Nursing construction image is permeated by historical socioeconomic and cultural aspects. This theme aims to understand the perception of nurses regarding the visibility of nursing staff's daily work. This qualitative research is exploratory, with 30 nurses at a university hospital in southern Brazil. The data was collected from July to October 2012, through semi-structured interviews and submi...

a College of Business and Center for Behavioral Political Economy, Stony Brook University b Center for Behavioral Political Economy, Department of Political Science, and College of Business, Stony Brook University c Center for Evolutionary Psychology and Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara d Center for Evolutionary Psychology and Department of...

Strategic Information management in hospitals gives directives for the development of the hospital's information system. This paper discusses the specific situation of strategic information management for a university hospital that is subject to the Dutch healthcare environment. Central issues for the discussion are the involved internal and external stakeholders that have some direct or indire...

BACKGROUND Although burnout is viewed as a syndrome rooted in the working environment and organizational culture, the role of the learning environment in the development of resident burnout remains unclear. We aimed to evaluate the association between burnout and the learning environment in a cohort of Belgian residents. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional online survey among residents in ...

BACKGROUND In clinical research scientific, legal as well as ethical aspects are important. It is well known that clinical investigators at university hospitals have to undertake their PhD-studies alongside their daily work and reconciling work and study can be challenging. The aim of this project was to create a web based course in clinical research bioethics (5 credits) and to examine whether...

The clinical nurse specialist (CNS) role in Canada has 5 key components: clinical practice, consultation, education, research, and leadership. This study focuses on the consultation component: how it is described by CNSs and the facilitators and barriers to its implementation. A qualitative descriptive design was used to interview 8 CNSs who worked with adult populations in a university hospita...

BACKGROUND The feminization of medicine has risen dramatically over the past decades. The aim of this article was to compare the advance of women with that of men and determine the differences between hierarchical status and professional recognition achieved by women in medicine. METHODS A retrospective study was carried out in the Hospital Clinic Barcelona, Spain, of the period from 1996 to ...

BACKGROUND The students' perception of the learning environment is an important aspect for evaluation and improvement of the educational program. The College of Medicine at King Saud University (KSU) reformed its curriculum in 2009 from a traditional to a system-oriented hybrid curriculum. OBJECTIVE The objective of the present study was to determine the perception of the second batch (reform...

BACKGROUND Previous research addressed the development of a classification scheme for quality improvement systems in European hospitals. In this study we explore associations between the 'maturity' of the hospitals' quality improvement system and clinical outcomes. METHODS The maturity classification scheme was developed based on survey results from 389 hospitals in eight European countries. ...