Accreditation (National Council of State Boards, 2012). A current RN licensure in Kentucky or another compact state, and a current national certification in a KBN-approved population focus must be submitted with the application for licensure for APN. In addition to the application, a fee, fingerprints, official transcripts of a post-basic education, and proof of current national certification is required (Kentucky Board of Nursing, [KBN] 2015). Certification is needed through a national organization
and organizations in political changes. Her own experience as a member of the Kentucky Nurses Association showed the value of an APN’s dedication to high-quality nursing standards and improving methods of practice by professional nursing organizations leading to improved care and benefits for all involved (Mason, Leavitt, Chaffee, 2012). Her belief is that national nursing organizations need active involvement from nurses to present issues to electing and lobbying presidents and Congress for changes
authority” (James Gibson 1994). The meaning derived from these definitions refers to job design as something that is used and decided upon by managers of the organization It is the organization’s performance that drives management or the dominant coalition to place emphasis on the information received from job design analysis. Management is interested in the motivation and satisfaction of the workers because the workers’ performance is the means by which organizational goals can be achieved. The performance
for wartime patriotism and mobilizing civilian society used women as emblematic of a nation needing protection. Images of gentle, middle-class women with children on their laps sitting at home, of women who had been violated by the enemy, and of nurses heroically serving on the battlefront invoked those whom virile and courageous men would protect. Emphasizing the weakness of women was part of regendering the twentiethcentury Western nation in the face of women’s strength in taking the place of
and health care spending boomed as economies prospered. The pharmaceutical market developed some unusual characteristics. Decision making was in the hands of medical practitioners whereas patients (the final consumers) and payers (governments or insurance companies) had little knowledge or influence. As a result, medical practitioners were insensitive to price but susceptible to the efforts of sales representatives. There were two important developments in the 1970s. First, the thalidomide tragedy
of New York William H. Bommer, Cleveland State University Bryan Bonner, University of Utah Jessica Bradley, Clemson University Dr. Jerry Bream, Empire State College/ Niagara Frontier Center Jim Breaugh, University of Missouri Peggy Brewer, Eastern Kentucky University Deborah Brown, North Carolina State University Reginald Bruce, University of Louisville Jeff Bruns, Bacone College Pamela Buckle, Adelphi University Patricia Buhler, Goldey-Beacom College Allen Bures, Radford University Edith Busija, University
efficiency and leads to higher organizational performance.5 Armed with the insights gained from Adam Smith’s observations, other managers and researchers began to investigate how to improve job specialization to increase performance. Management practitioners and theorists focused on how managers should organize and control the work process to maximize the advantages of job specialization and the division of labor. job specialization The process by which a division of labor occurs as different workers
metropolitan area as being made up of four subpopulations: (1) surgeons, (2) internists and family practitioners, (3) obstetricians, and (4) a group that includes all other areas of specialization. Rather than taking a random simple sample from the population of all doctors, the researcher could take four separate simple random samples— one from the group of surgeons, another from the internists and family practitioners, and so on. These four samples would provide information about the four subgroups as well