Generational Diversity: Implications For Healthcare Leaders

Amid the multifaceted complexities of the current health care environment and today’s workforce, intergenerational issues created uncharted territory for health care leaders. As a result, healthcare institutions reveal organizational cultures of conflict due to the generational differences in core values and work related issues. In addition, driving forces also consist of the economic, political and social influences of the generational period. It is essential that healthcare leaders understand and take proactive strategies to develop synergism to span the generational gaps as integral components of healthcare organizational culture.&nbsp

Instruction Of Competent Psychomotor Skill

Instruction of competent psychomotor skill necessitates an eclectic approach. The principles of learning, complemented with learning styles and sensory modalities preferences, provide a background for teaching physical skills. The use of the psychomotor domain of Bloom’s Taxonomy as a map and corresponding behavioral objectives foster the mastery of competent psychomotor skills. Finally, the choice of instructional strategies and teaching methods enhances the efficacy of instruction of competent psychomotor skills, in addition to student learning assessment, instructor feedback, and student reflection of learning

Organizational Culture At The University Level: A Study Using The OCAI Instrument

Organizational culture is a primary component of functional decision making in universities.  In order for administrators, faculty, and staff to effectively coordinate an efficient academic environment for health education, continuing cultural assessment and change are necessary.  The purpose of this study was to explore the concept of culture at the university level.  Specifically, 50 students from two health education courses at Rowan University were studied with regard to three main levels of culture with respect to the Health and Exercise Science Department:  Artifacts, Espoused Values, and Basic Underlying Assumptions.  The Organizational Culture Assessment Instrument (OCAI) was utilized to determine how departmental culture affects the perceptions, thoughts, and feelings of students.  In this paper, results of the OCAI were examined in terms of how students rated the current departmental culture, and what they would prefer it to be in five years.  It was hypothesized that student perceptions of departmental culture would positively coincide with the overall mission, goals, and objectives of the department and university

Scientific Writing: A Blended Instructional Model

Scientific writing is composed of a unique skill set and corresponding instructional strategies are critical to foster learning. In an age of technology, the blended instructional model provides the instrumental format for student mastery of the scientific writing competencies. In addition, the course management program affords opportunities for ongoing student-faculty communication, electronic access to the research literature and submission of student assignments, and student empowerment for self-directed learning. This has been a successful experience for students and faculty, and the ongoing collaboration has served as a catalyst to scholarship of scientific writing

Infusing The Mentorship Model Of Education For The Promotion Of Critical Thinking In Doctoral Education

Effective mentorship is demonstrated in a variety of venues. Good mentors lead students on a journey that forever changes the ways in which they think and act, and consists of different and diverse experiences. Acknowledging faculty beliefs regarding mentorship and instruction is important to understanding why mentors select and implement specific strategies throughout the mentee’s academic tenure. The purposes of this paper are first, to describe the “Layered Learning Mentorship Model (LLMM)” presented in the Department of Graduate Programs in Heath Sciences curriculum; second, to provide an understanding of how the LLMM was developed so as to promote critical thinking skills in graduate students; third, to provide educators with an understanding of the tools essential for the integration of critical thinking opportunities at all levels of doctoral education; and finally, to assess student and faculty perceptions regarding the use of LLMM

Use Of Train-The-Trainer Sensorimotor Group Experience (TTSMGE) To Promote Functional Motor Skill Development In An Urban US Preschool Environment

As the demand for services from therapists in the educational environment continues to grow, both physical and occupational therapists seek innovative and effective ways to meet the identified needs of the child and school environment. Train-the-trainer model of service delivery can be used to meet the needs of both the therapist and the preschool educator in aligning the academic curriculum with age appropriate sensory motor activities. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the results obtained from a pilot survey given to school personnel in an urban preschool setting who participated in a Train-the -trainer model of service delivery