Objective: This study assessed the implementation of psychiatry morbidity and mortality rounds (M&Ms) on the clinical and educational practice in a children's hospital. Methods: Attendees to monthly M&Ms between July 2005 and May 2007 included staff and trainees from psychiatry, psychology, nursing, and social work. Cases were selected based on a…

An elective on poverty and its relevance to health is offered to nursing and non-nursing students at Duke University School of Nursing, Durham, North Carolina to help students gain insight into what it meaans to be poor. Student experiences include reading, observation, discussion, simulation through game playing, and clinical experiences. (EA)

All too often baccalaureate graduates move directly into graduate study and then into teaching positions, with little or no nursing practice and the opportunity to gain basic clinical competence. (Author)

Active participation in a 12-hour operating room experience seemed to provide one group of medical-surgical nursing students with a broad range of clinical nursing experiences leading to rapid, integrated learning of knowledge and skills and increased self-confidence. (Author)

Examines various methods of evaluating nursing students in the clinical area used as far back as 1900, and concluding that the clinical laboratory remains an important and indispensable aspect of the nursing curriculum, suggests aspects of a workable framework for a solution to the evaluation problem. (TA)

The quality of patient care suffers because of the intellectual separatism that exists among medical, nursing, and other professions. Description of an attempt to introduce knowledge of selected nursing and laboratory skills to third-quarter clinical clerks. (Author/PG)

A 2-day workshop involving students in roles as patients and nurses was conducted which helped students to put together the isolated skills they had learned in modules and integrate them into their clinical practice. (TA)

Nurses must leave nursing to advance their careers. A rigorous preprofessional science preparation and nursing education at the baccalaureate level followed by a clinical internship is proposed. Nurses would be able to achieve specialty education either by graduate education or through experience and continuing nursing education. (Author/MLW)

The author proposes a model for evaluation of learning in clinical nursing courses which incorporates three classes of objectives: instructional (the "defined behavior" type), expressive (elaboration and indivivualization of learned skills and meanings), and Type 3 (problem-solving). Three types of outcome are distinguished: instructor-, student-,…

A course for senior nursing students focuses on the health problems and belief systems of minority clients and how these affect their health care. Based on a holistic and epidemiological approach to health care, the seven week course includes theory and clinical practice which students found stimulating and useful. (Author/MS)

An explanation is given of how associate degree (AD) clinical experiences are used in relation to the philosophy of AD education. The authors describe and critique five major criticisms of the AD graduate and offer recommendations to ensure the continued adequacy of the present clinical laboratory and classroom experiences. (TA)