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The Relationship of Job Activities to Professional Preparation of the Public Health Educator At the University of Michigan, 1974-1979.
(1981)
This study was designed to determine relationships existing between job activities engaged in by public health educators and professional preparation received; job activities to present position held; and job activities ...
The Professionalization of Ambulance Services.
(1984)
This dissertation focuses on the professionalization of ambulance work in the United States as a case study of professionalization in health care, and of the relation of formal education to professions. The methodology is ...
Voluntarism in Health Care: a Model for Community Participation (Sri Lanka).
(1982)
The initial focus of this study was on the informal processes of care provided within communities by lay persons on a voluntary basis in rural Sri Lanka. The provision of care by primary groups within the lay referral ...
Understanding and Influencing Compliance with Regimen By Ambulatory Hemodialysis Patients.
(1980)
This investigation examines the compliance problems experienced by patients with end-stage renal disease who are receiving hemodialysis treatments. Compliance with three aspects of the treatment regimen was examined: (1) ...
Perceptions of Informed Consent and Consumerism in Health.
(1982)
Current practices in the health field indicate a communication gap between providers and consumers. Despite the existence of the informed consent principle to protect health consumers, there are many documented cases in ...
Evaluation of an Educational Intervention for Pediatricians to Increase Patient Compliance.
(1986)
This study examined the effects of an educational intervention for pediatricians on their knowledge of, attitudes toward, and behavior related to increasing mothers' compliance with a ten-day antibiotic regimen for children ...
A Cost-Effectiveness Study of Diet Counseling.
(1982)
Four modes of diet counseling as practiced by three health care practitioners were evaluated for four effectiveness variables and the costs of treatment. Group counseling within a behavior modification framework led by a ...
Factors Influencing the Creation of a Supportive Climate in Selected Rn-Bsn Programs.
(1981)
This investigation examined the perceptions of support for and satisfaction by students and faculty in RN-BSN programs, and was concerned with identifying characteristics and conditions which related to these perceptions. ...
Relationship of Mentoring By Senior Faculty to Productivity of Junior Faculty in the Top Twenty Colleges of Nursing in the United States.
(1986)
This study examined the relationship of current mentoring by senior faculty to the current productivity of junior faculty in colleges of nursing. One hundred eighty-three nurse faculty from eight of the top twenty schools ...
Measuring nurses' use of applied liberal education competences in professional nursing.
(1989)
How can nurses' use of liberal education in professional practice be measured? To what extent do nurses attribute their use of liberal education to previous educational, family, and work experiences? To address these ...