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Presents a study to investigate whether prior discussion of competent older women's personal values with their family members assisted these proxies to make critical health care decisions in congruence with the desires of the women. Methodology used in the study; Number of women who participated in the study; How congruence of decision making between older women and their proxies are analyzed; Results of the study.

Reports on a collaboration by two educational institutions and three hospitals in north central Colorado, which adopted the Clinical Teaching Associate Model developed at the University of Colorado in the late 1980s. Factors which prompted the nursing education initiative; Components of the model for clinical supervision of general medical/surgical students; Process used to develop a 12-month implementation schedule; Benefits from the model.