Interfaith Engagement and Orientation Programs

Innovative Programs Highlighting Patient and Family Engagement.

T he 7th International Conference on Patientand Family-Centered Care was held July 25-27, 2016, in New York City. Attended by over 1,000 individuals representing some 348 institutions and organizations from across the United States and around the world, the conference included 120 presentations and 89 posters on topics of patientand family-centered care. A listing of all conference presentation...

Engaging parents in parent engagement programs

Activities, engagement, and emotion in after-school programs (and elsewhere).

Experiences that are deeply engaging and enjoyable, engender full concentration, and present a balance between challenge and skill promote children's development. This chapter describes a study that sought to identify the kinds of settings and activities that foster engagement and, by extension, positive youth development. The after-school experiences of 191 ethnically diverse youth living in t...

Persistence , Engagement , and Migration in Engineering Programs 1

Records from the Multiple-Institution Database for Investigating Engineering Longitudinal Development indicate that engineering students are typical of students in other majors with respect to: persistence in major; persistence by gender and ethnicity; racial/ethnic distribution; and grade distribution. Data from the National Survey of Student Engagement show that this similarity extends to eng...

The Effect of Internal Marketing Orientation on Nurses’ performance with the Mediating Role of Nurses’ Engagement

Background: The performance of nurses as the largest human resources element of health care organizations has an important impact on the quality and results of patients' treatment. The main purpose of this research is to investigate the impact of internal marketing orientation on nurses’ performance by considering the mediating role of nurses’ engagement. Materials & Methods: In this regard, w...