Staff positions

Also in the early 1970s, another angry chemist, Shyamala Rajendar, a 1965 Ph.D. from the University of Wyoming, was told that her assistant professorship at the University of Minnesota (which she had finally obtained in 1969 after several other staff positions, including research associate) was not on the tenure track after all. (That distinction was introduced about then before then, all assistant professorships were assumed to be what is now called tenure track.) She sued, sought, and got class-action status when she showed the pattern was industrywide, and finally in 1980 the university settled out of court with a special master appointed to introduce new practices and oversee some rectification of claims.17... 

Use of common nomenclature All agencies utilizing ICS use the same titles and functional roles for the command staff positions. Use of common terminology assists different agencies with communicating with each other. 

The lower portion of the ICS tree contains the staff positions. Staff positions all fall under one of four sections... 

Among RPICs there is a pool of 531 SPIs Pharmacists account for 35% of the SPIs, nurses 58%, and others 7% (Fig. 2). Within nonregional centers there are an additional 58 full-time equivalent pharmacist staff positions. Therefore, it is apparent that there is a career opportunity for pharmacists within this discipline, albeit a somewhat limited one. Nurses dominate RPIC staffing. During the formative years of poison center evolution,... 

By this time Thuraiappah Thirunamachandran had come to me as a PhD student, with study leave from his staff position in the University of Ceylon. He showed [74] that the experimental results in this and some other cases were very well accounted for by the transfer of intensity from strong to weaker transitions under the dipole-dipole coupling (3.3). It had become clear that the oriented-gas model was not a satisfactory approximation. 

In large decentralized organizations, process can be policy. Within chemical companies, responsibility for environmental control fell to specialists who held staff positions. They often lacked the clout to overcome resistance from operating managers, whose incentives were driven by internal profit targets and outside competition. In the profit-driven marketplace, competition... 

Assurance of competent staff begins by preparing position descriptions that specify the educational requirements, operational experience, and duties of the laboratory personnel. The qualifications of the supervisors, analysts, and instrument operators who are hired must match these descriptions. Each staff position should have a set of core training specifications (e.g., radiation safety, chemical safety, waste minimization and disposal, quality assurance) plus specific training in its area of responsibility. Table 13.3 provides suggested position titles, educational requirements, and general responsibilities for the optimal laboratory staff. 

In this version, the quality management team occupies staff position and is organizationally directly responsible to the executive management. 

AR563 9.1 Regulatory staff position statement on antitrust matters, ML003740156, December 1973. 

Short-term positions followed as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Wisconsin, a teaching position at Bran-deis University, and a staff position at IBM Watson Laboratory. 

After the survey s release, hospitals wanted to compare results to determine whether their own scores were above or below norms for other hospitals. In response to those requests, AHRQ estabhshed a comparative database for the smvey in 2007. The goal of the database was to produce aggregate statistics to enable hospitals to compare their survey results to other hospitals overall and by bed size, teaching status, ownership and regiom Results can also be compared by hospital work areas/ units, staff positions and whether staff have direct interaction with patients. 

Hospital work areas and staff asked to complete the survey When the Hospital SOPS was developed, it was not specifically designed and tested for use with non-clinical staff like those in honsekeeping, facilities, or human resources. Yet once the snrvey was released, it became very clear that hospitals wanted to survey all staff from all units and departments, with the understanding that every staff member plays an important role in ensuring patient safety. By being attentive and aware of patient safety risks, in an environment that encourages open communication and learning, even non-clinical staff can help prevent medication errors, patient identification errors and many other types of errors. Since one of the uses of the survey is as an education and awareness tool, it makes sense for hospitals to conduct the survey in a broad way across units and staff positions. 

Our latest guidance to hospitals is that they administer the survey using their own, customised work areas and staff positions so they can produce survey results in ways that are most useful to them. Many hospitals want to produce and distribute results to their specific works areas and review restrlts by staff positions. When submitting to the database, we ask hospitals simply to cross-reference their customised work areas and staff positiorrs to the more general ones included in the survey so that comparative results can be generated. 

The Medical Office Survey on Patient Safety Culture 2012 Comparative Database Report presents data from 23,679 staff within 934 US medical offices that completed the Medical Office Survey on Patient Safety Culture, so offices can compare their patient safety culture to other medical offices. The full report contains detailed comparative data for various medical office characteristics (number of providers, specialty, ownership, and region) and staff positions (AHRQ Publication No. 12-0052). 

Unlike most management activities, safety usually operates from a purely staff position. The implications of this pervade safety and affect the way it operates in the organization. To understand the management of safety, an understanding of line and staff positions is essential... 

Since the safety practitioner is operating from a staff position, any success is a result of his ability to enlist the support of line personnel. This comes about as a result of being well integrated into the organi-... 

NUREG-0588, "Interim Staff Position on Environmental Qualification of Safety-Related Electrical Equipment," U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, July 1981. 

If some facets of the safety and health effort are not going well, this individual will usually be held accountable although the authority to rectify the existing problem may not exist. Usually the safety and health person is a staff position, which seldom allows him or her to interfere in any way with the line function of production. Without some authority to impact the line function when necessary, the safety and health professional has little clout as to worksite implementation of the company s safety and health effort. Accountability must go beyond the safety and health professional. Dan Petersen, a noted safety expert, espouses that what is desired is safe production. ... 

Center and a Supply Division section chief moved out to establish chemical sections in two newly activated base sections. Maj. Frederick E. Powell, another section chief, and seven company-grade officers went from Supply Division to establish chemical sections in general depots and chemical branch depots. Since three other Supply Division section chiefs had gone to the Torch forces, newly arrived lieutenants filled most supply division staff positions. 

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