Many children who take medications require them during the school day. This policy statement is designed to guide prescribing physicians as well as school administrators and health staff on the administration of medications to children at school. The statement addresses over-the-counter products, herbal medications, experimental drugs that are administered as part of a clinical trial, emergency...

In distance education, communications among students, educators, and administrators have been one of the most important problems. The distance education programs in The Open University of Hong Kong (OUHK) span not only Hong Kong but also many cities over a large area in China. To improve and monitor the quality of communications among students, tutors, and staff, we propose a communications man...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to describe the organizational decision-making process used in the selection of evidence-based design (EBD) concepts, the criteria used to make these decisions, and the extent to which leadership style may have influenced the decision-making process. Five research questions were formulated to frame the direction of this study, including: (1) How did healthcar...

INTRODUCTION Despite substantial research on school-based obesity prevention programs, it is unclear how widely they are disseminated. It is also unknown whether schools use obesity programs that inadvertently promote weight stigma or disordered weight-control behaviors. METHODS In spring 2016, we distributed an online survey about school wellness programming to a simple random sample of US p...

Nosocomial infections are problematic in the ICU because of their frequency, morbidity, and mortality. The most common ICU infections are pneumonia, bloodstream infection, and urinary tract infection, most of which are device related. Surgical site infection is common in surgical ICUs, and Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea is occurring with increasing frequency. Prospective observationa...

Although organizational climate research has focused on nearly every aspect of education, Christian institutions of higher learning have been virtually ignored. To address this gap, this study seeks to map Christian college/university administrative, faculty, and staff perceptions of their organizational climate and their organizational commitment. Four evangelical higher education institutions...

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY To describe key adaptive challenges and leadership behaviors to implement culture change for person-directed care. DESIGN AND METHODS The study design was a qualitative, observational study of nursing home staff perceptions of the implementation of culture change in each of 3 nursing homes. We conducted 7 focus groups of licensed and unlicensed nursing staff, medical care...

Objective: This article describes how concept mapping techniques were applied to evaluate the program development of a solution-focused, public alternative school program. Method: Concept systems software was used to create 15 cluster maps based on the statements generated from students, teachers, and school staff. Additionally, pattern matches were analyzed to examine the degree of consensus b...

The Inria Sophia Antipolis Méditerranée center counts 37 research teams and 9 support departments. The center's staff (about 600 people including 400 Inria employees) is composed of scientists of different nationalities (250 foreigners of 50 nationalities), engineers, technicians and administrators. 1/3 of the staff are civil servants, the others are contractual. The majority of the research te...

BACKGROUND The effect of health information technology (HIT) on efficiency and workload among clinical and nonclinical staff has been debated, with conflicting evidence about whether electronic health records (EHRs) increase or decrease effort. None of this paper to date, however, examines the effect of interoperability quantitatively using discrete event simulation techniques. OBJECTIVE To e...