Two (of the many) types of System Administrators are identified: The ‘‘System Clerk’’ simply performs clerical tasks as she is told to do them (creating accounts, installing software) while the System Advocate proactively works with users to develop and evolve the environment. Transitioning from Clerk to Advocate involves a change of attitude and ‘‘making time’’ for advocacy. Ways to develop mo...

<div><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left"><tbody><tr><td align="left" valign="top"><p><em>The Impact of errors in prescription incompleteness is diverse, started from those that do not provide any risk at all to the occurrence disability or even death. The Prescription screening useful prevent omissions information, poor prescribing and i...

Ž . The beds of an intensive care unit ICU are a scarce resource. Stochastic patient demands for these beds and stochastic service times in their utilization make managing that resource a complex problem lacking an easy solution. The current practice in one Hong Kong hospital is for the ICU administrator to exploit the fact that there are some patients whose admission to the unit can be postpon...

HOSPITAL PLANNING as the subject of a presidential address is presently not such an exotic topic as it might have been prior to the publication in 1962 of the Government's ten-year plan for hospital expansion. To-day, consequent on the appearance of the Ministry's voluminous notes on hospital building and equipment, much of the sense of adventure is missing. No longer should plans be shaped by ...

It is only after considerable hesitation and, indeed, with some trepidation that a mere hospital administrator ventures to write upon such a subject as the position of nursing in hospitals. The author of this article was, however, emboldened to accept |he Editor's invitation to do so for two compelling reasons. The first is the intrinsic importance of the subject. The second is that all those c...

As you’ve probably already discovered in your academic and professional lives, the audience for almost everything you write, whether it is a professor, teaching assistant, grant administrator, journal editor, colleague, program administrator, policy-maker, scientist or public health activist, is likely to view your work skeptically. In fact, reader skepticism is likely to increase in direct pro...

The behavior of a WLM-managed MVS system is sometimes best understood by looking at the goals rather than the workloads. A WLM goal occupies a space of many dimensions. The system administrator is free to burden the goal with an assortment of workloads, assign it a high or low importance, and set it a target that is somewhere between lenient and stringent. In execution, the goal may be met well...

System administrators are often asked to apply their professional expertise in unusual situations, or under tight resource constraints. What happens, though, when the “situation” is a foreign country with only basic technical infrastructure, and the task is to build systems which are able to survive and grow in these over-constrained environments? In this paper we report on our experiences in t...

Researching system administration

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