Commissioned Officer Student Training and Extern Program

The successful redesign of a student nurse extern program.

In this article, the authors emphasize the importance of a student nurse extern program in creating a pipeline for qualified bedside nurses. Through collaboration with the human resources department and the nurse management group, professional development educators in one hospital redesigned and reenergized the student nurse extern program to meet the needs of the externs and the healthcare sys...

PHS Junior Officer Advisory Group: the future of the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.

Training of student nurses.

The urgent need to minimize wastage among student nurses during training is too well known and well documented to require elaboration. Approximately one student out of every three joining the training schools of general hospitals fails to complete the prescribed course. The reasons for this failure vary, but are generally vague and indefinite. One approach to the problem is to compare the chara...

Using audit to improve senior house officer training Antony Johansen

Accepted 6 May 1997 Summary The British Geriatrics Society has described 16 training objectives for senior house officers (SHOs) in geriatric medicine. We have developed these into an audit standard, and in a controlled trial we consider the effectiveness of audit as a means of monitoring and improving SHO training. SHOs from three hospitals were sent a questionnaire asking about the adequacy o...

Methacholine challenge testing in Reserve Officer Training Corps cadets.

STUDY OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of positive results for methacholine challenge tests in asymptomatic Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) cadets with no history of asthma. DESIGN Prospective, blinded cohort comparison study. SETTING Pulmonary diseases clinic in a US Army tertiary-care medical center. PATIENTS One hundred three college students who were undergoing a physical e...