The simulated clinical laboratory is part of a senior clinical course at the College of St. Catherine focusing on nursing intervention in client situations that encompass multiple problems or require rapid decision making, communication, and intervention. The simulation includes video and telephone role playing. (CH)

The uncritical designation of nursing as a science and an art creates vague images of nursing that suggest that the identity of nursing is not to be found in practice. Thinking and talking about nursing as a practice more adequately articulates the meaning of nursing as nurses encounter it. (JOW)

Describes extern programs in Mississippi and Oklahoma which concentrate on the recruitment and retention of nurses. (JOW)

Clinical cheating is one of the most devastating ways students can breach moral principles and its prevention should be a priority for nurse educators. Educators can promote the professional integrity of students by integrating moral development into all curricular efforts. (JOW)

A study was designed to answer the question: Is the baccalaureate-prepared nurse able to function satisfactorily as a staff nurse in an official public health agency? Findings indicate that health agency staff and education program faculty must work together to define the purpose, objectives, and content of the clinical experience. (JOW)

Discusses the increased recognition of the nurse practitioner role and emphasis on health care cost containment. Describes a clinical practice data collection tool that can be used in a variety of settings for evaluating nurse practitioner preparation. The instrument is included. (JOW)

The experiences of nurse Lystra Gretter at the turn of the century show similarities with nursing today. Then and now, nursing provides a way for single parents to be self-supporting, and nurses were exposed to lethal diseases. However, nursing is now taught by nurses, not physicians. Credit hours have increased, and hours of clinical experience…

Summarizes the results of an HIV/AIDS nursing care summit and presents recommendations for clinical practice, administration and policy, nursing education, and nursing research related to prevention and care. (JOW)

Nursing knowledge is developing quickly. This fact, along with the recognized need for general education courses, has helped nursing move into the mainstream of higher education. New approaches to curriculum organization and to teaching nursing should be considered to provide the best possible education to future nurses. (CH)

Discusses clinical placement for a leadership/management course at the University of North Dakota College of Nursing. The program used nontraditional settings such as the YMCA, nursing homes, rehabilitation hospitals, and senior citizens' centers as alternate sites for nursing practice and work. (JOW)

Examines nursing's past experiences in the struggle to strike a proper balance between education and service in the preparation of the nursing student, and between teaching and practice in the functioning of the faculty member. (CT)

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)

Examines the common problems with clinical conferences and suggests approaches to maximize student learning. Suggests that an effective clinical conference has three characteristics: (1) it is a group event; (2) it contributes to the achievement of course and clinical objectives; and (3) it provides a setting for students to explore personal…

Described are two hospital-based laboratory exercises which helped students perceive the relationship between the principles of microbiology and the practice of nursing. The exercises involved an environmental study focusing on problems of nosocomial infection and a study of patients hospitalized with infectious diseases. (Author/MS)