Academic Nursing Practice: Helping to Shape the Future of Healthcare

by Lois K. Evans DNSc, FAAN, RN (Editor), Norma M. Lang PhD, FAAN, FRCN (Editor)

Overview

Winner of an AJN Book of the Year Award!

Academic Nursing Practice can be a living laboratory that integrates the education, practice, and research mission of a school of nursing. Where better to demonstrate the efficacy of new practice models and interventions, identify questions for further study, teach students, and keep faculty skills fresh?

This book describes how to develop and implement these nurse-managed practices, based on the extensive experience of the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, along with case examples from other programs. Practical strategies described include securing university support, outside funding, and academic-community partnerships.

Academic Nursing Practice offers an opportunity for nursing to exert leadership on the pressing issues facing today's health care system --access, quality, and cost. This book is an excellent resource to begin planning for one.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826120458
Publisher:	Springer Publishing Company
Publication date:	02/25/2004
Series:	Springer Series on the Teaching of Nursing
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Lois K. Evans is Viola MacInnes/Independence Professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing where she facilitated the development of the School’s network of community based nursing practices – the Penn Nursing Network and provided leadership for the School’s evolving agenda to integrate its missions for research, education and clinical care. She also co-directed the Penn-Macy Initiative to Advance Academic Nursing Practice. She has received numerous awards for her research on individualized care and restraint use with frail elders and is an elected Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and the Gerontological Society of America. Dr. Evans is Co-Director of the School’s Center for Gerontologic Nursing Science and the John A. Hartford Center o f Geriatric Nursing Excellence, Chairs the Family and Community Health Division, Co-Directs the Delaware Valley Geriatric Education Center and teaches in the geropsychiatric graduate nursing program.

Norma M. Lang, PhD, FAAN, FRCN, is Lillian Brunner Professor of Medicine Surgical Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. She is a Senior Research Fellow in the Annenberg Public Policy Center and a Senior Fellow in the Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics. She directs the Office of International Programs and the WHO/PAHO Collaborating Center for Nursing and Midwifery Leadership. She is the Dean Emeritus of Nursing (1992-2000) and former Dean and Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Nursing (1980-1992).

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Table of Contents

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Preface
Part I: The Mission of Academic Nursing Practice: Melding Research, Education, and Clinical Care

1. A Vision and a Plan for Academic Nursing Practice, Lang and Evans
2. Academic Nursing Practice: Looking Back, Lynaugh
3. Academic Nursing Practice Models and Related Strategic Issues, Sebastian et al
4. Strategic Planning for Academic Nursing Practice: The Consultantsí View, Orlov et al
5. Making Academic Nursing Practice Work in Universities: Structure, Function, and Synergy, Evans, McCauseland, and Lang

Part II: Resources and Strategies for Implementing Academic Practice

6. Strategies for Securing Business Expertise, Financial Support, and Visibility, Lang et al
7. Infrastructure to Support Academic Nursing Practice, Swan
8. Clinical Information Systems in Support of Academic Practice, Research, and Education, McGinley et al
9. Integrating Research and Practice, Evans, Lang, and Medoff-Cooper
10. Establishing an Evidence Base in Academic Practice: The Role of the Clinician-Educator Faculty, Barnsteiner et al
11. Community-Academic Partnerships, Controneo et al
12. Building Alliances: A Survival Strategy, Evans et al
13. Building A Critical Mass: The Penn Macy Initiative, Lang et al

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What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

Academic Nursing Practice represents an extraordinary, scholarly integration of information on the practice of nursing within academic settings. Never before has so much essential content been organized into one place. Through their work, Evans and Lang will be responsible for significantly advancing our knowledge on this topic. This is a landmark text and a ‘must’ for those whose work advances academic nursing practice."
—Catherine L. Gilliss, DNSc, RN, FAAN, Dean and Professor, The Yale School of Nursing

"This is a cutting-edge volume that will propel academic nursing practice to next levels of creating, managing, and challenging academic institutions to provide innovative care that is based on the translation of well-tested models of care. It is a must-read for administrators, faculty, graduate students, and all who want to transform care giving in an ailing health care system. It also provides guidelines for our international colleagues in academic health care centers who want to experiment with their practice mission. It is a book edited by two educators/nurses who are the most knowledgeable about academic-run practices. They are joined by leading authorities in the field to provide the evidence that nursing faculty must model an integrative approach to research and education through maintaining an active role in practice, particularly through community-academic partnerships."
—Afaf I. Meleis, PhD, DrPS (Hon), FAAN, Margaret Bond Simon Dean of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing

"Academic nursing practice offers opportunity for nursing to exert leadership on the pressing issues facing today's health care system... This book is an excellent resource to begin planning."—Doody Enterprises, Inc.

Editorial Reviews

5 Stars! from Doody

Reviewer: Mary Allen Carey, PhD (University of Oklahoma College of Nursing)
Description: This book, part of the series on The Teaching of Nursing, describes how to develop and implement academic nurse-managed practices based on the experience of the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing along with case examples from other noteworthy programs.
Purpose: The purpose is to describe a decade of academic work structured to integrate the education, research, and practice components of the mission of a school of nursing. These are very worthy objectives and the authors have achieved them well.
Audience: The book is written primarily for faculty and nursing education administrators who have an interest in the integration of education, research, and clinical practice. The authors are credible authorities.
Features: The book is divided into two parts. Part I addresses the mission of academic nursing practice as the melding of research, education, and clinical care and contains five edited chapters. These five chapters cover such topics as a vision and plan for academic nursing practice; a historical view of nursing practice; academic nursing practice models with related strategic issues; strategic planning for academic nursing practice from a consultant's view; and making academic nursing practice work in universities. Part II addresses resources and strategies for implementing academic practice and contains eight edited chapters. These chapters cover topics such as strategies for securing business expertise, financial support, and visibility; infrastructure to support academic nursing practice; requisite clinical information systems; integrating research and practice; establishing an evidence base in academic practice; community academic partnerships; building alliances for survival; and building a critical mass from the Penn Macy Initiative perspective. The nine tables and four figures enhance the editors' presentation of the material.
Assessment: The quality of this book is excellent. The presentation of strategic questions to consider in the areas of partnerships with health institutions, faculty practice plans, nurse-managed centers, joint appointments, clinical appointments, joint practice and collaborative practice arrangements superbly guide the reader.

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