Multiskilling: What Does It Mean For Rural Allied Health?
作者:
LYNETTE HODGSON,
期刊:
Australian Journal of Rural Health
(WILEY Available online 1992)
卷期:
Volume 1,
issue 1
页码: 45-52
ISSN:1038-5282
年代: 1992
DOI:10.1111/j.1440-1584.1992.tb00062.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
关键词: Competencies;Professional boundaries;Service delivery;Education/training;Planning
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
ABSTRACT:The apparent negativity of allied health professionals towards the term ‘multiskilling’ can be explained by examining its emotive connotations. Many allied health professionals fear that multiskilling implies one of the following: extension of an already overutilised allied health professional's duties and allied health skills are subsumed and performed at an unsatisfactory level by other health workers; or proposals to train substandard multipurpose practitioners. Allied health professionals need to establish a personally relevant, positive definition of multiskilling which is cognisant of acceptable service delivery models and the advanced competencies required for effective rural practice. Appropriate training must advance alongside continuing agitation for an improved, integrated infrastructure of personnel and servi
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