Background :Effective leadership is of prime importance in any organization and it goes through changes based on accepted health promotion and behavior change theory. Although there are many leadership styles, transformational leadership, which emphasizes supportive leadership behaviors, seems to be an appropriate style in many settings particularly in the health care and educational sectors ...

in this paper, we consider groups with points which were introduced by v.p. shunkov in 1990. in novikov-adian's group, adian's periodic products of finite groups without involutions and olshansky's periodic monsters every non-unit element is a point. there exist groups without points. in this article we shall prove some properties of the groups with points.

OBJECTIVE To test discriminant analysis as a method of turning the information of a routine customer satisfaction survey (CSS) into a more accurate decision-making tool. METHODS A 7-question, 10-multiple choice, self-applied questionnaire was used to study a sample of patients seen in two outpatient care units in Valparaíso, Chile, one of primary care (n=100) and the other of secondary care (...

Previous research on the labor market for nurses has demonstrated rather substantial wage and employment gains for nurses during the 1980s and into the early 1990s. This paper documents the decline in real and relative wages for nurses beginning in the early 1990s. Average real wages for RNs decreased from 1993 to 1997 and, compared to college educated females, relative RN wages decreased by 2....

Fibromyalgia is a syndrome characterized by the presence of diffuse and chronic musculoskeletal pain of unknown etiology. Clinical diagnosis and the merely palliative treatments considerably affect the patient's experience and the chronic course of the disease. Therefore, several authors have emphasized the need to explore issues related to self in these patients. The repertory grid technique (...

Recently, the HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points) concept was proposed as possible way to implement process-based hygiene concepts in clinical practice, but the extent to which this food safety concept can be transferred into the health care setting is unclear. We therefore discuss possible ways for a translation of the principles of the HACCP for health care settings. While a d...