BACKGROUND Physicians require specific communication skills, because the face-to-face contact with their patients is an important source of information. Although physicians who perform work disability assessments attend some communication-related training courses during their professional education, no specialised and evidence-based communication skills training course is available for them. Th...

OBJECTIVE To explore factors and circumstances contributing to prudent antibiotic prescribing for respiratory tract infections in primary care. DESIGN Two focus groups representing rural and urban areas. A semi-structured interview guide with open-ended questions and an editing analysis style was used. They were examined to identify meaning units that were sorted into categories in an iterati...

It should be said at the outset in a paper in a series on treatment that, of course, consultation is not a form of therapy. Indeed, in some important ways it can be seen as, at times, an alternative to therapy. For historic reasons, because of the nature of the problems with which we deal, and because of the relatively ill defined (and perhaps undefinable) boundaries to our professional territo...

he article “Toxic anterior segment syndrome—More than sterility meets the eye” is the basis for this AORN Journal independent study. The behavioral objectives and examination for this program were prepared by Rebecca Holm, RN, MSN, CNOR, clinical editor, with consultation from Susan Bakewell, RN, MS, BC, education program professional, Center for Perioperative Education. Participants receive fe...

BACKGROUND Angola is one of the African countries with the highest morbidity and mortality rates and a devastating lack of human resources for health, including nursing. The World Health Organization stimulates and takes technical cooperation initiatives for human resource education and training in health and education, with a view to the development of countries in the region. The aim in this ...

Article points 1. Sexual dysfunction in men with diabetes has been talked about for many years and a great deal of important research has been carried out. It has been linked to neuropathic and vascular changes that occur in diabetes, as well as medication side-effects and psychogenic factors. 2. The healthcare professional carrying out the consultation should conduct a detailed assessment of t...

This paper describes an approach to supervision and consultation with practitioners who work therapeutically with individuals, couples, and families where domestic violence is of concern. The approach is rooted in an established and visible safety methodology, developed over the last 16 years in the Reading Safer Families project. We emphasise risk management, responsibility for behaviour, and ...

Suicide is a common and preventable event that is often reported by the media when there are sensationalistic elements or if the suicide involves a celebrity. Media reports of suicide can induce a copycat or "Werther effect". There is increasing evidence that sensationalistic reporting of suicides has a direct effect on increasing suicide rates. Responsible reporting guidelines drawn up in cons...

Strategy roadmaps are a class of abstract visual representation that is unusually diverse in diagrammatic style. A large corpus of roadmap visualisations was collected, and analysed using a collaborative consultation method involving expert participants. The results indicate organizing principles for the broader study of diagram use within strategic management. They also provide an opportunity ...

Despite the emphasis on the importance of evaluation and the plethora of recommended methods, evaluation continues to be an ad hoc rather than a systematic practice. Recommendations for evaluation methodologies have not accommodated the evolving perceptions of the nature and the value of information systems. In this paper we argue that current professional evaluation practices are particularly ...