Clinical Education in Transition: Recommendations and Strategies: A Report of the ASAHP Clinical Education Task Force.

The practice models, interdisciplinary team functions, intersecting competencies, economies, and settings of contemporary healthcare are all in flux, demanding that educators reconsider traditional health professions clinical education models and partnerships. The Association of Schools Advancing Health Professions (ASAHP) and Allied Health (AH) deans, collectively and individually, must determine the priorities and strategies to advance AH education. This paper offers five recommendations that stem from a review of literature pertaining to current changes in the healthcare sector and higher education that challenge the availability of AH clinical education.

Employers' Viewpoint on Clinical Education.

Issue: This qualitative study gathered the opinions of healthcare employers to better understand the importance, benefits, obstacles, and evolving issues related to allied health (AH) clinical education from the employers' perspective, with the goal to identify opportunities to strengthen and improve clinical-educational partnerships.

Method: Member deans of the Association of Schools of Allied Health Professions (ASAHP) provided names and contact information of employers that routinely educate their students. Interviews were scheduled with employers who responded to Clinical Education Task Force (CETF) invitation.

Participation and knowledge related to a nursing home admission decision among a working age population.

The number of nursing home admissions for working age people (age 18-64) in the USA has increased. Minimal attention has been given to examining their participation in the admission decision. We use a conceptual framework proposed by Ong and colleagues to examine patient and provider predictors of perceived involvement in the admission decision and their relationship to both knowledge and preferences for continued care.