introduction: job satisfaction considered as an important factor in increasing productivity, workers belonging and attachment to the work environment and improving the quantity and quality of work.the aim of this study was to determine job satisfaction levels in medical record staff. methods: it was a descriptive analytic study. due to the limited number of medical records staff in health educa...

A preliminary study of the employment effects of medicare payments based on Diagnosis Related Groups suggests that cost-cutting responses by hospitals will result in smaller, more highly skilled staff and a higher proportion of clerical to health care workers.

An Action Research methodology was used to revise the St George Mental Health Rehabilitation Service. A review committee found several limitations in the existing system, and a new model to address these problems was devised. During an 18-month period, the new model was implemented. Obstacles to change, such as staff resistance, were not systematically encountered due to the method of change us...

The MITRE corporation is a geographically distributed company of knowledge workers working on projects either related by the same customer or by the problems and technologies being addressed. MITRE early on recognized the power of information technology to enhance the effectiveness of each of its staff with knowledge sharing tools. Early deployment of an Intranet with novel functions has promot...

We describe an outbreak of skin sepsis due to an erythromycin-resistant strain of Streptococcus pyogenes in workers at a meat plant. The outbreak began among butchers in the boning room but subsequently spread to other groups of workers in the plant. Despite the introduction of additional control measures, the outbreak persisted for 7 months and affected 46/194 staff with 'hands on' occupations...

BACKGROUND Working outside daylight hours (7 am to 7 pm) is called shift work. Shift work is a common practice in many industries and factories such as steel industries, petroleum industries, power plants, and in some services such as medicine and nursing and police forces, in which professionals provide services during day and night. OBJECTIVES Considering the contradictory reports of differ...

Hand washing remains an important preventative method for making the transmission of nosocomial infections redundant. Despite awareness by health workers of the practices required and of the legislation governing hand washing, the study reported here found that compliance to these procedures was quite poor. The results of two surveys distributed to health workers and direct observation by clini...

Although identification of risks to dental healthcare workers has been explored in several industrialized nations, very little data is available from developing countries. This paper examines the occupational hazards present in the dental environment and reports survey results concerning attitudes and activities of a group of Nigerian dental care providers. A survey on occupational hazards was ...