NF is a 62 year old female patient in good health. She is seeing her family physician for routine care, including managing her high blood pressure, annual checkups , immunizations, and standard screenings. She also sees a podiatrist regarding a heel spur on her right foot, a GI specialist for GERD, an ophthalmologist for follow-up care after cataract surgery, a physical therapist for left knee ...

Suicide is a major health problem and a leading cause of death throughout the world. A primary goal for suicide prevention is reforming health professional education in order to increase the competence of health professionals in assessing and managing suicide risk. Nursing leadership is involved in this reform, yet nurses frequently lack the competence to care for patients in suicidal crisis. A...

About this report… Through ongoing monitoring of the curriculum and its outcomes, the School of Medicine promotes a process of continuous quality improvement in order to ensure an optimal educational experience for our students. This report is one part of that monitoring process. It is intended to provide a summary description of the curriculum and of student characteristics, performance, and p...

PURPOSE The purpose of this project was to update the 1987 competencies for physical therapists who work in schools and their content to reflect present practice, legislation, and terminology. METHODS A review of the literature and competencies for professionals working in schools was completed. Four focus groups of school physical therapists were formed to ascertain their perspectives of the...

INTRODUCTION Official recognition and certification for informatics professionals are essential aspects of workforce development. OBJECTIVE To describe the history, pathways, and nuances of certification in nursing informatics across the globe; compare and contrast those with board certification in clinical informatics for physicians. METHODS (1) A review of the representative literature on...

Valid and comprehensive nursing informatics (NI) competencies currently are lacking. Meanwhile, nursing leaders are emphasizing the need to include NI in nursing curricula, as well as within the roles of practicing nurses in all settings. This article presents the initial work of a team of NI experts toward development of a valid and reliable set of NI competencies. Previous work primarily has ...

Competencies of occupational safety and health (OSH) professionals have become a concern due to the significance of safety management in the field of safety engineering. The purpose of this article is to identify competencies needed by OSH professionals. These competencies are required by professionals in administrating and enforcing legislations related to OSH in Malaysia. This study used Delp...

Most scarcities that underpin health disparities within and among countries are not natural; rather, they result from policy choices and the operation of social institutions. Using examples from the United States of America: the Chicago heat wave and hurricane Katrina, this paper develops "denaturalizing scarcity" as a strategy for enquiry to inform public-health ethics in an interconnected wor...

today, competency oriented approach to human resources development is considered as one of the important empowering strategy in successful organizations. in recent years, emotional and social managers’ competencies and relational competencies have been demonstrated by several research studies. the purpose of the current study was examine the impact of emotional and social managers’ competencies...

Quality of care in the nursing home (NH) has received great attention over the past 2 decades. The role of the physician in the quality equation, however, has not been well described. Some commentators have gone so far as to argue that physicians have been marginalized owing to the lack of an evidence base demonstrating the impact of physician care on quality measures, including cost.1 We have ...