Janet Storch | PubMed Health

PubMed2002

Scholarship revisited: a Collaborative Nursing Education Program's journey.

The Collaborative Nursing Program in British Columbia is a nursing education program composed of 10 partners, including five community colleges, four university colleges, and one university. The Board of Accreditation of the Canadian Association of University Schools of Nursing granted a 7-year accreditation to the Collaborative Nursing Program partners in November 2000. During the past several years, the partners have begun to view their collaborative curriculum development, implementation, and evaluation through the lens of scholarship. Using Boyer's model of scholarship, they have begun to evaluate their work of discovery, integration, application, and teaching against criteria in Scholarship Assessed: Evaluation of the Professorate. This article describes the journey the collaborative partners undertook in exploring the meaning of scholarship across the partnership and within each nursing school.

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PubMed2002

When a client considers surrogacy.

Although the registered nurse is not expected to have expert knowledge in all areas of practice, clients do ask questions in one health service area that might normally be handled in the context of another service area. When these sorts of 'surprising questions' arise, it is important for registered nurses to determine the nature of the question and to provide as much beginning assistance and guidance as possible to help the client to clarify the issues/concerns. Clearly, the nurse should do all she can to assist Sarah to access nurses and other health professionals who could provide more complete information and counselling for Sarah.

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