Membership In Professional Organizations Research Articles

Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder prevention program: SBIRT's role in averting fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.

Empowering obstetricians to assess and improve their own practices of screening brief intervention and referral to treatment (SBIRT) in treating alcohol use disorders (AUDs) and preventing fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) is the goal of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologist (ACOG) FASD Prevention Program. The FASD Prevention Program is a CDC funded initiative of the ACOG which is the largest specialty professional membership organization in the United States. Obstetrics and gynecology as a specialty is dedicated to the broad, integrated medical and surgical care of women's health throughout their lifespan. Understanding of reproductive physiology, including the physiologic, social, cultural, environmental, and genetic factors that influence disease in women, is a major priority for ACOG. Preventive counseling and health education are essential and integral parts of the practice of obstetricians and gynecologists as they advance the individual and community-based health of women of all ages. The FASD Prevention Program aims to provide obstetrician-gynecologists with the resources and tools needed to communicate with patients and the communities they serve about alcohol use during pregnancy. This review describes activities to empower and educate providers to address alcohol use disorder in pregnancy and the effect of FASD.

«СНМП/ДГПЖ – кто лечит?». Результаты эпидемиологического исследования

In this study an attempt was made to determine some reasons that prompted the urologist to make a choice in favor of particular drug or combination from a wide variety of available drugs. The prescribing habits and subjective evaluation of efficiency and safety of the drugs for the treatment of lower urinary tract symptoms/benign prostatic hyperplasia by the urologists in Russia was analyzed. a prospective multicenter epidemiological study "LUTS/BPH - who treats?" was carried out in 12 centers using data obtained from May 1 to July 31, 2018 with anonymous survey of 500 urologists living in 9 cities of the Russian Federation. The survey consisted of 46 questions reflecting a level of education, involvement in scientific life of urologic community, membership in various professional organizations, and subjective assessment of safety and efficiency of drugs used in Russian Federation for the treatment of urinary disorders. The obtained data was analyzed for a whole group and further in the subgroups. Alpha-blockers are the most commonly prescribed drugs. These drugs constitute 63.4% of all appointments, followed by the 5-a-reductase inhibitors (23.98%) and combined therapy by the both drugs (24.68%). The most frequently used alpha-blocker is tamsulosin, but professors, MD and urologists, who read special literature at a regular basis, prescribed tamsulosin and silodosin equally. In primary cases and in patients with concomitant cardiac pathology, silodosin was prescribed more commonly in comparison with other alpha-blockers. the results of the study indicate a concordance with global trends in the treatment of these patients. Our data reflect a significant influence of the level of education, work experience and involvement in scientific professional life of urologic community on the choice of a particular drug for the treatment of LUTS/BPH and prove the feasibility of further work which should be aimed at popularization of the modern medical knowledges among the urologists and organization of a process of continuous medical education.

Report From the FMAHealth Practice Core Team: Achieving the Quadruple Aim Through Practice Transformation.

Family Medicine for America's Health (FMAHealth) is a strategic planning organization effort that was created out of the reevaluation of the first Future of Family Medicine project from 2004. This article is a summary of the key findings of the FMAHealth Practice Core Team. At the highest level, we find that family medicine practices have compelling intrinsic and extrinsic reasons to evolve to new models of care delivery. We have demonstrated that payment transformation is imperative to successful practice transformation and that comprehensive payment models that include attention to physician work within the social determinants of health and require fewer administrative burdens will be key to achieving the quadruple aim. To bridge payment reform and practice transformation will require better and fewer measures of physician effectiveness in order to allow the physician-patient dyad to thrive in these new models. Achieving these goals will require a sustained national effort involving not only the many family medicine membership organizations, but their collaborative work with others in the health care transformation industry who may not have been our traditional partners. Educational initiatives must be robust, available to all family physicians regardless of professional organization membership, and focused on meeting physicians and physician practice managers where they are with the goal of moving them toward a state of more advanced care delivery. This article outlines the work done by the FMAHealth Practice Team that supports the above assertions.

Examining the self-care practices of child welfare workers: A national perspective

Despite the importance of self-care to social workers, in general, and those employed in child welfare contexts, specifically, few studies have explicitly examined this area of inquiry. This research brief explores the personal and professional of social workers employed in child welfare (N = 623) in the United States (U.S.). Overall, findings indicate that participants engage in minimal amounts of self-care. Analyses revealed significant differences in self-care by Race, Education Level, Licensing Status, Marital Status, Supervision Status, Professional Organization Membership, and Financial Status, respectively. Findings indicate the need for more explicit attention to education and training related to self-care, and more organizational supports for child welfare workers.Despite the importance of self-care to child welfare workers, few studies have explicitly examined this area of inquiry (Bloomquist, Wood, Friedmeyer-Trainor, & Kim, 2015; Grise-Owens, Miller, & Eaves, 2016; Lee & Miller, 2013; Miller, Donohue-Dioh, Niu, & Shalash, 2018; Newell, 2018). This research brief explores the personal and professional of child welfare workers employed in child welfare (N = 623) in the United States (U.S.). After pithily examining relevant background information, this brief will explicate findings from this study and discuss salient implications derived from the data.

Pediatric Staff Nurses' Conceptualizations of Professional Development

PurposeDespite professional developments' (PD) multiple benefits, many nurses grapple with its meaning. The purpose of this study was to comprehensively examine what PD means to nurses working in a pediatric hospital. Design and methodsA correlational study design was used. A 33 item survey was used to collect data. ResultsA total of 74 pediatric nurses completed the survey. The average age and years of experience were 33.5 and 8.3 respectively. Continuing nursing education was the highest ranked component while professional organization membership was lowest. The top ranked motivator was to increase patient care knowledge base while salary was lowest. Highest barrier to pursing PD opportunities was family commitments and lowest was PD knowledge. Younger nurses placed more importance on seeking degrees for their PD compared with older nurses. Continuing education was more important to nurses with bachelor's and master's degrees versus those with A.D.N. or diplomas. Younger nurses placed greater importance on PD to expand job opportunities than their older counterparts. ConclusionStudy findings suggested that most nurses' main motivation to seek PD opportunities was to provide safe, quality care. The fact that committee involvement, research, and professional organization membership were the lowest ranked components suggested that many nurses may need encouragement and education regarding how these too are important components of PD.Practice Implications.Findings may help nurses to further embrace this concept and grow professionally. Approaches for encouraging nurses to seek PD opportunities may need to vary depending upon the nurse's age and education level.

Turning a Profit through Professional Membership

Next Horizons is an entrepreneurial for-profit networking business group. The company operates similar to a professional organization with selective membership and membership fees. Next Horizons aims to expand its current business model by increasing its paying membership. The purpose of this case study is to systematically gather and review evidence on members’ perceived benefits of their membership in professional organizations and make recommendations to increase membership. An analysis was carried out using a systematic review to investigate how perceptions of rewards and benefits influenced the decision to join a professional organization. The review was carried out through the lens of the social exchange theory, whereby the cost of membership in a professional organization is weighed against its benefit. When the benefit outweighs the cost, individuals will choose to engage in the social exchange, which in this case is choosing to join the professional organization. Three types of membership benefits emerged: knowledge-based, intangible, and tangible benefits. The values most desired were an increase in knowledge, opportunities for collaboration, expanding a professional network, and availability of administrative space from which to collaborate. The study also noted the deterrents from joining membership; including time to participate, lack of value to career, and perception of relevance to their objectives. This case study supports the notion that the strongest benefit that members get from their respective professional organizations is the opportunity to network with their peers.

Fostering promotion and protection of the professional nurse practitioner role: A call to action.

The professional obligations to protect and promote nursing professional roles stem from the American Nurses Association Code of Ethics. Nurturing new generations of NPs to assume leadership role is foundational to succession planning and is critical to assuring NPs' continued contributions to health care. Making professional role development a priority at various points in educational programs, modeling ways to contribute to the profession, and encouraging professional organization membership are a few of the suggestions presented for the academic environment. In clinical settings, NP meetings are opportunities to engage NPs in legislative and policy issues important to practice. Attaining employee benefits, such as conference attendance, can promote commitment; and precepting NP students forges professional bonds. Present and future generations of NPs must assume responsibility for protecting and promoting the role. Many threats to NPs' scope of practice and other professional conundrums are ongoing. Instilling the values of protecting and promoting the NP role in students and colleagues and then identifying leaders to direct these efforts are essential to succession planning.

Total Quality Management Practice in Croatian Language Service Provider Companies

The aim of this paper is to perform analysis of existing practice of Quality Management (QM) and Total Quality Management (TQM) principles in Croatian Language Service Provider (LSP) companies in order to analyse the gap and suggest recommendations. In this case study, twelve SME Croatian LSP companies are analysed by number of employees, existing and missing workplaces, focused business market, offices, Quality Certificate ISO 9001:2015 (2015) and membership in professional organizations. The existing practice in LSP Croatian companies are analysed through 10 TQM (total quality management) principles using self-evaluation assessment.

Case Management: Transforming Health Care Environment.

Case Management: Transforming Health Care Environment.

K-6 pre-service teachers’ emerging professional identities as social studies educators

It is vital that social studies be an integral part of the elementary (Kindergarten-6) curriculum to prepare all children to participate in increasingly diverse democracies. This study's purpose was to investigate how nine planned and implemented social studies professional development activities, outside traditional classrooms, could impact five volunteer K-6 pre-service teachers’ beliefs about their emergent professional identities as social studies educators. This case study explored research questions primarily through qualitative methods. Research implications contribute to possible solutions for (1) helping pre-service teachers understand how professional educators, outside their local areas, create and learn public scholarship to educate diverse democracies, (2) helping pre-service teachers recognize relationships between high quality professional development, networking, organization membership, and professional identity, and (3) sense of belonging as one treatment for U.S. novice teacher attrition rates.

Nurses' Attitude towards Professionalization and Factors Influencing It.

Introduction: Professionalism is one of the fundamental concepts in nursing and the result of the interaction with the environment and others. Nursing professionalism influences the quality of care and is affected by several factors. This study aimed to determine the attitude of nurses regarding professionalism and the factors affecting it. Methods: In this descriptive study, the attitude among nurses to professionalism has been measured through the questionnaire Hall, in five dimensions "membership in professional organizations", "public service", "a sense of calling", "self-regulation"," autonomy" and a researcher-made questionnaire about effective factors. One hundred eighty five nurses working in teaching hospitals affiliated to Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, participated in the study through stratified random sampling. The data were analyzed, using SPSS software, descriptive and inferential statistics. Results: The results showed that the nurses’ attitude to professionalism is at the average level. Among the five dimensions, the scores from the highest to lowest belonged to "membership in professional organizations", "a sense of calling", "selfregulation", "autonomy" and "public service". The relationship between nurses’ attitudes toward professionalism and variables of work experience and participation in training courses for individual empowerment was found to be statistically significant. Conclusion: The professional attitude among nurses is at the average level. Given the importance of the professionalism in nursing and the influence of various factors, efforts are directed at achieving the desired level and reducing the barriers.

Contributors

Numerous healthcare studies have shown that more than 90% of all patients with dyslipidaemia are not treated adequately.The “Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Bekämpfung von Fettstoffwechselstörungen und ihren Folgeerkrankungen (DGFF)” [German Society of Lipidology], a non-profit professional membership organization, has already made a series of efforts to improve the care of patients suffering from dyslipidaemia. A recent outcome is the nationwide implementation and certification of Lipidological Competence Centres and Networks (LCCNs).By involving numerous external medical cooperation partners and combining the detailed work of different in-house medical specialists, the Medical Care Centre Kempten-Allgäu was able to improve both the diagnosis and treatment of patients exhibiting disorders of lipid metabolism (DLM). This local lipidological network is so successful, that it may serve as a nationwide standard model for outpatient lipidological care.Detailed organizational structures for improved lipidological care which are suitable to provide a template for future guidelines for the certification of LCCNs have been developed by the Medical Care Centre Kempten-Allgäu. Stringent requirements of implementation with respect to medical staff, content and structure, staff training, patient education and public relations as well as to documentation, quality assurance and quality improvement must be fulfilled both by the lipidological competence centre (LCC) and the cooperation partners within the lipidological network (LN). Finally, members of the health care system (e.g. health policy and health insurances) should be involved in this attempt and convinced of financial support.The implementation and certification of national LCCNs supported by DGFF could contribute to a comprehensive improvement in the care of patients with dyslipidaemia, resulting in prevention of cardiovascular diseases and reduction of cardiovascular sequelae.

Professional organization membership: Advancing the nurse practitioner role.

With a paucity of literature on professional organization membership by nurse practitioners (NPs), the authors base the discussion of the personal benefits associated with membership on literature focusing on clinicians other than NPs and their personal experiences as members of multiple organizations. Membership is described as related to NP socialization, engagement, networking, mentorship, advocacy, policy, leadership development, research dissemination, professional development, and volunteerism. In addition to encouraging active participation in one or more professional organizations, the need for research into factors influencing the degree to which NPs participate in organizations and the associated benefits is identified.

Lipidological competence centres and networks: Future perspectives to improve healthcare of patients with disorders of lipid metabolism

BackgroundNumerous healthcare studies have shown that more than 90% of all patients with dyslipidaemia are not treated adequately. ObjectivesThe “Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Bekämpfung von Fettstoffwechselstörungen und ihren Folgeerkrankungen (DGFF)” [German Society of Lipidology], a non-profit professional membership organization, has already made a series of efforts to improve the care of patients suffering from dyslipidaemia. A recent outcome is the nationwide implementation and certification of Lipidological Competence Centres and Networks (LCCNs). Methods and resultsBy involving numerous external medical cooperation partners and combining the detailed work of different in-house medical specialists, the Medical Care Centre Kempten-Allgäu was able to improve both the diagnosis and treatment of patients exhibiting disorders of lipid metabolism (DLM). This local lipidological network is so successful, that it may serve as a nationwide standard model for outpatient lipidological care.Detailed organizational structures for improved lipidological care which are suitable to provide a template for future guidelines for the certification of LCCNs have been developed by the Medical Care Centre Kempten-Allgäu. Stringent requirements of implementation with respect to medical staff, content and structure, staff training, patient education and public relations as well as to documentation, quality assurance and quality improvement must be fulfilled both by the lipidological competence centre (LCC) and the cooperation partners within the lipidological network (LN). Finally, members of the health care system (e.g. health policy and health insurances) should be involved in this attempt and convinced of financial support. ConclusionThe implementation and certification of national LCCNs supported by DGFF could contribute to a comprehensive improvement in the care of patients with dyslipidaemia, resulting in prevention of cardiovascular diseases and reduction of cardiovascular sequelae.

The Road to Leadership in SPN

The Road to Leadership in SPN

Benefits of Membership in Professional Organizations.

Benefits of Membership in Professional Organizations.

Developing professional identity in LIS?

Identity is the core of who we are as individuals. It shapes how we present ourselves, our expectations of how we interact with others and their treatment of us, and forms the basis of what we believe are our capabilities and potential. Identity is not limited to individuals, but also includes groups, such as clubs, organizations, and professions. In fact, identification within a profession is an essential rite of passage, which often follows the completion of an educational degree or an intensive training program, both of which have a strong influence on the construction and shape of the individual’s professional identity. While in MLIS programs, like many undergraduate programs, students develop a sense of community, which is reinforced through internships, work experiences and membership in professional organizations. The context of a community is key to the development of professional. Interdisciplinary fields, such as library and information science, use these communities to share information across disciplines and develop academic norms. LIS educators help to develop this identity through course work and interactions with students. As a result, LIS educators need to understand their role and how their teaching contributes to the profession holistically rather than focus on individual positions or roles.

Study shows disconnect in communications at membership organizations

New research conducted by nonprofit software firm Abila shows that trade associations and other professional membership organizations aren't effectively tailoring their programs and communications to meet the needs of their members—which could be costing them in terms of recruitment and retention.

Providing LIS Students with Management Skills

ABSTRACTLIS schools should carefully consider how they will provide their students with opportunities to learn management skills. Required or elective management courses provide the greatest focus; but many other courses, especially type of library and practical experience courses, include a significant management component. Schools may also outsource management training to another unit such as the Business School. Other non-curricular possibilities include: offering or encouraging attending lectures, conferences, and workshops; supporting student organizations; suggesting membership in professional organizations; and publicizing internships. Prior life experience also makes a difference in student aptitude for management but is not under control of the school.

Charting the Future of SPN: The SPN Strategic Plan

Charting the Future of SPN: The SPN Strategic Plan