This study compares the American experience of both nurse practitioners and physician's assistant with that of Britain. The study traces their professional development alongside that of traditional medicine and nursing and reviews the literature and relevant legislation. The author describes his observations of the work and training of the different ...
This book is a collection of papers given at a conference which examined what the role of senior administrators in the health field should be. The following four questions were addressed by the speakers. Does the senior health administrator have a role as either innovator or catalyst in 1) the ...
The International Seminar of Nurses held at the King's Fund College in July 1976 was the third in the series. The question of leadership and the emergence of leaders is of paramount importance to the nursing profession in the three countries represented, Canada, United Kingdom and United States of America. ...
This project paper presents the results of a series of studies of hospital house journals. It reflects the views of producers and consumers - the editors of house journals and their readers. The project has highlighted the importance of good communications in hospitals, has demonstrated that a house publication can ...
This publication contains details of hospital house journals, newsletters and bulletins at present known to the Hospital Centre. It is realised that this list may well be incomplete and the Hospital Centre will be glad to have details of any further publications that can be added, and any further information ...
This book consists of a series of papers on various aspects of day hospitals for elderly people in Great Britain and Northern Ireland in 1970. The author stresses that the reason for and the primary role of the day hospital are therapeutic and the major reasons for their use are ...
This second conference was presented with very definite and deliberately chosen terms of reference to form the basis of the papers and discussions. These were: 1) in the changing context of hospital administration what are the most important problems of today?; 2) how are these problems being dealt with and ...
This report, which looks at the training of hospital administrators makes a number of recommendations, including the following : that a two year course at graduate level be established for new entrants to the profession of hospital administration; that lecturers and demonstrators be appointed to teach in the college and ...
This book describes a visit to a number of hospitals and other institutions in the Eastern States of America by a delegation from Charing Cross Hospital. The delegation held the view that the management of health is a problem which should know no national boundaries and which must be a ...