abstract: introduction: abiding with ethical discipline in nursing leads to improving nursing services and promoting the patient’s health. due to the fact that patients are the most critical elements in health care organizations, this study was carried out with the aim of determine compliance with professional ethics and its relationship with associated demographic factors from the vantage poin...

we all, that it could be that steering through nearly 600 pages of text is worth while.1 Historically feudalism and a landowning aristocracy throughout Europe proved unable to cope with the rise of the expanding and commercial system of towns and cities. 2-3 In the great wide world there arose two mutually antagonistic systems: entrepreneurial capitalism and organised labour. Perkin further sug...

APPAM members do a lot of what might be called “applied social science research.” They use scientific methods to describe problems of concern to public policy, to explore their causes, and to estimate the effects of existing policies. This laudable commitment to empiricism, however, often inhibits analysts from taking the next step that is logically required of policy thinking: asking “What if....

Games have been used for training purposes for many years, but their use remains somewhat underdeveloped and under-theorized in health professional education. This paper considers the basis for using serious games (games that have an explicit educational purpose) in health professional education in terms of their underlying concepts and design principles. These principles can be understood as a...

Professional development and professional identity of English language teachers have usually been explored separately in the research agenda. However, there might be a nexus of relationships between professional identity and professional development in the context of English language teaching. This study, therefore, explored how professional identity might contribute to professional development...

background: congruity of values in workplace has a determining effect on personal and organizational outcomes. on the other hand, nurses provide invaluable services during the difficult times of sickness. the aim of this research was thus to investigate the relationship between personal and professional values among nurses working in hospitals affiliated to isfahan university of medical science...

background: professionalism is an important feature of the professional jobs. dynamic nature and the various interpretations of thisterm lead to multiple defi nitions of this concept. the aim of this paper is to identify the core attributes of the nursing professionalism. materials and methods: we followed rodgers’ evolutionary method of concept analysis. texts published in scientifi c database...

traumatic injuries are leading causes of spinal cord damage. the purpose of this study was to evaluate whether wrestling induced cervical spondylosis amongst professional wrestlers or not. to test this assumption, two groups of athletes, 72 wrestlers versus 76 non-wrestlers 15-55 years of age were studied. radiographic findings and clinical assessment were compared in both groups. significant d...