This is the twenty-seventh report in a monograph series authorized by the Board of Trustees of the American Psychiatric Association to give wider dissemination to the findings of the Association's many commissions, committees, and task forces that are called upon from time to time to evaluate the state of the art in a problem area of current concern to the profession, to related disciplines, an...

On January 1, 1987, the Board of Trustees of Southwest Washington Hospitals instituted a smoking ban in all of its facilities, including the 17-bed general psychiatry unit. Our study of ward atmosphere, PRN medications, and negative incidents related to that change are reported. We feel the change was introduced successfully with minimal impact on the successful function of our service. Others ...

Each year Medicare's Board of Trustees issues a report that describes the financial condition of the Medicare program in the near term and over the next 75 years. Similar to recent trustees reports, the 2008 report projects that Medicare's Hospital Insurance Trust Fund will be depleted in 2019, at which time scheduled income will cover 78 percent of expenditures. Looking at these projections, s...

lections and Services,” edited by Ciara Healy), pp. 402–411 © 2010 The Board of Trustees, University of Illinois Abstract This is a personal case study of the implementation of a Netflix subscription to augment a media collection at a community college. The implementation process is explained against the backdrop of a particular collection development crisis that gripped the college media colle...

The past 5 years have been exciting and critical for the dental hygiene profession. It started when ADHA requisitioned an environmental scan that revealed an opportunity to move the profession in a new direction that provide for more leadership opportunities and roles for dental hygienists.1 Subsequent to this scan, the ADHA board of trustees developed a bold and comprehensive strategic plan th...

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Funded By: the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation of the Administration of Children and Families (OPRE/ACF), Grant Number: 90-YF0046. Copyright Michigan State University Board of Trustees 2008. Adapted from: http://www.mealsmatter.org/EatingForHealth/Topics/article.aspx?articleId=4 Family meals are not only a time for being with your family and children, they can actually lead to bette...

The General Board of the North Carolina Baptist State Convention Tuesday voted 101-9 to approve Wake Forest University's proposal to separate itself from the convention. chances before the whole convention are good. "There seems to be general approval for the proposal within the Baptist community," he said. According to Brantley, freedom to choose its own trustees would benefit Wake Forest's re...