Developing guidelines for quality community health nursing clinical placements for baccalaureate nursing students.

Rapidly increasing enrollment in Canadian schools of nursing has triggered the development of innovative clinical placement sites. There are both opportunities and challenges inherent in the delivery of clinical nursing education in diverse community settings. As part of the Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing's (CASN) ongoing work to assist its members and ensure baccalaureate graduates are prepared to meet the Canadian Community Health Nursing Standards of Practice at an entry-to-practice level, the CASN Sub-Committee on Public Health (funded by the Public Health Agency of Canada) conducted extensive national consultations with representatives from both academic and practice settings, as well as key national organizations. The resultant Guidelines for Quality Community Health Nursing Clinical Placements, released by CASN in 2010, aim to provide direction to Canadian schools of nursing and practice settings in addressing the challenges and opportunities arising from the changing context of community health nursing student clinical placements.

Time for my life now: early Boomer women's anticipation of volunteering in retirement.

PURPOSE: This study explored to what extent early Boomer women who work for pay will be interested in and committed to formal volunteering during retirement. METHOD: Data for this hermeneutic study were gathered through 2 in-depth conversational interviews of 19 English-speaking early Boomer women living in New Brunswick, Canada. RESULTS: Interpretive analysis of interview data revealed that for these early Boomer women, consideration of volunteering in retirement revolves around analyzing the perceived costs and benefits, setting specific criteria for involvement, and recognizing the societal impacts of their refusal to volunteer or their limitation of commitment. IMPLICATIONS: Although not generalizable, the results of this study suggest administrators planning to recruit and retain retired early Boomer women to volunteer should not assume participation at the same rate or with the same commitment as previous generations. New models of volunteer recruitment and deployment may need to be developed to meet the expectations of these women. These participants indicated that formal volunteering will be for personal, not altruistic reasons, on their own terms through direct service; they are not interested in the consuming commitments of board and committee work or fundraising. Volunteering must be meaningful, something about which they are passionate and on their own schedule.