Professional competence requires a commitment to lifelong learning, self-assessment, and excellence. Complex skills such as these require flexible and comprehensive teaching and assessment measures. We describe a combination of working and performance portfolios that both foster and evaluate the development of professional competence. We explain the conceptual and practical underpinnings that m...

The Joint Commission and Institute for Healthcare Improvement have mandated healthcare organizations to improve professional communication. Nursing students lack experience in communicating with physicians. As a result, recent graduates may not be prepared to meet the demands of professional communication to ensure patient safety. The authors discuss the SBAR (situation, background, assessment,...

With over a decade of Software Process Improvement in large organisations, the awareness of its importance has propagated to Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs). The most well known models for SPI are primarily suited for largeor medium-sized organisations, but with some tailoring they can provide substantial support for SPI in small organisations. The IPSSI (Improving Professional Software Skil...

OBJECTIVE to characterize nurses graduated from the School of Nursing of the University of São Paulo, from 2006 to 2012; verify their entry, facilitating factors and difficulties of these graduates in the labor market and to consider their skills and competences in the world of work. METHOD an exploratory, descriptive study with a qualitative approach. RESULTS out of 505 graduates, 172 (34....

Background: Medical professional identity is how an individual perceives him/herself as a doctor. Formation of professional identity includes development, advancement, and socialization through social learning of specific knowledge, skills obtained while performing professional roles, practicing, and new attitudes and values. A qualitative study was performed to examine live experience of under...

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NT DEET Professional Learning Policy defines Professional Learning as ‘opportunities or experiences that promote enhanced skills, knowledge, attributes, attitudes and behaviours of staff ‘ As we begin to describe the ways in which Professional Learning is evolving in our education system we increasingly focus on teacher learning that develops within a culture of collaboration and collective res...

BACKGROUND Problem-based learning (PBL) as an approach to the instruction of medical students has attracted much attention in recent years. However, its effect on the performance of its graduates is the subject of considerable debate. This article presents data from a large-scale study among graduates of a problem-based medical school and those of a conventional medical school to contribute to ...

Nursing is evolving into new fields of health care including ambulance care, where a branch of specialist nursing is growing. Various views exist on the desired competence for the ambulance nurse and valid guidelines are lacking in Sweden. To increase knowledge of the field, professionals were asked to describe what competences an ambulance nurse should possess. The aim of this study was theref...