P69 Recruiting our workforce using value based interviewing

Recruiting and Retaining a More Diverse Workforce

Restructuring our workforce.

P roviding high quality emergency care to acutely ill and injured patients has become more challenging than ever. There are increasing pressures from all sorts of different directions. Patients quite rightly expect better treatment, delivered with better communication. At the same time, emergency treatments have become increasingly sophisticated. As a result, it might be expected that it would ...

Some Thoughts on our Globalized Workforce

HE POSITIVE IMPACT OF A globalized workforce has become confused with the misfortune of job losses across our country. To conduct a meaningful dialogue about these issues, we need to look past the political rhetoric and consider the more complex issues facing IT executives and organizations. We are certainly facing a transformation in the manner that we organize and assign work to human capital...

Value of re-interviewing in contact tracing.

The epidemiological importance of reinterviewing in contact tracing, using those treated for venereal is demonstrated. Interviewing as a preliminary to contact tracing is usually done by the physician in charge. When 160 patients with early syphilis failed to provide information on contacts, they were reinterviewed by a skilled interviewer trained in psychology and working in pleasant surroun...

Interviewing young children: explicating our practices and dilemmas.

Qualitative research studies have demonstrated that very young children can provide important insights into their daily lives and health experiences. Despite the shift to include children's perspectives in research and document principles related to good data collection with children, there has not been a parallel move within the scholarly community to lay bare the practical challenges inherent...