Introduction: The main way to improve the quality of care, especially for children, is to improve nursing communication skills. Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of reminiscence training on professional relationship communication skills in pediatric nursing staff. Materials and Methods: This study was a quasi-experimental design that consisted of all babies and ...

AIM This quality improvement project aims to reduce nurse-to-nurse lateral violence and create a more respectful workplace culture through a series of workshops. BACKGROUND Lateral violence is common and pervasive in nursing, with detrimental physical, psychological and organizational consequences. METHODS This project describes the organization-wide pre- and post-intervention survey of reg...

Background: Observance of professional ethics by teachers and educators plays a very important role in creating a favorable ethical climate in the educational environment. Teachers' professional ethics have been discussed from numerous philosophical perspectives. In the meantime, one of the philosophers of existentialism who is particularly concerned with the issue of ethics in the human world ...

BACKGROUND While attraction of doctors to rural settings is increasing in Mali, there is concern for their retention. An orientation course for young practicing rural doctors was set up in 2003 by a professional association and a NGO. The underlying assumption was that rurally relevant training would strengthen doctors' competences and self-confidence, improve job satisfaction, and consequently...

Non-verbal group dynamics are often opaque to a formal quantitative analysis of communication flow. In this context, ensemble musicians can be a reliable model of expert group coordination. In fact, bodily motion is a critical component of inter-musician coordination and thus could be used as a valuable index of sensorimotor communication. Here we measured head movement kinematics of an expert ...

INTRODUCTION Dissonance between the high 'technical' professionalism of nurses and the relatively low level of patient satisfaction with care received is a phenomenon observed in many countries. Many studies show that it occurs in the case of an inadequate interpersonal communication between nurses and patients. METHODS Three basic scopes of communication competences were involved in the rese...