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Hallstrom BJ. n.d.. Utilization of nursing personnel: A task specific approach. Minneapolis, MN: [University of Minnesota, School of Public Health], Systems Development Project , 14 pp. (Comment series no: 0-7 (30))

Annotation: This paper seeks to establish a theoretical rationale for task delegation of nursing personnel based on the concept of independent and delegated functioning. Preliminary findings from a study of how a sample of projects are utilizing nursing and other personnel in performance of selected tasks is also presented, along with their view as to ideal utilization of personnel for performing these tasks, and the consensus of their judgment as to the type, whether independent or delegated, each task is deemed to be. Such task analysis is discussed as the first step in developing the criteria for interchangeability of personnel and delegation of tasks, and for optimal utilization of personnel within comprehensive health care programs. This paper is produced as part of the documentation and assessment of the effect of P.L. 89-97, Title V. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Keywords: Children and Youth Projects, Nurses, Personnel management, Program evaluation, Title V programs

Barzel R, Holt K, Kolo S, Siegal M, Lowe B, eds. 2023. School-based dental sealant program training (3rd. ed.). Washington, DC: National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource Center, 1 v.

Annotation: This training is designed to ensure that school-based dental sealant program staff have a thorough understanding of the history, operations, and underlying fundamentals of these programs. The training provides detailed guidelines for infection control in school-based programs; discusses tooth selection and assessment for dental sealants; reviews the dental-sealant-application process; and provides information about program operations. Post-tests are available with options for a completion certificate or for two continuing education credits for dentists and dental hygienists licensed in Ohio. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Contact: National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource Center, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057, E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: https://www.mchoralhealth.org Available from the website.

Keywords: Children, Curricula, Dental sealants, Distance education, Ohio, Oral health, School based management, School health programs, School personnel, Training

National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care; American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), American Public Health Association (APHA). 2022. Stepping stones to caring for our children: National health and safety performance standards–Guidelines for early care and education programs: Protecting children from harm (updated ed.). Denver, CO: University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care, Various

Annotation: These guidelines contain a set of standards to advance the quality and safety of early care and education environments. It is a companion to Caring for Our Children: National Health and Safety Performance Standards -- Guidelines for Early Care and Education Programs, 3rd edition. Included are new and updated standards on on safe sleep, handling and feeding of human milk, introducing solid foods to infants, monitoring children's development, unimmunized children, preventing expulsions, and availability of drinking water. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Contact: National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care and Early Education, University of Colorado Denver, 13120 East 19th Avenue, Mail Stop F541, P.O. Box 6511, Aurora, CO 80045, Telephone: (800) 598-5437 (598-KIDS) Fax: (303) 724-0960 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://nrckids.org Available from the website.

Keywords: Child care, Child care centers, Children with special health care needs, Facilities, Health promotion, Learning activities, Management, Nutrition, Out of home care, Personnel, Prevention, Safety, Spanish language materials , Standards

ZERO TO THREE: National Center for Infants, Toddlers and Families. 2016. Reflective practice and program development (upd.). Washington, DC: ZERO TO THREE: National Center for Infants, Toddlers and Families, multiple items.

Annotation: This web resource presents information on reflective supervision and leadership and lists resources for Zero to Three members.

Contact: ZERO TO THREE: National Center for Infants, Toddlers and Families, 1255 23rd Street, N.W., Suite 350, Washington, DC 20037, Telephone: (202) 638-1144 Fax: (202) 638-0851 Web Site: http://www.zerotothree.org Available from the website.

Keywords: Leadership, Personnel management, Supervision

Wisconsin Public Health Association and Medical College of Wisconsin. 2014. WISHeS: Wisconsin Improving School Health Services Project. Kimberly, WI: Wisconsin Public Health Association, multiple items.

Annotation: This manual is designed to help school districts improve the health services they provide to students. Contents include a school-health-services assessment tool; injury and illness protocols; sample policies and procedures for emergency nursing services, concussion management, managing and preventing acute reactions to foods in the school setting, and medication administration; and nurse procedures. The manual also contains instructions for unlicensed assistive personnel on hand hygiene, oral care, feeding, transfers, and diapering for students who need such care at school.

Contact: Wisconsin Public Health Association, 563 Carter Court, Suite B, Kimberly, WI 54136, Telephone: (920) 882-3650 Contact Phone: (414) 875-7257 E-mail: [email protected] Contact E-mail: teresa@badgerbay,co Web Site: http://www.wpha.org Available from the website.

Keywords: Assessment, Disease management, Disease prevention, Mobile applications, Nursing services, Oral health, Patient care management, Patient care planning, Protocols, School based management, School districts, School health services, School nurses, School personnel, Special health care needs, Training

American Hospital Association, Committee on Performance Improvement. 2014. Managing an intergenerational workforce: Strategies for health care transformation. Chicago, IL: American Hospital Association, Health Research and Educational Trust, 46 pp.

Annotation: This report identifies approaches and initiatives to help leaders deploy strategies and competencies essential to developing the future health care work force. Topics include the characteristics of four generations in the work force and their impact on the health care industry, strategies to support health care transformation, and creating high-performing teams. Case studies and examples of intergenerational management strategies are included. The future work force is also discussed.

Contact: American Hospital Association, Health Research and Educational Trust, 155 North Wacker, Suite 400, Chicago, IL 60606, Telephone: (800) AHA-2626 Secondary Telephone: (312) 422-2600 Fax: (312) 422-4568 Web Site: http://www.hret.org/hret_app/index.jsp Available from the website.

Keywords: Case studies, Health care delivery, Health care reform, Health care systems, Hospitals, Intergenerational programs, Personnel management, Systems development, Teamwork, Trends, Work force

Lombardo MM, Eichinger RW. 2009. For your improvement: A development and coaching guide—For: Learners, supervisors, managers, mentors, and feedback givers. (5th ed.). Minneapolis, MN: Lominger Limited, 580 pp.

Annotation: This book is intended to assist those individuals in leadership positions in the workplace to improve supervisory and mentoring skills. The book covers skills in three areas: core competencies, performance dimensions, and career stallers and stoppers. For each skill, the book presents characteristics of those who are unskilled, skilled, or who use the skill excessively; a list of causes of difficulties with that skill; and a list of 10 remedies for the difficulties. The introduction provides a general structure for working on any of the skills and the appendix contains personal development plan worksheets.

Keywords: Employee performance appraisal, Leadership training, Mentors, Personnel management, Planning, Resource materials, Staff development, Supervisors

Home Visiting Forum. [2004]. What makes supervision work: Recommendations from the home visiting field. [St. Louis, MO]: Parents as Teachers National Center, 22 pp.

Annotation: This report summarizes information from focus groups conducted by the Home Visiting Forum training group. Participants of the focus groups were supervisors in national home visiting programs. The report discusses supervisor needs and home visitor needs in the areas of supportive management, training and professional development, coherent program design, supervisor experience, community linkages, structure and communication, salary and compensation, facilities and support, evaluation, and access to mental health services for clients in the programs.

Contact: Parents as Teachers, 2228 Ball Drive, St. Louis, MO 63146, Telephone: (314) 432-4330 Secondary Telephone: (866) 728-4968 Fax: (314) 432-8963 Web Site: http://www.parentsasteachers.org Available from the website.

Keywords: Collaboration, Home visiting, Personnel management, Research, Supervision

U.S. General Accounting Office. 2000. Human capital: Key principles from nine private sector organizations. Washington, DC: U.S. General Accounting Office, 31 pp.

Giesecke J, ed. 1997. Practical help for new supervisors (3rd ed.). Chicago, IL: American Library Association, 115 pp.

Annotation: This book addresses basic supervisory skills for newly promoted librarians. Some topics it includes are running meetings, interviewing, performance appraisals, communication skills, conflict resolution, and managing time.

Contact: American Library Association, 50 East Huron, Chicago, IL 60611, Telephone: (800) 545-2433 Secondary Telephone: (888) 814-7692 Contact Phone: (800) 545-2433 ext. 5036 Fax: (312) 944-3897 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.ala.org Available in libraries. Document Number: Order no. 3467-6-2025.

Keywords: Communication skills, Conflict resolution, Management, Personnel management, Supervision

Dunphy L. 1996 (ca.). Healthy Families Alexandria [Final report]. Falls Church, VA: Northern Virginia Family Service, 22 pp. (xxx)

Annotation: This project targeted first-time mothers in the City of Alexandria who were eligible for medicaid and who had personal or transient risk factors that may predispose them to abusing or neglecting their children. This 3-year project: (1) Ensured adequate prenatal care as prescribed by the clients' medical provider or by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists; (2) ensured well-child care and advance optimal child development; (3) improved new mothers' knowledge of child care needs and child behavior; (4) enhanced parent-child interaction, bonding, and parenting skills; and (5) prevented child abuse and neglect among enrollees. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Contact: National Technical Information Service, O.S. Department of Commerce, 5301 Shawnee Road, Alexandria, VA 22312, Telephone: (703) 605-6050 Secondary Telephone: (888) 584-8332 Contact Fax: xxx E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.ntis.gov Document Number: NTIS PB99-144743.

Keywords: Access to Health Care, Case Management, Child Abuse Prevention, Child Neglect, Community Integrated Service System program, Hispanics, Home Visiting Programs, Home Visiting Services, Home Visiting for At Risk Families, Language Barriers, Minority Groups, Paraprofessional Personnel, Parent Child Interaction, Parent Education, Parenting Skills, Prenatal Care, Prenatal Care, Screening, Well Child Care

Baird SC, Sylvester J. 1983. Role delineation and verification for entry-level positions in community dietetics: Summary and final documents. Chicago, IL: American Dietetic Association, 103 pp.

Annotation: The purpose of this study was to delineate the acceptable role for entry level community dietetics personnel. The products of this study are statements of major and specific performance responsibilities for each level of practice, statements of requisite knowledge for each level of practice, and a correlation of specific performance responsibilities with knowledge statements.

Contact: Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, 120 South Riverside Plaza, Suite 2000, Chicago, IL 60606-6995, Telephone: (800) 877-1600 Secondary Telephone: (312) 899-0400 Contact Phone: (800) 746-0775 Web Site: http://www.eatright.org $10.00.

Keywords: Dietetic technicians, Dietitians, Job descriptions, Personnel management

U.S. Health Services and Mental Health Administration, Maternal and Child Health Service, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. 1970. Recommendations and participant lists of the National Conference of Maternity and Infant Care Projects, January 5, 6, 7, 1970, Washington, D.C.. [Rockville, MD]: Maternal and Child Health Service, U.S. Department of Health, Education, 42 pp.

Annotation: These proceedings discuss Maternity and Infant Care projects from the standpoint of administrative structure and responsibility, professional health and community health personnel, records and reporting, program evaluation, responsibilities of departments of obstetrics and pediatrics to community and health departments, delivery of prenatal and dental services, patient education delivery, family planning, obstetric anesthesia, fetal intensive care, neonatal intensive care, relationships between obstetrics and pediatrics, pediatric responsibility for the at-risk and non at-risk infant, and pregnant adolescents. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Keywords: Maternity and Infant Care Projects, Anesthesia, Conferences, Dental care, Family planning, Federal MCH programs, High risk infants, Infant care, Infants, Medical personnel, Medical records, Neonatal intensive care, Obstetrical care, Obstetrics, Patient education, Pediatrics, Pregnant adolescents, Prenatal care, Professional personnel, Program evaluation, Program management

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Public Health, Department of Maternal and Child Health. 1969. Community focused social services: Workshop. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Maternal and Child Health, 74 pp.

Annotation: The papers from this workshop discuss diagnosis as the first step in providing casework services, application of family centered casework skills to community diagnosis and treatment, effective utilization of personnel in delivery of services, Atlanta Adolescent Pregnancy Program, an approach to a community health program, and whether evaluation is a tool or tyranny.

Keywords: Adolescent pregnancy, Community based services, Community health services, Evaluation, Georgia, Personnel management, Social work

Weckwerth VE. 1967. The interchangeability of skills. Minneapolis, MN: [University of Minnesota, School of Public Health], Systems Development Project, 12 pp. (Comment series no.: 7-8 (3))

Annotation: This paper discusses what legal barriers exist which constrain health care workers from doing a job, what documentation exists that the skills of workers can interchange or substitute for others, and what attempts are being made to substitute skills in terms of other than human delivery and new disciplines. This paper is part of the documentation and assessment of the effect of P.L. 89-97, Title II. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Keywords: .Comprehensive health care, Adolescent health programs, Child health programs, Children and Youth Projects, Federal MCH programs, Health personnel, Personnel management

Corson JJ, Paul RS. 1966. Men near the top: Filling key posts in the federal service. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Press, 189 pp. (Committee for Economic Development, Supplementary Paper, no. 20)

Annotation: This book concerns career people in the federal government who hold civilian posts at the supergrade level, just beneath the top political appointees. The problem in recruiting, training, and planning to replace vacancies in this category is discussed. This book describes the top-level civil servant and his work, those who provide managerial support, their work, how people get to these positions, getting and keeping competent people in these positions, and developing the talent required.

Keywords: Federal agencies, Federal government, Personnel, Personnel management, Personnel needs, Recruitment

Hippchen LJ with Ligons D. 1966. Personnel and personnel practices in public institutions for delinquent children: A survey. Washington, DC: U.S. Children's Bureau, 29 pp. (Children's Bureau statistical series; no. 86)

Lee E, ed. 1962. Proceedings: Institute on Administration in Crippled Children Services: Berkeley, California, June 24-29, 1962. Berkeley, CA: University of California, School of Public Health, California State Department of Public Health, and U.S. Children's Bureau, 126 pp.

Annotation: These proceedings discuss administrative problems in crippled children services (CCS), selling CCS programs, county government and barriers to selling health programs, selling a program in the legislature, program administrator's commodity, legal aspects of standards for medical care goods and services in the Crippled Children Program, standard setting in medical care programs, expenditure controls in a medical care program, estimating program trends, budget presentation, administrative costs in a CCS program, case management for CCS, the responsibility of administration for case management, the role of the public health nurse in case management of CCS cases, supervision and training of personnel, analysis and improvement in health service offices, and evaluation in CCS programs.

Keywords: Administration, Budgeting, Case management, Child health programs, Children with developmental disabilities, Children with special health care needs, County government, Personnel, Program evaluation, Public health nurses, Standards, State legislatures

Blackburn WJ. 1927. Child welfare in New Jersey: Part 1—State supervision and personnel administration. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 77 pp. (Bureau publication (United States. Children's Bureau); no. 174)

Annotation: This publication details the organization, personnel, policies, supervision, and control of the New Jersey State department of institutions and agencies and the civil service administration. Appendices on New Jersey civil service law and examples of examinations and record forms used by the Civil Service Commission of New Jersey are included. It is a publication of the U.S. Department of Labor, Children's Bureau.

Contact: Maternal and Child Health Library at Georgetown University, E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: https://www.mchlibrary.org Available from the website.

Keywords: Child welfare, New Jersey, Personnel management, Reports, State agencies

Hunter EB. 1922. Office administration for organizations supervising the health of mothers, infants, and children of preschool age with special reference to public health nursing agencies. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 216 pp. (Bureau publication (United States. Children's Bureau); no. 101)

Annotation: This report details the principles and methods of office administration for organizations supervising the health of mothers, infants, and children of preschool age, with special reference to public health nursing agencies. Topics covered include the functions, duties, and training of employees; record systems; and financial administration. An appendix with sample records is included. It is a publication of the U.S. Department of Labor, Children's Bureau.

Contact: Google Books, Web Site: http://www.books.google.com

Keywords: MCH programs, Manuals, Office management, Personnel management, Public health nursing, Publicity
   

This project is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under grant number U02MC31613, MCH Advanced Education Policy, $3.5 M. This information or content and conclusions are those of the author and should not be construed as the official position or policy of, nor should any endorsements be inferred by HRSA, HHS or the U.S. Government.