Clinical site selection by students through use of an internet database.

Use of the Internet in nursing education has greatly expanded during the past decade and will continue to be a force in the future. The authors describe the development and maintenance of an Internet Web site created to assist in the placement of individual students on particular clinical sites for their Capstone Practicum course in a baccalaureate school of nursing. Issues related to development, maintenance, and use of the program are included.

Nursing students can help support evidence-based practice on clinical nursing units.

Aims: A research study was designed to explore whether research utilization projects underwent by student nurses could have an impact on nursing practice on clinical nursing units.

Background: The use of evidence-based practice is becoming essential for nursing managers and nursing staff, but there are many barriers to implementing research findings in practice. Student nurses can be used to assist when staff nurses do not have time during the work day.

What rewards do clinical preceptors in nursing think are important?

This article explores the use of preceptors for a capstone course in a baccalaureate curriculum. Nursing faculty, nursing managers, and staff educators from local hospitals developed a survey to determine the range of items that would serve as recognition or rewards for staff working in a preceptor role. The challenge was to identify rewards that are meaningful to the preceptors and financially feasible for the organization and the School of Nursing.

Capacity for change.

Follow absenteeism and turnover rates from two outpatient clinics that underwent a period of major organizational change marked by multiple ownership.