FINAL JEOPARDY! Category: Physician Assistants
Tags: EDITORIALS; COMPUTERS; EDITORS; PATIENT advocacy; PHYSICIANS' assistants; PROFESSIONAL associations; RETIREMENT; TERMS & phrases; OCCUPATIONAL roles; ORGANIZATIONAL goals
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- Reflections on Service to CPA. Veitch, Jennifer A. // Canadian Psychology;Feb2013, Vol. 54 Issue 1, p50
The rewards for service to a professional association are many: reputation-building, power, and influence; skill development; networking opportunities; feelings of mastery and belonging. These serve to maintain the behaviours despite occasional dull or routine tasks required in the service role....
- A new era--for JAAPA, the health care system, and the PA profession. Bushardt, Reamer L. // JAAPA: Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants;Jul2011, Vol. 24 Issue 7, p13
The author reflects on the value of physician assistants (PAs) in the U.S. health care system. He asserts that PAs shortly provide patient care despite their training experience and that PAs are excluded from a patient care area in which the profession seems to fail to provide evidence in...
- Nurses Are Tough Patient-Advocates...Always. // NurseZone Newsletter;1/23/2013, p1
A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of knowing someone who has mild cognitive impairment (MCI).
- Targeting the big questions. Trossman, Susan // American Nurse;Mar/Apr2012, Vol. 44 Issue 2, p8
The article focuses on the issues in nursing and health care environment in the U.S. as targeted by the American Academy of Nursing (AAN). According to Gerri Lamb, co-chair AAN's Expert Panel on Quality Health Care, their work involves looking at care coordination in terms of quality and cost....
- Act Early Ambassadors: Partners for Action. Griffen, Adriane K. // Exceptional Parent;Jun2012, Vol. 42 Issue 6, p9
The article presents an overview of the Act Early Ambassadors project, a U.S. project designed to develop a network of state-level experts to improve early identification practices for children with autism spectrum disorders which is overseen by the Association of University Centers on...
- Inaugural Address: ASIS&T Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 11, 2011. SONNENWALD, DIANE H. // Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science & Techn;Dec2011-Feb2012, Vol. 38 Issue 2, p3
No abstract available.
- GUEST EDITORIAL. Advocacy - strengthening the foundation of caring. Laskowski-Jones, Linda // British Journal of Nursing;9/13/2012, Vol. 21 Issue 16, p955
The editorial offers the author's perspective that the nursing profession's advocacy on health policy issues as well as for high standards at the clinical level strengthens the foundation of caring and assures patients' needs are met. Communication and negotiation skills are noted as key factors...
- Human Dissection. LEADERSHIP CASE STUDY: Cynthia Booth Lord, MHS, PAC. BUSHARDT, REAMER L. // JAAPA: Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants;May2012, Vol. 25 Issue 5, p64
The article presents a case study of physician assistant (PA) Cynthia Booth Lord, commonly known as Cindy Lord, who demonstrated her leadership character in the PA profession by establishing the Quinnipiac PA student program at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. She completed her PA...
- The Future Is Bright. Ryan, Sandra Festa // Clinician Reviews;Sep2010 Convenient Care, Vol. 3 Issue 3, p1
The author offers her views on the convenient care industry in the U.S. as of 2010. She notes that the convenient care industry reached another milestone when the Senate declared that the National Convenient Care Clinic Week will be celebrated from August 2 to 6. She asserts that the resolution...
