This handbook provides detailed information about job sharing for both administrators and potential sharers who are interested in implementing this new work arrangement. It incorporates results of a survey of job sharing in health care organizations as well as interviews and contacts with health care providers. A section on employees and job…

This guide was written to assist teachers in teaching parliamentary procedures to students in the health occupations education program. The guide emphasizes officer duties, order of business and correct use of parliamentary procedure. The following topics are covered in the guide: definition and history of parliamentary procedure, a brief…

A proposal is presented for Periodontics II, a course offered at the Community College of Philadelphia to give the dental hygiene/assisting student an understanding of the disease states of the periodontium and their treatment. A standardized course proposal cover form is given, followed by a statement of purpose for the course, a list of major…

A proposal is presented for a Community College of Philadelphia course, entitled "Medical Office Laboratory Procedures," which provides a laboratory introduction to microscopic and chemical analysis of blood and urine as performed in the physician's office. Following a standard cover form, a statement of the purpose of the course discusses course…

Utilizing manpower to meet health personnel needs while keeping expenditures minimal is considered. (AG)

The new health practitioner is a generic name for nonphysician health personnel who are trained to carry out many of the primary medical functions and tasks which heretofore have been the sole province of the physician. (Editor)

Addressed to the health occupations education teacher, this guide is intended to provide appropriate information, viewpoints, and attitudes regarding the metric system and to make suggestions regarding presentation of the material in the classroom. An introductory section on teaching suggestions emphasizes the need for a "think metric" approach…

Document presenting the official views of the American Council on Education as determined by its Board of Directors (January 27, 1969).

Condensed from a presentation at the New York State School Nurse Teachers Association Third Annual Conference, Whiteface Inn, Lake Placid, Whiteface, New York, May 18, 1968.

This paper focuses on radioactive practicle counting statistics in laboratory and field applications, intended to aid the Health Physics technician's understanding of the effect of indeterminant errors on radioactive particle counting. It indicates that although the statistical analysis of radioactive disintegration is best described by a Poisson…

This manual is directed to those involved with National Health Service Corps (NHSC) in providing clinical support services and continuing education to NHSC physicians. Following an introductory section, the first of three additional sections defines the purpose of clinical support systems as being twofold: first, to support the physician as he…

DESIGNED FOR TRAINING EMERGENCY SQUAD PERSONNEL IN RESCUE PROCEDURES AND VICTIM CARE BEYOND BASIC FIRST AID, THIS TEXTBOOK WAS DEVELOPED BY A COMMITTEE OF SQUADMEN, DOCTORS, NURSES, FIREMEN, AND STATE TRADE AND INDUSTRIAL PERSONNEL TO BE USED IN ADULT TRAINING CLASSES OF FULL-TIME OR VOLUNTEER SQUADMEN. THE INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIAL INCLUDES 26…