Academic Nursing Practice : Helping to Shape the Future of Healthcare

Academic Nursing Practice can be a living laboratory that integrates the education, practice, and research mission of a school of nursing. Where better to demonstrate the efficacy of new practice models and interventions, identify questions for further study, teach students, and keep faculty skills fresh?

This book describes how to develop and implement these nurse-managed practices, based on the extensive experience of the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, along with case examples from other programs. Practical strategies described include securing university support, outside funding, and academic-community partnerships.

Academic Nursing Practice offers an opportunity for nursing to exert leadership on the pressing issues facing today's health care system --access, quality, and cost. This book is an excellent resource to begin planning for one.

Lois K. Evans is Viola MacInnes/Independence Professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing where she facilitated the development of the School’s network of community based nursing practices – the Penn Nursing Network and provided leadership for the School’s evolving agenda to integrate its missions for research, education and clinical care. She also co-directed the Penn-Macy Initiative to Advance Academic Nursing Practice. She has received numerous awards for her research on individualized care and restraint use with frail elders and is an elected Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and the Gerontological Society of America. Dr. Evans is Co-Director of the School’s Center for Gerontologic Nursing Science and the John A. Hartford Center o f Geriatric Nursing Excellence, Chairs the Family and Community Health Division, Co-Directs the Delaware Valley Geriatric Education Center and teaches in the geropsychiatric graduate nursing program.

Norma M. Lang, PhD, FAAN, FRCN, is Lillian Brunner Professor of Medicine Surgical Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. She is a Senior Research Fellow in the Annenberg Public Policy Center and a Senior Fellow in the Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics. She directs the Office of International Programs and the WHO/PAHO Collaborating Center for Nursing and Midwifery Leadership. She is the Dean Emeritus of Nursing (1992-2000) and former Dean and Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Nursing (1980-1992).