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PubMed1986

A health professions faculty workload plan for a liberal arts setting.

This case study describes an approach to planning the workload and expenditure of allied health faculty effort. The plan is based upon a review of the literature, a survey of other schools in similar settings, and faculty negotiation. It meets the need for faculty accountability, congruence between faculty workloads and institutional goals, faculty staffing determinations, and a means to compare nursing and allied health faculty workloads with those of more traditional liberal arts faculty. The plan may serve as a model for other health professions academic units.

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PubMed1985

Schools of the allied health professions and the future: report of a Delphi study.

During the 1982-83 academic year, ten members of the College of Health Deans participated in a five-round Delphi study to identify objectives for schools of the allied health professions through the year 1991. There was consensus among the deans participating that 29 potential developments in health and health care are highly likely to occur by 1991 and that 13 objectives relative to these developments are of highest importance to schools of the allied health professions.

Delphi Technique↗
PubMed1981

A response to the interdisciplinary continuing education dilemma.

The paucity of interdisciplinary continuing education activities and the lack of a mechanism for developing collaborative efforts between and among disciplines are important concerns of continuing health educators. Interested parties in Virginia have established an organization, the Virginia Association for Continuing Education in the Health Professions (VACEHP) to address these concerns. The mission of this association is to meet the needs of planners of continuing education in health fields. The purpose of this article is twofold: to provide background information regarding the origin of VACEHP and to relate the methodology and findings of a Delphi study conducted to assess the needs of the association's membership. The findings of the study are being used by VACEHP to chart a course for developing a statewide interdisciplinary network for continuing education in the health professions.

Delphi Technique↗
PubMed1995

Allied health professional manpower in Louisiana.

In recent decades there has been a virtual transformation of medicine. A host of factors including technological change and increasing governmental intrusion and requirements as well as complex changes in the private sector have made the practice of medicine dramatically different than in the past. A concomitant change has been the virtual explosion in the number, complexity, and legal status of what are commonly termed the allied health professions. The following article was designed to present a historical overview of 10 of the most common such occupations and to discuss their unique training and employment status in the state. Implications for the future of medicine in the state are discussed.

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PubMed2000

Occupational health nursing research priorities: a changing focus.

This article reports a study to reexamine and update the research priorities in occupational health nursing. In this investigation, a 15% geographically proportionate random sample of AAOHN members was surveyed using a two-stage Delphi technique to determine important occupational health related areas needing targeted research. Research participants evaluated 37 potential research priorities in relation to impact on worker health and value to the profession, and 12 priorities emerged.

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PubMed1997

"Doing" in mental health practice: therapists' beliefs about why it works.

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to explore the beliefs of occupational therapists working in mental health regarding the therapeutic value of "doing" as a treatment modality. Doing was defined as any activity or action-oriented approach that was identified and used by the participating therapists. METHOD: Eleven occupational therapists working in a variety of mental health areas were observed as they conducted 3 to 6 regularly scheduled therapy sessions. They were then interviewed about their activity-related beliefs. Audiotapes of the 44 treatment sessions and 11 interviews were transcribed and then coded to identify emergent themes and categories of beliefs about activity. RESULTS: Participants used a variety of activities in both task-based and verbally based treatment sessions. Multiple reasons for activity use were cited, particularly in relation to the task-based sessions. Two main themes related to the value of activity were (a) benefits of activity for the client and (b) benefits in facilitating the process of therapy. Categories of client-related benefits included skill development; impairment reduction; self-awareness; positive self-concept; interaction or connection with others; healthy, balanced routines; pleasure; and enhancement of occupational role performance. Perceived effects on the therapeutic process included creating a therapeutic context, enhancing client readiness, facilitating communication, and providing an organizing framework. CONCLUSION: Occupational therapists working in mental health hold diverse beliefs about the value of doing in treatment. Basing practice on clearly identified and evidence-based beliefs will assist in ensuring a viable and valued future for the profession in this important domain of health services.

Adult↗
PubMed1997

[Risk of hepatitis C virus infection in medical occupations].

Following the introduction of sensitive and specific tests for the detection of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection studies could be performed to determine the risk to acquire a HCV infection in medical professions. The aim of this report is to summarize the knowledge in this field, especially regarding the risk of transmission of HC virus by injuries with infected material, such as needles. The risk to acquire a HCV infection following needlestick injuries was found to be markedly lower than the risk for transmission of hepatitis B virus infection. In 7 studies from different countries this risk has been found to be between zero to a maximum of 10% (average 2%). When the frequency of HCV infection was studied in occupational groups in hospital (nurses, technical assistants, doctors), it did not differ significantly compared to the prevalence in general population. These and other findings concerning the risk of transmission of HCV infections (between spouses, mother/newborns) clearly show that the risk of transmission of HCV infection is markedly lower than that of HBV infection. These facts should be considered in judging of applications for the recognition of HCV infection as occupational disease.

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PubMed1986

Liberal arts: the foundation for occupational therapy education.

Occupational therapy lacks a consensus regarding its theory base, technical tools, contribution to society, ethical stance, and relationship to medicine. This study proposes steps to achieve a new consensus and to resolve the crisis focus on entry-level education. The proposed steps include the critical assessment of the educational foundation for practice, the recognition that a liberally educated occupational therapist can serve patients better and meet pressing societal needs, and the pursuit of closer relationships with liberal arts colleges by occupational therapy academic departments. A "new breed" of occupational therapists, that is, therapists who are liberally educated, will be capable of thinking in broad categories and will be open to new ideas and aware of ethical implications; they will be familiar with principles, able to practice from a knowledge base, and prepared to improve the profession's practice: they will possess the skills to be leaders.

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PubMed1997

[The memorization of new material and the probable energy processes in the short-term and long-term memories of adolescents].

In age-related, occupational and individual aspects the dynamics of the transition of the visual technical information was investigated from short-term to long-term memory in growing up individuals, mastering the profession of operator-power engineer. The variants of probable distribution of the nervous energy between focus and background of the operative field of the brain were considered in the examined pupils. It was established that at the first presentation of complex technical information the occupationally adapted pupils in significant higher volume were able to assimilate the presented information than the occupationally unadapted ones. It was demonstrated that the process of transition of the visual information from conditions of short-term to long-term memory processed by stages in all examined individuals according to the assimilation or loss of part of the presented for memorizing information in every cycle of its repetition. It was assumed that each stage of memorizing which is connected with assimilation or loss of the information had its connected with assimilation or loss of the information had its strictly individual energetic characteristics. The complex variants of the energetic processes were considered. The results of the carried out investigations also revealed that assimilation of visual information depended to a greater extent of the individual abilities of the pupils rather than of their age.

Adolescent↗