Selection criteria towards competent and caring doctors

Selection criteria towards competent and caring doctors.

Caring for doctors is caring for the community - RuDASA.

Take two dedicated, efficient doctor/ managers out of the mix at a deep rural district hospital and the local health care system begins to implode, leaving a nursing manager scrambling to re-assign remaining staff while the local population is left with the prospect of little more than a mediocre day hospital. The story of the 180-bed Madwaleni Hospital in the Mbashe sub-district (with a popula...

“Tired of Caring”: The Impact of Caring on Resident Doctors

Compassion fatigue, also referred to as secondary traumatic stress, is increasingly being acknowledged as a possible consequence of working in any helping and caring profession. Previous research has focused on examining this construct in a variety of health professionals – social workers, counsellors, psychologists and nurses; however, little attention has been paid to this experience in docto...

Should doctors talk to relatives without a competent patient's consent?

A view from a student: ethical teaching, based on ethical guidelines, is at odds with clinical practice. Is this poor practice, or is the ethical guidance too simple?

Attitude of Nurses Towards Obesity and Caring to Obese Patients and Its Predictors in Northern Iran

Background & Aims: Obesity is a global public health problem. The discriminatory behavior of medical staff, including physicians and nurses, towards obese patients can affect their quality of care to these people. This study aims to determine the attitudes of nurses towords obesity and providing care to obese patients its predictors in northern Iran. Materials & Methods: In this descriptive-an...