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Lena Angevine Warner was a remarkable early southern nurse who, as a result of her Army experience with the Walter Reed Commission yellow fever experiments in Cuba, directed her life work to disease prevention and public health. This biographic sketch traces her long and productive career from 1889 until her retirement in 1946, and illustrates her significant contributions to public health nursing in the mid-South.
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Is a planned learning experience with well older adults a positive influence on a nursing student's attitude, level of gerontological knowledge, and willingness to work with older adults after graduation? Students in a baccalaureate program were divided into treatment or control groups based on their attitudes on the Kogan's Attitude Toward Old People Scale. Knowledge was measured by the Palmore's Facts on Aging Quiz (Palmore, 1977). Half of the students were given experiences with well elderly while the other group had no experience with this population. Differences in pre- and post-test scores were compared by analysis of variance. All students, regardless of planned experience with older adults, increased their knowledge. Students who initially had negative attitudes significantly improved their attitudes regardless of the type of clinical experience. The investigation failed to support the idea that experiences with well elderly would make a difference on attitude and knowledge base. This project suggests knowledge and attitude changes are not dependent upon a particular type of clinical learning activity.
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This study identifies and compares perceptions of school personnel (principals, teachers, counselors and school nurses) about the nurse's role in secondary school settings. A two-art questionnaire was utilized. Part one elicited descriptive data, while part two consisted of 50 Likert-type items related to the school nurse's role. Mean perception scores on the 50 items were obtained by job category and compared using a one-way ANOVA. Chi-square analyses were performed on the frequencies of scale values to determine if their distributions, by item, were the same for all job categories. Correlation coefficients were utilized to determine relationships between training levels, experience, direct contact and perceptions. Analyses revealed: (1) Significant differences in perceptions of the school nurse's role between each group of educators and school nurses. (2) No significant relationship between training level, experience, number of contacts with the nurse and perceptions of the school nurse's role.