Personal maturity as sanogenic potential of experiencing crisis conditions by air transport managers

Experiencing personal wholeness.

t i v a i t t p a t H n p f s l g n s r n T ake care” is often a parting phrase we use with our friends and family, noted Don Vickery, MD, a pioneer in self-care and coauthor of he groundbreaking book, Take Care of ourself, published over three decades ago. lthough the notion of taking care of ourself or that health is a personal reponsibility rather than professional one as controversial at th...

Taxonomy of Global Air Transport

Data from the United Nations and the International Civil Aviation Organization Information Systems were used as a base for characterizing, classifying and comparing air transport demand and supply features of 156 countries. Relevant data from 1980 were chosen to reflect five sets of characteristics namely, air transport, 50cm-economic status, population demography, geographical and environmenta...

Apparent photosynthesis of soybean plants as affected by changes in leaf water potential under field conditions

Training Crisis Managers with PANDORA

This short paper introduces a novel use of timeline-based planning as the core element of a dynamic training environment for crisis managers called PANDORA. A trainer is provided with a combination of planning and execution functions that allow him/her to maintain and adapt a “lesson plan” as the basis for the interaction between the trainer and a class of trainees. The training session is base...

Moral Distress among Healthcare Managers: Conditions, Consequences and Potential Responses.

Moral distress - the physical and emotional response to feeling prevented from carrying out ethically proper action - can have serious consequences for health professionals and healthcare organizations. We investigated perceived moral distress qualitatively with managers in two BC health authorities.RESPONDENTS DESCRIBED CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH THEY EXPERIENCED DISTRESS: when they set priorities...