A comparison of policies on nurse faculty workload in the United States.

Aim: This article describes nurse faculty workload policies from across the nation in order to assess current practice.

Background: There is a well-documented shortage of nursing faculty leading to an increase in workload demands. Increases in faculty workload results in difficulties with work-life balance and dissatisfaction threatening to make nursing education less attractive to young faculty.

The impact of a school entry law on adolescent immunization rates.

Purpose: Middle school entry laws increase coverage with recommended vaccines, but their effect on vaccines that are not required is unknown. We compared vaccination coverage for hepatitis B, tetanus and diphtheria (Td), and measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) in areas of states with discordant middle school, hepatitis B school entry laws, and evaluated the relationship between demographic characteristics and adolescent immunization rates.

Methods: Retrospective design with purposive school sampling, using location of residence to determine study group.