BACKGROUND/AIM The aim of this study was to determine the frequency of and risk factors for physical violence, verbal violence, and mobbing experienced by nurses in a university hospital. MATERIALS AND METHODS This was a cross-sectional study conducted at Gazi University Medical Faculty Hospital. A questionnaire form recommended by the WHO and the International Labor Organization was administ...

BACKGROUND In The Netherlands, health professionals have created a doctor-driven standardised system to report and analyse adverse outcomes (AO). The aim is to improve healthcare by learning from past experiences. The key elements of this system are (1) an unequivocal definition of an adverse outcome, (2) appropriate contextual information and (3) a three-dimensional hierarchical classification...

BACKGROUND Previous research revealed relationships between learning strategies and knowledge acquisition. During clerkships, however, students' focus widens beyond mere knowledge acquisition as they further develop overall competence. This shift in focus can influence learning strategy use. AIM We explored which learning strategies were used during clerkships and their relationship to clinic...

The present action research article is linked to an ergonomics project in a university hospital. The author's proposal is to focus action on the effective worker involvement required for the creation of spaces/mechanisms within organizations where people can enhance cooperation and deliberation on matters relating to work. For this purpose, a committee was introduced to assist in finding proble...

This paper analyzes the relationship between sustainability views, drivers and barriers and concrete procurement practices for sustainability in the German food service industry (FSI), building on earlier work of Rankin et al. (2011) on this topic. Further innovation lies in the explicit regard to product-specific differences in the importance and level of implementation of sustainable sourcing...

Taku Tsuchiya, Renata M. Wentzcovitch , Cesar R. S. da Silva, Stefano de Gironcoli 4, 5 and Jun Tsuchiya 1 Geodynamics Research Center, Ehime University, 2-5 Bunkyo-cho, Matsuyama 790-8577, Japan 2 Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, MN 55455, USA 3 Minnesota Supercomputing Institute for Digital Technology and Advanced Computations, University of M...

INTRODUCTION Social vulnerability is known to be related to ill health. When a pregnant woman is socially vulnerable, the ill health does not only affect herself, but also the health and development of her (unborn) child. To optimise care for highly vulnerable pregnant women, in Rotterdam, a holistic programme was developed in close collaboration between the university hospital, the local gover...

INTRODUCTION To investigate the attitudes of medical and nursing student towards the older Chinese population. MATERIALS AND METHODS A reliable and valid Chinese language version of Kogan's Attitudes toward Older People (KAOP) with 17 matched item pairs (34 items) was completed by 275 medical and nursing students. Descriptive data analysis was employed. RESULTS Participants reported slightl...

This paper describes the changes in transformational leadership and quality outcomes that occurred between 2008 and 2011 in a Finnish university hospital that is aiming to meet the Magnet standards. Measurements were conducted in 2008-2009 and subsequently in 2010-2011 by surveying nursing staff and patients. Nursing staff were surveyed using web-based surveys to collect data on transformationa...

This paper contributes to public institutions with the adaptation of a performance evaluation tool based on private companies. The objective is to demonstrate how the impact of an educational activity might be measured in the economic value added for the society of a public university hospital. The paper was divided in four parts, despite the introductory and methodological aspects and the fina...