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{"title":"Out on a Limb","authors":"Gail Banning","doi":"10.2307/j.ctt1gk08qb.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1gk08qb.12","url":null,"abstract":"While many homeowners associate horticulture with lawns and shrubs, Auburn student Summer Thaxton is getting a different perspective on the profession, which also includes promoting the health of trees. The sophomore from Madison was one of several students recently scaling the large oaks along College Street beside Draughon Library as part of a class taught by Department of Horticulture member Matt Wilson with assistance from Steve Nagy of Davey Tree Experts. For another view, see page 4. Auburn faculty will vote electronically from March 5-9 for a chair-elect and a secretary-elect of the University Faculty and its representative body, the University Senate. Candidates for chair-elect are Claire Crutchley of Finance and Larry Molt of Communication Disorders, and candidates for secretary-elect are Russell Muntifering of Animal Sciences and David Shannon of Educational Foundations, Leadership and Technology. Three of the four — Crutchley, Muntifering and Shannon — submitted statements presenting their thoughts on the university and faculty governance, and those statements are on pages 4 and 5 of this edition of the Auburn Report. The statements will also be posted, along with information about voting, at the University Senate Web site (and Allied Aquacultures will succeed Sue Barry of Curriculum and Teaching as secretary for 2009-10. The new chair-elect and secretary-elect will assist Flynn and DeVries, respectively , for one year and will succeed them in March 2010. After leaving office as chair of the University Senate on March 10, Locy will serve for a year as faculty adviser to the Board of Trustees, succeeding 2007-08 Faculty Chair David Cicci of Aerospace Engineering in that position. The candidates for chair-elect and secretary-elect were nominated by a committee of three former Senate chairs, two former Senate secretaries and a faculty senator whose term expires this year. Chair-elect candidate Crutchley has been a faculty member in the College of Business since 1989 and an associate professor in the college since 1996. She holds a Ph.D. in finance from Virginia Tech and is an authority in corporate finance, corporate governance and in sustainability and finance. Crutchley has served on the University Senate since 2005 and is a former member of the University Graduate Council. She serves on the Senate's Steering Committee, the University Sustainability Initiative and the College of Business Undergraduate Programs Committee. Past service includes committees on faculty salaries, rules and budget advisory. Chair-elect candidate Molt is a professor and former chair of the …","PeriodicalId":75807,"journal":{"name":"Dimensions in health service","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68717726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Managing change.","authors":"B. Lowry","doi":"10.1201/9781420044287.ch3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1201/9781420044287.ch3","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this master’s thesis is to show how a change process can be compassed on the account of an organizational change. Hence a suitable scope of research for this thesis is a case study of the construction sector’s need for change. The aim is to investigate and discuss the construction sector’s change processes and to give recommendations on how the change process from traditional to industrial construction processes could be carried out. The study is based on both primary and secondary data acquired from literature studies and interviews. The conclusion of this study is that the construction sector has succeeded in identifying a need for change as well as the reasons for it. Although, the construction sector have succeeded in carrying out the first three steps in a change process properly, the sector must put more effort into the remaining parts of the change process as there is no distinct continuance of the change process towards industrial construction.","PeriodicalId":75807,"journal":{"name":"Dimensions in health service","volume":"67 3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65963309","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The End of a Dream","authors":"","doi":"10.1163/9789004490055_032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004490055_032","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75807,"journal":{"name":"Dimensions in health service","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64563722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Disposal of pathological waste.","authors":"M K McKelvey","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75807,"journal":{"name":"Dimensions in health service","volume":"68 7","pages":"27-30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13117997","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Clarifying universal precautions.","authors":"B Campbell","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>There are only two ways to prevent infection: behaviour modification and technology. Infection control measures, including Universal Precautions, must be directed at these two areas if we are to provide the safest possible environment for patients and personnel. Administrators must make every effort to provide devices and systems that will promote and enhance a safer workplace. Personnel, on the other hand, are charged with altering their behaviours to utilize safe devices and practices. Finally, infection control personnel must make every effort to activate and sustain new behaviours in health care personnel and promote the design and use of new and safer devices at every opportunity.</p>","PeriodicalId":75807,"journal":{"name":"Dimensions in health service","volume":"68 7","pages":"10-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13117993","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reusing single-use cardiac catheters.","authors":"J Comis","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>There does not appear to be clear-cut evidence that reuse of catheters causes an increase in the incidence of side effects like infections. However, there is concern in the field that current cleaning and sterilizing techniques do not guarantee a safe product for reuse. If reuse is to occur, there must be written guidelines and procedures for cleaning/sterilizing, and appropriate documentation of these processes whenever they occur. The CCOHTA report focuses on the issues mentioned above. Three major studies concluded that, with rigorous cleaning and sterilizing, patients are not subjected to an increased risk of infection. However, the authors stated that further work needs to be done in this area before conclusive evidence can be presented. What is needed is a well-designed clinical trial; standardized guidelines and protocols for cleaning and sterilizing; criteria for determining numbers of reuses; and complete cost-benefit analyses.</p>","PeriodicalId":75807,"journal":{"name":"Dimensions in health service","volume":"68 7","pages":"8-9, 34-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13117999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The power of group purchasing.","authors":"S P Richardson,&nbsp;W Cooper,&nbsp;C Cole","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>There are four issues facing provincial GPO's, independent GPO's, health care organizations and vendors: co-operation; commitment; compliance; and competition. Co-operation: Hospitals have traditionally competed with each other for scarce resources and, as a result, have managed their operations in isolation. However, group purchasing provides hospitals willing to work together with an opportunity to significantly increase their purchasing power with vendors, thereby substantially reducing costs. Commitment: The success of GPO's depends on the commitment to contracts by the members. The American experience indicates that commitment of smaller, more focused organizations is easier to control and maintain. Some provincial GPO's have difficulties ensuring commitment from members; therefore, they have not achieved their full potential. Compliance: Hospital compliance with committed volumes negotiated in the corporate contract is essential to ensuring the continued strength of the group's purchasing power. GPO's require mechanisms for ensuring compliance. Smaller GPO's with a common vision and a mutual understanding of the benefits to be realized from compliance will be more successful. Competition: Independent, national GPO's, like Medbuy, may be perceived to pose a threat to provincial GPO's. However, this competition should be viewed positively because it encourages all GPO's to work harder to provide higher quality services that will ultimately benefit the hospital membership. The group purchasing concept is valuable to provide reduced costs to groups through higher volume purchases. Canadian GPO's are evolving and now offer Canadians provincial, interprovincial and independent GPO alternatives. Health care organizations must study these options and decide which alternative would be most beneficial for their particular situation.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)</p>","PeriodicalId":75807,"journal":{"name":"Dimensions in health service","volume":"68 7","pages":"17-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13117995","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Electronic data interchange: it works.","authors":"J Anders","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75807,"journal":{"name":"Dimensions in health service","volume":"68 7","pages":"31-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13117998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The supplier's role in waste management.","authors":"G Moore","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75807,"journal":{"name":"Dimensions in health service","volume":"68 7","pages":"24-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13117996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Treating biomedical waste.","authors":"J F Swinwood,&nbsp;B K Wilson","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75807,"journal":{"name":"Dimensions in health service","volume":"68 7","pages":"14-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13117994","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}