PERSONAL POTENTIAL AS A BASIS OF HEALTHCARE WORKERS' PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

The Experiences of Healthcare Providers Regarding Professional Ethics of Front Line Health Workers (A Qualitative Study)

 Background and purpose: There is a return to rationality and ethics in the approach of current world. After several eras, humanity comes to consider rationality and ethics in addressing its physical and moral needs. From this point of view, ethics could be considered as a center of evolution in the future. This approach mainly influences those practices that are in the lead in serving people....

Linguistic Audit as a Professional Activity

The subject of this research is linguistic (or: language) audit. The term is new and not being widely used so far. Linguistic audit, in particular, is offered as a service of linguistic-consulting agencies’ activities. Modern linguistic consulting, according to the author, is a form of stimulating theoretical and practical development of linguistic ecology, a new branch of applied linguistics, ...

Accounting for personal and professional choices for pandemic influenza vaccination amongst English healthcare workers.

BACKGROUND Healthcare workers (HCWs) are encouraged to get vaccinated during influenza pandemics to reduce their own, and patients', risk of infection, and to encourage their patients to get immunised. Despite extensive research on HCWs' receipt of vaccination, little is known about how HCWs articulate pandemic influenza vaccination advice to patients. AIMS To explore HCWs' uptake of the A/H1...

Professional Practices Promoting Health of Healthcare Workers: Comparison of Public and Private Hospitals in Pakistan

Patient aggression towards different professional groups of healthcare workers.

INTRODUCTION Patient aggression affects healthcare quality and, in extreme situations, may even lead to medical malpractice. Little is known, however, about the specific distribution of health care professionals' exposure to patient aggression in various countries. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to assess the exposure of various professional groups of healthcare personnel to patient aggr...