Nursing World
Information online at American Nurses Association's site, Nursing World
Professional Organizations Response to Pew Report
These sites are generated by health care providers
- California Nurses Association -- Response to the Pew Report
Available http://www.igc.apc.org/cna/np/pew2.htm
California Nurses Association's official response to the third Pew Report.
- Medical Education and Residency Issues: Medical Education and the Future Physician Workforce
Available http://www.aamc.org/meded/edres/workforc/pewrespo.htm
AAMC Response to Pew Health Professions Commission Report: "Critical Challenges: Revitalizing the Health Professions for the 21st Century"
- Opinion on recommendation by Pew for medical schools closing
Available http://worldmall.com/msi/secure/lib/wint96.htm
Article on medical schools closing in INSIGHT which is published quarterly by MedicalSearch Institute specifically for the benefit of in-house physician recruiters. Winter 1996
Pew Commission Sites
Direct sites for information on Pew Commission's work
Government sources on who does what
Federal resources
Foundations/Organizations
Resources on who does what in health care
- National Health Care Skill Standards Project
Available http://www.wested.org/nhcssp
"The NHCSSP is an innovative collaboration among health, industry, labor and educational organizations to develop skill standards for health care workers. Directed by West Ed (which unites Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and Development and Southwest Regional Laboratory), it is one of 22 pilot projects sponsored by the U. S. Departments of Education and Labor to identify skill standards for different industries.
- Perspectives -- Health Care Puzzle: Why Health Care Patterns Change With the Territory
Available http://www.rwjf.org/library/hlthpuz1.htm
Health Care Puzzle: Why Health Care Patterns Change With the Territory: A Report From The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-Health Tracking
Articles
Published articles on topic of who does what
Other sites
Variety of organizations, articles that relate to who does what
- Academic medicine undergoes revolution, by Sanjay Bhatt (05-Dec-95)
Available http://www.chronicle.duke.edu/chronicle/95/12/05/01AcademicMedicine.html
This is the first installment in a three-part series on major changes in medical education.
- Health care theorist addresses future of medicine, hospitals, by Tim Millington
Available http://www.chronicle.duke.edu/chronicle/97/09/11/03HealthCare.html
Story in The Chronicle (Duke University) about "Leland Kaiser, a noted health care consultant, author and futurist who spoke ... before a large crowd composed mostly of Medical Center staff. Kaiser's presentation, titled "Nursing and Health in the Next Wave of Planetary Transformation," focused on the so-called "fifth wave" of human civilization and its implications for the health care industry and nursing in particular ((11-Sep-97)
- Ignore the profit margin; industry needs more doctors - Monday, November 20, 1995
Available http://www.chronicle.duke.edu/chronicle/1995/11/20/07IgnoreThe.html
Article by Edward Benson in Chronicle at Duke University.