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The Effects of Managed Care and Prospective Payment on the Demand for Hospital Nurses: Evidence from California

OBJECTIVE: To examine the effects of managed care and the prospective payment system on the hospital employment of registered nurses (RNs), licensed practical nurses (LPNs), and aides. DATA SOURCES: ...

Author(s): Joanne Spetz
Source: PubMed
Date: December 1, 1999

Evaluation of a Preclinical, Educational and Skills-Training Program to Improve Students' Use of Blood and Body Fluid Precautions: One-Year Follow-Up

BACKGROUND: Little is known about long-term improvements in medical students' knowledge, attitudes, and use of blood and body fluid precautions following preclinical training. METHODS: We evaluated...

Author(s): Donna Jeffe, Sunita Mutha, Lynn Kim, Bradley Evanoff, Victoria Fraser
Date: November 1, 1999

The Hidden Health Care Workforce: Recognizing, Understanding and Improving the Allied and Auxiliary Workforce

Allied and auxiliary health care workers play critical support roles in the health care system. Any significant reform in the way health care is delivered will require changes in their training and...

Author(s): Jennifer Ruzek, Lindsey Bloor, Jennifer Anderson, Mai Ngo
Date: Jul 1999

A Snapshot of California’s Local Public Health Departments

This report provides a descriptive overview of local public health departments in California. Data are provided on the size and scope of agencies, characteristics of the population served, managed...

Author(s): Elizabeth Mertz, Leonard Finocchio
Date: June 1, 1999

Underrepresented Minorities and Medical Education in California: Recent Trends in Declining Admissions

The decision of the Regents of the University of California (UC) to end selective admissions for racial/ethnic minorities in 1995 and the passage of Proposition 209 in 1996 have generated great...

Author(s): Kevin Grumbach, Elizabeth Mertz, Janet M. Coffman
Date: Mar 1999

Maintaining an Adequate Supply of RNs in California

Over the past 2 years, concerns have arisen about the adequacy of the supply of RNs in California and the rest of the United States. Nurse leaders have called upon the California State Legislature to...

Author(s): Janet M. Coffman, Joanne Spetz
Date: January 21, 1999

Charting A Course for the 21st Century: Physician Assistants and Managed Care

As managed care creates new mechanisms for the delivery of health services, it will inevitably put pressure on the role and function of health professionals. Physician assistants (PAs) will not be...

Author(s): The Pew Health Professions Commission
Date: Dec 1998

Recreating Health Professional Practice for a New Century

This fourth and final major report of the Pew Health Professions Commission comes at the end of the most dynamic decade ever faced by the nation’s health professionals. As disruptive as this period...

Author(s): Ed O'Neil, The Pew Health Professions Commission
Date: December 1, 1998

Strengthening Consumer Protection: Priorities for Health Care Workforce Regulation

Health care workforce regulation plays a critical role in consumer protection. For most of this century, the state regulation of health care occupations and professions has established a minimum...

Author(s): Leonard Finocchio, Catherine Dower, Noelle Blick, Christine Gragnola, the Taskforce on Health Care Workforce Regulation
Date: Oct 1998

The Opportunity That is Nursing

Editorial that briefly described findings from a project on strategies for the future of nursing.

Author(s): Ed O'Neil, Janet M. Coffman
Date: Oct 1998