The Minimum Data Set 3.0 has introduced a higher set of expectations for assessment of residents' psychosocial needs, including new interviewing requirements, new measures of depression and resident choice, and new discharge screening procedures. Social service staff are primary providers of psychosocial assessment and care in nursing homes; yet, research demonstrates that many do not possess t...

INTRODUCTION Capacity building approaches are useful in large-scale community-based health promotion interventions. However, models to guide and evaluate capacity building among social service agency staff in community settings are rare in the literature. This paper describes the development and evaluation of a 1-day (7 h) train-the-trainer (TTT) workshop for the "Enhancing Family Well-Being Pr...

0956-7135/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.foodcont.2010.04.010 * Corresponding author. Address: Dipartimento Università di Palermo, Via Liborio Giuffrè 13, 90127 6553929; fax: +39 91 6553030. E-mail address: [email protected] (A. Casuccio). The aim of this study was to investigate knowledge, attitudes and practices of food service staff in nursing homes and long-term care ...

The Boggabri Health Service is typical of many rural and remote public health facilities. Twenty-four staff, only a third of whom work full-time, service the needs of a population of 1601. Change from a focus on acute care to a model of wellness through redevelopment as a Multi Purpose Service is providing staff with a unique opportunity for continuing professional development, particularly in ...

This paper is a report of a study of the effects of a leader-training program, focusing on how public health nurse (PHN) leaders manage staff. In Japan, a system of training after graduation or training after acquisition of the PHN license has not been established. At present, PHN leaders are unable to devote as much time as they previously could to in-service education, and this has made it di...

The Royal College of Anaesthetists, the Royal College of Physicians, the Intensive Care Society and the Resuscitation Council (UK) have published new resuscitation standards. The document provides advice to UK healthcare organisations, resuscitation committees and resuscitation officers on all aspects of the resuscitation service. It includes sections on resuscitation training, resuscitation eq...

abstract background: in‑service training of nursing personnel has a significant role in increasing the empowerment of nurses and promotion of the quality of health services. the objective of this study is to identify and explain the process of in-service training of nursing personnel in the hospitals affiliated with baqiyatallah university of medical sciences in tehran. materials and methods: t...

Background: The number of complaints from patients and/or carers concerning aspects of care has increased over time. Yet, in spite of a growing body of national and international literature on healthcare complaints, there is a lack of knowledge around how nurses and midwives manage informal complaints at ward level, or staff needs in relation to this. Aim: Using an action research approach with...