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C A Burbach

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Issues in home health nursing education.

To provide quality preparation in home healthcare, nursing education must attend to important issues that will influence this endeavor. The research reported here outlines issues for both educators and agency personnel.

Community Health Nursing↗

Linking community needs with student research experiences.

The authors describe the activities of the Action Research program, designed to link academic projects and requirements for student research activities with the information needs of community service agencies. While interdisciplinary in focus, this program has been especially helpful in allowing community health nursing students to gain practical experience with real-life research questions and processes. An added benefit is to instill in the student an attitude of service while expanding their orientation to the community and the everyday needs of its agencies.

Clinical Nursing Research↗

Contraception and adolescent pregnancy.

To identify reasons for increasing numbers of pregnant adolescents, questionnaires were distributed to teenagers with unplanned pregnancies to determine the level of their knowledge of contraception. Findings revealed that 94% of the subjects had an adequate knowledge of availability, while only 43% had an adequate overall knowledge of contraception. Subjects reported many misconceptions about contraceptives and a general lack of motivation concerning contraceptive use.

Adolescent↗