These proceedings contain the papers of the International Conference e-Learning 2015, which was organised by the International Association for Development of the Information and Society and is part of the Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, July 21-24, 2015). The e-Learning 2015…

The value of a role in a profession is often tied to demand for and supply of practitioners in this role. Since a profession may seek to sustain its role's value by influencing supply of recognized practitioners, the National Commission for Health Certifying Agencies has included in its membership criteria a requirement for administrative…

A health maintenance organization designed a pilot health promotion program that enrolled 55 employees, primarily allied health personnel. A control group of allied health personnel was also formed. Evaluation results indicate that the experimental group did improve on several health and health behavior measures, but the improvement generally was…

Epidemiology has been used historically to reduce the incidence of communicable diseases and is used presently to study chronic conditions, environmental conditions, and social conditions. Its analytical method is necessary for health educators to evaluate tactics and recommend programs. (MT)

A new job satisfaction instrument for employees of a residential care facility for mentally retarded persons effectively measures the employees' satisfaction with 12 work related variables: salary, company policies, supervision, working conditions, interpersonal relations, security, advancement, recognition, achievement, work responsibility, and…

There are various obstacles and opportunities in the delivery of rural health education. Resource networking can be an effective strategy for extending the health educator's expertise to the rural population. Examples of network structures are offered. (DF)

Self-perception measures often suffer from inflation factors. This study compared a Likert-type scale measuring comfort (1="not at all comfortable" to 5="very comfortable") to one assessing knowledge (1="I do not know anything about this", 2="I don't know enough about this to fully understand it",…

This article describes an urban health system in which professional responsibility can be developed in individuals trained in less than two years." (Author)

The improvement and expansion of health care for our older population must now be a major priority of all health care providers. All allied health professionals should strive to learn more about the processes of aging and translate this knowledge into specialized services and medical care for older people. (Author/CT)

A survey of university health service nurses, while defective in some respects, reveals a self-concept of nursing function that goes beyond the performance of their duties, that this self-concept is not often realized in daily practice, and that the staff is isolated from the community and from further training. (MB)

Reports survey results of general practice (GP) counselors and primary health care teams concerning role and contribution of counselors in primary care. Identified principal tasks of GP counselors, their relationship with the host team, and some organizational and professional dilemmas which need to be addressed. A great deal of variation was…

Discusses a survey to ascertain the prevalence and types of education programs to prepare multiskilled health practitioners in the United States. Presents information such as level of diploma awarded, length of study, certification eligibilities; skills combines, curriculum format, instructional personnel, and graduate employment and functioning.…

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to compare a variety of resident and staff outcomes across two types of staffing patterns, permanent and rotating assignment, and work shift. Although studies have examined these staffing patterns as part of multicomponent intervention packages, few studies have examined the isolated effects of staffing…

Purpose: This article examines factors that distinguish nursing facilities with very high and very low nursing assistant turnover rates from a middle referent group, exploring the possibility that high and low turnover are discrete phenomena with different antecedents. Design and Methods: Data from a stratified sample of facilities in eight…

For the past 10 years, the first author has been using therapeutic stories with a wide variety of children in an outpatient, private practice setting. Clinical findings have suggested that this Therapeutic Storytelling Technique (TST) may be a useful addition to the armamentarium of the cognitive-behavioral child therapist. The present article…