Below are links to some articles that discuss professional development and related topics.
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October 7, 2008
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Steven K. Rothschild, MD Associate Professor Family Medicine & Preventive Medicine
Team Training: Begin with clearly stated team principles. Demonstrate principles at every opportunity!
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NOVEMBER 7, 2005
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AARP
AARP hopes to greatly enhance this discussion by launching a national Workforce Initiative to increase opportunities for mature workers’ successful navigation of the public and private workforce system. Included in this national Workforce Initiative is a plan to provide new points of access to training that will allow mature workers to remain competitive in the job market and further to provide them connections to employers who value their experience.
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July 21, 2008
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American Health Care Association Department of Research
America’s nursing facilities have been facing a chronic direct-care workforce shortage for more than a decade. In order to measure the extent of the difficulty that nursing facilities are having in retaining and recruiting nursing staff, the American Health Care Association (AHCA) conducted a nursing position survey to examine employment vacancy and turnover in nursing facilities in 2007.
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December 2006
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Alabama Workforce
Information compiled consisted of data on currently employed faculty including salary information, data on faculty vacancies, information on student enrollment in each type of nursing education program, data on each program’s determination of theoretical and clinical competence in students, as well as information on programs’ flexibility in scheduling options for students.
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2006
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Wisconsin Hospital Association
The Wisconsin Health Professions Loan Assistance Program (HPLAP) was established to assist rural and underserved communities in recruiting and retaining primary care health and dental professionals.
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October 7, 2008
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Ron Stock MD MA Medical Director The Gerontology Institute at Sacred Heart Medical Center
Challenges to Developing Teams
• Organizational ambivalence
• Variable leadership skills and behaviors
• Time
• Compensation/productivity issues
• Size of unit/practice
• Team members coming and going
•Wide spread absence of effective communication
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