Focusing on various issues related to rapidly rising health care costs, and the dilemmas these pose for health care professionals these proceedings include the following papers: (1) "A Federal Perspective: Nursing under Prospective Payment," by Carolyne K. Davis; (2) "Providers' Panel: Facing the Issues," by Connie Curran, Jeptha Dalston, David Hollister, and Marianne Udow; (3) "Policies for Nurses in Advanced Practice in a Time of Physician Surplus," by Martha Bergsten; (4) "Results-Oriented Programming: Cost Containment through Staff Development," by Bonnie K. Hagerty; (5) "Nursing Strategies to Promote Cost Effectiveness: Managing Disturbed Behavior on Medical/Surgical Nursing Units," by Maureen Corcoran; (6) "The St. Anthony Park Block Nurse Program," by Barbara O'Grady and Marjorie Jamieson; (7) "Factors, Strategies, and Opportunities for Cost Containment in Nursing Service," by Barbara V. Tebbitt; (8) "Cost Containment in Nursing Education," by Carol J. Peterson; (9) "Quality, Cost, and Cost Containment," by Avedis Donabedian; (10) "Continuing Education/Staff Development: Cost Containment Strategies," by Beverly Freeman and Patricia Dolphin; (11) "Developing Productivity Standards in Nursing," by Thomas Lant and Mary G. Nash; (12) "Development and Implementation of Management Engineering within the Nursing Department as a Cost Containment Strategy," by Madeline Zaworski and Mary Muzilla; (13) "Comparison of Two Methods of Hospital Orientation in Cost Effectiveness and Practice Efficacy for Registered Nurses," by Barbara J. Flewellyn; (14) "Home IV Program: A Collaborative Effort to Contain Cost," by Connie May; (15) "Cost and Benefits of Health Care Cost Containment," by Edward P. Ehlinger; (16) "Collaborative Group Education: A Cost-Effective Alternative," by Kathleen A. Baldwin, Betty Boesen, and Barbara R. Jojns; (17) "Work Study--A Management Tool," by Christine Gelb and Virginia Richardson; (18) "Some Research Issues in Cost Benefit Analysis in Nursing: A Nursing Perspective," by Nancy S. Creason; (19) "Community Hospital Education Services: A System of Shared Resources," by Cheryl M. Jones; (20) "How Michigan Explored Its Health Care Cost Dilemma," by Cheryl Klouzal Schmidt; and (21) Cost Containment: Staff Nurses Can Make a Difference," by Barbara Trottier. (AYC)