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Bioterrorismo , Antraz/transmissão , Guerra Biológica , Guerra Química , Substâncias para a Guerra Química/intoxicação , Inibidores da Colinesterase/intoxicação , Atenção à Saúde , Planejamento em Desastres , Emergências , Humanos , Japão , Oregon , Religião , Intoxicação Alimentar por Salmonella/etiologia , Sarina/intoxicação , Sociedades de Enfermagem , Estados UnidosRESUMO
Health care organizations face unprecedented fiscal, regulatory, and social challenges. Future executive leadership of health care organizations must be extremely effective for an organization to remain vital. To identify the characteristics that successful leaders of the future will require, 11 senior health care executives in the U.S. Navy Medical Department were invited to describe (1) desirable characteristics of future health care leaders, (2) how to identify individuals with executive potential, and (3) how to prepare individuals to become successful health care executives. The findings provide a blueprint for leadership development for leaders in health care organizations.
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Pessoal Administrativo/normas , Pessoal Administrativo/tendências , Liderança , Militares , Medicina Naval/tendências , Competência Profissional/normas , Pessoal Administrativo/educação , Pessoal Administrativo/psicologia , Atitude do Pessoal de Saúde , Previsões , Planejamento em Saúde/organização & administração , Humanos , Militares/educação , Militares/psicologia , Medicina Naval/organização & administração , Objetivos Organizacionais , Inquéritos e Questionários , Estados UnidosRESUMO
The media play an influential role in American society. The challenge for health professionals, including nurses, is to translate and transmit complex health information for the public through many channels. Although nurses are trained to be effective communicators in practice, a recent study demonstrates that nurses are virtually invisible in the media. This lack of visibility limits nursing's ability to communicate important health information, impedes nursing's ability to define its role and contributions in the health care delivery system, and restricts nursing's ability to advocate for health policy. One option to improve nurses' ability to communicate effectively in all media venues is to integrate health communications content into nursing programs, which would provide nurses with the opportunity to develop advanced communication skills, media expertise, and new strategies for educating the public. Health communications programs exist in several colleges and universities, but not within nursing programs. Because nursing curricula are in a period of transition as changes in the health care environment are accommodated, health communications courses could be integrated into nursing programs as elective courses, graduate certificate programs, or a field of graduate study. Without creative educational strategies, nursing will remain invisible to the public and ineffective in its ability to influence the health care environment.
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Meios de Comunicação , Educação em Enfermagem , Educação em Saúde , Currículo , HumanosAssuntos
Enfermagem , Telemedicina , Confidencialidade , História do Século XX , Humanos , Medicina Militar/organização & administração , Enfermagem/organização & administração , Consulta Remota , Telemedicina/história , Telemedicina/organização & administração , Telemedicina/tendências , Estados UnidosRESUMO
A multidisciplinary staff development department developed a continuous quality improvement project to study the consistently high absentee rate for scheduled training and its relationship to the class registration process. Data were collected using a 9-question survey of students who failed to attend scheduled training. Findings show that changes to the class registration process resulted in a decrease in the number of absentees under the control of the staff development department from an average of 43% to 6% by the end of the year-long review period. The overall absentee rate stabilized at 20% and has been established as the benchmark for this setting.
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Absenteísmo , Recursos Humanos em Hospital/educação , Recursos Humanos em Hospital/psicologia , Desenvolvimento de Pessoal/organização & administração , Gestão da Qualidade Total/organização & administração , Hospitais Militares , Humanos , Motivação , Inquéritos e QuestionáriosRESUMO
We describe the concept and first implementation of an innovative new instrument for quantitative light microscopy. Currently, it provides selective imaging of optical path differences due to birefringence; with further development, it is also possible to selectively image several optical properties, including refractive path differences, optical rotation, and linear and circular dichroism, all with diffraction-limited resolution. An image consists of a 512 X 512 element array, with each pixel displaying one of 256 grey levels, linearly proportional to the specific optical property being observed. Additionally, conventional brightfield and polarized light microscopy are available, with the accompanying advantages of laser scanning and digital image processing. The microscope consists of three subsystems, representing three distinct technologies. The laser scanning subsystem moves a focused microspot across the specimen; the output of a photodetector is an electric signal corresponding to a scanned image. The image display subsystem digitizes this signal and displays it as an image on a video monitor. When used in conjunction with a phase modulation feedback loop, the image formed is of the specimen's birefringent retardation or other selected optical property. The digitized images are also available for computer enhancement.
