This paper is a report of a study of the effects of a leader-training program, focusing on how public health nurse (PHN) leaders manage staff. In Japan, a system of training after graduation or training after acquisition of the PHN license has not been established. At present, PHN leaders are unable to devote as much time as they previously could to in-service education, and this has made it di...

The year 2000 marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of the National Research Service Award (NRSA) training programs and their implementation. Established by the National Research Service Award Act of 1974 (P.L. 93-348), these programs were conceived as setting a new direction in federally sponsored research training (National Institutes of Health Task Forces for the Review of NIH Biomedical Resea...

The purpose of the current study was to evaluate the transferability of 2 different resistance training protocols on service velocity and its precision consistency in junior tennis players. Thirty-six male athletes (15.03 ± 1.64 years) were randomly assigned to a machine-based resistance-training group (RG, n = 12), a plyometric training group (PG, n = 12), and a control group (CG, n = 12). For...

This study was carried out to determine the feedback from the primary school headmasters on in-service training activities. 384 primary school headmasters were asked to give feedback on the in-service training facilities organized by the Ministry of Education through an open –ended question. The study group was formed by 359 primary school headmasters who attended “Management Skills” seminars w...

INTRODUCTION The recruitment and retention of health workers, crucial to health service delivery, is a major challenge in many rural and remote areas. Finnmark, the most remote and northern county in Norway, has faced recurrent shortages during the last 5 decades, especially of primary care physicians. METHODS This article describes a postgraduate training model for family physicians and publ...

This paper explores the creation of a Decision Support System (DSS) for the classification and assignment of support tickets within an Information Technology Service (ITS) organization. With a reliance on lowerskilled, outsourced, or temporary workers, many organizations service desks experience issues with processing of incoming support tickets. Beyond this, these workers require extensive tra...

In Greece, the training system and education can be adapted to distance lifelong e-learning and the teachers, the society and the economy can be benefited via the introduction and training of in-service teachers in a) the Video Conferencing (VC) technology and mode of distant training, granted that VC is put into a learning framework, and b) Knowledge Management (KM) methodology, through lectur...