Recent Articles
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9 ways CIOs can make their communication executive-friendly
Galen M. Metz Science & TechnologyThis is the time of year for CIOs to present to business executives their IT results for the year, IT budgets for next year and IT plans in alignment with business strategic plans. This is an opportunity to exercise "executive-friendly" communication skills.
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Health systems science: The third pillar of medical education
Christina Thielst Healthcare AdministrationThe American Medical Association (AMA) will soon release their new "Health Systems Science" textbook to help prepare students to become physicians who understand how patients receive and access care in today's healthcare systems. The focus of the text is on value in healthcare, patient safety, quality improvement, teamwork and team science, leadership, clinical informatics, population health, socio-ecological determinants of health, healthcare policy and healthcare economics.
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10 mistakes employers make when training managers and employees
D. Albert Brannen Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementMost people understand the importance of training managers and employees. However, experience teaches that some employers continue to make the same mistakes that undermine the value of the instructions they offer.
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The growing popularity of flexible packaging
Alan Kelsky EngineeringFlexible packaging continues to overtake other forms of packaging as both consumers and brand owners often prefer it. Food packaging is designed to preserve and store contents while keeping products fresher, longer. Flexible packaging does even more, as it is great at achieving packaging goals and more eco-friendly than other forms of packaging because it takes less energy to produce — lowering CO2 emissions and their effect on the environment. Flexible packaging is also less expensive to produce than alternative packaging materials.
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ER doctors: Psychiatric patients wait too long for care
Chelsea Adams Mental HealthcareThe American College of Emergency Physicians says patients routinely wait too long for inpatient psychiatric care. Data from a survey of 1,700 emergency department doctors was presented at the ACEP's annual meeting in Las Vegas in mid-October. Of doctors who responded to the survey, 21 percent said psychiatric patients routinely wait two to five days for an inpatient bed. Half of physicians said the situation for psych patients has worsened over the past year.
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Focus on the 4 basic language skills: Productive
Sheilamary Koch EducationConsidering all four basic language skills, the majority of students and teachers I surveyed claimed the productive skills — especially speaking — were more difficult than the receptive skills when beginning to learn English. These receptive skills, reading and listening, were highlighted in Part I of this article. Now, let's take a look at speaking and writing, the two productive language skills.
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Is it really a bad time to be a cop?
Keith Funderburk Law Enforcement, Defense & SecurityI hear over and over how this is the worst time to be a police officer. This comes from the public as well as soon-to-be-retired officers. Officers being physically targeted — two officers were just ambushed and killed earlier today in Iowa — and are constantly the focus of negative media attention. At face value, it would seem to be a poor time to be in law enforcement.
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Pay special attention to these construction documents
Nate Budde Construction & Building MaterialsPeople and companies in the construction industry are routinely put in positions where they are forced to navigate complicated legal documents as part of the everyday project and payment process, often without the oversight and support of a construction lawyer.
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Be careful: Others can see right through your passions
Paul Zukowski CommunicationsAs a reporter on the prevalence and misuse of business buzzwords, I am both delighted and appalled to present two terms that sound important and suddenly seem to be required business speech, yet may mean very little. I am referring, of course, to transparent and passion. It's to the point where one could say that business people seem to have developed a passion for transparency.
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Doomed at the start: 4 signs your association is in trouble
Robert C. Harris Association ManagementThese four association scenarios signal trouble for the year ahead. At a leadership forum for officers and executives, I asked an executive director if she had brought her chief elected officer. I was surprised by her answer.