OBJECTIVES This study aims to gauge the technical and soft skills of the hospital security personnel so as to enable prioritization of their training needs. METHODOLOGY A cross sectional questionnaire based study was conducted in December 2011. Two separate predesigned and pretested questionnaires were used for gauging soft skills and technical skills of the security personnel. Extensive stat...

BACKGROUND In the isolated and dynamic health-care setting of critical care air ambulance transport, the quality of clinical care is strongly influenced by non-technical skills such as anticipating, recognising and understanding, decision making, and teamwork. However there are no published reports identifying or applying a non-technical skills framework specific to an intensive care air ambula...

Non-technical skills are of increasing importance in surgery and surgical training. A traditional focus on technical skills acquisition and competence is no longer enough for the delivery of a modern, safe surgical practice. This review discusses the importance of non-technical skills and the values that underpin successful modern surgical practice. This narrative review used a number of source...

The purpose of this paper is to identify portions of the literature in the areas of Information Technology (IT) management, skills development, and curriculum development that support the design of a holistic conceptual framework for instruction in non-technical skills within the IT higher education context. This article review provides a framework for understanding how the critical success fac...

Over a period of time software industry has seen a steady growth and the main reason for this growth is increase in the supply and demand of software. In software industry people are hired from different parts of the world having technical and non-technical skills. However, nontechnical skills which are equally given importance while hiring a new employee are relatively given little attention b...

the aim of this study is to examine the effects of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurial intention of technical and vocational university students. technical and vocational higher education centers are among the centers providing students with both theoretical knowledge and practical skills. entrepreneurship and business skills are the courses that students are required to pass during t...