Professionalism is a core competency of physicians. In this article, the statements of professional societies (e.g., the Charter on Medical Professionalism), the expectations of patients and society regarding professionalism, and a framework for defining medical professionalism are described. The framework's foundation consists of clinical competence, communication skills, and a sound understan...

BACKGROUND Systematic reviews on the effects of problem-based learning have been limited to knowledge competency either during medical school or postgraduate training. We conducted a systematic review of evidence of the effects that problem-based learning during medical school had on physician competencies after graduation. METHODS We searched MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, PsycINFO, Cochrane Datab...

Purpose Despite increasing awareness of the importance of leadership in healthcare, our understanding of the competencies of effective leadership remains limited. We used a concept mapping approach (a blend of qualitative and quantitative analysis of group processes to produce a visual composite of the group's ideas) to identify stakeholders' mental model of effective healthcare leadership, cla...

BACKGROUND Gatekeeping safeguards access to the practice of a profession to ensure the quality of clinical services. It involves selective admission, continuous evaluation, and timely and ethical decisions in response to trainees with severe professional competency problems (SPCP). To date, little information is available concerning gatekeeping practices in the field of music therapy. OBJECTI...

OBJECTIVE to understand the experience of nurses in care delivery to culturally diverse families. METHOD qualitative meta-synthesis. Exhaustive search in seven databases, three repositories and a manual search in references without time limit, in English, Spanish and Portuguese, resulting in 1609 potentially relevant studies. These were assessed based on the title, summary and full text, dete...

Joan, a pediatric therapist, is asked to make a home visit to a Vietnamese child who was recently burned. On examination of the child, she notes red, round, coin-sized marks over the child’s back. She never asks the mother about the marks. After leaving the home, Joan wonders whether the mother is using a traditional healing treatment. She asks herself, “How can I give this child ethical and qu...

BACKGROUND The physicians' competency is an important public health issue around the world. Several international organizations have taken the lead in examining the competencies required to be a physician. The purpose of this study is to identify subgroups of physicians' competency based upon the importance results of competency evaluation and provide a scientific basis for the qualitative rese...

The concept of this honors project was to explore correctional nursing competency, working closely with my advisor and the research team. Key findings from the initial competency assessment evaluation phase were compiled, organized, and analyzed. A podium presentation “Advancing Correctional Nurse Competencies for Quality Care: Evaluation of Simulation Learning and Satisfaction” was given at th...

Prescribing by nurses and midwives continues to expand has consistently been evaluated as safe effective. This article is part one of two exploring the core professional, legal ethical dimensions prescribing. Reference made a contemporary prescribing model, RAPID-CASE, devised authors demonstrate application key practice principles. The importance structured approach demonstrated with reference...

This study aimed to clarify the changes in nurses’ cognition about rate and likelihood of implementation daily ethical nursing items used pediatric care before after attending online workshops using Pediatric Nursing Care Model (PNCM). A 1.5-hour workshop was held twice over two weeks. total nine nurses participated program. These PNCM helped achieve original goals results revealed a positive o...