Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309084601
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) disposes of plutonium-contaminated debris from its 27 nuclear weapons facilities at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), an underground repository in Carlsbad, New Mexico. After four years of operational experience, DOE has opportunities to make changes to the costly and time-consuming process of "characterizing" the waste to confirm that it is appropriate for shipment to and disposal at WIPP.  The report says that in order to make such changes, DOE should conduct and publish a systematic and quantitative assessment to show that the proposed changes would not affect the protection of workers, the public, or the environment.
Characterization of Remote-Handled Transuranic Waste for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
The Future of Nursing
Author: Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309208955
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
The Future of Nursing explores how nurses' roles, responsibilities, and education should change significantly to meet the increased demand for care that will be created by health care reform and to advance improvements in America's increasingly complex health system. At more than 3 million in number, nurses make up the single largest segment of the health care work force. They also spend the greatest amount of time in delivering patient care as a profession. Nurses therefore have valuable insights and unique abilities to contribute as partners with other health care professionals in improving the quality and safety of care as envisioned in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) enacted this year. Nurses should be fully engaged with other health professionals and assume leadership roles in redesigning care in the United States. To ensure its members are well-prepared, the profession should institute residency training for nurses, increase the percentage of nurses who attain a bachelor's degree to 80 percent by 2020, and double the number who pursue doctorates. Furthermore, regulatory and institutional obstacles-including limits on nurses' scope of practice-should be removed so that the health system can reap the full benefit of nurses' training, skills, and knowledge in patient care. In this book, the Institute of Medicine makes recommendations for an action-oriented blueprint for the future of nursing.
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309208955
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
The Future of Nursing explores how nurses' roles, responsibilities, and education should change significantly to meet the increased demand for care that will be created by health care reform and to advance improvements in America's increasingly complex health system. At more than 3 million in number, nurses make up the single largest segment of the health care work force. They also spend the greatest amount of time in delivering patient care as a profession. Nurses therefore have valuable insights and unique abilities to contribute as partners with other health care professionals in improving the quality and safety of care as envisioned in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) enacted this year. Nurses should be fully engaged with other health professionals and assume leadership roles in redesigning care in the United States. To ensure its members are well-prepared, the profession should institute residency training for nurses, increase the percentage of nurses who attain a bachelor's degree to 80 percent by 2020, and double the number who pursue doctorates. Furthermore, regulatory and institutional obstacles-including limits on nurses' scope of practice-should be removed so that the health system can reap the full benefit of nurses' training, skills, and knowledge in patient care. In this book, the Institute of Medicine makes recommendations for an action-oriented blueprint for the future of nursing.
Report and Recommendations to the Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Author: United States. Prospective Payment Assessment Commission
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Diagnosis related groups
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Diagnosis related groups
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Report of the Joint Continuing Committee for Scientific Cooperation
Author: National Research Council (U.S.)
Publisher: National Academies
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Publisher: National Academies
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Health Services Research
Author: Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Division of Health Care Services
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Health services research has suffered because of unrealistic expecta- tions of what it could provide in the way of easy answers for policy- makers in the health field. There are no quick fixes for problems of health manpower and distribution or cost containment. This means that it is enourmously important to know much more than we do about the complex variety of factors affecting our health care system if we are to make sensible policy decisions. We need to know what we are talk- ing about, and for this reason the report gives a proper definition of health services research. Health services research is a field and not a discipline and this means that by its very nature it is multi- disciplinary. The report strongly supports the continuation of the national center for health services research without either reorgani- zation or relocation.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Health services research has suffered because of unrealistic expecta- tions of what it could provide in the way of easy answers for policy- makers in the health field. There are no quick fixes for problems of health manpower and distribution or cost containment. This means that it is enourmously important to know much more than we do about the complex variety of factors affecting our health care system if we are to make sensible policy decisions. We need to know what we are talk- ing about, and for this reason the report gives a proper definition of health services research. Health services research is a field and not a discipline and this means that by its very nature it is multi- disciplinary. The report strongly supports the continuation of the national center for health services research without either reorgani- zation or relocation.
Report and Recommendations
Author: United States. National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Human experimentation in medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Human experimentation in medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Report and Recommendations to the President of the United States
Author: President's Commission on Americans Outdoors (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conservation of natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conservation of natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Technical Appendixes to the Report and Recommendations to the Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Author: United States. Prospective Payment Assessment Commission
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Diagnosis related groups
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Diagnosis related groups
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Prevention of Bullying in Schools, Colleges, and Universities
Author: American Educational Research Association (AERA)
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780935302370
Category : Bullying in schools
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The peer-reviewed report presented as a series of 11 briefs, addresses legislative, policy, and procedural matters with pragmatic and practical strategies for prevention of bullying.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780935302370
Category : Bullying in schools
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The peer-reviewed report presented as a series of 11 briefs, addresses legislative, policy, and procedural matters with pragmatic and practical strategies for prevention of bullying.
Report and Recommendations: Report and recommendations
Author: United States. National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Human experimentation in medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Human experimentation in medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description