This article reviews research that examined self-monitoring and/or self-managed reinforcement procedures for improving and maintaining work productivity of developmentally disabled workers. Seventeen articles were encountered that examined self-monitoring and/or self-administration of reinforcers for productivity. In total, 107 developmentally disabled persons experienced self-management procedures, with diagnoses varying from profoundly to mildly ...

Enjoying one's work is a state of mind that is integrated in the manager's personality. Although some individuals are born with an optimistic perspective on life, others have to develop it. A manager can cultivate an appreciation for the ordinary and learn to use humor as a communication tool and ...

This article examines the ends to which technology are employed in the office practice of medicine. It argues that the types of decisions technology supports are of greater impact on how medicine is practiced over the long view than the actual technologies themselves. The more relevant the technologies are to ...

This article examines the changing role of medicine in the early workers' compensation system by using an approach derived in part from Marx's work. It looks at the increasing importance of medicine in mediating class conflict over transforming work-related injuries into money, meaning, and medical care under the new system. ...

This study compared the effects of "typical" staff supervision to "typical" staff supervision plus one of two self-management strategies for improving work productivity of eight mentally retarded workers in a sheltered workshop. The first self-management strategy consisted of self monitoring plus one minute goal setting at the beginning of each ...

This Act prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex and marital status, among other things, with respect to accommodation practices, employment practices, and publications. In its employment practices provisions, it mandates equal pay for equal work and outlaws harassment and unwelcome sexual solicitation. Under the Act, the Newfoundland Human Rights ...

Employer considerations in hiring and managing the two-pharmacist couple are discussed. In recruiting one member of a two-pharmacist couple, an employer may need to consider hiring the other spouse, especially if the employment requires relocation and if the institution is the only practice site in the area. Managers should be ...

As CFOs assume responsibility for the materials management function because of the potential to maximize cash flow, achieve economies of scale, decrease costs, and streamline operations, they look for guidelines to evaluate performance. Conducting a systems operations audit can aid in assessing that performance. CFOs can determine whether materials management ...

In the early 1980's two different guidelines for manual lifting were established: the NIOSH Work Practices Guide for Manual Lifting and the European Coal and Steel Community's Force Limits in Manual Work. A comparison of the two guidelines indicates some discrepancies in their predictive capabilities and a significant nonlinear relationship ...

A questionnaire concerning the management of women with preterm premature rupture of membranes was sent to the members of the Society of Perinatal Obstetricians. Expectant management was recommended by 97% of the respondents. There was no consensus about the role and frequency of steroids, blood work, ultrasound examination, and fetal ...

Harvey's discovery of the circulation had its roots far back in his early studies in medicine at the University of Padua where he was a pupil of the famed anatomist Fabricius, who was very interested in the valves of the veins. The difference between his teacher and Harvey was Harvey's ...

In summary, I have argued that while research and publications in the field have tended to deal with management and administration--examining issues as if they were predominately structural, organizational and authority-oriented, the area that cries out for further attention is that of leadership. For, while managers can do, and administrators ...

Human service agency and program managers were surveyed on survival strategies in the face of shrinking government funding. The two groups ranked strategies in order of importance and researchers compared results. There was strong general agreement between the two groups, suggesting that top and middle management are working ideologically and ...

We report the successful creation of ureteral strictures in primates and their successful management by balloon dilation 3 months later without ureteral stenting. This experimental work confirms the sporadic clinical reports of the effectiveness of balloon dilation in the management of ureteral strictures and suggests that ureteral stenting is not ...

Although these concepts have been around for quite some time, we are doubtful that they have been explored and used in supply and distribution departments. It may be that this will determine your ability to meet budgetary targets. We feel that flexibility in staffing, allowing to provide only as much ...

Johannes Fatio was probably the first surgeon who systematically studied and treated surgical condition of children. Born in Basle in 1649, he never studied medicine at the university there but became a member of the barber's guild. Later he studied medicine and became a doctor of the University of Valence. ...

Significant salary differences between male and female PAs have been noted. Several variables--hours worked per week, weeks worked per year, number of patients seen per week, and average fee per patient--were examined to assess their contribution to the differences in salary for PAs practicing in family medicine, internal medicine, and ...

The supervisor/manager deals with people every day. The basis for most worker behavior comes from interaction with their peers on the job. The effective manager must learn to understand and work with the various informal groups that form in the organization. He or she must understand how and why these ...

"It is our belief that once security management has recognized the key roles played by their supervisory personnel, much can be done to improve the work, morale, and effectiveness of the security force. To this end, it is the responsibility of management to see that their supervisory staff is properly ...

In this work, the bioavailability of the 14C-methyl-labelled cytidine diphosphate choline (CDP-Choline, citicoline, Somazina), has been studied by oral route, leading to the result that it is slowly and completely absorbed, with a very low urinary and fecal elimination, thus producing maintained blood levels. The bioavailability related to oral route ...

Productivity in radiology is a complex and elusive issue. The fact that radiology is the practice of medicine makes management of it very different from management in traditional "smokestack" industry. Management itself is very young, and more familiar with smokestacks and widgets than with radiology or any other service industry. ...

This chapter is concerned with some of the more mundane aspects of the day to day design, planning, documentation, and management of clinical trials, rather than with the finer points of trial design which are dealt with in detail elsewhere. The points considered here, taken individually, seem obvious and trivial ...

This is an account of the life and work of Robert Koch (1843-1910), Nobel Laureate in Medicine and a founder of the science of bacteriology. In particular, Koch's researches into tuberculosis are described--the discovery of the tubercle bacillus, the controversy regarding the human and bovine types, the Koch phenomenon, and ...

I present evidence from my personal experience of vocational training followed by 18 months' work in an African hospital, to show that:1. By extending and reinforcing vocational training, my time abroad was relevant to my future career as a British general practitioner.2. Vocational training is a good preparation for any ...

This paper moves from general considerations about the task of philosophy and epistemology to specific considerations of the postulates and principles that lie behind certain selected psychotherapeutic systems. In a field in which there is so much disagreement it is mandatory to review the fundamental premises behind various forms of ...

The attachment of social workers to general practices has increased recently and this study reports some of the factors which affect the success of such arrangements.Access to a room in the surgery for interviewing and the use of a telephone is an important factor as the time spent by the ...

This paper documents the career choices of a graduating class of family medicine residents at Queen's University. In the first post-graduation year, residents were evenly divided between those who undertook a third year of training and those who began practice. For those who began practice, a profile of their first ...

Concepts in the financial management of social work departments such as the utilization of cost-benefit as a way of thinking, the identification of funding sources for the department, and development of an understanding of budgetary practices are explored. Examples are offered of revenue production in in-patient and ambulatory care programs. ...

Multidisciplinary management teams were a significant new element in the 1974 reorganisation of the National Health Service. It was a development which in the run-up to reorganisation (and since) commanded considerable interest and, in some cases, scepticism. (R.G.S. Brown et al, 1973, 40.) Although there had been experiments in team ...

Nineteen practice sites in Iowa were studied to determine the differences in the types of physician (MD) supervision the physician assistant (PA) received at work at satellite (separate from the major practice site of the supervising MD) and non-satellite practice sites. The MDs supervised PA functions in 12.9 per cent ...

Elvin Semrad's contributions to the understanding and psychotherapy of schizophrenia are described. The author defines the principles that guided Semrad in his theoretical understanding of schizophrenic patients, and elaborates the practical application of these principles. Semrad's contributions are related to recent work by Winnicott and Kohut on the holding environment ...

Because advances in our field have increased the complexity of our work, I feel that the name of this discipline should be changed. I suggest a more pragmatic term, namely, Ecological Medicine. Ecological Medicine is a science relating to physiological, biological, genetic, socioeconomic, cultural, etc., changes now taking place in ...

A questionnaire seeking details of working arrangements and problems encountered was circulated to social workers working in general practice.THE MAIN DIFFICULTIES WERE: insufficient preparation for the scheme, poor communication between general practitioners and social workers, and the inadequate provision of facilities for social workers in practice premises.Most of the respondents ...

Occupational therapists become more involved in management/administrative skills as they progress profesionally; however, varying degrees of these same skills are used by the therapist at every work level and in every work environment. Operational management skills may include applying and implementing policy on the part of the supervising therapist, or ...

Working as a team, the architect, the owner, and the construction manager can provide substantial savings in the design and construction process. Key to the success of such an effort is a well-conceived selection process for the architect and the construction manager and a firm contract with each. Close coordination ...

An attempt was made to trace all the male Medical Graduates from Liverpool University in the years 1950-1954 inclusive, in order to find out where they were working and what work they were doing 20 years later. Of the original group of 288 Graduates, 272 (94.4%) were both traceable and ...

An examination has been made of the involvement of chemical engineers in medicine in North America. Fields of Study and subjects of research are briefly given in tabular form and the general statistical picture of chemical engineering in medicine discussed. Further details of the workers and references to their published ...

Data on practice characteristics were obtained as part of a national questionnaire study of surgeons in the United States. These included location and organization of surgeons' practices, use of nonphysician personnel, provision of ambulatory care, other professional activities, and variables associated with work load volume. A multivariate analysis was done ...

This paper reflects on selected aspects of the work of Eliot Freidson and is based mainly on his three latest books--Profession of Medicine, Professional Dominance, and Doctoring Together--in which he draws together his various contributions and elaborates a substantial argument concerning the dominant position of physicians within the institution of ...

Considerable experience with the problem of ordinary grief has led to the development of some basic management principles which are presented in this paper. The discussion is centered around a case history which originated in a family practice setting. A transcribed interview with the patient emphasizes technique. The working through ...

The second part of a survey studying factors that affect a general practitioner's work load considers the effects of age, sex, social class and time on list. Women, the old, and the young created the most work for the doctor and his paramedical team. Patients in the lower social classes ...

A survey of the total care provided by a general practitioner and his paramedical team for 3,137 patients in Teesside in 1972 showed that even in this area of high morbidity and mortality the work load was very small. The doctor held an average of 2.3 consultations per patient per ...

During a two-year period a senior case-worker was seconded by a voluntary family case-work agency, the Liverpool Personal Service Society, to work with three general practitioners. The commonest reasons for referral of the 157 new patients to the social worker over this study period were extreme poverty; housing, matrimonial, and ...

Job number added acc. to DOCREP assignment.- ECE Timber Committee. Sess. 58.- European Forestry Commission. Sess. 30

This site offers an online guidebook to forest biodiversity management designed to reduce the impacts of forest management on biodiversity, within targeted social and economic constraints. This book has been compiled by the Ministry of Forests, British Columbia, Canada, and aims to work within the Forest Practices Code of British ...

This paper, written by William Brownell, Ph.D discusses the workings of the ear. Contents include history of hearing, sound, the inner ear, mechanical sensitivity, synapses, stereocilia bundle organisation and mechanotransduction, organs of hearing and balance, inner and outer hair cells, regeneration, the central hearing system, and recommended resources. Made available ...

This 12-page document is primarily intended for arboriculturalists and others working on trees where bats may be roosting, on the precautions to be taken to avoid disturbing these protected species. It explains the importance of bats to the environment, and describes their natural habitat - principally in wooded areas. The ...

Chartered Physiotherapists working as extended scope practitioners (ESP) in a recognised occupational group of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP). Extended scope practice consists of clinical physiotherapy specialists in any recognised speciality, with an extended scope of practice. Extended scope of practice implies working beyond the recognised scope of practice, ...

The Montréal Process is a working group on criteria and indicators for the conservation and sustainable management of temperate and boreal forests. It was formed in Geneva, Switzerland in June 1994 to develop and implement internationally agreed criteria and indicators for the conservation and sustainable management of temperate and boreal ...

The WWF / World Bank Global Forest Alliance for conservation and sustainable use aims to work with governments, the private sector and civil society to significantly reduce the loss and degradation of all forest types worldwide, by promoting forest conservation and internationally recognized best practices in forest management. It has ...