The purpose of this research study was to determine the need/demand totals and characteristics concerning health personnel for Green Bay and eastern Wisconsin; and to stimulate an effective, efficient approach to the problem of supplying and organizing such health personnel. A delineation of the population served by health personnel in the Green…

The movement and location patterns of recent medical school graduates is analyzed within the context of overall demographic, social and economic changes occurring within the U.S. Special emphasis is given to the role of medical training institutions and State financing policies of medical schools. Estimates are provided of the number of physicians…

A preliminary bibliography for a seminar on compulsory adult education is presented. A total of 231 annotated entries are given. Entries are divided into four categories: (1) compulsory adult education in general; (2) concepts significant to adult education, including lifelong education, permanent education, the educative society, the knowledge…

This study evaluated short-term manpower projection methods for the personal services and medical and other health services industries. An employer benchmark survey was used to estimate actual employment of cosmetologists, barbers, registered nurses, and licensed vocational nurses. Out of seven projection methods which were applied to the data,…

Developed through the Career Options Research and Development (CORD) Project, this teacher's manual should be useful in the training of paraprofessionals for the human services areas. Included in the manual is a discussion of several problem situations which teachers in the human services areas may encounter, including adult learning and the…

A project to demonstrate how a team of instructor/consultants could function on a regional basis to help upgrade inservice education programs in nursing homes was conducted. The design of this Nursing Home Training Program was structured to allow for changes in demonstrated services in accordance with reactions of participants. An advisory and an…

A total of 96 nurses who are conducting or teaching research attended a 2-day conference designed to increase competencies of nurse researchers in scientific investigations and in critically evaluating research. Some of the papers presented during the conference were: (1) "Appraising the Quality of Nursing Care" by E. Hagen, (2)…

A health aide is defined as an individual living in one of the organized living units on campus, employed by the University Health Center, who assists in extending preventive and therapeutic health services to house members. Three major objectives are enumerated: 1) early identification of health problems; 2) environmental control of factors which…

This guide discusses some of the principles upon which sound planning for nursing education is based, and suggests procedures that may be helpful to those responsible for such planning. Particular reference has been made to countries where nursing education is developing and where international nursing advisers are assisting local nurses in their…

This document contains a listing of schools of nursing and public health throughout the U. S. that offer professional nurse traineeships for full-time academic study. The institutions are listed by state, and the address of the institutions accompanies the listing. Also included is information on the type of program or programs offered by the…

Issues concerned with the certification of continuing education are addressed in this report. Topics of the keynote addresses are (1) Compulsory Continuing Education for Professionals, or The Gold Rush of '76, and (2) The Mystique of Certification, Education and Professionalism: In the Service of Whom? Panel presentation topics include: (1)…

This document is the fifth in the series, BIBLIOGRAPHIES ON EDUCATIONAL TOPICS (BETS), providing topical searches of ERIC literature in the scope areas of teacher education and health education, physical education, and recreation education. Here, the subject of consumer health is treated bibliographically. Included are topics dealing with the wise…

Designed to contribute to planners' understanding of the state of the art and to the improvement of health manpower planning, this monograph describes and evaluates various methods used to determine present and future health manpower supply and requirements. The methodologies presented, chosen after a review of the documents identified in the…

This second of a two-volume monograph, which describes and evaluates various methods used to determine present and future health manpower supply and requirements, is intended to contribute to planners' understanding of the state of the art and to the improvement of health manpower planning. The methodologies presented, chosen after a review of the…

The purpose of the study was to determine the effects of providing feedback (results of how frequently a variety of tasks had been performed) on the job satisfaction of Dental Therapy Assistants (DTA's) during the course of several levels of training, i.e., up to three months, four to nine months and 10 to 18 months. Trainees were predominantly…