‘Quality improvement’ and ‘revalidation’ are processes which will be key considerations for the health service in the UK over the coming years and are likely to have considerable implications for both professional and public resources. They also have many common elements that are relevant to the delivery of quality in health-care worldwide. Clinical audit is a quality improvement initiative whi...

The Nursing and Midwifery Council's new process for re-registering nurses and midwives--revalidation--went live on April 1. Nurse managers will be expected to play a pivotal role in ensuring their staff are able to revalidate by acting as their reflective discussion partners and/or their confirmers. This article sets out the steps involved in reflective discussions and confirmation, along with ...

This study is an attempt to validate one of the knowledge managements constructs that called management orientation (KMO), which was proposed and validated already by Wang Ahmed (2004). The reason for this revalidation f KMO construct work in a different context where it will be applied measure performance private universities Jordan. To achieve this, random sample 296 managerial position emplo...

The study revisited the community of inquiry (CoI) instrument for construct revalidation. To that end, used confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) to examine four competing models (unidimensional, correlated-factor, second-order factor, and bifactor models) on model fit statistics computed using parameter estimates from a statistical estimator ordinal categorical data. CFA identified as optimal str...

It has yet to be determined whether or not differences in body composition are present between international and non-international players playing the same elite professional club competition. Similarly, it is clear exist according ethnic origin where relative homogeneity expected among soccer players. There no single anthropometric profile that guarantees sporting success, as success differs c...