Forty invited participants, six speakers, and 17 representatives of governmental agencies and other national groups attended the conference. Invited participants were selected on the basis of the following criteria: (1) nurses recently or currently engaged in research as principal investigator, co-principal investigator, or collaborator in a multidisciplinary project, and (2) nurse faculty members of graduate programs within which there was a faculty research training and development program or a nurse-scientist training program. Research reports presented in the document include: (1) "Becoming Well: A Study of Role Change" by Betty Jo Hadley, (2) "A Comparison of Crises: Mothers' Early Experiences with Normal and Abnormal First Born Infants" by Alice M. Hosack, (3)"The Care of the Mentally Ill in America, 1604-1812, in the Thirteen Original Colonies" by Dora Blackmon, (4) "Older Patients and Their Care: Interaction with Families and Public Health Nurses" by Mary Adams, (5) "Problems in the Management of Tuberculosis Patients Who Suffer Mental Illness" by Shizuko Y. Fagerhaugh, and (6) "On Thinking Patterns" by Andrea U. Bircher. Each research report is followed by a critique and a summary of general discussion. (JK)