Using nursing preceptorship programs as an example, the author illustrates how nursing administrators can develop and implement specific reward mechanisms that increase role satisfaction for preceptors and benefit both the service and the institution. (Author/SK)

Investigated how female parents in dual-career families view their roles. Compared the effectiveness of two strategies for dealing with conflict. Subjects using a role redefinition strategy did not differ from subjects using a role expansion strategy in self-reports of role conflict and coping effectiveness. (Author)

Although teaching is a predominantly female profession, the reason women choose teaching is not because they are incapable of other types of work. Reasons women have for becoming teachers are discussed along with ways to stem the flight of women teachers into other professions. (Author/CJ)

Lifton's writings indicate that fear of nuclear holocaust has severely impaired and threatens to negate traditional modes of symbolic immortality in America. Lifton's research, however, has been limited to extreme contexts. Data were triangulated in four distinctive American contexts. Found substantial negative evidence of Lifton's suspicions in…

Without the leadership of Estelle Osborne, Mable Staupers, Rita Miller, and Elizabeth Carnegie, Black women would have been frozen into the lowest strata of nursing at a time when White nursing leadership became convinced that nursing education belonged on college campuses rather than in hospitals. (Author/GC)

The issue of teacher/coach role conflict is assessed in five areas: (1) conflict in values between coaches and society; (2) lower status of coaches in the educational profession; (3) conflict between personal advancement and commitment to athletes; (4) combined workload of the teacher/coach; and (5) differences between teaching and coaching…

Defining medicine's golden age as freedom from adverse comment in mass and highbrow media, discusses: (1) the evolution of the medical image; (2) factors responsible for ending the golden age; (3) criticisms related to physicians' sacerdotal, technical, and social roles; and (4) the erosion of physicians' professional status. (SK)

To insure that parents were aware of faculty other than those teaching their children, teachers at St. Monica School prepared small group presentations for the Home and School Meeting on professional topics such as the teaching of reading and the parent's role in education. (SJL)

CASE's Recognition Program, which recognizes each year the most outstanding programs and publications in institutional advancement, is discussed. The anti-elitists, it is suggested, have assigned virtues to egalitarianism that are both inappropriate and wrong. Institutions and individuals recognized by CASE are listed. (MLW)

Argues that the best form of accountability for British schools lies not in inspections or examinations but in the present teaching force itself, which must generate such public trust in its professionalism that teachers can act as a self-governing group, as do doctors and lawyers. (SJL)

Argues that child advocacy is a responsibility of day care center personnel and that caregivers must strive for recognition as professionals. (Author/DB)

Evaluation occurs within existing programs and power arrangements of complex organizations. It may develop as a licensed concession within a program or as an expression of a concession made to the ideal of rational decision making. The formation of professional career paths in evaluation may lead to career immobility. (Author/MH)

A survey of sex stereotyping in photographs was made of major current-edition textbooks of abnormal psychology published in the United States. In photographs of contributors to the field women were significantly underrepresented, amounting to less that 5 percent of the contributors pictured. (Author)

When Indiana State University's School of Education housed all of its faculty in one building (their offices had previously been scattered in six buildings across the campus), it was theorized that the new proximity would facilitate closer professional relationships. A study indicates that interaction improved slightly and that further research…

Involving women in institutional decision making does not necessarily create an environment in which women's issues are taken seriously. It may be that, as at Princeton, full professional acceptance of women by male colleagues comes only with distinguished scholarship, creativity, and productivity. (MSE)