Earlier papers have reported on Converser for Healthcare, a highly-interactive English↔Spanish speech translation system for communication between patients and caregivers, and upon an extensive pilot project testing the system at a San Francisco medical center, part of a very large healthcare organization. This historical paper provides for the first time details of the resulting evaluation and...

Theory-based nursing practice positively influences many outcomes in healthcare organizations. As a response to limited human and economic resources, a college of nursing and a for-profit healthcare organization worked in partnership to develop a project that focused on developing and demonstrating the value of a dedicated education unit grounded in caring theory. The authors describe the devel...

Monitoring the negative effect of drugs is a concept that all healthcare professionals would be aware of as part of their professional responsibility. However since 1968, it has evolved into a structured science called 'Pharmacovigilance'. This review aims to sensitize Caribbean healthcare professionals to the global pharmacovigilance network of the World Health Organization and how their activ...

The evolution of the organizational theories has brought to an overtaking of univocal rules of good organization, focused on the importance of setting fixed schemes and plans in theorizing and designing the company organizational framework. It’s clear in fact that the surrounding environment can strongly influence the organization and its need to adopt particular working and coordination forms....

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Based on experiences and reflections reported by health professionals, the aim of this study was to critically analyze the actions, situations, and decisions in healthcare services that involve breastfeeding, examining aspects that favor or limit its possibilities. This was a qualitative study based on the conceptual framework of vulnerability and healthcare, using focus groups with 25 healthca...

planned human resource development is critical to educating a skilled and efficient workforce. the present study aimed at identifying the main factors of planned human resource development in iranian social security organization hospitals. the study is done through analysis of a questionnaire designed after identification of the main variables. iran social security organisation hospitals (the m...