{"title":"Toward an ethics of dementia.","authors":"J Sorrell","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77304,"journal":{"name":"NursingConnections","volume":"10 4","pages":"20-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20439831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Providing health care to vulnerable rural populations presents many challenges and limitations that urban models may not address. The model of nursing case management presented here focuses on improving quality, reducing costs, and increasing access for people in rural areas through a professional case management role. The manager's role includes individual advocacy, clinical practice, education, research, and system advocacy. Empowerment of nurse case managers influences achievement of goals and job satisfaction and is based on a new view of power. The model is applicable to hospital, home, and community settings.
{"title":"A nursing case management model for rural hospitals.","authors":"W Anderson-Loftin","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Providing health care to vulnerable rural populations presents many challenges and limitations that urban models may not address. The model of nursing case management presented here focuses on improving quality, reducing costs, and increasing access for people in rural areas through a professional case management role. The manager's role includes individual advocacy, clinical practice, education, research, and system advocacy. Empowerment of nurse case managers influences achievement of goals and job satisfaction and is based on a new view of power. The model is applicable to hospital, home, and community settings.</p>","PeriodicalId":77304,"journal":{"name":"NursingConnections","volume":"10 2","pages":"27-38"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20270647","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This study uses a survey to investigate the nurse educator's perceptions of their work and goals. Respondents were educators selected from a national list of nurses with doctorates. The survey used a combination of objective and open-ended questions. The purpose was to seek a correlation between the interests of the faculty and the expectations of their hiring institutions. Suggestions are made on ways educators, clinicians, and administrators can collaborate and consult for their mutual benefit.
{"title":"Researching nurses as educators.","authors":"M G Wardle, C Boutin","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study uses a survey to investigate the nurse educator's perceptions of their work and goals. Respondents were educators selected from a national list of nurses with doctorates. The survey used a combination of objective and open-ended questions. The purpose was to seek a correlation between the interests of the faculty and the expectations of their hiring institutions. Suggestions are made on ways educators, clinicians, and administrators can collaborate and consult for their mutual benefit.</p>","PeriodicalId":77304,"journal":{"name":"NursingConnections","volume":"10 2","pages":"47-52"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20270649","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The modern clinical practice setting presents nurses with challenges about which they must think critically and develop increasingly autonomous problem-solving approaches. It is essential to provide nursing students with opportunities to practice critical thinking so that they can develop this crucial skill. Cooperative learning strategies are interactive teaching methods that stimulate students to think critically, communicate effectively with peers, and accept responsibility for learning through group process activities. Group care planning is one such cooperative strategy that also promotes a positive attitude about care planning and sharpens time management skills. Cooperative assessment and care planning foster the development of critical thinking and effective problem resolution, preparing students for patient care problems they will likely encounter in future positions.
{"title":"Cooperative learning in the clinical setting.","authors":"P L Newland","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The modern clinical practice setting presents nurses with challenges about which they must think critically and develop increasingly autonomous problem-solving approaches. It is essential to provide nursing students with opportunities to practice critical thinking so that they can develop this crucial skill. Cooperative learning strategies are interactive teaching methods that stimulate students to think critically, communicate effectively with peers, and accept responsibility for learning through group process activities. Group care planning is one such cooperative strategy that also promotes a positive attitude about care planning and sharpens time management skills. Cooperative assessment and care planning foster the development of critical thinking and effective problem resolution, preparing students for patient care problems they will likely encounter in future positions.</p>","PeriodicalId":77304,"journal":{"name":"NursingConnections","volume":"10 3","pages":"37-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20325953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Confidentiality and computerized medical records.","authors":"E Dawson","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77304,"journal":{"name":"NursingConnections","volume":"10 1","pages":"48-53"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20118827","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A time for renewal.","authors":"J E Johnson","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77304,"journal":{"name":"NursingConnections","volume":"10 2","pages":"1-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20270636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Forty-one patients for whose direct care at least one machine was used and 33 registered nurses from the same five non-critical care units as the patients and from one related unit, participated in a semistructured tape-recorded interview to identify the core categories of the human-machine interface in clinical nursing practice and the relationships between them. Constant comparative analysis was used to organize and process the data. Patients perceived the machines as neutral because of their view of health care and because nurses were the interface between them and the machines. Nurses perceived the machines as either positive or negative, depending on their effect on the nurses' professional competence and the extent to which they worked directly with them.
{"title":"Patients, machines, and staff nurses.","authors":"E A McConnell","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Forty-one patients for whose direct care at least one machine was used and 33 registered nurses from the same five non-critical care units as the patients and from one related unit, participated in a semistructured tape-recorded interview to identify the core categories of the human-machine interface in clinical nursing practice and the relationships between them. Constant comparative analysis was used to organize and process the data. Patients perceived the machines as neutral because of their view of health care and because nurses were the interface between them and the machines. Nurses perceived the machines as either positive or negative, depending on their effect on the nurses' professional competence and the extent to which they worked directly with them.</p>","PeriodicalId":77304,"journal":{"name":"NursingConnections","volume":"10 2","pages":"5-11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20270638","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Competition in health care calls for creativity.","authors":"J E Johnson","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77304,"journal":{"name":"NursingConnections","volume":"10 3","pages":"1-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20325946","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}