With funds made available to AN? from private sources. foundations. the Government. and from the American Nurses Association. the foundation has sponsored. guided. and conducted research studies on: Private duty nursing in a metropolitan hospital environment. and its relation to other areas of nursing practice. patterns of career mobility in professional nursing. practical nursing in nonmetropolitan hospitals. patterns of psychiatric nursing. current nursing practice in relation to care of the chronically Ill. social and psychological factors involved in nursing practice in hospital outpatient departments. nursing practice in industrial plants. and public health nursing practice. OI-----64 On an international level. the foundation has undertaken a program to implement the exchange of information with nurses from other countries studying in the United States. As a result of a special grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. the nurses foundation has been able to locate Hungarian refugee nurses and advise them on requirements for reestablishing their careers in this country. A grant of $11.831 from the National Institutes of Health of the U.S. Public Health Service enabled the foundation to conduct a major workshop session on the progress and future of research in nursing.