In-house engineering training for hospital staff

House Staff Communication Training and Patient Experience Scores

OBJECTIVE To assess whether communication training for housestaff via role-playing exercises (1) is well-received and (2) improves patient experience scores in housestaff clinics. METHODS We conducted a pre-post study in which the housestaff for 3 adult hospital departments participated in communication trainingled by trained faculty in small groups . Sessions centered on a published 5-step s...

Advanced trauma life support training for hospital staff.

BACKGROUND Injury is responsible for an increasing global burden of death and disability. As a result, new models of trauma care have been developed. Many of these, though initially developed in high-income countries (HICs), are now being adopted in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). One such trauma care model is advanced trauma life support (ATLS) training in hospitals, which is being pr...

Crisis prevention and intervention training for psychiatric hospital staff.

A 5-day course designed to train psychiatric hospital staff verbal and physical methods of preventing violence and injury when dealing with upset patients was taught to 89 staff from maximum and less secure wards. Compared to no-treatment controls, experimental subjects improved significantly on four tests of crisis-related tests and knowledge. Questionnaire and self-report measures from staff ...

Effect of a training program for hospital cleaning staff on prevention of hospital-acquired infection.

or "all" of the procedures, and few reported use of additional personal protective equipment, such as double sleeves (8% of respondents), plastic aprons (11%), or double gloves (11%). Details on the number of medical students who reported use of personal protective equipment during "most" or "all" procedures are shown in Table 1. The main factors identified by medical students as being importan...

Hospital Medical Staff Privileges