To Serve the Future Hour. An Anthology on New Directions for Nursing. Pathways to Practice, Vol. 2.

Nurses today are faced with the problem of choosing from a proliferating array of alternatives, both when they decide what type of nursing education to pursue and when they must choose between the many occupational directions they face on graduation from nursing school. Recognizing these recent developments in both education and health, the Southern Regional Education Board Council on Collegiate Education for Nursing recommended the formation of a regional action project. This is the second volume of the project's series. The papers contained in this document include: Components of a Conceptual Framework by Mary Harms; Preparing Future Health Professionals for New Health Care Goals by Calvin B. T. Lee; Reforms in Higher Education: Relevance for Nursing by Lewis B. Mayhew; The Nursing Role in the Health Care System by Virginia Paulson; Nursing in the Relative When by Marlene Kramer; The Future Role of Nurses: A Proposal by Sylvia E. Hart; An Option for Future Nurses: Coordination of Care by Walton Connelly; Our Greatest Need by Georgeen H. DeChow; The Future of Nursing by Shirley Thompson; and selected excerpts from other papers. (Author/PG)