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…

A cooperative pilot project was conducted to determine the feasibility of training mentally retarded individuals to function in a hospital setting. The 3-month nurse aide training program included 1 month of formal classroom training at the college and 2 months of supervised training in a hospital. A total of 51 students entered four classes over…

Intended to assist teachers in either basic or continuing education programs to convey knowledge, techniques, and attitudes pertaining to drugs, the pamphlet outlines instruction which is estimated to require 70 to 100 hours of which 50 to 80 should be scheduled for classroom work and 20 hours for clinical work. Three units containing concepts…

To identify appropriate content for pharmacy technician training programs, this meeting brought together staff members of the Allied Health Professions Projects and 10 committee members representing professional associations and hospital pharmacy administration. The purpose of the project is to develop instructional units for and education in…

Approximately 150 projects being funded under the Nurse Training Act of 1964 and undertaken by universities, colleges, and hospitals are briefly described. The name and location are supplied for the hospital conducting each project. VT 003 971 "Project Grants for Improvement in Nurse Training," is a related document. (JK)