A statewide network--continuing education coordinators as community representatives and university resources.
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Alaska↗
Biomedical subjects
M L Armstrong
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Reading activities of staff nurses from states with mandatory or voluntary continuing education.
Reading activities of staff nurses (N = 269) residing in six states with mandated educational requirements for relicensure were compared with a similar number (N = 275) of staff nurses from states that have no legislative continuing education (CE) requirements. Time spent reading both professional and general literature was obtained. Nurses spent twice as much time reading general literature as professional literature. Both groups stated that conferences were the preferred method of CE; reading was the second choice in mandatory states and the third in voluntary states. However, nurses in voluntary states spent slightly more time reading professional literature.
Adult↗
Distance education programs: defining issues of assessment, accessibility, and accommodation.
Identification and resolution of a variety of issues is imperative to establishing effective distance education via telecommunications. In this first-hand experience, the authors describe selected issues and possible responses inherent in the development and implementation of a new teaching modality. The decision to pursue distance education by telecommunications should be made only after a thorough examination of the needs, the required resources, and the changes to be expected. Advance planning is essential for problem solving.
Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate↗
POTS, PANS, and PEARLs: the nursing profession's rich history with distance education for a new century of nursing.
BACKGROUND: Continuing education via distance education is expanding. A review of the media used to deliver classes in the past as well as future possibilities are presented. METHOD: The personal experience of the authors using these methods to present continuing nursing education is the basis for this article. RESULTS: There is evidence that people learn via distance education as well as they do with traditional formats such as conferences and seminars. Although learners are enrolling in these types of courses for convenience, they enjoy the classes more when there is active involvement and participation. CONCLUSIONS: Continuing education using distance education strategies will expand, especially because computers are available in the homes of learners. A larger number of offerings will be available, and more learners will use these media to remain current professionally.
Computer-Assisted Instruction↗
Is reading part of the lifelong learning process for RNs?
A 1988 national survey of 1,406 Registered Nurses (RNs) was conducted at 44 sites in 25 states and the District of Columbia to determine what type of occupation-related and general literature they read, what time they devote to reading, their purposes for reading, and the uses of the materials they read. The survey found that nurses are reading. They read, purchase, and subscribe to significantly more general than professional literature. They report that libraries are accessible, but they use them on a limited basis. The RNs also responded that their supervisors do not to support them in their pursuit of reading. Clinical journals, clinical books, and health-related newsletters are the top nursing materials read, newspapers and fiction books the most popular general literature.
Adult↗
Computer competencies identified for nursing staff development educators.
As part of a national study, eleven staff development/inservice educators identified, critiqued, and ranked present and future (1990) computer competencies needed by nurse educators teaching in basic and continuing education. Now, nursing staff development/inservice educators can compare their present level of knowledge of the technology to the important competencies ranked by their peers. Based on this assessment, continuing education strategies can be designed so the educator can be a responsive decision-maker regarding computer technology in the information-based health care delivery system.
Computer User Training↗
Getting involved in politics.
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American Nurses' Association↗
Ergonomic considerations in computer implementation: a primer.
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Computer-Assisted Instruction↗
Motivational orientations of urban- and rural-based RNs: implications for staff development educators.
Part of professional development is influencing RNs to return for an undergraduate degree, a challenge for the staff development educator. Expanding on earlier research using Boshier's Educational Participation Scale to reveal motivational orientations, the authors queried 5 groups of RNs who were enrolled in BSN education between 1990 and 1992 (N = 235) and living in rural and urban areas of Texas. There were no significant differences of overall motivational orientations, yet RN students living in rural areas scored higher in professional knowledge (P = 0.03) whereas urban-based RN students scored higher in compliance with authority (P = 0.02). Specific marketing and educational strategies are discussed.
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Adolescent tattoos: educating vs. pontificating.
Tattooing is a contemporary teen issue and a flourishing risk-taking behavior, whether the tattoos are amateur markings or studio designs. In order to assist teen clients, nurses in primary health settings need to focus on two important tasks. First, they must examine their own feelings toward tattooed adolescents before they take on the second task, the essential role of health education. Health education is important to assist adolescents become informed decision makers about tattooing.
Adolescent↗
You pierced what?
Adolescents have discovered body piercing. Specific information about the piercing procedure, the sites, and the risks are presented along with an educational information sheet that can be distributed to pediatric clients and their families. Further nursing involvement in the community is stressed with one goal being the development of a collaborative education program for body piercers and their counterparts, tattoo artists.
Adolescent↗