OBJECTIVE To determine the effects of a communication skills training program on emergency nurses and patient satisfaction. METHODS Sixteen emergency nurses attended a 6-week psychoeducation program that was intended to improve their communication skills. The first 3 sessions of the psychoeducation program consisted of theoretical education on empathy and communication. Other sessions covered...

Named Entity Recognition (NER) and Named Entity Normalization (NEN) refer to the recognition and normalization of raw texts to known entities. From the perspective of recruitment innovation, professional skill characterization and normalization render human capital data more meaningful both commercially and socially. Accurate and detailed normalization of skills is the key for the predictive an...

The article considers the variability of demand and supply professional skills in context regions Russian Federation as an indicator possible inconsistencies labor market – mismatch. author's approach to assessing involved calculating coefficients variability, identifying groups with their maximum values terms levels training, subsequently imbalances within selected using coefficient unemployme...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW This review gives an overview of recent developments in the field of communication skills training programs designed for cancer health care professionals. RECENT FINDINGS The Web of Knowledge was searched for empirical papers published between January 2002 and February 2005. Twenty-two papers were included in the review describing 13 different studies. Four studies were rand...

How our culture thinks about particular events as linear, normal, and expected does not always fit with the experiences of every learner, particularly underserved urban adult learners. As adult educators in this context, are there ways we might improve or change our pedagogy of instruction by developing a better understanding of transitional life moments for vocational learners. What is the rol...

Mechatronics is becoming an important subject in engineering education and vocational training. Accordingly, there is a growing need for innovative learning concepts, capable of supporting the necessary education and training platforms. Integrated learning arrangements where e-learning with simulations and remote laboratories is combined with experiential learning in real laboratories and at wo...

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In October 1968, this Journal published a paper entitled 'Vocational Training for General Practice' which was mainly concerned with the need for such training at that time, and the future developments necessary to make achievement a possibility. In assessing the then current position, it was suggested that in its attempt to establish itself as a true academic discipline, General Practice had to...