Introduction: There exist very scanty literatures on public awareness on the anaesthesiology profession amongst the Nigerian populations. This study aims to determine the level of awareness of the anaesthesiology profession among a population of tertiary school students, academic and non-academic staff members who were attending a South-western Nigerian zonal conference. Methods: Data obtained...

perceptions of first and last year nursing bachelor students about their own profession: a qualitative study    zamanzadeh v [1] , valizadeh l [2] *, nasiri kh [3]     received: 2 jul , 2013 accepted: 9 sep , 2013     abstract   background & aims: nursing has considerable progresses towards becoming professional in recent decades in comparison with previous decades. it seems that researches on ...

Norway has the preconditions for world-class health services. They should enjoy the confidence of all social strata, be organised by the state and provide maximum benefit in exchange for the resources that the community invests in them. Everybody agrees to these general goals. The disagreement pertains to the means. The Minister of Health prescribes a steady course; we believe that a steady cou...

In his presidential address to the Southwestern Surgical Congress, he examines surgery as a profession from three different perspectives: his experience as a patient, a surgeon, and a photographer. He uses photography to illustrate the importance of perspective and illumination. He respectfully suggests that we should consciously choose to reframe the profession from a different perspective tha...

This small book, published for the Christian Frontier Council, hopes "to stimulate discussion of their vocation among groups of Christian doctors and medical students." It is written by a layman, who took part in conversations between various Catholic and nonCatholic doctors, which he sets out to summarise. It is obviously valuable that discussion should occur, and therefore this attempt to pro...

R ising crescendos of voices sound alarm about the sharp downturn in young people selecting a computing field for their careers [10]. In the U.S. this is true for computer science, computer engineering, information technology, information systems, and software engineering. In computer science, the numbers of incoming freshmen fell by 60% between 2000 and 2004. The percentage of all college fres...

When the email arrived, I could easily recall the day I met its sender, Maya, at a student conference in India. Along with two or three dozen other students, Maya had gathered with me in a classroom to talk about the global nature of computing and the roles she and her colleagues might play in the computing and software industries. Maya’s email was a continuation of that conversation, with ques...

background: the main professional goal of nurses is to provide and improve human health. medication errors are among the most common health threatening mistakes that affect patient care. such mistakes are considered as a global problem which increases mortality rates, length of hospital stay, and related costs. this study was conducted to evaluate the types and causes of nursing medication erro...