: To examine practices for addressing moral distress, a collaborative project was developed by the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, the American Journal of Nursing, and the Journal of Christian Nursing, along with the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses and the American Nurses Association. Its purpose was to identify strategies that indi...

At schools of nursing nationwide, surging enrollments in the early 2000s necessitated changes in administrative structures and departmental organization. The authors describe a collaboration between faculty and administrators at their midwestern liberal arts college that aided a reorganization of the school of nursing. Kurt Lewin's 1951 change theory provided the framework for the restructuring...

131 Deborah K. Mayer, PhD, RN, AOCN®, is the editor of the Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing and an associate professor in the School of Nursing at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill; Suzanne M. Mahon, RN, DNSc, AOCN®, APNG, is a clinical professor in the Department of Internal Medicine and the School of Nursing at Saint Louis University in St. Louis, MO; and Beth Eaby, MSN, CRNP, ...

CHECKLIST ACCORDING TO PRACTICE-BASED EVIDENCE Ahmad Ghadami, Ali reza Irajpour, Sorour Mosleh, Fereshteh Baradaran Fard, Maryam Azari, Shokouh Sajadi, Mohammad Reza Sanaei. Assistant Professor, Ulcer Repair Research Center, Department of Operating Room, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran; Associate Professor, Department of Adult Nursing, Scho...

131 Deborah K. Mayer, PhD, RN, AOCN®, is the editor of the Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing and an associate professor in the School of Nursing at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill; Suzanne M. Mahon, RN, DNSc, AOCN®, APNG, is a clinical professor in the Department of Internal Medicine and the School of Nursing at Saint Louis University in St. Louis, MO; and Beth Eaby, MSN, CRNP, ...

In 2000, the American Association of Colleges of Nursing and the John A. Hartford Foundation Institute for Geriatric Nursing developed guidelines to help nurse educators incorporate gerontological nursing content into baccalaureate curricula. In 2001, the Hartford Foundation also provided grant monies to nursing programs to support gerontology curricular innovations and new clinical experiences...

The human patient simulator (HPS) has recently been introduced as an adjunct technology in nursing education. An international survey of nursing schools and simulation centers that collaborate with nursing schools and have purchased a Medical Education Technologies, Inc. (METI) HPS was undertaken in 2002. Thirty-four schools of nursing (18 based in universities and 16 based in community college...

BACKGROUND The nursing education program framework in Spain has recently been adapted and modified. This study aimed to analyze university postgraduate master'slevel nursing education during the past 21 years in Spain in terms of educational supply and demand. METHOD A retrospective, longitudinal, descriptive, and observational design was used. The educational offerings at 15 university nursi...