EFFECTIVENESS OF PRIVATE/PUBLIC EDUCATION CONTRACTING IN MEETING REGIONAL NURSING NEEDS.
Contributors: George Mason University.
Published: 1993
Number of pages: 154
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.; Education, Administration.; Health Sciences, Education.
Description: Contracting between private education institutions and state governments or agencies is developing as a cost-effective method of meeting regional nursing education demands in an era of scarce resources. The main question that arises is: if the impetus for education is the needs of citizens in a particular region and the state responds to these needs by directing funds to a private college or university what assurance is there that graduates will indeed remain and practice in the region the program is intended to serve?.

This study was built around General Systems Theory as adapted by Webber and was designed to determine if contract nursing programs are meeting the needs for which they were established. It was also designed to identify specific characteristics of potential students that would enable nursing education administrators to predict the likelihood of those students practicing in the region the program was intended to serve following graduation.

Findings strongly indicate that the contract nursing programs studied are meeting the needs for which they were designed but the study failed to identify characteristics of students that might be used by administrators to predict region of practice following graduation.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 54-02, Section: B, page: 0748.

Thesis (PH.D.)--GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY, 1993.

School code: 0883.