The Context Patient safety is a timely and important topic in Newfoundland and Labrador. In 2007, the provincial government established the Commission of Inquiry on Hormone Receptor Testing – conducted by Justice Cameron – as a result of significant estrogen and progesterone receptor testing errors by the Eastern Health Regional Health Authority between 1997 and 2005. Among 60 recommendations o...

This article presents a retrospective analysis of the Brazilian Nursing concerning the professionalization of workers at technical level. It also provides some indication about the trends of professional education. There is a clear indication of increased intellectual and conceptual accumulation in the four decades the professional education in nursing at technical level has been part of the pu...

The research, accomplished in the period 2004-2005, had as general objective to analyse teachers and students' perceptions of the biosafety teaching-learning process in secondary courses of the health area. The data were collected at Oswaldo Cruz Foundation courses in Rio de Janeiro. A total of 82 students and 12 teachers have participated on the study. It was a teorical-empirical research with...

OBJECTIVE The introduction of medical humanities (MH) in undergraduate medical education in Italy has been an issue of debate since the 90's and few years later it was extended to other healthcare degrees. The aims of this Italian literature review, after considering the international scene, are: to evaluate the extent to which the interest in this subject has gradually developed throughout the...

Workforce shortages, fiscal restraint, complex healthcare organizations, increasing patient acuity, the explosion of knowledge and technology and the ever expanding role of nurses in healthcare have reinforced the importance of new graduates arriving in the work setting with the ability to move seamlessly into practice. This idea of moving seamlessly into practice is often referred to as practi...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the attitudes and readiness of students of healthcare professions towards interprofessional learning. METHODOLOGY A cross-sectional study design was used. Two different scales were used to measure the readiness for and perception of interprofessional learning; these were the 'Readiness for Interprofessional Learning Scale' and the 'Interdisciplinary Education Perception...

virtual learning is a type of electronic learning system based on the web. it models traditional in- person learning by providing virtual access to classes, tests, homework, feedbacks and etc. students and teachers can interact through chat rooms or other virtual environments. web 2.0 services are usually used for this method. internet audio-visual tools, multimedia systems, a disco cd-roms, vi...

In Europe and elsewhere, there is increasing interest in competence-based education (CBE) and training for professional practice in healthcare. This review presents competences for pharmacy practice in Europe and compares them with those for medicine and dentistry. Comparisons amongst competence frameworks were made by matching the European Directive for Professional Qualifications in sectoral ...

Nurses lack adequate pain management knowledge, which can result in poorly managed postsurgical pain. This study aimed to develop, implement, and evaluate pain management education and operational guidelines to improve nursing knowledge and pain management. This quality improvement project employed convenience samples of surgical oncology nurses and postoperative patients. The intervention invo...

Purpose For healthcare professionals, practicing a healthful behavior oneself is a powerful predictor of counseling patients about these same self-care behaviors (e.g. exercise, wearing seat belts, etc). We explored the feasibility of altering healthcare professionals’ personal and professional behaviors with regard to diet, food preparation, and their ability to advise patients who are overwei...