According to the Institute of Medicine, 90 million people in the U.S. lack the literacy proficiency needed to effectively understand and act on health information (3).
After the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, the Japanese government identified the lack of proficiency in the Japanese language as one characteristic of foreigners that should be considered in disaster prevention planning.
She was too shy, she said, and lacked the technical proficiency that is a must for any practicing photojournalist.
Without a diverse counterterrorism workforce, the United States lacks the operational proficiency and the legitimacy to wage a successful war on terrorism.
An interesting new initiative to pinpoint law firms' inefficiency has been made by D. Casey Flaherty, who has developed a basic technology competency audit that he administers to his outside counsel to show how the lack of proficiency with the common software tools at their disposal (Word, Excel, Acrobat, etc). result in an inordinate amount of time wasted that is still billed to clients.
Many of its people lack the education and proficiency in English for modern jobs.
These barriers were compounded by the lack of proficiency in alert management features in the EHR.
Therefore, it is the lack of proficiency rather than secondary acquisition order that determines the recruitment of non-classical areas for word processing.
Mr. Jain, a native of India who has been criticized in the past for his lack of proficiency in the local language, surprised the audience of some 10,000 shareholders by delivering two pages of prepared remarks in somewhat halting, but comprehensible, German.
Every student in the study ranked the lack of language proficiency as the most significant challenge they faced that inhibited their academic success.
It has been used particularly in addiction treatment studies [ 22, 23], MI training interventions and to evaluate clinical use of MI in different settings and on different professions [ 24– 30], including nurses [ 25, 31– 33] and has shown varying results, from achieved proficiency in all parts/variables of the MITI to lack of proficiency across the board.
