BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Nurse managers are in an excellent position for providing leadership and support within the institutions they serve and are often responsible for accessing information that is vital to the improvement of health facility processes and patients' outcomes. Therefore, competency in informatics is essential. The purposes of this study are to examine current informatics compete...

PURPOSE This study was done to provide fundamental data for the development of competency reinforcement programs to prevent addictive behavior in adolescents through the construction and examination of an addiction prevention core competency model. METHODS In this study core competencies for preventing addictive behavior in adolescents through competency modeling were identified, and the addi...

abstract: background: when organization managed by experienced, competent and well performed managers, the organization will be succeeded in achieving their goals and it will be more effective. objective: this study was designed with the purpose of determining the relationship between managers competency and hospital efficiency in teaching hospital of tehran university of medical sciences durin...

introduction: high quality of care is one of the requirements of nursing which depends on the nursing competency. in this connection, the aim of this research was to determine the problems related to the academic training (nursing’ educational program) and clinical practice to achieve competency from the viewpoint of nurses, faculty members, and nursing students. methods: the study was an analy...

background critical thinking is one of the most important concepts in the field of education. despite studies published on nursing students’ critical thinking skills (cts), some suggest that there is not enough evidence supporting the relationship between content of nursing education programs and nursing students’ cts. conclusions the students were low skilled in critical thinking and their cts...

Human resource management is a process of bringing people and organizations together so that the goals of each other are met. Nowadays it is not possible to show a good financial or operating report unless your personnel relations are in order. Over the years, highly skilled and knowledge based jobs are increasing while low skilled jobs are decreasing. This calls for future skill mapping throug...

Judgements and decisions in many political, economic or medical contexts are often made while sleep deprived. Furthermore, in such contexts individuals are required to integrate information provided by - more or less qualified - advisors. We asked if sleep deprivation affects advice taking. We conducted a 2 (sleep deprivation: yes vs. no) ×2 (competency of advisor: medium vs. high) experimental...

OBJECTIVE This study presents a conceptual model to investigate the healthcare technology management (HTM) competency required by healthcare IS professionals and the impact of such competency in gaining strategic advantages through information technology (IT) by development of partnerships with people from different divisions of healthcare organizations. METHODS First, a scale to measure HTM ...

OBJECTIVES To assess factors affecting competency development of the Australian public health nutrition workforce and investigate competency development intentions, barriers and self-reported training needs. DESIGN Cross-sectional study using self-administered mail- or email-delivered questionnaire. SETTING AND SUBJECTS Two hundred and forty practitioners working in designated community and...