OBJECTIVES Our primary aim was to evaluate the impact of US National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded bioethics training programmes (Fogarty bioethics training programmes, FBTPs) that trained individuals from Africa over the programme's first 10 years to examine changes between pretraining and post-training in individual achievement and to document any associations between individual, training...

In developed countries, professional relationships between the prescribers and pharmacists are good due to the professional services offered by the pharmacists. Many researchers have found that, prescribers are in favour of the new extended roles of practising pharmacists as patient counsellors and drug information providers. In India, professional relationships between the prescribers and phar...

BACKGROUND Nursing professional practice in different contexts of care has been widely described in evidence-based literature. Currently, there is no consensus on a common structure for these descriptions. Understanding and comparing similar practices is made difficult by the varying nature of descriptions provided in scientific literature. PURPOSE OF THE STUDY 1) to report research methods f...

This study contributes to the current research in career and professional identity development that it developed a validated competency-based framework enhance self-awareness of future engineers. Through mixed-method design, key competencies were identified for three roles early Ninety-six engineers HR experts from different fields involved. resulted portraits practice (engineers role focusing ...

The widespread involvement of librarians in information literacy education has raised concerns about their development as teachers, but there is little research on their acquisition and application of pedagogical knowledge. A questionnaire was used to collect mainly quantitative data about the teaching roles, pedagogical knowledge and professional development of subject librarians in 82 UK high...

This article explains the pilot project and results of a peer review which, according to the data available, is the first such review carried out in the Croatian nursing practice. The goals of this project were to identify standards of professional performance which describe behaviour of competent professionals. Peer review is the evaluation of an individual’s professional performance for relev...

Objective. The purpose of this study was to engage registered nurses (RNs) in the creation of a Professional Practice Model (PPM). Background. PPMs are essential as the philosophical underpinnings for nursing practice. The study institution created a new PPM utilizing the voice of their RNs. Methods. Qualitative inquiry with focus groups was conducted to explore RNs values and beliefs about the...

The purpose of this study was to explore faculty members’ perceptions their roles as boundary spanners, the expectations they have for professional competencies related spanning, and how these were prepared successfully perform in boundary-spanning leadership roles. In context higher education community engagement, spanning refers work that is critical overcoming divide between institution (Wee...

OBJECTIVE To elicit medical leaders' views on reasons and remedies for the under-representation of women in medical leadership roles. DESIGN Qualitative study using semistructured interviews with medical practitioners who work in medical leadership roles. Interviews were transcribed verbatim and transcripts were analysed using thematic analysis. SETTING Public hospitals, private healthcare ...

This article identifies two models of nonprofit organization roles: the economic model, which emphasizes business-like methods, and the voluntary spirit model, which emphasizes participation and membership. Highly visible, professional nonprofit organizations must constantly struggle with the extent to which they are to emphasize their role as efficient and competitive economic actors or their ...