Llamplications of Research for Nursing Practice Education, and Policymaking

Proceedings are presented from a research conference to promote nursing research as a basis for policymaking in nursing practice, education, and health care services. The keynote address, by Patricia Jones, describes issues in health care financing in the 1980t and urges researchers to provide the kind of data and guidelines needed to support professional nursing services. The second paper, by Ora L. Strickland, names establishment of an Acceptable and stable economic bate for the provision of nursing Services as the most important public policy issue facing nursing and gives pointers on collaborative research as one'approach to contributing to the knowledge base. The 'third presentation, by Jeanette Lancaster, eichorts nurse researchers to affect policy by identifying critical study areas and initiating research. Abstracts follow of 32 studies, with almost equal numbers focusing on clinical practice, education, and the delivery -of health care areas ; the majority have implications in all three areas. They generally underscore the interrelatedness of research, education, and tbrvice. Specific topics_ include nurse-patient negotiationt, predictive factors of supply and salaries of nurse practitioners, cultural determinantt of health and seIf-care, job satiSfCtion, skills of nurse administrators,'continuing education, nursing gestalt, nurses' decision making, and factors related to student success in cpmpIeting a baccalaureate nursing education. (YLB) y' IV********************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS 're the best that can be made from the original document. ************":***************N******************************************