| Term | Definition |
|---|
| apprenticeships | Served by nursing students in the 1900s; gave valuable clinical experience while staffing the hospital inpatient wards |
| assisting functions | Simple functions based on common knowledge that can be learned through on-the-job training |
| competency | Skill or behavior that is measurable and can be evaluated |
| credential | Usually a letter or certificate given to a person to indicate he or she has the right to certain position or authority |
| endowment | Gift or bequest that provides an income for an institution |
| National Nursing Council for War Service | A coordinating council made up of fourteen national organizations concerned with the future of nursing |
| nursing infomatics | Type of health care infomatics focusing on information systems in the delivery, administration, documentation, and evaluation of patient care and disease prevention |
| Pew Charitable Trusts | Support various nonprofit activities, including those related to health and human services and public policy |
| professional functions | Complex functions requiring expert skill and judgement |
| SAFE | Acronym meaning standardized where appropriate, accountable to the public, flexible to support a safe and competent workforce, and effective and efficent to promote the public's safety and welfare |
| technical functions | Intermediate functions requiring skill, some judgement, and technical training |
| An Abstract for Action (Lysaught report 1970) | Nursing education and practice study that set forth recommendations for more research in nursing education and practice |
| Community College Education for Nursing (1959) | Reported the findings of a five-year study of eight pilot nursing programs, including the fact that all graduates from two-year programs passed thier examinations |
| The Education of Nursing Technicians (Montag study 1951) | Proposed a continuum of nursing functions consisting of assisting functions, technical functions, and professionsl functions |
| Educational Preparation for Nurse Practitioners and Assistants to Nurses (1965) | A position paper by the American Nurses Association arguing that a master's degree should be required for clinical nurse specialists (CNSs), a bacheor's degree for practice as a professional nurse, and the two year associate degree for the role of technical nurse |
| Goldmark report: Nursing and Nursing Education in the United States (1923) | The significant nursing study of the labor market in the 20th century; recommended basic hospital training as well as postgraduate classes and fieldwork in public health nursing education |
| Health Professions Education for the Future: Schools in Service to the Nation (1993) | Report funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts that primarily recommended a greater emphasis on teamwork and interdisciplinary collaboration; also encouraged interdisciplinary eduacation for schools of nursing |
| Healthy People 2010: The Conerstone for Prevention | National initiative focusing on health promotion and disease prevention; a study in the sense that various disciplines can provide the federal goverment with feedback on how well the health objectives are being met |
| National Commission on Nursing Study (1981) | Focused on issues of the work environment, including job satisfaction, recruitment and retention, and interdisciplinary relationships among nurses, physicians, and hospital administrative personnel; addressed the nurse's education preparation to make independent, autonomous decisions |
| National Commission on Nursing Implementation Project (1985) | Formed to implement the findings of the National Institute of Medicine and National Commission on Nursing studies conducted in the early 1980's; focused on nursing service delivery systems, education, and information, including nursing research and nursing infomatics |
| Naional Institute of Medicine study (1983) | A study mandated by the Nurse Training Act of 1979 that recommended goverment funding be targeted at graduate study in nursing and training nursing specialists, which resulted in a serious national nursing shortage, especially in long-term care settings, due to a drop in enrollment across the United States |
| Nursing for the Future (Brown report) (1948) | Study of fifty nursing schools that aimed to discover the probalble nature of health services in the second half of the twentieth century and the kind of education preparation needed by nurses to meet the postwar and future needs of society |
| Pew Health Professions Commission Report (1995, 1998) | Identified primary concerns related to a change in professionsl education, professional licensure, and workforce policy in halth care |
| A Program for the Nursing Profession (Ginzberg report) (1948) | Study focusing on the nursing shortage of the time; concluded the primary reasons for the shortage were inadequate economic incentives, a need for more adequate health care, and inefficient use of nursing resources and nursing potential |
| Study of Credentialing in Nursing: A New Approach (1979) | Review of credentialing in nursing that supported the development of a credentialing center for nurse |
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