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B Henry

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PubMed1991

Leadership through policy research.

There are many ways of providing leadership, but one of the most important is through the guidance and direction provided for initiating new, improved healthcare policies. Nurses at the executive level--whether in primary, secondary, or tertiary agencies--are in an ideal position to have an impact on decisions about who should receive healthcare services, the nature of the services, and the design of the organizational structures to deliver them. A great deal has been written about nurses' participation in policy making, but there has been little attention to an extremely important mechanism for improving national and community healthcare: policy research. In this article, the authors provide an overview of the purposes and methods of policy research and discuss its inclusion in service and academic programs.

Education, Nursing↗
PubMed1990

Nightingale's perspective of nursing administration.

Nightingale is often thought of for her clinical nursing care, but Henry, Woods, and Nagelkerk remind us that she was first and foremost a nursing administrator. Much of Nightingale's advice, as quoted here, sounds strangely modern and applicable today.

Administrative Personnel↗
PubMed1990

Development management for nursing administration.

What are the needs of a nurse administrator in a developing country? For that matter, what are the requirements for a nurse administrator in areas of lesser developed delivery in this country (e.g., care of the homeless, care of indigent populations)? Heyden, Luyas, and Henry look at the educational needs of these nurse managers and compare the needs to the typical education received in nursing administration programs.

Administrative Personnel↗
PubMed1989

[15 years of treatment of temporomandibular joint algo-dysfunctional syndromes].

For more than 15 years, the maxillo-facial and stomatological center in Lyon has received approximately 100 cases of T.M.A.D.S. per year. The etiological basis of the symptomatology is muscular dysfunction due to malocclusion variable degree and duration. Simple radiological investigations complete the examination. Treatment aims at correcting the malocclusion, either by simple methods: dental occlusion and prosthesis, or by orthognathic orthodontic and surgical techniques. Surgery involving the temporo-mandibular joint is reserved for rare cases of condylar deformation which is often post-traumatic. Favorable results can be obtained in 85% of cases.

Adult↗
PubMed1988

Suggestions for graduate education in nursing service administration.

The study was prompted by a long-standing concern about how best to educate nurse administrators for work in complex health service organizations. In the last decade, there has been increasingly widespread agreement in nursing that advanced education for clinical specialization alone may be insufficient. To improve understanding of education for nursing administration (NA), the suggestions in 37 publications printed between 1976 and 1985 were analyzed. Inferences were made from these publications about curriculum content, program structure, instructional placement, and practicum experiences. Content suggested most often pertained to health systems, nursing practice, research, and policy. Reference was least often made to perspectives in organization theory, ethics, and future studies. Suggestions for international NA were made in only one publication. Administration majors with a clinical nursing emphasis in multidisciplinary programs controlled by schools of nursing were widely recommended, as were administrative practicums of variable length. Few suggestions were made about the epistemological considerations needed to guide the development of interdisciplinary nursing administration. In the future, consideration of the overlap--from nursing and management science--of concepts, research problems, and modes of inquiry, will be important for the education of nurse administrators. In the 1960s and early 1970s, clinical specialization was the central focus of graduate nursing education. During this period of time, emphasis on nursing administration (NA) declined, as did the number of NA programs, resulting in a critical shortage of nurse administrators academically prepared to manage health services (Blair, 1976a-b).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

Administrative Personnel↗
PubMed1988

Nursing administration research in hospitals and schools of nursing.

"Nursing service administration is in the most desperate need of research..." So said Herman Finer, well-known professor at the University of Chicago and in 1952, director of the Kellogg Nursing Service Administration Research Project. Today, 35 years later, the same need holds true. Administrators in hospitals and schools of nursing were canvassed to discover the nature of nursing administration research already in progress. Information about what is being studied, and amounts and sources of funding can be useful to nurse executives who are planning to implement research projects that build on existing knowledge. Findings from the study can also contribute to development of an overdue national research agenda for nursing administration.

Administrative Personnel↗