Academic Nursing Practice: Helping to Shape the Future of Healthcare (Springer Series on the Teaching of Nursing)

**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. 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.

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. Convinced that "nursing holds many of the solutions to the ... problems facing healthcare systems today," U. of Pennsylvania School of Nursing (UPSON) professors present 13 chapters examining aspects of academic nursing's mission and ways to implement goals aimed at integrating education, research, and clinical practice components in the field. In perspectives from work over the past decade or so, contributors (most with UPSON) discuss innovative models, initiatives, and support systems. Annotation : 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Based on the extensive experience of the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, this book describes how to develop and implement nurse-managed practices. It offers an opportunity for nursing to exert leadership on the pressing issues facing modern health care system - access, quality, and cost. The decade of the 1990s was a time for dreaming and for strategizing ways to realize those dreams.