BACKGROUND Assessing radiographers' clinical competence is of major importance in all medical imaging departments, and is a fundamental prerequisite for guaranteeing professional standards in both nursing care and radiography. Despite the fact that self-assessment has been reported to be the most common form of competence evaluation only several studies defining the radiographers' self-assessme...

ethics are related to the structure and culture of the society. in addition to specialized ethics for every profession, individuals also hold their own personal beliefs and values. this study aimed to investigate iranian occupational therapists’ perception of ethical practice when working with children. for this purpose, qualitative content analysis was used and semi-structured interviews were ...

Objectives: Verbal self-instruction strategy is one of the useful techniques for treating individual with learning disability. The purpose of the present study was to determine the effect of Verbal Self-instructional Package on the social competence of students with learning disability. Methods: The study was done in a quasi-experimental research and pre-test, post-test design with control g...

BACKGROUND Although both nurse empowerment and competence are fundamental concepts of describing newly graduated nurses' professional development and job satisfaction, only few studies exist on the relationship between these concepts. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to determine how newly graduated nurses assess their empowerment and to clarify professional competence compared to other...

abstract background: professional development is reiterated in the new definition of modern organizations as a serious undertaking of organizations. this article aims to present and describe a prescriptive model to increase the quality of professional development of iranian nurses within an organization‑based framework. materials and methods: this article is an outcome of the results of a study...

background: due to the high clinical challenges, differences in coping strategies, and high workload in nurses, there is a need to develop strategies to keep them in the profession. the aim of the present study was to explore the iranian nurses’ coping strategies to deal with intention to leave. methods: a qualitative content analysis was used to obtain rich data. we performed 13 in-depth face-...

Professional training in higher educational institutions is determined not only by the amount of obtained knowledge, but also solving problem preserving and strengthening health, students’ need for healthy lifestyle, to find implement ways form their health competence. The article deals with forming competence intending teachers environment HEI. current state research specified was analyzed pap...