BACKGROUND Organizational learning has been identified as necessary for different organizations to improve their performance in the changing and competitive environment. PURPOSE The main purpose of this research was to specify the learning organization profile of educational and health centers of Tehran and Qazvin Universities of Medical Sciences in Iran. METHODOLOGY The present research wa...

The emergence of the influenza A(H1N1)2009 virus provided a major challenge to health services around the world. However, vaccination rates for the public and for healthcare workers (HCWs) have remained low. We performed a study to review the reasons put forward by HCWs to refuse immunisation with the pandemic vaccine in 2009/10 and characterise attitudes in the influenza season 2010/11 due to ...

Retained surgical items were the most frequently reported sentinel event in 2010, according to The Joint Commission. Perioperative nurse leaders at Children's Hospital Boston, a pediatric teaching hospital, conducted a quality improvement initiative to reduce or eliminate incorrect counts and count discrepancies, which increase the risk of an item being unintentionally retained after surgery. W...

On January 1, 2015, the Interprofessional Education Research Center (IPERC) was opened at the Graduate School of Nursing at Chiba University, while being positioned as one of the Inohana Campus High Functionality Initiatives by the university. As the result of the establishment of an education research center in the nursing graduate school, various changes are coming into view. In particular, t...

more necessary and more and more used.In earlier days and among backward and primitive peoples much opposition is felt, and many of us remember in India about 15 years ago the plague riots and the burning of plague camps and hospitals by the very people for whose good they were intended. In India the people and the educated classes are only slowly emerging from the dark ages as regards sanitati...

OBJECTIVES In this paper a review of selected eHealth applications in Cyprus is presented linked with their success or failure based on their training activities. METHODS The eHealth systems presented and their training activities include an update of the health information system (HIS) in the public hospitals, a medical system for emergency telemedicine (AMBULANCE and EMERGENCY-112 projects)...

OBJECTIVE A pilot survey was conducted with adult patients attending the Physiotherapy Department at the Farwaniah Hospital, Kuwait, during the year 2000, to validate a questionnaire measuring outpatients' satisfaction with different aspects of physiotherapy care and associated socio-demographic factors. METHODS This study was carried out in the Department of Physiotherapy, Farwaniah Hospital...

OBJECTIVES In this work, we have compared uniprofessional and interprofessional versions of a simulation education intervention, in an attempt to understand more about whether it improves trainees' self-efficacy. BACKGROUND Interprofessionalism has been climbing the healthcare agenda for over 50 years. Simulation education attempts to create an environment for healthcare professionals to lear...

Klimach et al. make a strong case for the use of buccal midazolam (BM) in the community. In our district general hospital at Queen’s Hospital, Burton on Trent we introduced BM in 2006 for the management of prolonged seizures. Parents and carers are advised and trained to administer the drug for out of hospital use. BM is prescribed as a take home medication with an information leaflet to assist...

OBJECTIVE Many musculoskeletal fellowships are nonaccredited, leading to heterogeneity of educational experiences. There is no governing body for these nonaccredited fellowships, leaving program content and rules to the program directors' discretion. In addition, imaging fellowships in general currently face many external pressures that challenge their capacity to provide a high-quality educati...