The nursing shortage continues to be a significant threat to health care. Creating a culture of professional development in health care institutions is one way to combat this shortage. Professional development refers to a constant commitment to maintain one's knowledge and skill base. Increasing professional development opportunities in the health care setting has been shown to affect nurse ret...

The article reflects the culture of communication as effective skills in professional activities contemporary world. aim is to study role language clichés communication, determine educational process and present structure business communications ways increase their efficiency. provides results a on speech interaction sphere. authors describe such phenomena inherent employees penitentiary system...

fundamental movement skills are observable patterns of motor behaviors including locomotor, manipulative, and stability activities. the aim of this study was to assess the gross motor development and the movement skill proficiency in elementary school children in tehran city. the test of gross motor development-2 (ulrich, 2000) was administered to 712 children aged between 7 and 11. performance...

BACKGROUND Primary health care professionals (PHPs) usually report high levels of distress and burnout symptoms related to job strain. Mindfulness, defined as non-judgmental-present-moment awareness, seems to be a moderator in the causal association between life stressors and well-being. This study aimed to verify correlations among self-reported mindfulness, perceived stress (PS), and subjecti...

This paper discusses the relevance of recent research on the economics of human development to the work of the Human Development and Capability Association. The recent economics of human development brings insights about the dynamics of skill accumulation to an otherwise static literature on capabilities. Skills embodied in agents empower people. Enhanced skills enhance opportunities and hence ...

The subglottal pressure (Ps) and voice source characteristics of five professional baritone singers have been analyzed and the normalized amplitude quotient (NAQ), defined as the ratio between peak-to-peak pulse amplitude and the negative peak of the differentiated flow glottogram and normalized with respect to the period time, was used as an estimate of glottal adduction. The relationship betw...

Abstract Service-learning is a pedagogical approach that integrates community service with academic study. Students apply skills and knowledge in practical situations reflect on their experiences. Our 3000-level service-learning college course, Leadership Development Agricultural Sciences, involved student-led development execution of one-day event, “AgCamp”, held university campus for high sch...