The United States Public Health Service Nursing Research Project Grants established in 1955, support studies dealing with all aspects of nursing practice, organization and delivery of nursing services to the patient, nursing as an occupation, and ways of communicating research findings. Intended as a means of sharing information about ongoing…

This annotated bibliography consists of 99 entries, primarily journal articles, most of which were published after 1966. Organization is under the following headings: (1) Associate Degree Nursing (ADN) Programs--What They Are, (2) Planning for ADN Program, (3) Move to Educational Institutions, (4) Administration, (5) Faculty, (6) Teaching Methods,…

The bulletin, which is part of the New York State "Health Occupations Education Program Development Guide Series," focuses on the dental assisting program. The curriculum is designed to provide training for dental assistants in their assistant role at chairside, in the dental operatory and laboratory, and in the dental office and…

This annotated listing of curriculum materials is provided to inform planners, administrators, vocational educators, and others interested in vocational education programs of the available curriculum materials in health occupations education developed by the various States. The materials have been identified with the instructional titles and codes…

This publication which is a supplement to "Research in Nursing: 1955-1968, Research Grants", lists and briefly describes research projects funded by the Division of Nursing during the years 1969 through 1972. For each project, the following information is provided: title; grant number; names and addresses of investigators; period of support; brief…

The focus of this bibliography is the foreign medical graduate in the United States. Citations deal with this subject from several perspectives, including education of foreign medical graduates abroad, the flow of foreign medical graduates to the United States, and their training and utilization in American medicine. The references were compiled…

This paper aims to identify major problems in professional education which appear common to all professions. The 4 categories of problems considered are: establishment of an identity and purpose, organization of instruction, relations with other units within the institution, and relations with external agencies. It then discusses, through an…

Each of the five handbooks contains approximately 40 pages of tabular material derived from results of a mail survey of all dental hygienists licensed to practice in each of the states. The statistical tables are concerned with personal characteristics, education and training, professional history, current professional activity, professional…

A guide to offer the nursing home administrator and his inservice education coordinator a source of information about the process of program planning in inservice education is presented. To plan a program, the following steps are necessary: (1) Know the problem; (2) Gather the facts; (3) Examine the facts; (4) Select the best solution; (5) Gain…

Divided into two major parts, Health Manpower and Minority Group Employment, this annotated bibliography was prepared to assist individuals concerned with developing health occupations programs, those contemplating health careers projects and/or related activities, and those involved in minority group recruitment activities in the health field.…

In a 3-year study of the impact of education consultation on development of continuing medical education (CME) programs in community hospitals, results seem to indicate that: (1) limited inputs by physicians, acting as education consultants, can significantly facilitate development of hospital-based CME programs. Over a 2-year period, 40…

The Postgraduate Medical Institute of the Massachusetts Medical Society had as its goal in this instance to use an interdisciplinary team of consultants to sensitize hospital medical staffs to the unique health care problems of the poor. A consultation model was set up and implemented in three selected hospitals located in depressed areas. The…

One of the enduring questions in health administration concerns the transferability of management expertise from industry to the health enterprise. Some observers hold that the efficiencies associated with industry reflect methods and skills that are widely applicable and somehow lacking in the health field. Thus, the task force responsible for…

This publication contains the first set of working papers concerned with structure, financing, research, and expansion as they relate to the accreditation of health education programs conducted by professional agencies. Texts of these papers are included: (1) "Historical Introduction to Accreditation of Health Educational Programs" by W.K. Selden,…

This book is based on findings of a research project that dealt specifically with issues in public health work and indirectly with schools of public health, their role in mental health training, and their relevance to professional activities as perceived by those professional public health workers who participated in the survey. Underpinning the…