WIISARD utilizes wireless technology to improve the care of victims following a mass casualty disaster. The WIISARD Scene Manager device (WSM) is designed to enhance the collection and accessibility of real-time data on victims, ambulances and hospitals for disaster supervisors and managers. We recently deployed WSM during a large-scale disaster exercise. The WSM performed well logging and trac...

BACKGROUND Learning in the clinical environment is an important part of nursing education. Several recent studies focusing on clinical learning have been based on hospital settings. Little is known about primary health care (PHC) as clinical environment where district nurses (DNs) or nurses supervise students. It is important to understand more about opportunities and difficulties in supervisin...

Analysis of banks’ r isk exposures is important both for management within banks and for bank supervisors. Two major sources of risk for banks are credit risk (the risk that loans will not be repaid) and market risk (the risk of losses arising from adverse movements in market prices). This article focuses on the analysis and management of market risk, an area that has received increasing attent...

This paper studies the perceived effects on the working conditions in 24 medium sized manufacturing companies, approximately 1.5 year into their implementation of Lean. This is studied quantitatively based on four stakeholders’ perceptions (the workers, the managers, the production supervisors and the white-collar workers), based on three factors; changes in the working environment, work with s...

background: job stress is one of the important issues in the health sector and its high effect on workers’ productivity. managerial skills can help organizations to improve employees’ effectiveness and reduce job stress. the present study investigated the relationship between employees’ job stress and managers’ professional skills. methods: this cross-sectional and correlation study was conduct...

This study examined the effects of executive coaching on multisource feedback over time. Participants were 1,361 senior managers who received multisource feedback; 404 of these senior managers worked with an executive coadi (EC) to review their feedback and set goals. One year later, 1,202 senior managers (88% of the original sample) received multisource feedback from another survey. Managers w...