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B Horton

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PubMed1991

Faculty positions as a career choice for professionals--Part II.

This is the second part of a two-part article designed to identify "why professionals choose or do not choose faculty positions." The first article reviewed the methodology and the results as they applied to the demographic data. This was published in the June 1991 issue of the AANA Journal. This article reviews the results as they apply to life cycle and certain intrinsic and extrinsic factors of the respondents. The respondents were CRNAs who had graduate degrees, or were faculty in nursing education, faculty in higher education, or nursing service personnel. The article also covers additional recommendations made by the researchers for future studies. The results showed that 71% of the CRNA faculty intended to remain in academia for the next 5 years and 75% for the next 10 years. Ninety percent of the CRNA faculty indicated they would recommend a position in teaching to others. Intrinsic factors, such as the ability to use their knowledge and opportunity to teach were important to CRNA faculty as an influence to become faculty members. Extrinsic factors of salary, fringe benefits, and the cost of malpractice insurance were among those items identified by CRNA faculty as reasons why they would not become faculty members. It is hoped that this study will assist nurse anesthesia programs, universities and colleges in faculty recruitment activities. The information was presented by the authors at the Assembly of School Faculty Meeting held in Tampa, Florida, in February 1991.

Attitude of Health Personnel↗
PubMed1991

Faculty positions as a career choice for professionals--Part I.

This article is the first part of a two-part series designed to give the readers an overview of the study, "Faculty Positions as a Career Choice for Professionals." This nationwide study, requested by the AANA Education Committee, investigated the questions, "Why do professionals enter faculty positions?" and "Why do CRNAs with graduate degrees choose to become or choose not to become educators?" An attempt was made to answer these questions by studying demographic, life cycle and certain intrinsic and extrinsic factors of graduate-prepared CRNAs, nursing education faculty, higher education faculty (other than nursing and nurse anesthesia), and nursing service personnel. The authors reviewed the methodology and the results as they applied to the demographic data. The results showed that CRNA faculty were older than practicing CRNAs. Twenty-five percent of the CRNAs had degrees in nurse anesthesia, 16% in education, 13% in nursing, 6% in biology, and 40% in a variety of other disciplines. Sixty-five percent had undergraduate degrees in nursing and 7% in nurse anesthesia. CRNA faculty salaries and practicing CRNA salaries were comparable. The information was presented by the authors at the Assembly of School Faculty Meeting, February 21-24, 1991 in Tampa, Florida. It is hoped that this study will assist nurse anesthesia programs, universities and colleges in their recruitment activities for faculty.

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PubMed1991

Results of a survey of nurse anesthesia education programs: diversity, growth and regionalization.

This survey was conducted in June of 1990. Questionnaires were sent to and data obtained from all civilian and military nurse anesthesia education programs. Programs were asked to provide the following information: type of conducting institution; the party responsible for the administrative costs of the program; name and location of the program's academic affiliation; the name, location, type and purpose of all clinical affiliations/sites; and distance from the conducting institution to the academic affiliation and to each clinical site. The conducting entities for civilian programs were as follows: hospital or medical center, 43 programs; academic institution, 15 programs; joint arrangement between a hospital and an academic institution, 10 programs; freestanding, 4 programs; other, 7 programs. For purposes of this survey, each branch of the military was considered to have a single program with multiple clinical sites. Two military programs identified their conducting entity as a joint arrangement between the respective branch of the military and an academic institution. The third program identified itself as freestanding with an academic affiliation. In all but seven programs, the administrative costs of the program are the responsibility of the conducting institution. The majority of programs (74%) have an academic affiliation and 68% of programs offer a graduate degree. Eighty percent of programs with an academic affiliation are located within 50 miles of the academic site. The greatest distance between a program and its academic affiliation is 350 miles. Programs reported having from 1-13 clinical sites (mean = 3.6 sites/program). Military programs, freestanding programs and programs conducted by an academic institution have the highest mean number of sites per program.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

Education, Nursing, Graduate↗
PubMed1991

Comparison of accreditation criteria. CBHDP, NLN, and COA accreditation criteria.

When a program faces accreditation from two organizations, what happens? Double jeopardy? Unnecessary repetition? Frels and Horton look at a case in point--nurse anesthesia programs. In many cases these programs are accredited by both NLN and COA. The potential problems are accentuated in this case since not all nurse anesthetist programs are located in schools of nursing.

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PubMed1989

Pseudocholinesterase activity in human cerebrospinal fluid.

Pseudocholinesterase (PCHE) activity and dibucaine numbers (DN) in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and plasma of 10 ASA physical status 1 and 2 patients were measured using a kinetic method. CSF had a mean PCHE activity of 0.018 +/- 0.013 unit/ml with a DN of 59 +/- 4. Whereas, PCHE activity and DN in the plasma were 0.960 +/- 0.12 units/ml and 84 +/- 3, respectively. We also measured PCHE activity and DN in the CSF and plasma of 4 patients in whom there was a recent history of intraventricular bleeding. These patients had a CSF PCHE activity of 0.340 +/- 0.07 units/ml (DN = 78 +/- 3) and a plasma PCHE activity of 0.950 +/- 0.10 units/ml (DN = 82 +/- 2). Our data show that there is a low activity of PCHE in CSF, 1/20-1/100th that of plasma. Our data also show that PCHE activity increased to 1/4 to 1/2 that of plasma in CSF of patients with bleeding into CSF.

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