In an environment characterized by a projected over-supply of primary care providers and a public seeking higher quality, cost-effective care, advanced practice nurses will be measured not only by their comparative value in delivering conventional primary care, but also by the uniqueness of their contributions to health outcomes. These value-added skills, distinctive to nursing practice at all ...

the aim of this paper is to highlight the issue of managerial competencies and competency model in industrial enterprises. this paper builds upon the theory of knowledge processing and its role as a theoretical basis for knowledge development in the area of managerial competencies. managerial competencies are becoming one of the key building blocks of success in a company to achieve both the mi...

The aim of the study was to evaluate grip force (GF; normal component of hand-object interaction) adaptation across different manipulation conditions. We hypothesized (1) that the absolute safety margin (the difference between the exerted GF and the minimum GF that prevents slippage; absolute SM), rather than the relative SM (the same difference relative to the minimum GF required), could be an...

BACKGROUND The physicians' competency is an important public health issue around the world. Several international organizations have taken the lead in examining the competencies required to be a physician. The purpose of this study is to identify subgroups of physicians' competency based upon the importance results of competency evaluation and provide a scientific basis for the qualitative rese...

Cells of an Escherichia coli mutant defective in heme biosynthesis (hemA) grown under conditions for respiration deficiency (grown in the absence of aminolevulinic acid) have 20% of the number of specific colicin Ia receptors found in cells of the same strain grown under conditions for respiration competency (grown in the presence of aminolevulinic acid).

O mundo empresarial é repleto de situações complexas e inovadoras. Diante disso, muitos empresários buscam meios para se adequar às diversas normas impostas pela regulamentação civil comercial. Nesse contexto nasceu a necessidade criação uma empresa, que orientasse desse sequência aos objetivos da firma, como forma proteção dos bens conquistados no decorrer décadas. Para tanto, observando as ne...

background: clinical learning is one of the important issues that helps the perception of nursing students’ practice in a clinical setting and its effect on their professional development. the aim of this study is to describe and state the manner of clinical learning in nursing students. materials and methods: this qualitative study was conducted as a grounded theory. the individual semi-struct...

Background/Study aim The American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) recommends that trainees complete 150 endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) procedures before assessing competency. However, this recommendation is largely based on limited evidence and expert opinion. With new evidence suggesting that this historical threshold is underestimating training requirements, we evaluated the learni...

Competency in the use of ICT is enjoying renewed attention in the research and practice, but there may be a notable lack of a deeper theoretical view in this area of interest. This paper presents a grounded theory that revolves around three core elements namely: e-Competency Sets, e-Competency Acquisition, and Triggers. It is proposed that the practitioner possesses an eCompetency Set, consisti...