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Chapter 2
Influential Studies About Nursing
Question | Answer |
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internships | Served by nursing students in the 1900s; gave valuable clinical experience while staffing the hospital inpatient wards. |
assistive functions | Simple functions based on common knowledge that can be learned through on-the-job training. |
competancy | A skill or behavior that is measurable and can be evaluated. |
credential | Usually a letter or a certificate that is given to a person to indicate to others that the person has the right to a certain position or authority. |
endowment | A gift or bequest that provides an income for an institution. |
National Nursing Council for War Service | A coordinating council made up of fourteen national organizations concerned with the future of nursing. |
Pew Charitable Trust | Support various nonprofit activities, including those related to health and human services and public policy. |
Professional Functions | Complex functions requiring expert skill and judgement |
SAFE | An acronym meaning standardized where appropriate, accountable to the public, flexible to support a safe and competent workforce, and effective and efficient to promote the public’s safety and welfare. |
Technical functions | Intermediate functions requiring skill, some judgment, and technical training. |
Eli Ginzberg | A professor of economics at Columbia University who conducted a study with colleagues from nursing, medicine, and the social sciences that resulted in the publication of the Ginzberg report. |
Esther Brown | A social anthropologist and director of the Department of Studies in the Professions of the Russell Sage Foundation; the author of the Brown report. |
Inez Hinzvark | The primary researcher for The Study of Credentialing in Nursing: A New Approach. |
Josephine Goldmark | the chief investigator in the Goldmark Report |
Katherine Bauer | Led the National Institute of Medicine study. |
Mildred Montag | Author of the Montag study and Community College Education for Nursing. |
nursing informatics | Type of health care informatics focusing on information systems in the delivery, administration, documentation, and evaluation of patient care and disease prevention. |
informatics | the study of information |
An Abstract for Action :the Lysaught Report of 1970 | A nursing education and practice study that set forth recommendations for more research in nursing education and practice. |
Community College Education for Nursing 1959 | Reported the findings of a five-year study of eight pilot nursing programs, including the fact that all graduates from two-year programs passed their examinations. |
The Education of Nursing Technicians 1951 | Mildred Montag’s doctoral thesis, wherein she argued for the establishment of the nurse technician role. She proposed a continuum of nursing functions that consisted of assisting functions, technical functions, and professional functions |
The Montag Study | 1951 The Education of Nursing Technicians Study by Mildred Montag |
Educational Preparation for Nurse Practitioners and Assistants to Professional Nurses | Position paper by the American Nurses Association arguing for a master’s degree for clinical nurse specialists:CNSs, bachelor’s degree for practice as a professional nurse, two-year associate degree adequate preparation for the role of technical nurse. |
The Goldmark Report: Nursing and Nursing Education in the US 1923 | The first significant nursing study of the labor market in the 20th century; recommended basic hospital training as well as postgraduate classes and fieldwork in public health nursing education. |
Health Professions Education for the Future: Schools in Service to the Nation 1993 | A report, funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts, whose primary recommendation was for a greater emphasis on teamwork and interdisciplinary collaboration; also encouraged interdisciplinary education for schools of nursing. |
Healthy People 2010: The Cornerstone for Prevention | A national initiative focusing on health promotion and disease prevention; a study in the sense that various disciplines can provide the federal government with feedback on how well the health objectives are being met. |
National Commission on Nursing 1981 study | issues of the work environment: job satisfaction, recruitment, retention, interdisciplinary relationships among nurses, physicians, and hospital admin personnel; addressed nurse’s education and preparation for independent, autonomous decision making. |
National Commission on Nursing Implementation Project 1985 | Formed to implement the findings of the NIM and National Commission on Nursing studies focused on nursing service delivery systems, education, and information, including nursing research and nursing informatics. |
National Institute of Medicine 1983 study | Study mandated by the Nurse Training Act of 1979, recommending government funding be targeted at graduate study in nursing and training nursing specialists, resulting in a national nursing shortage, esp in long-term care, due to lower enrollment |
Nursing for the Future (Brown) 1948 study | Study of 50 nursing schools aimed to discover the probable nature of health services in the second half of the 20th century, and the kind of preparation needed by nurses to meet the post war and future needs for society |
Pew Health Professional Commissions Report 1995, 1998 | Identified primary concerns related to a change in professional education, professional licensure, and workforce policy in health care. |
A Program for the Nursing Profession (Ginzberg) 1948 | A study focusing on the nursing shortage of the time; concluded that the primary reasons for the shortage were inadequate economic incentives, a need for more adequate health care, and inefficient use of nursing resources and nursing potential. |
Study of Credentialing in Nursing: A New Approach 1979 | A review of credentialing in nursing that supported the development of a credentialing center for nurses. |