The report describes a project designed to organize a State student health occupations education organization. The organization will give students with explicit interest in careers in health services an opportunity to associate and identify with an established organization which is based on their selected occupational interests. There were 39…

The National Conference on Health Occupations Education was organized in response to a nationwide demand for dissemination of project findings and instructional materials in the field of health education. Emphasis throughout the research project and the conference was on the total instructional process. Approximately 100 participants contributed…

The document contains 22 appendixes which were cross-referenced in the final report of a study on the University of the Pacific's interdisciplinary program called School of Health Professions (SHP). Items include the following: (1-A) obesity study guide; (1-B) diabetes mellitus study guide; (1-C) hypertension study guide; (2) identification and…

In order to be able to comply, and to be able to document their compliance, with federal legislation regarding health occupations education and discriminatory practices, the American Medical Record Association conducted a study to see if a data base could be built to validate proficiency tests for medical personnel. The report was prepared to…

Faculty of nursing education programs within the Georgia university system were surveyed to ascertain their opinions about the nutrition competencies that they consider essential for comprehensive nursing practice and the level of nursing education program(s) to which these competencies are best suited. The survey instrument, 56 competency…

The Pulaski Community Schools have developed a career education curriculum that involves seventh and eighth graders in a year-long study of health, industrial arts, and business education. The Health Education Curriculum outlines 10 basic concepts and areas of study: social living, mental health, nutrition, tobacco, alcohol, drugs, hygiene,…

GRADES OR AGES: Grades 7-12. SUBJECT MATTER: Health Education--including a) personality development, b) disease control, c) tobacco, d) alcohol, e) drug education, f) consumer health education, g) physical fitness and conditioning, h) environmental health, i) health careers, j) safety and first aid, and k) driver education. ORGANIZATION AND…

This paper describes the historical factors which influenced the substantial growth of the associate degree nursing program in the United States since the mid 1950's. The authors discuss the growing hope that nursing will become a vital part of the nation's established system of higher education. In addition, they discuss the changes in duties to…

Designed to assist agency and university professionals in the organization of a program to prepare trainees for employment as speech pathology assistants, based on intensive clinical work with patients, this training guide is presented in the form of a suggested program outline of minimal knowledge and skill requirements to be obtained by the…

This report describes institutional, faculty, and student activities and problems resulting from Lane Community College's acceptance of a federal contract to develop a paradental training program designed specifically to provide training/retraining required to quality military-trained dental corpsmen for examination by the Oregon State Board of…

This monograph considers the clinical concept as used by professions other than teaching to help clarify the meaning of clinical experience and clinical practice in teacher education. Papers are presented from the professions of clinical psychology, allied health, business, and nursing. The following questions were posed to the authors for…

The two-part set consists of a student handbook and a related teachers' handbook in allied health education for use at the tenth grade level. The student handbook consists of seven units which focus on the biology curriculum: (1) community water examination, (2) bacteriological examination of water, (3) the microscope, (4) microbes and man, (5)…

Despite the wealth of information available about methods of instructional development, the practitioner still faces a major task of adapting these to any local situation. Precisely because instructional development is a "people process," most developers must work through the value systems and priorities set by clients rather than imposing their…

The tables in this document are formatted to provide geographic origin information on numbers of graduate and undergraduate students both full- and part-time. Tables for each college are provided that show the numbers of students at the college from each New York State county, other state, or foreign country. In another part of the report, this…

This bibliography was prepared to stimulate needed research and to disseminate information on opportunities for the poor and culturally disadvantaged as semi-professionals in human service occupations. About 150 annotations are contained in this bibliography referring to articles written since 1964. Section I lists works of general information…