Outcomes of a community-based three-year breast and cervical cancer screening program for medically underserved, low income women.

Purpose: To evaluate a community level three-year breast and cervical cancer screening program for medically underserved, low income women.

Data Sources: Descriptive data on 128 women gathered from five semiannual screening programs held between 1995 and 1997 were analyzed.

Conclusions: Poor and medically under served women often face barriers that may discourage or prevent screening activity and measures for early detection of breast and cervical cancer.

Communication styles that promote perceptions of collaboration, quality, and nurse satisfaction.

Interdisciplinary collaboration has been identified as an essential element of quality health care. Often, however, the degree of interdisciplinary collaboration in health care settings is limited. This failure to collaborate is usually not due to ill intent, but rather to a lack of collaboration skills.

The psychiatric clinical nurse specialist/nurse practitioner: an example of a combined role.

The purpose of this article is to provide an historical overview of the clinical nurse specialist and nurse practitioner roles in psychiatric nursing. This article is written as a follow-up to that of Dyer, Hammill, Regan-Kubinski, Yurick, & Kobert, (1997), Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, 11, 2-11, in which a new paradigm for delivering comprehensive mental and general health services is conceptualized, i.e.