due to the particular importance of projects in human life and in organizations, proper project management has been always regarded highly by researchers and practitioners. recent advances in technology and fundamental changes in most scientific areas have affected projects and made their nature and environmental circumstances much more complex than in the past. fortunately, in recent years, ma...

The fragmented nature of the U.S. healthcare system is quite anomalous. A hilarious video on YouTube makes the point well, asking what it would be like if air travel worked like healthcare.1 In this alternative world, we see an unfortunate consumer trying to book a crosscountry fl ight to Oregon. He discovers he needs to book separately with an East Coast specialist to get him to Chicago and a ...

AIM To study nurse managers' perceptions and experiences of staff nurse structural empowerment and its impact on the nurse manager leadership role and style. BACKGROUND Nurse managers' leadership roles may be viewed as challenging given the complex needs of patients and staff nurses' involvement in both clinical and organizational decision-making processes in interdisciplinary care settings. ...

Funding Information: This work was supported by the Helsinki University Hospital (research grant No. Y1014KN025, manager: Leena-Maija Aaltonen). Received: October 4, 2020. Accepted: January 28, 2021. Corresponding author: Lotta-Maria Adele Helena Oksanen, Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Phoniatrics – Head Neck Surgery, Maistraatinportti 2, PO Box 250, 00029 Helsinki, Finland (e-mail: lott...

A principal requires a manager for production. He can use an internal manager, or contracts with an external manger. In each case, the manager obtains experience benefits from production. When the principal uses an internal manager, both parties share cost information. When the principal contracts with an external manager, only the external manager acquires cost information. The internal manage...

OBJECTIVES to test the hypothesis as to whether persons newly discharged into the community following an acute stroke and assigned a stroke case manager would experience, compared to usual post-hospital care, better health-related quality of life (HRQL), fewer emergency room visits and less non-elective hospitalisations. DESIGN a stratified, balanced, evaluator-blinded, randomised clinical tr...

842 December 2014, Vol. 104, No. 12 The new board of the Hospital Association of South Africa (HASA), elected at its annual general meeting shortly after the association’s annual conference in Sandton this October, brings added depth and a wide variety of skills to the seismic shifts changing the face of healthcare delivery in South Africa. Pledging her association to work with government in fu...

1 Specialist by the Associação Brasileira de Doutor em Ciências, Medical School of the Universidade de Sao Paulo (FMUSP). Clinical supervisor of the Otorrinolaringologia Unit of the Hospital das Clínicas, FMUSP. 2 Otorhinolaryngology and Cervicofacial Surgery. Title of Sleep Medicine, Associação Brasileira de Sono. Doctoral student in Otorhinolaryngology, Faculdade de Medicina (Medical School),...

This study's aim was to understand the role of nurse managers in the process of hospital accreditation.This qualitative case study was conducted in a large private hospital in Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil. Five nurse managers were interviewed using a semi-structured script from April to May, 2011 and content analysis was used to interpret the data. Results show the strategic position of this prof...