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Magyary DL. 2003. Nursing Leadership Enhancement for Culturally Competent Care: Children and Adolescents with Special Health Care Needs, Families and Communities. Seattle, WA: Psychosocial and Community Health, University of Washington, 24 pp., plus appendices.

Annotation: This report describes a program to enhance leadership in the graduate preparation of masters' and doctoral nurses who have a specialty emphasis on populations of children with special health care needs (CSHCN). The report covers program objectives, methodology, coordination, evaluation, and experience from July 1998 to June 2003. Topics include an outline of purposes, goals, and objectives; a review of project results in cultural competency, partnership building, recruitment, community outreach, and continuing education; and a description of performance outcomes before, during, and after graduate studies. Addition contents include the project relationship to Title V programs, its regional and national significance, the value added to the School of Nursing and the University of Washington community, and supports of Year 2010 national health objectives. Appendices include lists of courses taught, publications, continuing education presentations and involvement by the faculty; a list of current nursing trainees and scholarship support; examples of leadership enhancement of current students; a list of long-term trainees; graduates' descriptive biographical information; and Healthy People 2010 objectives addressed. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Contact: Maternal and Child Health Library at Georgetown University, E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: https://www.mchlibrary.org Photocopy available at no charge.

Keywords: Children with special health care needs, Cultural sensitivity, Final reports, Leadership training, MCH research, Nurses, Nursing specialties, Outreach, Postsecondary education, Professional education

Wheeler L. 2002. Nurse-midwifery handbook: A practical guide to prenatal and postpartum care. (2nd ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott, Williams, and Wilkins, 443 pp.

Annotation: This book addresses care by nurses and midwives in the preconception, prenatal, and postpartum stages and offers suggestions on the addition of holistic care. Topics include health education, nutrition, physical examinations, laboratory and diagnostic tests, the transition to parenthood, breastfeeding, contraception, and general health issues for women. Patient education materials, sample forms and charts, and guidelines for providing culturally competent care are included in the appendices. An index concludes the book.

Contact: Wolters Kluwer Health, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, P.O. Box 1620, Hagerstown, MD 21741, Telephone: (800) 638-3030 Secondary Telephone: (301) 223-23000 Fax: (301) 223-2400 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.lww.com Available in libraries. Document Number: ISBN 0-7817-2929-7.

Keywords: Educational materials, Manuals, Midwifery, Nursing education, Nursing specialties, Obstetrical nursing, Postpartum care, Preconception care, Prenatal care

Lewis EP, ed. 1970. The clinical nurse specialist. New York, NY: American Journal of Nursing , 350 pp. (Contemporary nursing series; no. 1)

Annotation: This compilation of articles relating to the clinical nurse specialist discusses the nurse clinician; the clinical specialist as change agent, role model, practitioner, joint appointee, and supervisor; health care education; consequences for patients and personnel; the change process; nursing Kardex behavior in an experimental study of patient units with and without clinical specialists; integrating clinical specialists into a hospital nursing service; absence of supervisors; graduate nursing students; the clinical specialist in cardiovascular nursing; liaison nurses; maternity nurse specialists in hospital clinics; psychiatric nursing specialists; nurse specialist effects on tuberculosis; preventing hospital trauma in pediatric patients; specialists for children; the nurse specialist in the community; clinic nursing in transition; the specialist in rehabilitation nursing; public health nursing and comprehensive health care; masters-prepared practitioners in public health nursing; the public health nurse coordinator in a general hospital; nurse clinicians in public health; and intensive care nursing.

Keywords: Graduate education, Nursing education, Nursing specialties, Pediatric nursing, Psychiatric nursing, Public health nursing

Steeves A, ed. A celebration of public health nursing. Connecticut Health Bulletin. 100(3):215-231. 1988.,

Annotation: This special issue of Connecticut Health Bulletin celebrates 100 years of public health nursing in the state of Connecticut. There are several articles looking at the past and present of public health nursing as well as some historical photographs.

Contact: Connecticut Department of Public Health, 410 Capitol Avenue, Hartford, CT 06134-0308, Telephone: (860) 509-8000 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.ct.gov/dph Price unknown.

Keywords: Connecticut, History, Home care, Nursing specialties, Public health nurses, Public health nursing

   

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