Staffing issues in military health care : mental health providers and va nursing / Ddouglas Parker, editor.

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Health care in transition seriesPublisher: New York : Novinka, [2015]Description: 1 online resource : color illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781634829946
1634829948

Contained works:

United States. Government Accountability Office. Defense health care
United States. Government Accountability Office. VA health care

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DDC classification:

355.3/450973 23

LOC classification:

UH629.3

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EBSCOhost (requires login)

Contents:

Defense health care / United States Government Accountability Office -- VA health care / United States Government Accountability Office.

Summary: Mental health providers are essential to the Department of Defense's (DOD) delivery of health care to servicemembers and other beneficiaries. DOD's need for these providers has grown as increasing numbers of servicemembers experience life-threatening combat situations. This led to congressional attention-such as the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2010, which included provisions to help DOD increase the number of mental health providers it employs. This book examines how staffing levels changed in response to congressional direction; and how DOD and the military services assess current and future needs f.

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Item type	Current library	URL	Status
Computer Files - cmm	TNU, Faculty of Nursing and Health Science Internet	Link to resource	Available

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed July 15, 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Defense health care / United States Government Accountability Office -- VA health care / United States Government Accountability Office.

Mental health providers are essential to the Department of Defense's (DOD) delivery of health care to servicemembers and other beneficiaries. DOD's need for these providers has grown as increasing numbers of servicemembers experience life-threatening combat situations. This led to congressional attention-such as the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2010, which included provisions to help DOD increase the number of mental health providers it employs. This book examines how staffing levels changed in response to congressional direction; and how DOD and the military services assess current and future needs f.