BACKGROUND New and inexperienced emergency medical service (EMS) professionals lack important experience. To prevent medical errors and improve retention there is an urgent need to identify ways to support new professionals during their first year in the EMS. METHODS A purposeful sample and snowball technique was used and generated a panel of 32 registered nurses with 12-48 months of EMS expe...

This article highlights the theoretical differences between the Likert and Thurstone approaches to attitude measurement and demonstrates how such differences can lead to discrepant attitude estimates for individuals with the most extreme opinions. Both simulated data and real data on attitude toward abortion are used to demonstrate this discrepancy. The results suggest that attitude researchers...

A 20-item Likert Organizational Profile (LOP) was administered twice to 256 employees in 13 Brazilian development banks. Actual and ideal bank profiles were similar to those found in the U.S. and elsewhere: employees want participative-group management methods but say their organization uses autocratic or consultative methods. Factor analyses did not yield the six dimensions predicted by Likert...

In the twenty-first century, wide use of emojis in communication platforms has emerged. As a result, have started to be used scales. However, there are limited number studies literature that focuses on effect using instead Likert-type response categories Therefore, focus this study is examine differences may arise from emoji and For purpose, 3, 5, 7-point 7 Psychological Well-Being Scale was ap...

Background: Globally, the culture of health care has been changing.The health professionals must have the best available education and training to improve the health outcomes. Good education is a backbone for an effective physiotherapy intervention and good patient care. Physiotherapy education has evolved widely in developed countries whereas in Nepal, the education has started very recently a...

INTRODUCTION Delirium is a clinical syndrome that negatively affects the outcomes of the intensive care units patients if undetected early and treated well. However, this condition remains under recognized and poorly managed by health care providers including nurses. The objective of this study was to check nurses' knowledge level about delirium recognition. MATERIALS & METHODS This was a cro...