background the migration of dentists is a major policy challenge facing both developing and developed countries. dentists from over 120 countries migrate to australia, and a large proportion are from developing countries. the aim of the study was to assess the life story experience (lse) of migrant dentists in australia, in order to address key policy challenges facing dentist migration.   meth...

A Review of: Popoola, B., Uzoagba, N., & Rabiu, N. (2020). “What’s happening over there?”: study of the current state services, challenges, and prospects in Nigerian medical libraries. Journal Medical Library Association, 108(3), 398–407. https://doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2020.607 Abstract Objective – This examined field librarianship as it is currently practiced Nigeria. Design Mixed methods: e...

M am hospitals ami physicians today face serious financial challenges because of managed care and reimbursement short tails from programs such as Medicare. They respond to these challenges by cutting costs. But such efforts have a negative impact on staffing levels, inevitably reducing the time caregivers can spend with patients. As a result, consumers are becoming increasingly dissatisfied wit...

The decision to utilize parenteral nutrition in patients with advanced cancer is difficult. There are variable opinions in the literature. Those who routinely care for cancer patients often confront the challenges of discussing these interventions with patients and their families. We review results from previous randomized controlled trials, published guidelines, and recent work that describes ...

Nurses have been at the heart of services for people with HIV and AIDS for 30 years. In this article nurses reveal what it was like to care for patients in the early 1980s, when a positive diagnosis of HIV was effectively a death sentence. They describe the progress since then and the challenges they face today.

Open innovation systems have provided organizations with unprecedented access to the “wisdom of the crowd,” allowing them to collect candidate solutions for problems they care about, from potentially thousands of individuals, at very low cost. These systems, however, face important challenges deriving, ironically, from their very success: they can elicit such high levels of participation that i...

Background: Effective leadership is a vital component of health care systems and has an extensive range of functions in improving organizational effectiveness and efficiency. This study aimed at exploring leadership challenges encountered by leaders in Iranian hospitals.    Methods: This qualitative study was conducted on a purposeful sample of 27 members of hospital management team ...

Information technology (IT) organizations are facing important challenges. They must respond to new technologies and business applications and at the same time provide quality services that satisfy the present needs of their client organizations. The Chief information officer (CIO) of a Danish financial institution experienced increasing problems with internal recruitment of managers with suffi...