Strategic institutional approaches to graduate employability: navigating meanings, measurements and what really matters

What really matters

If our lives were truly horrible and the prospects of their getting better hopelessly dim, we might not want to continue. Fortunately, most people are not in such dire straights. Most of us, as we say, " want to live " (henceforth, to survive). Not only do we want to survive, but under normal, relatively favorable circumstances most of us, it seems, knows well enough what it would mean to survi...

What really matters to healthcare consumers.

Consumer satisfaction with healthcare is an important quality and outcome indicator. Satisfaction may be at the crux of survival for healthcare delivery systems because it creates the competitive edge in healthcare. To better understand patient satisfaction by examining consumer healthcare experiences and expectations, a study was conducted. An important concept identified in the data, MY CARE,...

Graduate Employability in Asia

What matters to the patient is what really matters: 
quality in oncology nursing.

Reflecting on the 40th anniversary of the Oncology Nursing Society led me to recall my own 30-plus years in nursing and how, as a new graduate nurse, almost all oncology care was delivered in the inpatient setting. In my first few years of practice, I mixed my patients' chemotherapy in a medicine room without a ventilated hood and administered those medications without personal protective equip...

The transfer of training: what really matters

Although organizations invest billions of dollars in training every year, many trained competencies reportedly fail to transfer to the workplace. Researchers have long examined the ‘transfer problem’, uncovering a wealth of information regarding the transfer of training. Inconsistencies remain, however, and organizations may find it difficult to pinpoint exactly which factors are most critical....