Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to V L Conners.
The expansion of research-based literature is one of the foremost goals of the nursing profession. Linked to this goal are the utilization and further development of nursing libraries. This paper discusses some historical factors that have influenced nursing literature. It presents a model for teaching graduate nursing students the relationship between research and library information skills.
This model is an attempt to meaningfully reduce psychosexual development to its essential elements in order to facilitate learning, and, ultimately, the development of nursing interventions that are evolved from a theoretical base, produced out of a wholistic view of psychosexual development and arise from a conception of sexuality as a healthy, normal phenomenon. It certainly possesses limitations. No model can replace the nurse-client relationship upon which knowledge and insight into the client's unique character and needs are based. However, utilizing a model as a foundation for learning and nursing practice can become the first step in determining successful client service. Using a psychosexual development model in concert with our overall view of human beings serves to strengthen our commitment to treating individuals as integrated wholes. "Human sexuality, that dimension of maleness and femaleness in one's personality, is expressed in every human act; it is inseparable from the maintenance of one's health" (Jacobson, 1974).
Clinical experience is an integral part of the education of health profession students and requires collaboration between educational and clinical institutions. In an effort to facilitate this collaboration, contracting with clinical agencies is conceptualized as the process of system entry. A model has been developed to help analyze this process, and appraisal criteria, written from the perspective of the educational institution, have been generated to allow for system self-evaluation of the entry process.