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This blog post from the North Carolina Medical Board discusses issues around physician burnout. The blog states: "Burnout among physicians has reached epidemic proportions since it was first described among human services workers in the 1970s. When physicians experience overload, loss of control (autonomy) and a lack of reward (perceived or real) for their contributions, their risk for emotional exhaustion, otherwise known as the burnout syndrome, is astronomical. When physicians begin the downward spiral into burnout, they no longer contribute with their leadership and motivational energy. Instead, they become needy and unintentionally sap energy away from the group. Worse, this syndrome is highly contagious and can systematically infect a whole practice or clinic by reducing meaningful contact among its individual members."
Program pays tuition, required fees, other reasonable costs and a monthly stipend. Preference is given to qualified applicants with the greatest financial need who are enrolled full-time in an undergraduate nursing program.
- NACHC QI Reporting to Board (FINAL)1.doc (56 KB)
- QIboardReport.doc (59.5 KB)
This poster was created for use by any Community Health Center wanting to increase the involvement of Migrant/Seasonal Farmworker consumers on the board of directors. The poster is designed to be customized to individual sites.
- FWRepresentationBoardRecruitment.doc (118.5 KB)
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Undergraduate Scholarship Program (UGSP) offers competitive scholarships to students from disadvantaged backgrounds who are committed to careers in biomedical, behavioral, and social science health-related research. The program offers:
- Scholarship support
- Paid research training at the NIH during the summer
- Paid employment and training at the NIH after graduation
SCHOLARSHIP REQUIREMENTS
The NIH Undergraduate Scholarships are awarded on a competitive basis to students who show a commitment to pursuing careers in biomedical, behavioral, and social science health-related research. The following are the basic requirements:
- U.S. citizen, national, or qualified non-citizen.
- Enrolled or accepted for enrollment as a full-time student for the 2012-2013 academic year at an accredited, 4-year undergraduate institution.
- High school seniors are not eligible to apply.
- 3.5 GPA or higher (on a 4.0 scale) or within the top 5 percent of your class.
- From a disadvantaged background. Disadvantaged background means that your financial aid office has certified you as having "exceptional financial need." (Federal Register, Vol. 76, No. 51)
Scholarship Support
The NIH UGSP will pay up to $20,000 per academic year in tuition, educational expenses, and reasonable living expenses to scholarship recipients. Scholarships are awarded for 1 year, and can be renewed up to 4 years.
The scope of the quality improvement program is organization wide and includes activities that monitor and evaluate all phases of the health care delivery system through objective, criteria-based audits, outcome audits, tracking tools, and reporting systems.
- QI Plan 2008.doc (57.5 KB)
“Quality Improvement” (QI) refers to the betterment or enhancement of programs or services. QI develops solutions to the problems noted in the quality reviews and progress reports. Tools used to improve quality include referencing clinical standards, tracking defined programs and measuring outcomes and key indicators, and benchmarking against programs with high levels of performance.
The objectives of the program are to improve employee and patient experiences, to improve health care processes and documentation.
- CQIPlan4.pdf (867.73 KB)
- CQIPlan2.pdf (890.4 KB)
- CQIPlan1.pdf (315.11 KB)
- ChartAuditFormsHomeless.xls (18.5 KB)
- ChartAuditFormsPerinatalGYN.xls (22 KB)
- auditsystems_policy.pdf (542.1 KB)
- Clinicalspecificaudit.xls (24.5 KB)
- HypertensionChartAuditForm.pdf (58.4 KB)
- ChartAuditTool.xls (32.5 KB)
- ChartAuditForm.xls (29.5 KB)
- DiabeticChartAuditForm.pdf (64.31 KB)
- DiabeticChartAuditForm2.pdf (55.56 KB)
- PediatricAsthmaChartAuditForm.pdf (55.35 KB)
- AsthmaChartAuditForm2.pdf (30.9 KB)
Setting goals with patients is an important step in helping them self-manage their own health-related behaviors. Experienced healthcare teams find that following the two basic principles described below helps patients have more early success, and small successes one after the other builds confidence and effective self-management.
High quality goals are patient-centered and behaviorally specific. Developing high quality goals increases the likelihood of early and sustained self-management success. Modeled after one team’s efforts, the rating scale below represents a simple way to assess if the goals we set are behaviorally specific.
- Goal+setting+quality.doc (36.5 KB)
- FPQualityReview.doc (51 KB)
- SampleQualityCouncilMinutes.pdf (461.71 KB)
- UTIPeerReviewForm.pdf (31.14 KB)
- TobaccoUsePeerReviewForm.pdf (224.73 KB)
Identifying Systems Barriers to Improved Outcomes
- SMSA tool 1.doc (35 KB)