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R B Rice

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PubMed1999

Educational policy implications.

The areas mentioned in this article are only a few of the challenges that will be tackled in Phase II of CIC. In future Colleges in Caring articles in the Journal of Nursing Education, selected topics will be discussed, including use of technology, educational mobility, and conversion of data into educational policy. In addition, selected CIC grantee projects wil be featured, describing their educational initiatives and best practices. No one individual or organization has the expertise or solutions to mold health care and education for the future. The CIC Program has formed vital regional networks where mutual responsibility, interrelationships, information sharing, and collaboration are the norm. They are openly discussing their product--nursing care--in an economic, political, and social context. Their focus is on developing evidence-based policy that will benefit the quality of nursing care in the future.

Cooperative Behavior↗
PubMed1997

Overview of the regional collaboratives.

Responding to demands that nursing leaders conduct business in creative, proactive ways, the authors of this department share the work of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's national program. Colleagues in Caring: Regional Collaboratives for Nursing Work Force Development. The purpose of this initiative is to enhance regional and state collaborative planning and implement actions and policies to address the rapid changes occurring in the United States nursing labor market. This department presents the ongoing work of the program, highlighting the work of the 20 individual collaboratives. Regional approaches to the expected program outcomes and specific challenges and opportunities that are unique to each region's environment are included. The Colleagues in Caring program is administered by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing. Current information on the initiative can be found at http:/(/)www.aacn.nche.edu under Special Projects. The staff at the National Program Office can be reached at 202/496-1095 (fax: 202/496-1093).

Adolescent↗
PubMed1990

The incidence of Haemophilus influenzae meningitis in a midwestern metropolitan county.

The incidence of H. influenzae meningitis in children under five years of age was monitored during the years 1983-87 by a retrospective study of records from all hospitals serving a metropolitan county in Kansas. The mean annual incidence rate for the five years studied was 26.0 per 100,000. This compares with a mean of 56.0 per 100,000 measured in the same county during 1979-82.

Child, Preschool↗
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The epidemiology of bacterial meningitis.

BACKGROUND: The incidence by age and causative organism of bacterial meningitis are not known on a community basis. METHODS: The epidemiology of bacterial meningitis in a metropolitan county was studied by identifying all cases admitted to a hospital from 1983 through 1987. RESULTS: The overall incidence of bacterial meningitis was 5 per 100,000 person-years, but numbers of cases ranged from 40 per 100,000 for children younger than 5 years to 1.0 per 100,000 in adults aged between 16 and 64 years. No significant excesses of cases were found in male patients or in blacks. The predominant causative organism varied with age. Overall, Haemophilus influenzae was the most common causative organism, but 32 percent of cases were due to Streptococcus pneumoniae. Case fatality rates were high for S. pneumoniae (12.5 percent) and very high for the small number of elderly patients suffering from bacterial meningitis. CONCLUSIONS: Significant declines have occurred in the last decade in the incidence of bacterial meningitis in children, particularly in those younger than 5 years, and in disease caused by H. influenzae and group B streptococcus.

Adolescent↗