This study employed a survey instrument to investigate the knowledge topics that are important to a nursing professional. We asked 491 nursing professionals and managers in Taiwan what they thought about 47 educational topics. For each topic, the authors asked them how much they had learned about a given topic in their formal education, their current knowledge of the topic, and how important th...

The developments in information technology and multimedia give new opportunities to increase the efficiency and quality of skills education. This paper presents three applications developed in the Netherlands to enhance professional skills learning in different areas of psychology: (1) BioPsy, an application developed to teach and train the technical and practical backgrounds for conducting bio...

Professional teachers can guarantee the progress and the promotion of society because fostering the development of next generation is up to them and depends on their professional knowledge which has two kinds of sources; content knowledge and teaching skill. The aim of the present research was studying the effect of integrating problem-based learning with Information and Communications Technolo...

BACKGROUND As efforts to address patient safety (PS) in health professional (HP) education increase, it is important to understand new HPs' perspectives on their own PS competence at entry to practice. This study examines the self-reported PS competence of newly registered nurses, pharmacists and physicians. METHODS A cross-sectional survey of 4496 new graduates in medicine (1779), nursing (2...

Tourism industry has occupied a strategic position in the country's economic growth. The factors that trigger high performance of companies engaged this are very crucial. purpose study is to test correlation transformational leadership (TL), political skill (PS), organizational culture (OC), and employee (EP), investigate role OC as mediation variable. samples consisted 110 respondents from Com...

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BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN AUTONOMOUS SKILL LEARNING AND TASK-SPECIFIC PLANNING

BIOLOGICALLY-BASED FUNCTIONAL MECHANISMS OF MOTOR SKILL ACQUISITION

The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of different swimming race constraints on the evolution of turn parameters. One hundred and fifty-eight national and regional level 200-m (meters) male swimming performances were video-analyzed using the individualized-distance model in the Open Comunidad de Madrid tournament. Turn (p<.001, ES=0.36) and underwater distances (p<.001, ES=0.38) ...