Discourses of professionalism suggest that emotion and feelings should be kept outside the arena of professional practice (Abbott, 1988) and this applies to the helping professions of medicine and health care just as it does to engineering, finance or management. In the context of professional practice across a range of occupations that includes medical personnel, lawyers and mortuary directors...

Implementation of a palm-based information system in home care is part of a larger process of change in communal services for elderly. Workers in home care are questioning their professional identity and the quality of services, while the managers of home care see the introduction of computers as an opportunity to achieve effectiveness both by upgrading the working practices into a more profess...

The use of women workers in early computing and advertising ironically may have hurt their long-term professional position in the field because it reflected, and helped shape, their role as low-cost, unskilled workers. This article traces the relationship between advertising images of women used to sell data processing equipment and the early, feminized, data processing labor force in Great Bri...

Costs for workers’ compensation benefits in California have increased sharply in recent years, following periods of decline and stability. California was already one of the most expensive states for total costs per injured worker and for a number of types of testing and treatment in the midto late 1990s. For example, a series of multi-state studies revealed that California has the second highes...

[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to examine the musculoskeletal pain of care workers and investigate its effect on their job satisfaction. [Subjects and Methods] Subjects were 87 care workers working at C elderly care service center in P region. The average age of men was 62.5 ± 3.4 years and that of women was 57.3 ± 2.7 years. The 'Guidelines for Risk Factor Survey on Tasks with Musculo...

Context Healthcare is a very labour-intensive process. The performance, individually and collectively, of a diverse array of healthcare workers has profound implications for the safety of care provided to patients and clients. It is worthwhile to consider how effectively we have used regulatory and policy levers over the past 10 years to assure optimally safe performance by the entire healthcar...

background: ct scan and nuclear medicine exams deliver a great part of medical exposures. this study examined professional radiation hazards in ct scan and nuclear medicine workers.   methods : in a cross sectional study 30 occupationally exposed workers and 7 controls (all from personnel of a laboratory) were selected. physical dosimetry was performed for exposed workers. blood samples were ob...

Urban Migrant Workers in China have been an important power to promote the urbanization in China and economic growth. Because the overall qualities of migrant workers are not high, and they are lacking of professional labor skills, most of those migrant workers are not sufficiently qualified for various industries development, and the high and new technology in widespread use and the optimizati...