Public Health Publication : World Health Organization ; (Php) Public Health Publication, Volume 21: The Staffing of Public Health and Outpatient Nursing Services

By Doris E. Roberts

Book Id: WPLBN0000130623
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Public Health Publication : World Health Organization ; (Php) Public Health Publication, Volume 21: The Staffing of Public Health and Outpatient Nursing Services
Author:	Doris E. Roberts
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Language:	English
Subject:	Health., Public health, Wellness programs
Collections:	Medical Library Collection, World Health Collection
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Publisher:	World Health Organization


Citation APA MLA Chicago Roberts, D. E. (n.d.). Public Health Publication : World Health Organization ; (Php) Public Health Publication, Volume 21. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

Description
Medical Reference Publication

Excerpt
PREFACE This guide has been prepared to assist public health agencies, including hospitals, to determine the lzun~ber and composition of staff necessary to carry out the public health ?zzirsing and outpatient department programmes. It is an adntinistrative tool to facilitate the appraisal of stafing patterns as a means to securing adequate nursing services for the communitji. Its emphasis is placed on health services for the care of persons who are not hospitalized; it refers therefore to home care programmes, hospital dispensaries: outpatient clinics, schools, health departments and other ser~icesp roriding nursing care to individztals in their homes. In its preparation the writer and WHO nursing oficers fronz the Regional Ofice for Europe andfiom the Division of Public Health Services in Geneva spent June and July 1961 visiting Denmark, England, Finland and Yugoslavia, conferring witlz public health and hospital administrators . and staff, and obseiving programmes on national, regional and local levels. During these discussions special attention was given to examining principles of stafing, learning qf plans a77d practices ~vlzich had been found useful in determining staflng patterns, and identifying factors which injluenced the resulting pattern. A draft was then circulated for critical review to WHO Regional Ofices, field staff, members of Expert Advisory Panels and other selected autltorities in public health and hospital administration, and this Jirzal docunierrt is based on their suggestions.

Table of Contents
CONTENTS Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Principles of stafhg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Community needs . . . . . . . . . . . . . Agency service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Staff preparation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Supervision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Competent care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Staff education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . General education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Factors intluencing the stafhg pattern . . . . . . Characteristics of the population . . . . . . . . Characteristics of the service . . . . . . . . . Characteristics of the professional group . . . . Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Estimating staff requirements . . . . . . . . . . Planning the study . . . . . . . . . . . . . Basic method for determining staff requirements . Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Other methods for studying staff requirements . . . Time study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Activity study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Patient progress study . . . . . . . . . . . . Guidelines for initiating public health nursing services Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Annex 1 . Example of use of forms suggested for basic study method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Annex 2 . Example of use of time study forms . . . . . . Annex 3 . Example of use of activity study record . . . . . Annex 4 . Example of use of patient progress study records . Select bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .