Beyond “Med Management”

Beyond Safety Management Systems

an organization beyond rote subscription to an SMS. a truly safe operation is not defined simply by the presence of a safety management system (SMS). While an SMS is a good start, more is needed, much more. The International Civil Aviation Organization’s (ICAO’s) decision to require aviation organizations to adopt SMSs has clearly focused attention on the concept of an SMS. However, a decision ...

Diabetes Management beyond Pregnancy

Moving Beyond Crisis Management

T o the casual observer, it may appear that in the past five years, drought has been a more common visitor to the American landscape. Drought conditions ravaged the southwestern and south-central states during 1995 and 1996, raising havoc in many economic sectors. It also caused serious environmental and social hardships. Drought has persisted in each year since, affecting most areas in the cou...

Pain Management beyond Nsaids

According to the International Association for the Study of Pain, pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage. Language is used to describe sensations and emotions, but it is not a prerequisite for feeling these; i.e. lack of ability to verbally communicate in no alters the perception of pain in h...

Beyond Knowledge Management: Introducing Learning Management Systems

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In the knowledge economy, a firm’s intellectual capital represents the only sustainable source of competitive advantage; accordingly, the ability to learn, and to manage the learning process are key success factors for firms. The knowledge management approach to learning in organizations has achieved limited success, primarily because it has focused on knowledge as a resource ...