The report contains requirements and practices in credentialing and recredentialing of health professionals by States and by professional societies. It begins with an overview of the health care components of the Health Services Administration (HSA). Credentialing needs and four types of credentialing activities are discussed: basic or initial…

Since June 1973, Iowa Lakes Community College (Iowa) has been conducting an in-service training program for employees of local nursing homes. The program was designed to upgrade the participants' knowledge of the mental health aspects of care for the aged and to improve their abilities to provide physical health care. The specific objectives of…

The curriculum guide for nursing occupations is one of five guides written and field tested in a project to develop statewide articulated competency-based curricula in selected vocational education programs. Following an introductory section giving the philosophy, background, and recommendations for nursing education, the 82 study units are…

The document examines the education of health professionals in Ontario within the context of changing patterns for health care. The first of four chapters contains background information on geographic and population characteristics, Federal health legislation requiring a provincial response, and Ontario health legislation. The second chapter deals…

The current status of postsecondary education in Illinois is reviewed and recommendations offered for improving it. This Master Plan Phase Four, like the preceding ones, charts a general direction for postsecondary education over the next decade. It indicates that Illinois postsecondary education will continue to be committed to: expanding…

The primary purpose of the study was an initial attempt to identify the basic social skills which are pertinent to the general occupational categories of (1) trade and industrial, (2) technical occupations, (3) health occupations, (4) marketing and distribution, and (5) business and office. A secondary purpose was to compare the identification of…

Graduate education of administrators for mental retardation and developmental disability programs are defined under the umbrella of Health Services Administration. These programs have in common the delivery of health care. From the administrative standpoint, the broad area of human services must be brought down to manageable, functional segments,…

Questionnaires were sent to all of the medical, dental, veterinary, and public health schools in the United States and to selected degree-granting U.S. schools of nursing, medical technology, and pharmacy. The data collected included type of biological prerequisites for each school and role of preparatory courses in the admissions policy. A…

Prepared by the Division of Nursing, this source book on South Dakota's nursing needs and resources is a compilation of existing data supplemented by information from field visits. Information for guiding development of a long range nursing plan is included for these topics: (1) Profile of the State, (2) Population Characteristics, (3) Health, (4)…

The four goals of this project are outlined in some detail. First, a unit programed for self-instruction in nursing, entitled "An Introduction to Radiation Therapy" was revised and rewritten on the basis of knowledge gained from controlled use. The revised unit took less time, showed a decreased error rate and indicated greater learning. A second…

Related to VT 007 894, "Report of the National Advisory Commission on Health Manpower, Volume I," this volume presents seven appendixes to that report. Appendix II concerns variation in per diem direct hospital expenses. Appendix III includes the reports of the panels on: (1) consumer role in the health care system, (2) education and supply, (3)…

Information obtained from the 2-year colleges of New York and New Jersey is presented in this directory. Career curriculums in 140 areas are offered by the 66 institutions. In the institutional directory, information includes cost, financial aid, and career curriculums offered. In the second section, colleges are classified by the occupational…

This nation is rapidly becoming an urbanized society and the rate of producing trained physicians is not increasing rapidly enough to keep up with the population explosion. This creates a problem for rural areas because, despite the many innovative efforts to entice physicians to establish a rural practice, new physicians are concentrated in the…

The Allied Health Professions Personnel Training Act of 1966 as amended by Title III of the Health Manpower Act of 1968 requires the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to submit a report on the administration of the act, an appraisal of programs in terms of their adequacy to meet needs, and recommendations for the future. This document is…

The projects were funded to create curriculum and instructional materials for those allied health functions that can appropriately be taught in programs through the associate degree level, and to develop inservice and preservice programs for those health-related occupations in which on-the-job training plays a primary role. The staff, with the…