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Many nurses are deciding that the best way to meet health care needs of clients and ensure high quality care is to establish a nurse-managed health center. This article provides practical information on assessing the need for such a center, determining the scope of services to be provided, obtaining the financial resources needed, and determining the staff and facilities required. The application of this information can make the center a reality.
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Ambulatory Care Facilities/organization & administration , Nursing Services/organization & administration , Primary Health Care/organization & administration , Program Development , Financial Management , Health Services Needs and Demand , Personnel SelectionABSTRACT
As the nursing profession expands its unique scientific body of knowledge, it is essential that all professional nurses become capable of evaluating the scientific and clinical merits of this information generated by nursing research. Three developmental levels of research critique skills are delineated by the nurse reader's competencies: novice, intermediate, and advanced. Each developmental level is described in relation to five cognitive skills which underlie the proposed competencies: knowledge, comprehension, analysis, evaluation, and synthesis.
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Education, Nursing , Nurses , Nursing Research , HumansABSTRACT
The Foundation of the New York State Nurses Association Inc., (hereafter Foundation), the Council on Nursing Research of the New York State Nurses Association (hereafter Council on Nursing Research), and the Delta Pi Chapter of the Sigma Theta Tau International (hereafter Delta Pi), sharing the same beliefs about nursing research and the need to take action, have worked cooperatively during the past three years to develop a nursing research agenda for New York state. Activities undertaken by these three groups to achieve this goal include co-sponsored conferences, a delphi survey to establish nursing research priorities for New York state, a research program offered at the 1989 Convention of the New York State Nurses Association, and establishment of the Foundation's Center for Nursing Research. A Planning Committee, with representatives from the three co-sponsoring organizations, has been appointed to assist the Center to further specify the action strategies for the research agenda and to oversee implementation of the agenda.
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Nursing Research , Societies, Nursing , Humans , New YorkSubject(s)
Faculty, Nursing , Nurse Practitioners , Primary Health Care , Student Health Services , Humans , New YorkABSTRACT
Conceptualizing health and illness as separate, but coexisting, interacting phenomena provides the basis for delineating levels of intervention and for incorporating intervention strategies for both health and illness. This approach provides a model which directs clinical practice toward an emphasis on both health care and illness care. Nursing providers need to take the lead in recognizing that an equal if not greater emphasis on the health continuum will assist in the delivery of the full range of care necessary to meet both the health and illness care needs of society.
