Biomedical subjects

A Kobs

Publications and source records attributed to A Kobs.

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PubMed1997

Measuring competencies of temporary staff.

Strategic staffing requires an understanding of a new model, what Charles Handy has named the "Shamrock Organizational Model," in which you have three equally valuable groups of staff a minimal core of full-time staff; a short-term contingency workforce; and a supplemental workforce for long-range temporary staffing needs. Ensuring the competency of all three is a nontransferable, although shared, responsibility of both the hospital and the supplemental staffing company.

Clinical Competence↗

PubMed1997

Nursing quality improvement?

The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Standards (JCAHO) considers quality improvement to be an interdisciplinary effort spanning structure, process and outcomes measurement. Both the JCAHO and Nursing Management's editors urge you, the readers, to submit your questions (see address at the end of column).

Humans↗

PubMed1997

Ethics and patients' rights.

In recent years, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Standards (JCAHO) has become sensitive to the complex problems hospitals and other agencies face in the care of patients today ... and thus the JCAHO has promulgated standards about patients' rights and duties, and about the handling of ethical problems since 1988. Both the JCAHO and Nursing Management's editors urge you, the readers, to submit your questions (see address at end of column).

Ethics, Nursing↗

PubMed1997

Infection control.

The Joint Commission promulgates six standards related to infection control--and it expects all employees to be involved in preventing nosocomical infections. Both the JCAHO and Nursing Management's editors urge you, the readers, to submit your questions for response in this column.

Humans↗

PubMed1997

What is age-specified competence?

About 35% of the 1,238 hospitals surveyed in the first 9 months of 1996 received Type I recommendations regarding the provision of evidence of age-specific competence for staff. This column answers questions commonly asked about age-specific competence, how it is measured and how a facility can comply with this JCAHO requirement.

Adult↗

PubMed1997

Common questions about JCAHO standards.

This column is dedicated to answering a variety of the most commonly asked questions regarding JCAHO requirements for accreditation. The subjects range from performance reviews to staffing ratios to counting drugs--and more.

Accreditation↗

PubMed1997

The adequacy of nurse staffing.

The JCAHO advises that staffing changes, with or without restructuring, should include a framework for improving patient care. This article explores such a framework, as well as addressing common questions about staffing. Both the JCAHO and Nursing Management's editors urge you, the readers, to submit your questions (see address at the end of the column).

Clinical Competence↗