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Joyce J Fitzpatrick

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A review of the second decade of the Annual Review of Nursing Research series.

This chapter includes a review of the second decade of Annual Review of Nursing Research, Volumes 11-20. The authors analyze the content of these volumes and summarize the significant changes in the nursing scientific community. Also described are the contextual changes related to the development of nursing research.

Education, Nursing↗

Endowed chairs and professorships in schools of nursing: a 2004 update.

This article presents data on the 262 endowed professorships and chairs in Schools of Nursing, for the period 1928 through 2004. Since the first survey was published in 1985, the number of professorships/chairs has increased from 20 to the present count. The number of endowments has increased significantly since the 1990s, with the addition of 188 new professorships/chairs since 1990.

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A family assessment tool for hospitalized elders.

This article describes the development of the FAMILY card, a family assessment instrument used in the Nursing Care Quality Initiative (NCQI) to assess the involvement and needs of family members of hospitalized elders. Through the NCQI project, particular attention has been paid to integrating both clinical expertise in geriatric nursing care and the principles of family-centered care into the nursing care provided by staff on the NCQI study units. Two case studies illustrating use of the SPICES geriatric assessment instrument and the newly developed FAMILY assessment card are included as exemplars.

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Nursing care quality initiative for care of hospitalized elders and their families.

This report describes a Nursing Care Quality Initiative (NCQI) through which a new model of care for hospitalized older adults and their families, the Family-Centered Geriatric Resource Nurse (FCGRN) model, was introduced. Eighteen units in 10 hospitals participated in the NCQI Project. Educational, clinical, and evaluation components of the NCQI Project are described.

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Hospitalized elders: changes in functional and mental status.

This article describes outcomes of a new model of care for hospitalized elders and their families. Patient functional and cognitive status on admission and discharge were evaluated for changes as a result of an educational program for preparing family-centered geriatric resource nurses. Patients in the intervention group (n = 173) demonstrated significant improvements in outcome measures (functional and cognitive status) from admission to discharge. A subset (n = 50) was selected from the 173 subjects who comprised the intervention group; this subset was compared with control subjects (n = 44); no statistically significant differences were noted between the 2 groups. Suggestions for future research are presented.

Activities of Daily Living↗