Addressing the Shortage of Academic Nurse Educators: An Opportunity for Collaboration Between Academic and Healthcare Organization Leaders.

Background: The numbers of nursing school admissions and, thus, future nursing graduates are directly affected by the lack of qualified ANEs.

Methods: A consortium of diverse ANEs was formed to research these questions using the nominal group technique.

Results: Two central themes emerged from the consortium: support and collaboration.

For faculty, by faculty: a case study of learning to teach online.

The shortage of nursing faculty and the need for MSN-prepared faculty to have access to doctoral education and remain in their teaching roles has resulted in a growing number of nurse education programs moving online. A better understanding of how best to support faculty during this transition is needed. This case study describes the experiences of faculty at one institution as they participated in a grassroots effort to learn about online teaching.

Ready for the World: preparing nursing students for tomorrow.

In 2004, a 5-year plan of international and intercultural education was developed by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK) to help students become ready for the changing world in which they will live. This program is called "Ready for the World." The University of Tennessee College of Nursing in Knoxville has integrated many of the suggestions from this program into the undergraduate nursing curriculum to prepare students for the world by making the world their classroom.

Case management for patients with poorly controlled diabetes: a randomized trial.

Purpose: To evaluate the effects of a collaborative case management intervention for patients with poorly controlled type 2 diabetes on glycemic control, intermediate cardiovascular outcomes, satisfaction with care, and resource utilization.

Methods: We conducted a randomized controlled trial at two Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Centers involving 246 veterans with diabetes and baseline hemoglobin A(1C) (HbA(1C)) levels >or=7.5%.

Evaluating quality of nursing care: the gap between theory and practice.

The purpose of this article is to determine whether nursing practice, as judged by nurse peer reviewers, varies by type or location of hospital and to assess which aspects of practice tend to be most at variance with nursing theory. This article provides a framework of continued quality assessment and improvement that is based on prior research. Trained nurse peer reviewers carried out structured implicit review, which utilized their professional judgment to evaluate the process of nursing care for patients admitted to acute hospitals with heart failure or cerebrovascular accident.

The HANDS project: studying and refining the automated collection of a cross-setting clinical data set.

The consistent availability of a core set of clinical nursing data is essential to promote quality patient care. Although important work to improve terminology and enhance comparability of data is underway, the efforts do not address the immediate need for useful nursing data sets and valid methods of collection at the point of data entry. The Hands-on Automated Nursing Data System (HANDS) project is dedicated to refining a feasible methodology for gathering, storing, and retrieving a standardized nursing data set.