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ObjectiveWe sought to examine the experiences of community partners in a community-academic partnership to promote COVID-19 testing in two majority Latino communities.MethodsWe conducted semistructured, in-depth interviews in English and Spanish with community-based organization leaders and community health workers/promotoras (n = 10) from June to July 2021. Interviews focused on identifying partner roles in planning and testing implementation and evaluating communication among partners. Interviews were transcribed and analyzed in ATLAS.ti version 8.4.5. Analyses involved deductive and inductive approaches to identify key themes.ResultsParticipants described both strengths and challenges to the collaborative approach within each of three core themes: building relationships in the time of COVID-19; uplifting existing community leadership; and commitment of the academic partners and community-based organizations to conduct partnership activities in Spanish.ConclusionCommunity-academic partnerships that invest in strong relationships, community leadership, and a commitment to the community's preferred language offer a promising approach to addressing COVID-19 testing barriers. Findings provide direction for future research on how community members and academic partners can come together to inform strategies to continue addressing the COVID-19 pandemic.

Background: In recent decades, the literature on global partnerships in nursing and midwifery education, to enhance the quality of education and produce competent graduates in the labor market, is on the rise in Africa. However, there is a gap regarding the best practices and barriers in the African context. This systematic scoping review aims to map the evidence on academic partnerships in transforming nursing and midwifery education in Africa. Methods: The review will be guided by Arksey and O'Malley's methodology framework through five stages: (1) Identifying the research question, (2) identifying relevant studies, (3) study selection, (4) charting the data, and (5) collecting, summarizing, and reporting the results. A search will be conducted with the use of the following electronic databases: Cumulative Index to Nursing and Applied Health Literature (CINAHL), PubMed, ScienceDirect, and Google Scholar. Additional gray literature will be searched via the World Health Organization's website to locate relevant policies and guidelines. The search will be limited to work published in English from 2014 to 2023. All located resources will be exported to EndNote X8. All duplicates will be removed during when the abstracts are screened. Two independent reviewers will screen and extract the full text of the selected articles. Thematic analysis will be used to analyze data from this systematic scoping review. Discussion: Mapping the evidence on global partnerships in transforming nursing and midwifery education in Africa will outline the best practices and preferences for sustainable collaboration. The review will also highlight knowledge gaps and limitations that could inform future research projects. Systematic review registration: https://osf.io/h83cy [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract Background In recent decades, the literature on global partnerships in nursing and midwifery education, to enhance the quality of education and produce competent graduates in the labor market, is on the rise in Africa. However, there is a gap regarding the best practices and barriers in the African context. This systematic scoping review aims to map the evidence on academic partnerships in transforming nursing and midwifery education in Africa. Methods The review will be guided by Arksey and O’Malley’s methodology framework through five stages: (1) Identifying the research question, (2) identifying relevant studies, (3) study selection, (4) charting the data, and (5) collecting, summarizing, and reporting the results. A search will be conducted with the use of the following electronic databases: Cumulative Index to Nursing and Applied Health Literature (CINAHL), PubMed, ScienceDirect, and Google Scholar. Additional gray literature will be searched via the World Health Organization’s website to locate relevant policies and guidelines. The search will be limited to work published in English from 2014 to 2023. All located resources will be exported to EndNote X8. All duplicates will be removed during when the abstracts are screened. Two independent reviewers will screen and extract the full text of the selected articles. Thematic analysis will be used to analyze data from this systematic scoping review. Discussion Mapping the evidence on global partnerships in transforming nursing and midwifery education in Africa will outline the best practices and preferences for sustainable collaboration. The review will also highlight knowledge gaps and limitations that could inform future research projects. Systematic review registration https://osf.io/h83cy

The subject of the study is the integration of international business: business platforms, international business synergy and cooperation. The purpose of the study is to formulate the concept of integrating international business into a single powerful platform by applying existing practices of business platforms. Methodology. The study used general and specific methods of scientific knowledge: the method of system analysis, the dialectical method, the formal logical method and the structural-functional method, as well as a number of empirical methods. Results. It is found that the study of international business integration is not new at the level of doctrine in foreign countries. However, in Ukraine, this phenomenon has not been thoroughly studied and requires the formation of a national vision and laying the foundations for business integration in modern conditions. The main factors that necessitate the creation of business platforms for Ukraine as tools for achieving synergy in the integration of international business in Ukraine include: globalisation processes, technological progress, integration, the need for unification of legislation, the full-scale invasion by the Russian Federation of Ukraine, resource saving, economic growth, etc. The role of civil society in relations with business was highlighted, as it has become a bridge for the state and business in addressing important issues and a communication intermediary between Ukrainian business and the international community, as well as the importance of academic partnerships and incubation programmes in business integration and cooperation. It was noted that the integration of international business is an effective way to attract investment, move business, increase instruments, and provide opportunities to deepen business through integration processes into another financial system that is more capacious and capable. The article substantiates that integration of international business into a single powerful business platform is a long and gradual process which has to go through various stages related to cultural, legal, financial and other types of adaptation. At the same time, the creation of such a mechanism for integrating international business is the goal of the platform.

Issue Addressed: In Australia, smoking prevalence is higher in regional areas than in metropolitan cities; Central Queensland, a central‐east district of Queensland, has substantially higher smoking rates than the state average. In November 2017, Central Queensland Public Health Unit (CQPHU) launched the '10 000 Lives' initiative to reduce the smoking prevalence in the region. The initiative partnered with local hospitals and community organisations to increase the uptake of interventions like Quitline in the region. Evaluating a program like '10 000 Lives' is critical for evidence‐based health promotion practice. CQPHU partnered with a large metropolitan Australian university to evaluate the '10 000 Lives' through a scheme that provided a stipend for a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) student. Methods: This narrative report describes the experience of evaluating '10 000 Lives' in a collaborative partnership between CQPHU and the public health academia. Results: A PhD student was recruited to join this collaboration, and both developed a program logic model and completed a process and impact evaluation. This evaluation provided an ideal 'living' case study to embed in the Master of Public Health curriculum and provided the PhD student with teaching experience delivering a demonstration of public health in practice. Conclusion: The collaboration project was highly successful, exemplifying research, learning and practical integration for all partners. So What?: The partnership demonstrated how universities can work with government health agencies to build practice‐based evidence, and importantly give public health students authentic learning opportunities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: To train future professionals in health disparities and social determinants of health, academic health centers often use curricula exclusively developed and instructed by faculty. Objective: To examine the perceptions and attitudes of faculty and community stakeholders towards the benefits of and challenges to developing co-teaching/co-learning exchange programs. Methods: Faculty from six academic professional schools at a single institution and community members participated in focus groups. Interviews were video-recorded and reviewed for themes. Results: Both faculty and community participants felt that partnering in the design and implementation of lectures addressing the social determinants of health could enhance curriculum and provide real-world context for the learning experience. Conclusions: Our findings add to the literature examining the benefits and challenges of engagement between faculty and community and offer new insights on the value of co-teaching/co-learning experiences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Higher Education department will implement a cluster system in nine autonomous degree colleges in Hyderabad. To start with, the system will be taken up for the second year degree students in identified colleges. cluster system will facilitate mobility of students and faculty from one institution to another. For instance, a bachelor of arts in history, economics and political science student of one institution can pursue a psychology or mass communication course offered by another institution or vice-versa. The Telangana State Higher Education is all set to embrace the provisions of the New Education Policy -2020 (NEC-2020) mooting series of reforms. To begin with, the Telangana State Council of Higher Education (TSCHE) has decided to study implementing the cluster universities model. The TSCHE officials said that the model brings six conventional state universities together. In turn, the universities which have expertise will extend their cooperation to other universities within the cluster on how to improve standards in the sister university in the cluster. Further, both will exchange resources, faculty, research and development. Besides, students can also choose subjects from different universities within the cluster, leading to a credit transfer among the universities within the cluster. A similar model is being studied to implement the cluster of colleges which will exchange the expertise and use their existing infrastructure with each other. For implementing this model, the University Grants Commission (UGC) provide matching grants. This would help in the liberalization of the study areas for the students not only to pursue courses from across different schools within the universities in an interdisciplinary mode but also, to study some other university or college and earn credits for the same. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The past two decades have seen unprecedented student demand for global health education through experiential and engaged learning within institutions of higher education in the United States. This demand created a need for innovative institutional partnerships. Since 2007, faculty from Cornell University’s Global Health Program and Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University College (KCMUCo) have worked together to design, implement, and evaluate an innovative experiential learning program in global health and development policy. Since its inception, 176 Cornell undergraduates and 188 KCMUCo medical students have successfully engaged in the policy case study collaborative program and course, leading to the development of 75 policy case studies. This long-term partnership between Cornell and KCMUCo has led to an innovative cross-cultural teaching model, funding support, professional presentations for students and faculty, a visiting scholars program at Cornell, and new avenues for research and collaboration. Fifteen years of sustained partnership has required the navigation of several unique and complex challenges, providing the opportunity to reimagine and strengthen this program and partnership. The objective of this article is to share a powerful program model for global health training and education, and discuss the challenges, successes, and lessons learned through this continued collaboration.

Farmers demand more precision farming technology and specific information is consumed in the adoption process, which could not only depend on how efficiently the information flows among farmers. It is assumed that the sources of information are inputs in the production processes and could have an impact on the decision to adopt precision farming technology, after controlling for farmer and farm business characteristics. Accordingly, the objective of this research was to evaluate the effects of nine information sources used by cotton farmers of 12 U.S. producer states on the adoption of yield monitor with GPS, grid soil sampling, zone soil sampling, aerial photos, and soil survey maps. The scientific utility of this research lies on the quantitative data from the Southern Cotton Precision Farming Survey analysed using statistical methods such as univariate, bivariate and multivariate probit regressions. The statistical results indicated that information from dealers, consultants, university publications, and university events were the most common information sources used when searching for precision farming information with positive and significant effects on the adoption of precision farming technology. The presented findings from this comprehensive analysis can assist organizations in selecting information sources, and on planning communications and partnerships strategies fostering technology transfer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract Background Educational capacity building in pediatric ophthalmology is necessary to address the burden of childhood blindness in Ethiopia. Residency and fellowship training at Addis Ababa University (AAU) have been enhanced with support from the University of Toronto (UofT), following the established Toronto Addis Ababa Academic Collaboration (TAAAC). Our aim was to assess the feasibility of implementing a pediatric ophthalmology fellowship at AAU with support from UofT, modeled by successful postgraduate medical education within TAAAC. Methods A situational analysis, including a needs assessment, was conducted at Menelik II Hospital, Addis Ababa. Staff expertise, equipment and infrastructure were compared to International Council of Ophthalmology fellowship guidelines. Patient volumes were assessed through medical chart review. Local training needs were evaluated. A strategic working meeting facilitated program specification. Results The faculty consisted of 11 ophthalmologists, including 2 pediatric specialists. Fourteen thousand six hundred twenty-seven medical and three thousand six hundred forty-one surgical pediatric cases were seen in the previous year. A 2-year fellowship incorporating anterior segment, retinoblastoma, strabismus, and retinopathy of prematurity modules was developed. Research collaborations, didactic teaching, and surgical supervision were identified as priorities requiring support. Quality standard indicators included faculty feedback, case log review and formal examination. Telemedicine, development of a larger eye hospital and partnerships to support equipment maintenance were identified as strategies to manage implementation barriers. Conclusions The situational analysis provided a way forward for the development of a pediatric ophthalmology fellowship, the first of its kind in Eastern Africa. Learning outcomes are feasible given high patient volumes, qualified staff supervision and sufficient equipment. Strategic partnerships may ensure resource sustainability.

Abstract Background An epidemiological transition is interesting Sub-Saharan Africa increasing the burden of non-communicable diseases most of which are of surgical interest. Local resources are far from meeting needs and, considering that 50% of the population is less than 14 years of age, Pediatric surgical coverage is specially affected. Efforts are made to improve standards of care and to increase the number of Pediatric surgeons through short-term specialist surgical Missions, facilities supported by humanitarian organization, academic Partnership, training abroad of local surgeons. This study is a half term report about three-years Partnership between the University of Chieti- Pescara, Italy and the University of Gezira, Sudan to upgrade standard of care at the Gezira National Centre for Pediatric Surgery (GNCPS) of Wad Medani. Four surgical Teams per year visited GNCPS. The Program was financed by the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation. Methods The state of local infrastructure, current standard of care, analysis of caseload, surgical activity and results are reported. Methods utilized to assess local needs and to develop Partnership activities are described. Results Main surgical task of the visiting Team were advancements in Colorectal procedures, Epispadias/Exstrophy Complex management and Hypospadias surgery (20% of major surgical procedures at the GNCPS). Intensive care facilities and staff to assist more complex cases (i.e. neonates) are still defective. Proctoring, training on the job of junior surgeons, anaesthetists and nurses, collaboration in educational programs, advisorship in hospital management, clinical governance, maintenance of infrastructure together with training opportunities in Italy were included by the Program. Despite on-going efforts, actions have not yet been followed by the expected results. More investments are needed on Healthcare infrastructures to increase health workers motivation and prevent brain drain. Conclusions The key role that an Academic Partnership can play, acting through expatriated Teams working in the same constrained contest with the local workforce, must be emphasized. Besides clinical objectives, these types of Global Health Initiatives address improvement in management and clinical governance. The main obstacles to upgrade standard of care and level of surgery met by the Visiting Team are scarce investments on health infrastructure and a weak staff retention policy, reflecting in poor motivation and low performance.

After more than 100 years of existence, Norway’s Great Norwegian Encyclopedia went through a major crisis between 2010 and 2014, as the transformation to the new, digital reality became commercially unviable to the publishing house that owned it. The country’s universities came together, formed The Great Norwegian Encyclopedia Association, and created a new editorial team, which has transformed the encyclopedia into an online success with high-quality articles assessed and updated by some of Norway’s leading scholars. The partnership with academia, a purpose-made publishing software, a decentralized production model, and confidence in the original brand have been keys to building this public service encyclopedia that other, likeminded institutions across Europe can learn from.

Background: The field of global health has grown with multiple different public and private stakeholders engaging in the effort to improve health outcomes for underserved populations around the world. There is, however, only limited published guidance on how to promote successful partnerships between academia and the biopharmaceutical industry.Objective: This analysis will provide a framework for developing successful partnerships around five central principles. This framework will then be applied to two representative pharmacy collaboration case studies focused on training and donations.Framework Description and Case Study Findings: Within the Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare (AMPATH), successful collaborations between the biopharmaceutical industry philanthropic entities and academic partners have consistently prioritized 1) contextualization, 2) collaboration, 3) local priorities, 4) institutional commitment, and 5) integration. In the first case study, the application of this framework to clinical pharmacy training activities sponsored by Celgene and implemented by the Purdue Kenya Partnership has helped the program transition from an entirely donor dependent training program to a revenue generating, locally administered program which is now recognized and accredited by the Kenyan government. In the second case study, medication donations from Eli Lilly and Company have been converted from a traditional donation program in one Kenyan health facility to a replicable and sustainable supply chain model which has been expanded to more than 70 public sector facilities across western Kenya.Conclusion: Adherence to the five core principles of the proposed framework can help guide partnerships between academic institutions and the biopharmaceutical industry to advance healthcare services for underserved populations around the world. As large-scale government-based development agencies continue to primarily focus on specific disease states, biopharmaceutical industry-based collaborations can help initiate activities in underfunded therapeutic areas such as non-communicable diseases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: An epidemiological transition is interesting Sub-Saharan Africa increasing the burden of non-communicable diseases most of which are of surgical interest. Local resources are far from meeting needs and, considering that 50% of the population is less than 14 years of age, Pediatric surgical coverage is specially affected. Efforts are made to improve standards of care and to increase the number of Pediatric surgeons through short-term specialist surgical Missions, facilities supported by humanitarian organization, academic Partnership, training abroad of local surgeons. This study is a half term report about three-years Partnership between the University of Chieti- Pescara, Italy and the University of Gezira, Sudan to upgrade standard of care at the Gezira National Centre for Pediatric Surgery (GNCPS) of Wad Medani. Four surgical Teams per year visited GNCPS. The Program was financed by the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation. Methods: The state of local infrastructure, current standard of care, analysis of caseload, surgical activity and results are reported. Methods utilized to assess local needs and to develop Partnership activities are described. Results: Main surgical task of the visiting Team were advancements in Colorectal procedures, Epispadias/Exstrophy Complex management and Hypospadias surgery (20% of major surgical procedures at the GNCPS). Intensive care facilities and staff to assist more complex cases (i.e. neonates) are still defective. Proctoring, training on the job of junior surgeons, anaesthetists and nurses, collaboration in educational programs, advisorship in hospital management, clinical governance, maintenance of infrastructure together with training opportunities in Italy were included by the Program. Despite on-going efforts, actions have not yet been followed by the expected results. More investments are needed on Healthcare infrastructures to increase health workers motivation and prevent brain drain. Conclusions: The key role that an Academic Partnership can play, acting through expatriated Teams working in the same constrained contest with the local workforce, must be emphasized. Besides clinical objectives, these types of Global Health Initiatives address improvement in management and clinical governance. The main obstacles to upgrade standard of care and level of surgery met by the Visiting Team are scarce investments on health infrastructure and a weak staff retention policy, reflecting in poor motivation and low performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper outlines a successful partnership program between La Trobe University in Melbourne Australia, and Harbin Medical University in Harbin, China. These two universities have been collaborating for more than 15 years to provide a comprehensive Master of Health Administration program that adapts the Australian curriculum to meet the rapidly increasing need for qualified health services managers throughout China. This paper describes the mechanisms by which the joint programs were developed and how the two universities work together in partnership to continually improve the program components and outcomes, taking into account the significant differences in context and cultures. Since 2001, La Trobe University has enrolled about 1000 Chinese health services managers, with 721 completing a Master's degree, who are now having increasing influence on the reforms of the Chinese health care system. The partnership has enriched Australian knowledge of Chinese culture and values, as well as the Chinese health system and health policies, as evidenced by the large volume of joint publications. The profession of health management has been substantially strengthened in China, and working together, Chinese and Australian academics have had demonstrated impact on enhancing the reforms of the Chinese public health system. Further studies, with sufficient funds for data collection, are needed to evaluate the long-term impacts of transnational programs on academic and health system development in China.

Capacity building, workforce development, migration medicine, immigration, academic partnership, quality improvement, interprofessional. [Extracted from the article]

The “Espace des temps du Grand Lyon” project, which recently became the “Temps et services innovants” project, has been studying urban territories for several years using methods derived from the social sciences. This project frequently collaborates with geographers and urban-planners from the universities of Lyon and Grenoble in order to analyze urban mobility and transportation, through the prism of urban rhythms. Thanks to that academic partnership, the project has gained legitimacy in the eyes of local councillors. It can now participate in academic research programmes headed by the scientists the project is used to collaborating with. Thanks to the students who work as interns on the project, these interactions between scientists and professionals are leading to an authentic co-construction of knowledge.

The authors of this article are going to bring into light the significance, the place and the role of information systems in the university education process. At the same time they define the objectives and the target group of the subject named Economic Information Systems and state the competence gained by students by studying this subject. Special attention is given to the curriculum to be taught to students and to a suggestive enumeration of a series of economic applications that can be themes for laboratory practice and for students’ dissertation (graduation thesis).

This article reports the second stage of a study examining an academic partnership in which Bangladeshi doctoral students in a western university focus their research in the grounded context of Bangladesh and investigate the processes for change. After briefly outlining the previous published stage which examined the academic trade in higher education with developing countries, the article builds on the concept of fair academic trade to critically reflect on the development of a doctoral learning community, a publication project and three specific doctoral studies. The methodological approach is one of participatory action research, with focus on critical reflection on practice. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Nurse educators need to provide students with clinical experiences that prepare them for our rapidly changing health care environments. This article describes how nurse educators used academic and clinical resources to develop a partnership between a school of nursing and clinical entity to facilitate successful transitions from hospital to home for adult heart failure and pediatric asthma patients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Retail health clinics are an expanding health care delivery model and an emerging new practice site for nurse practitioners (NPs). Critical thinking skills, clinical competence, inter professional collaboration, and business savvy are necessary for successful practice in this highly independent and autonomous setting. This article describes a pilot residency partnership program aimed at supporting new graduate NPO transition to practice, reducing NPO turnover, and promoting academic progression. Eight new graduate NPO were recruited to the pilot and paired with experienced clinical NPO receptors for a 12-month program that focused on increasing clinical and business competence in the retail health setting. The residency program utilized technology to facilitate case conferences and targeted Webinars to enhance learning and peer-to-peer sharing and support. An on-line doctoral-level academic course that focused on inter professional collaboration in health care, population health, and business concepts was offered. Both NPO and receptors were highly satisfied with the academic-service residency program between MinuteClinic and Northeastern University School of Nursing in Boston, MA. New NPO particularly valued the preceptor model, the clinical case conferences, and business Webinars. Because their priority was in gaining clinical experience and learning the business acumen relevant to managing the processes of care, they did not feel ready for the doctoral course and would have preferred to take later in their practice. The receptors valued the academic course and felt that it enhanced their precepting and leadership skills. At the time of this article, 6 months post completion of the residency program, there has been no turnover. Our experience supports the benefits for residency programs for newly graduated NPO in retail settings. The model of partnering with academia by offering a course within a service organization's educational programs can enable academic progression. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

When professional nurses and student nurses work together to create a unit, culture addressing patient care, professional development, and clinical learning experiences flourish. This study evaluated a clinical pedagogy created through an academic partnership which included a major urban hospital, a university school of nursing, and a diploma school of nursing. In this model, professional staff nurses became actively involved in clinical teaching. Results were seen in elevated levels of the nurses' self-confidence and in student-perceived satisfaction with the learning environment. This model can be applied to any type of nursing education and can improve the delivery of clinical nursing education and the unit culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper provides a summary of successes and challenges in waste minimisation at Portland International Airport (PDX). The Port of Portland benefits from a partnership with Portland State University's Community Environmental Services (CES) programme, which allows the Port to maintain one of the most comprehensive and detailed airport waste management databases in the nation. The paper describes the importance of collecting data and how to collect data and use the information to make programme management decisions. The ten-year partnership with CES also has created capacity for PDX's waste minimisation programme to influence behaviour change through education and outreach and to explore innovative solutions such as liquid collection stations, intuitive waste receptacle design and a food donation programme. The Port's waste minimisation programme has tackled challenges with diverting deplaned waste from the landfill and identifying options for difficult to recycle materials. Finally, the paper offers lessons learned in waste minimisation that focus on data collection, building relationships and partnerships, and understanding behaviour change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The past two decades have seen unprecedented student demand for global health education through experiential and engaged learning within institutions of higher education in the United States. This demand created a need for innovative institutional partnerships. Since 2007, faculty from Cornell University's Global Health Program and Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University College (KCMUCo) have worked together to design, implement, and evaluate an innovative experiential learning program in global health and development policy. Since its inception, 176 Cornell undergraduates and 188 KCMUCo medical students have successfully engaged in the policy case study collaborative program and course, leading to the development of 75 policy case studies. This long-term partnership between Cornell and KCMUCo has led to an innovative cross-cultural teaching model, funding support, professional presentations for students and faculty, a visiting scholars program at Cornell, and new avenues for research and collaboration. Fifteen years of sustained partnership has required the navigation of several unique and complex challenges, providing the opportunity to reimagine and strengthen this program and partnership. The objective of this article is to share a powerful program model for global health training and education, and discuss the challenges, successes, and lessons learned through this continued collaboration., Competing Interests: The authors have no competing interests to declare., (Copyright: © 2022 The Author(s).)

The founding rector of "Vasile Goldis" Western University of Arad, Ph. D. Aurel Ardelean, is a complex personality, as a professor, a biologist, a researcher, and an excellent manager, author and co-author of various studies, researches and scientific papers, published in the country and abroad. The rector's contribution to the development of scientific and cultural cooperation between "Vasile Goldis" Western University of Arad and universities from Europe is remarkable through the undertakings materialized in long term bilateral projects, in the knowledge domain: education, research, innovation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The authors of this article are going to bring into light the significance, the place and the role of information systems in the university education process. At the same time they define the objectives and the target group of the subject named Economic Information Systems and state the competence gained by students by studying this subject. Special attention is given to the curriculum to be taught to students and to a suggestive enumeration of a series of economic applications that can be themes for laboratory practice and for students dissertation (graduation thesis). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: Academic service partnerships are critical for schools of nursing to maintain credibility regarding their missions of education, research, service, and practice. Methods: In this paper, we describe a case study of a ten year program, the Living Independently For Elders (LIFE) Program at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing that has provided community-based long-term care to high-risk older adults. Findings: Quality of care and financial outcomes were met with nurse faculty engagement, administrative commitment, and integration of business practices. Conclusions: As a result, high risk older adults receive care in their communities rather than nursing homes, and the school- owned and -operated program is a nationally recognized innovative nursing model of care. Clinical Relevance: Strategies are described that can be used globally as more schools of nursing embrace and strengthen service partnerships. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: There is consensus that more research is needed to help improve care at the end of life. Despite the fact that hospices take care of more and more dying persons every year, hospice organizations have not been highly involved in research. The National Hospice Work Group is comprised of hospice organizations that have made promotion of research a high priority. Structured interviews were conducted with members of the National Hospice Work Group to investigate how they think about the role of academic partners in their organizational missions, what their histories of involvement with academic partners are, and what they see as their most important academic needs for continuing to advance the research agenda. Members of the National Hospice Work Group see strategic partnerships with academic entities as essential to the goal of advancing research in end-of-life care. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Ithaca College, a private, comprehensive college in upstate New York, and Longview, a residential community designed for older adults and operated by the Ithacare Center, have entered into a unique programmatic partnership to promote intergenerational educational and social opportunities between the members of the two communities. The college's connection with Ithacare dates back to the early 1970s when students and faculty began to interact with Ithacare's residents and staff. Ithacare's decision to build a new facility incorporating both adult care and independent apartments for older adults on land made available by the College has created the opportunity for a significant expansion of the existing relationship. This article outlines the extensive planning process used to ensure the success of the partnership, the programmatic initiatives implemented during the first full semester of programming and the initial outcomes of this preliminary phase. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

With up to 70% of primary care visits prompted by psychosocial concerns, busy primary care clinics are increasingly addressing complex behavioral health (BH) needs. Substantial evidence demonstrates that the integration of BH into primary care improves access and outcomes, yet clinics face significant challenges in real-world implementation. This collaborative care integration project used psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner faculty as integration and BH specialists at an urban primary care clinic serving a diverse and largely indigent population. The project weathered leadership changes, information system shortcomings, and a shift to telehealth during coronavirus disease 2019. The initial outcomes include increased levels of integration and improved depression and diabetes metrics., (© 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)