Farm Safety: A Tale of Translational Research and Collaboration.

Children who live or work on farms are at a high risk for injury and death, yet few resources are available to reduce the danger of injury. Research findings establish the need for farm safety in preschool children. However, barriers to interventional research have limited the development of established strategies to help reduce the risk.

The Schumacher model: fostering scholarship and excellence in nursing and for recruiting and grooming new faculty.

In 2004, U.S. nursing schools turned away 32,797 qualified nursing applicants.

Pedigree analysis: One teaching strategy to incorporate genetics into a full FNP program.

The successful completion of the genome project in April 2003 and explosion of genetic knowledge is impacting healthcare at a dramatic rate. All healthcare providers need to update themselves on genetics in order to provide comprehensive care. This article describes a national grant obtained to educate faculty regarding incorporating genetics into courses.

Down on the farm: preventing farm accidents in children.

Agriculture continues to rank as the most dangerous industry in the United States. The objectives of this pilot study were to identify the incidence of care provided to children involved in farm accidents, examine barriers to utilization of farm safety materiaJs by primary health care practitioners (PHCPs), and determine the percentage of PHCPs who provide anticipatory guidance related to farm safety. Pender's revised Health Promotion Model (2006) was used.

Implementing and evaluating a culturally-focused curriculum in a collaborative graduate nursing program.

For more than a decade, nurses and nurse educators have been held to national and professional goals aimed at affirming diversity, integrating cultural competence, and closing the healthcare disparity gap. Faced with shrinking resources, meeting these goals has been harder to achieve. In September 2004, the Sullivan Commission report renewed attention to the widening gap in healthcare quality for America's growing minority population as well as the shortage of minority healthcare providers.

Maximizing resources: the S.H.A.R.E. model of collaboration.

This article describes the S.H.A.