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Free access to electronic AIDS information
Barbara Russell, MPH, RN, CIC; and Ann B. Williams, EdD, RN, C, FAAN. For information on how to order the proceedings from the summit, call the AAN office at (202) 5544444 x153. Complete or individual audio cassettes are available from Chesapeake Audio/ Video Communications, Inc., phone (410) 7960040 or FAX (410) 3790812.
The National Library of Medicine has eliminated all on-line charges for searching three AIDS-related databases and an online directory of sources of information. AIDSLINE, AIDSTRIALS, AIDSDRUGS, and DIRLINE may be accessed without charge. AIDSLINE is a database with more than 90,000 references to AIDS-related journal articles, books, audiovisuals, and conference abstracts. AIDSTRIALS, produced as a joint effort with the NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the Food and Drug Administration, contains CUIrent information about more than 500 clinical trials of drugs and vaccines that have been and are being tested by the NIH and by private organizations. AIDSDRUGS contains detailed information about 190 agents being tested in the clinical trails. DIRLINE (Directory of Information Resources Online} is a listing of 15,000 organizations and in formation services that provide information to the public about HIV/AIDS and other health-related topics. For more information about these resources call NLM at (301) 4966308. Another excellent source of information on AIDS is the CDC National AIDS Clearinghouse, located at P. 0. Bax 6003, Rockville, MD 20849-3. Phone: l-800-458-5231; FAX: 301-738 138
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6616. The Clearinghouse collects and disseminates information and materials on HIV/AIDS ~for health care professionals.
ican Association of Colleges of Nursing (A m, PhD, RN, FAAN, has accepted a new poaitiun as executive director of the Association of Nurse Executives, American Hospital Association, in Chicago. She will be leaving her position as associate vice president of Mercy Health Services, in Farmington Hills, Mich., in July. Ada Sue Hbashaw, PhD, RN, FAAN, director, National Institute of Nursing Research, will be stepping down from her current position in July to accept the position of dean of the University of MichiganSchool of Nursing, in Ann Arbor. Dr. Hinshaw is the first director of the NINR, having assumed the position shortly after the establishment of the former organization, the National Center for Nursing Research, in 1987. Judith C~lt&sw~, RNC, MSN, FAAN, director, Medical College of Virginia Women’s Health Care, in Richmond, Va., is the newly elected vice president of the National Certiflcation Corporation for the Obstetric, Gynecologic, and Neonatal Nursing Specialties. The mission of the NCC is to maintain and improve the quality of professional obstetric, gynecologic, and neonatal nursing care through a certification program. L.oretia Swra&t JemsmW, PhD, RN, FAAN, is associate professor and the new director of the Center for AIDS Research at themColumbia University School of Nursing, in New York City.
She will continue her research in behavioral c&nge and prevention &HIV indectiofi,w~ise6iEilding?inka~~i~ the rn~ltid~~~~~ryc~~~r far HIV at Columbia. DNS, RN,~ FAAN, re Nat an invitational cor$eretice, “Health Pr&%sions Edu catiTJn and ~Relationship-centered Care: A PewsFetzer Conference,” held in Chicago in May. The Pew-Fetzer Task Force on ~Psych#s&i& Hea&hEducation is to serve in an advisory capacity to the Pew-He&h Professions Commission and the Feaer Institute. Its general purpose is to establish a 3- to 5-year agenda for encouraging the developmentorexpansio of educational programs that address psychosocial health issues or that reflect an integrated biopsychosocial perspective. %verly Flyan, PhD, RN, FAAN, and &&ry &&m-r, DrPH, RN, FAAN, participated in a public health summit at the Schuol of Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in May. The summit, sponsored by the Association of Schools of Public Health, was called to-identify roles for public_heaith professionals under health care reform, to identify skills, knowledge, and corn peEencies needed by professionals that will staff a proposed Public Health Service Corps, and to draft a national strategy to ensure the establishment of the
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PhD, RN, FAAN, gave her presidential address at the 15th anniversary meeting of the Society of Behavioral Medicine in Boston in April. -I&a* SbrJr” ILuLp, PhD, RN, FAAN, was-the 1994. program chair. The North tiurr preanre PhD, RN; FAAN~with ~theQ~~No$th Dakota Nurses Association Honorary
The National Library of Medicine has eliminated all on-line charges for searching three AIDS-related databases and an online directory of sources of information. AIDSLINE, AIDSTRIALS, AIDSDRUGS, and DIRLINE may be accessed without charge. AIDSLINE is a database with more than 90,000 references to AIDS-related journal articles, books, audiovisuals, and conference abstracts. AIDSTRIALS, produced as a joint effort with the NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the Food and Drug Administration, contains CUIrent information about more than 500 clinical trials of drugs and vaccines that have been and are being tested by the NIH and by private organizations. AIDSDRUGS contains detailed information about 190 agents being tested in the clinical trails. DIRLINE (Directory of Information Resources Online} is a listing of 15,000 organizations and in formation services that provide information to the public about HIV/AIDS and other health-related topics. For more information about these resources call NLM at (301) 4966308. Another excellent source of information on AIDS is the CDC National AIDS Clearinghouse, located at P. 0. Bax 6003, Rockville, MD 20849-3. Phone: l-800-458-5231; FAX: 301-738 138
&A?JNaRlvr
6616. The Clearinghouse collects and disseminates information and materials on HIV/AIDS ~for health care professionals.
ican Association of Colleges of Nursing (A m, PhD, RN, FAAN, has accepted a new poaitiun as executive director of the Association of Nurse Executives, American Hospital Association, in Chicago. She will be leaving her position as associate vice president of Mercy Health Services, in Farmington Hills, Mich., in July. Ada Sue Hbashaw, PhD, RN, FAAN, director, National Institute of Nursing Research, will be stepping down from her current position in July to accept the position of dean of the University of MichiganSchool of Nursing, in Ann Arbor. Dr. Hinshaw is the first director of the NINR, having assumed the position shortly after the establishment of the former organization, the National Center for Nursing Research, in 1987. Judith C~lt&sw~, RNC, MSN, FAAN, director, Medical College of Virginia Women’s Health Care, in Richmond, Va., is the newly elected vice president of the National Certiflcation Corporation for the Obstetric, Gynecologic, and Neonatal Nursing Specialties. The mission of the NCC is to maintain and improve the quality of professional obstetric, gynecologic, and neonatal nursing care through a certification program. L.oretia Swra&t JemsmW, PhD, RN, FAAN, is associate professor and the new director of the Center for AIDS Research at themColumbia University School of Nursing, in New York City.
She will continue her research in behavioral c&nge and prevention &HIV indectiofi,w~ise6iEilding?inka~~i~ the rn~ltid~~~~~ryc~~~r far HIV at Columbia. DNS, RN,~ FAAN, re Nat an invitational cor$eretice, “Health Pr&%sions Edu catiTJn and ~Relationship-centered Care: A PewsFetzer Conference,” held in Chicago in May. The Pew-Fetzer Task Force on ~Psych#s&i& Hea&hEducation is to serve in an advisory capacity to the Pew-He&h Professions Commission and the Feaer Institute. Its general purpose is to establish a 3- to 5-year agenda for encouraging the developmentorexpansio of educational programs that address psychosocial health issues or that reflect an integrated biopsychosocial perspective. %verly Flyan, PhD, RN, FAAN, and &&ry &&m-r, DrPH, RN, FAAN, participated in a public health summit at the Schuol of Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in May. The summit, sponsored by the Association of Schools of Public Health, was called to-identify roles for public_heaith professionals under health care reform, to identify skills, knowledge, and corn peEencies needed by professionals that will staff a proposed Public Health Service Corps, and to draft a national strategy to ensure the establishment of the
J
Dou&bmJeb*
PhD, RN, FAAN, gave her presidential address at the 15th anniversary meeting of the Society of Behavioral Medicine in Boston in April. -I&a* SbrJr” ILuLp, PhD, RN, FAAN, was-the 1994. program chair. The North tiurr preanre PhD, RN; FAAN~with ~theQ~~No$th Dakota Nurses Association Honorary