Recently added articles from Nursing Education Perspectives:

Change as dialogue, opportunity, and courage to embrace the new.(President's Message)(National League for Nursing)

Mar 01, 2008; Tagliareni, M. Elaine ... One of the greatest joys of being president of the NLN is traveling around the country and meeting faculty from all types of nursing education programs. I am constantly energized by nurse educators, by their commitment to their students and by their overwhelming desire to do the right ...

The art of teaching the art of nursing: where are the nursing virtuosos?(From the Editor)(Editorial)

Mar 01, 2008; Fitzpatrick, Joyce J. ... We use the term virtuoso when referring to musicians, dancers, and other artists and performers. So, too, we speak of the art of nursing and the performance of teachers. Many aspects of the art of teaching the art of nursing can be woven together to help us achieve our objective, to ...

Drexel University's five-year work/study undergraduate program.(Education News)(Organization overview)

Mar 01, 2008; MacFadyen, Jean S. ... When Drexel University College of Nursing opened its doors in fall 1999, it had 16 full-time, cooperative undergraduate nursing students. Eight years later, it has a total of 860 cooperative students. Drexel, situated in Philadelphia, is now the largest supplier of baccalaureate-prepared ...

National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors.(Faculty NOTES)(Brief article)

Mar 01, 2008 ... Virginia Trotter Betts, MSN, JD, RN, FAAN, former president of the ANA, has been appointed president of the National Association of ...

University of Buffalo School of Nursing.(Faculty NOTES)(Brief article)

Mar 01, 2008 ... Jean K. Brown, PhD, RN, FAAN, professor and interim dean, has been named dean of ...

Elizabeth Davies, PhD, RN, FAAN, professor and chair of the Department of Family Health Care Nursing at the University of Southern California, San Francisco, is the recipient of the 2008 Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association Distinguished Career Achievement Award.(Faculty NOTES)(Karin T. Kirchhoff and Marianne Matzo)(Brief article)

Mar 01, 2008 ... Elizabeth Davies, PhD, RN, FAAN, professor and chair of the Department of Family Health Care Nursing at the University of Southern California, San Francisco, is the recipient of the 2008 Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association Distinguished Career Achievement Award. Karin T. Kirchhoff, ...

Clarkson College.(Faculty NOTES)(Brief article)

Mar 01, 2008 ... Maria Erbin-Roesemann, PhD, RN, has been named dean of nursing at Clarkson College, Omaha, Nebraska, and promoted in rank to professor. In ...

Carole Kenner, DNS, RNC, FAAN.(Faculty NOTES)(Brief article)

Mar 01, 2008 ... Carole Kenner, DNS, RNC, FAAN, dean and professor at the University of Oklahoma College of Nursing, was awarded the President's 2007 Call to Service Award from ...

University of West Georgia.(Faculty NOTES)

Mar 01, 2008 ... Bobbie Siler, PhD, RN, CNE, is now a professor in the ...

Walden University.(Faculty NOTES)(Brief article)

Mar 01, 2008 ... Walden University has appointed Sara Torres, PhD, RN, as associate dean of the School of Nursing in the College of Health Sciences. She ...

University of Portland.(Faculty NOTES)(Brief article)

Mar 01, 2008 ... Joanne Rains Warner, PhD, DNS, RN, has been named dean of the School of Nursing at the University of Portland, ...

In memoriam.(Elizabeth Carnegie)(Obituary)(Brief article)

Mar 01, 2008 ... Elizabeth Carnegie, author of The Path We Tread: Blacks in Nursing Worldwide, 1854 to 1994, died on February 20. Dr. Carnegie, editor of Nursing Research for 35 years, initiated the baccalaureate nursing program at the historically black Hampton University in ...

Patty.(Faculty Matters)(Patricia Kelly)

Mar 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A mentor, Marjorie Roark, EdD, RN, encouraged PATRICIA KELLY, a maternal-child nurse and staff educator at a large university hospital, to pursue her master's in nursing education. Patty's interest in teaching became evident with her first staff position ...

Getting in S.T.E.P. with simulations: simulations take educator preparation.(Quick Reads)(Report)

Mar 01, 2008; Jeffries, Pamela R. ... PAMELA R. JEFFRIES, DNS, RN, FAAN, ANEF, delivered the first Debra L. Spunt Endowed Lecture at the NLN Education Summit 2007 on September 29 in Phoenix, Arizona. This article is adapted from her presentation. The NLN Foundation for Nursing Education and Laerdal Medical Corporation ...

Millennials considered: a new generation, new approaches, and implications for nursing education.(Clinical report)

Mar 01, 2008; Pardue, Karen T. ... ABSTRACT A new generation is pursuing degrees in nursing. These students, 18 to 24 years old, aptly called Millennials, are technologically competent and described as optimistic and group oriented. Their propensity for multitasking, reliance on electronics, and need for immediate feedback ...

Professional resilience in baccalaureate-prepared acute care nurses: first steps.(NURSING EDUCATION RESEARCH)(Report)

Mar 01, 2008; Hodges, Helen F. ... ABSTRACT New nurses typically begin their practice in acute care settings in hospitals, where their work is characterized by time constraints, high safety risks for patients, and layers of complexity and difficult problems. Retention of experienced nurses is an issue central to patient ...

Assisting students to use evidence as a part of reflection on practice.(Clinical report)

Mar 01, 2008; Ireland, Mary ... ABSTRACT The practice environment is increasingly complex and requires that nursing students and graduates possess the ability to make evidence-based decisions. The factual overload current in many curricula, however, can suppress the reflective and critical thinking skills required for ...

Toward an inclusive science of nursing education: an examination of five approaches to nursing education research.(Clinical report)

Mar 01, 2008; Young, Patricia K. ... ABSTRACT This article illuminates how a new science of nursing education, one that is inclusive of not only traditional empiric-analytic research, but also alternative research approaches reflecting phenomenology, critical social theory, feminist theory, and postmodern discourse, is ...

Combining creativity and community partnership in mental health clinical experiences.(Clinical report)

Mar 01, 2008; Pharez, Marye C. ... ABSTRACT Lack of parity for mental health treatment, coupled with the trend toward more community-based care, has challenged nurse faculty to identify quality, creative psychiatric clinical sites. The purpose of this article is to educate nurse faculty on practical, creative ways to ...

Implementing a high-fidelity simulation program in a community college setting.(Report)

Mar 01, 2008; Tuoriniemi, Pamela ... ABSTRACT Despite their relatively high cost, there is heightened interest by faculty in undergraduate nursing programs to implement high-fidelity simulation (HFS) programs. High-fidelity simulators are appealing because they allow students to experience high-risk, low-volume patient ...