based practice. Unforeseen barriers to change hindered progress, but participants were committed to preventive community health care. (SK)

Describes a 40-question survey of 428 baccalaureate-educated community health nurses working in the United States and in developing countries. Results indicated that important subject areas for community health nurses to study include (1) physical assessment, (2) community needs assessment, (3) family counseling, and (4) current trends. (CH)

Dominant trends in health care that will affect nursing education include the following: growth of the health care labor force, economics, movement away from acute-care hospitals, managed care, demographic change, information technology, and replacement of nurses with unlicensed assistants. (JOW)

Offers practice models for community-based nursing and community health nursing that demonstrate the different roles, philosophies, and activities of the two approaches. Points to curriculum changes that are needed to prepare students to practice in an increasingly community-oriented health care industry. (Author)