Includes universities, colleges at the 4-year and 2-year or community and junior college levels, technical institutes, and occupationally-oriented vocational schools in the United States and its outlying areas.
Winner of an AJN Book of the Year Award! Academic Nursing Practice can be a living laboratory that integrates the education, practice, and research mission of a school of nursing. Where better to demonstrate the efficacy of new practice models and interventions, identify questions for further study, teach students, and keep faculty skills fresh? This book describes how to develop and implement these nurse-managed practices, based on the extensive experience of the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, along with case examples from other programs. Practical strategies described include securing university support, outside funding, and academic-community partnerships. Academic Nursing Practice offers an opportunity for nursing to exert leadership on the pressing issues facing today's health care system --access, quality, and cost. This book is an excellent resource to begin planning for one.
Presents brief profiles of over three thousand undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral nursing programs in the U.S. and Canada, listing nursing student resources and activities, degree programs, and full-time, part-time, and distance learning options.
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Nursing Programs 2011 profiles nearly 3,200 undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral options at more than 700 institutions in the Unioted States and Canada. A special section, The Nursing School Advisor, includes indepth articles about degree and career options, the admissions process, and specialized programs for professions such as nurse practitioner and clinical specialist.