Orientation and Education

Security personnel and other identified staff members should undergo appropriate education and training to ensure they possess and maintain the skills and knowledge necessary to safeguard the security of patients, visitors, and staff. All hospital employees must receive instruction of security issues as part of their general orientation. This includes instruction on how to report security 

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In addition to specialty nursing accreditation bodies, the Joint Commission, formerly the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO), mandates specific areas in which health care institutions must ensure that employees are prepared. As part of the national emergency preparedness plan, JCAHO (2001) has mandated that all health care institutions be required to design and implement an emergency preparedness plan. In addition, each institution must establish an orientation and education program for staff and must conduct emergency preparedness drills at least twice a year. 

Orientation and Education Sessions. These are regularly scheduled discussion sessions to provide information, answer questions, and identify needs and concerns. 

Spencer, R. D. The Dependence of Strength in Plastics upon Polymer Chain Length and Chain Orientation, /. Chem. Educ. 1984, 61, 555-563. 

Small and functional molecules, and industrial products as typified by the examples in the bottom row of Table 16.1-1 have predominated traditional chemical engineering practice and education. Only recently have the design and manufacture of consumer-oriented chemical-products been getting the attention they deserve [1,2,3,4,5,6]. This shift from industrial to consumer products... 

A selection of papers more professionally and educationally oriented are included in this Elsevier volume. Fifteen papers arising from the conference are included in this special volume. Their content is briefly summarized below. 

The authors thank R. V. K. Mangalam, Chandra Sekhar Rout, and C. Madhu for their help in the sample preparation and magnetic measurements. R.B., N.R., and U.S. would like to thank JNCASR for providing the opportunity to do research work under the programs Project Oriented Chemical Education (POCE) and Summer Research, respectively. This work was supported by the Department of Science and Technology, India under the nanoscience initiative program. 

The NIMH is the federal agency funded to respond to so-called mental illness in America. When I was a full-time consultant to NIMH (1966-1968), it was fundamentally a psychosocial and educationally oriented institution. It sought ways to improve the nation s mental health through psychological, social, educational, and economic means. For example, it was greatly concerned with improving our schools and reducing poverty. 

The chemical industry has come to realize that universities cannot turn out graduates adequately educated in the fundamentals of science or engineering and at the same time trained to step immediately into any one of many specialized industrial jobs. This is true of literature chemists as well as other kinds of chemists. Most of the larger industrial concerns have also come to realize the value of a carefully planned program for the induction, the orientation, and the special training required to fit the new employee to his highly specialized job. 

Continue to orient pharmaceutical education to reflect pharmacists changing practice roles and settings under managed care and in clinical drug therapy. Referenced within this recommendation are various elements of the 21 competencies and more emphasis on residency training. 

Active information will be education- and training-oriented and will be addressed to healthcare staff via bulletins and to patients. 

On March 19,1982, a new proposed standard entitled Hazard Communication, was published by OSHA in the Federal Register. It differs from the Hazard Identification standard in that it emphasizes Conununication rather then Identification. It is more performance oriented and less specific. The coverage is more limited and the evaluation less extensive. It allows for trade secrets and provides for performance-oriented education and training. In this standard only chemical manufacturers evaluate the hazards whereas in the earlier proposal all employers were required to evaluate hazards. 

At the individual level, we bring multiple social group affiliations—among them gender, race, religion, ethnicity, nationality, education, sexual orientation, and age—to each encounter. We also bring narratives collected from our life experiences. The... 

This new objective requires a renewal of educational techniques that strengthen interpersonal relationships, adding depth to the technically oriented and engineering information-specific curriculum that has prevailed to date. 

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