Respect in the perinatal experience.

Perinatal educators wish to respect all parties in the perinatal experience. To accomplish this, some may need to learn and practice ways to express feelings of respect. Respect can be written into policy or procedure and is implicit in personal interaction.

Leadership for cross-cultural respect among health care personnel: an alternative approach.

This article offers an alternative view of culture, one that focuses on similarities among peoples rather than upon differences. Explored are aspects of organizational culture and organizational subcultures likely to influence the relationships among personnel and accordingly, delivery of health care services. The author offers advice to leaders in health care organizations on how to move toward mutual respect across cultures by focusing on involvement of everyone in supporting the organizational mission and establishing consensus on respect-worthy professional behavior.

Development in schools of nursing. Fund-raising to further long-range strategic plans.

Public or private, large or small, research-oriented or teaching- and service-intensive, every nursing school faces the need to establish a pool of capital to enhance financial stability, increase program independence, and fund special initiatives in an unknown financial future. A strong development program helps to fill such needs. This article addresses several principles of the development process so that deans, faculty, and other decision makers can apply them to their own situations.

Collaboration between schools of nursing and local education agencies to provide health care services to pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade students: elements of cooperative agreements.

Establishing cooperative relationships between schools of nursing and local education agencies for the delivery of health care services to children from pre-school through the twelfth grade is a process all too often characterized by numerous legal, insurance, and administrative roadblocks. While nursing faculty and their students may wish to cooperate with professional educators and their students to enhance the health care of the children, there are obstacles. Both institutions are represented by attorneys, insurance companies and others who must attend to aspects of the process other than direct health care delivery.

Creating a climate of mutual respect among employees: a workshop design.

An organizational climate that fosters mutual respect can be created. But respect does not mean the same thing to all people. This article describes a workshop design that guides facilitators through the process of examining individual and group behaviors related to respect, and for creating individual and organization wide approaches for getting respect and giving it.