School-Based Health Centers: A Funder's View Of Effective Grant Making.

Health status and academic achievement have been found to be linked: When students have poor health status, they are at increased risk for poor academic outcomes. The school-based health center is a delivery model that supports improved access to health care, as well as healthy behaviors and outcomes, for students. Interact for Health is a private foundation that has provided funding to open school-based health centers in the Greater Cincinnati, Ohio, area since 1999.

Nursing leaders predict top trends for 2000.

Nursing Management's Editorial Advisory Board predicts the top 10 trends that will impact nurse leaders in 2000. Use them to lead in the new millennium.

Evaluation of the multifunctional worker role: a stakeholder analysis.

Health care organizations are rethinking how care is delivered because of incentives generated by managed care and a competitive marketplace. An evaluation of a work redesign project that involved the creation of redesigned unlicensed caregiver roles is described. The effect of model implementation on patients, multiple categories of caregivers, and physicians was measured using several different approaches to data collection.

Creating an educational videotape.

Staff development and patient education coordinators are challenged to lead efforts to provide resources for patient education. One option to provide cost-effective, quality education is the use of videotapes. In this article, the authors identify six advantages of video instruction and detail the steps to create an educational videotape.

Computer awareness.

Computer awareness begins with recognizing the common concerns and possible fears individuals may experience upon their initial encounters with this rapidly expanding technology. Awareness is also dependent upon an individual's specific knowledge of computer hardware (including micro, mini and mainframe computers, and peripheral devices) and applications (such as information processing and information sharing). Increasing your knowledge and skills in these areas can be accomplished through various training resources.

Employee orientation.

What is so important about orientation? Drucker identifies productive work, feedback information and continuous learning as the three prerequisites required to enable the worker to achieve and take responsibility for his or her job. The provision of these activities are primarily tasks and responsibilities of those in management, although the involvement of the employee is crucial. For new employees to become productive, responsible department members, a structured orientation must be provided for them.