OBJECTIVES To explore staff views on their roles, skills and training to deliver high quality and local intrapartum services in remote and rural settings against national recommendations. DESIGN Interview and postal survey. SETTING A stratified representative sample of remote and rural maternity units in Scotland (December 2002 to May 2003). PARTICIPANTS Staff proportionally representativ...

Background: Nurses are the largest group of medical caregivers in the world. Having highly capable nurses in a healthcare system is directly associated with more favorable outcomes for patients. The rapid development of new medical procedures and equipment necessitates constantly developing new skills and competencies. Thus one of the effective means towards their efficient tra...

Although the vital components of effective screening and brief intervention (SBI) are unknown, many studies have defined SBI as including various elements of effective communication. If SBI is to become part of routine practice, it is likely that practitioners will need to be comfortable with a high level of communication and a less authoritarian style. This study explored how staff across the ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Many Canadian hospital pharmacies are experiencing difficulties recruiting supervisory personnel. It was expected that, through a "learning-by-doing" course, pharmacy staff would learn to apply basic skills in the day-to-day supervision of pharmacy operations and human resources and to apply the principles of supervisory documentation. METHODS A supervisory skills cou...

background and purpose: communication has become a core topic in nursing care and investigations on this topic could have a significant impact on increasing nursing quality services. the present study aims to evaluate the communication skills and nursing staff component focusing on emotional management, others' perception and self-expression. methods: this is a cross-sectional descriptive-...

BACKGROUND: Human resources (HR) constraints have been reported as one of the main barriers to achieving the 2005 global tuberculosis (TB) control targets in 18 of the 22 TB high-burden countries (HBCs); consequently we try to assess the current HR available for TB control in HBCs. METHODS: A standard questionnaire designed to collect information on staff numbers, skills, training activities an...