Capacity Building to Improve Hospital Managers’ Performance in West Asia

Building capacity to improve economic health.

The economic health of a community is vitally important for attracting and retaining businesses and for creating an environment in which people want to live, work, and play. Rural communities in North Carolina rely on a variety of partners and programs to build local capacity for job creation and the development of quality-of-life amenities.

Confidential Performance Feedback and Organizational Capacity Building to Improve Hospital Patient Safety: Results of a Randomized Trial

Objective: The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of two intervention strategies, performance feedback reporting and organizational capacity building, both of which aim to improve patient safety in hospitals but for which there is a paucity of empirical data on effectiveness. Methods: We randomly assigned the 127 non-Federal, acute care hospitals in Wisconsin to one of three gro...

Internationally educated nurses: building capacity for clinical/nurse managers.

The purpose of this demonstration project was to provide clinical nurse managers with resources to increase their knowledge and confidence in hiring, managing and retaining internationally educated nurses (IENs). Two teaching hospitals, two organizations providing educational and other support programs for IENs, a community settlement organization and a nursing research unit collaborated in the...

Hospital-Based Coalition to Improve Regional Surge Capacity

INTRODUCTION Surge capacity for optimization of access to hospital beds is a limiting factor in response to catastrophic events. Medical facilities, communication tools, manpower, and resource reserves exist to respond to these events. However, these factors may not be optimally functioning to generate an effective and efficient surge response. The objective was to improve the function of these...

Bridging the Divide: Building Asia-Pacific Capacity for Effective Reforms

Golf Coaches Use Tacit Knowledge to Improve Transfer Performance: Understanding the Mediating Role of Transfer Capacity in Golf Coaching

Background. Golf is relatively new in China, and overall playing skills are low. Although golf coaches are vital in improving golf skills, their teaching skills are underdeveloped. Objectives. This study aims to explore how the coach’s tacit knowledge affects the transfer performance by exploring the factors that affect the teaching ability of Chinese golf coaches. It aims to improve the teach...