Nostalgia, gamification and staff development – moving staff training away from didactic delivery

11 Training and Development of International Staff

Staff development and education.

In die lig van ontwikkelings in die gesondheidsdienste is dit noodsaaklik dat verpleegadministrateurs bekwame bestuurders moet wees. Die gebied van personeelbestuur is van fundamentele beiang en hiervan is personeelontwikkeling en -onderrig ’n belangrike onderdeel. Enkele gebiede van personeelontwikkeling wat op plaaslike vlak meer aandag behoort te kry, word toegelig met spesifieke verwysing n...

Insights from a staff development course

In this special session we meet a set of projects in computer science and engineering education at a university in Saudi Arabia. They are the product of a pedagogical development course ran in collaboration with a Swedish university during the academic year 2013/2014. The projects reflect the local situation, with its possibilities and challenges, and suggest steps to take, in the local environ...

Using Gamification to Enhance Staff Motivation in Logistics

1 Staff motivation as a key challenge in logistics Logistics is concerned with effectively managing the flow of materials and supplies for production, commerce and other purposes (Christopher, 2003). Transport logistics deals with resource flows on a large scale level, as it involves transport by land, water, and air. A second domain of logistics is intralogistics, which is concerned with the i...

Staff training and computers in respiratory care.

The respiratory therapists' (RTs') knowledge base is among a hospital's greatest assets. RTs routinely use advanced medical technologies and must understand the patient's physiology, anatomy, and condition to deliver safe and effective treatment with those technologies, especially within critical care environments. Also RTs often must educate patients and patients' families, which requires thor...