background the present study was conducted to perceive the role-model nursing instructors’ experience in terms of professional challenges and identification of occupational concerns in the education of nursing students. nursing instructors have a critical and decisive role in the training of skilled and specialized manpower and subsequent growth and development of the communities. so, the prese...

Empathy, coping styles, and professional quality of life play a significant role in an individual’s professional life. Numerous types of research indicate that experiencing the unfavorable consequences of compassion and empathy frequently leads to compassion fatigue as well as burnout. The present research is designed to study the correlation among empathy, coping strategies, professional quali...

One of the most significant challenges facing engineering education is the chronic problem of inclusion and retention of underrepresented groups, including women, certain racial and ethnic groups, and students whose parents did not complete college. An exploratory comparative study was conducted to investigate how engineering-related interactions prior to college and perceived barriers during e...

Changes in the U.S. Healthcare System along with the need for institutions of higher education to prepare a work force ready to address the challenges of today and tomorrow have highlighted the need to incorporate technology in its broadest sense as part of the student learning experience. In health professional education, this becomes challenging as programs have traditionally relied on face-t...

Developmental psychophysiological research is a relatively young field that is rapidly expanding partly because sophisticated, cost-effective technology now allows researchers to collect physiological data much more efficiently and effectively. This volume of developmental psychophysiology reflects both the newness, as well as the growth of the field. As alluded to by many of the authors includ...

This paper develops a political sensemaking approach to the post-acquisition integration process, which directs attention to how powerful social actors construct the relationship between multinational corporations (MNCs) and their multiple local contexts. This political, processual and actor-centred perspective explores subsidiary integration as identity construction and institution building. T...

Despite inpatriates’ growing importance for the scope of international business, research on this specific group of international assignees transferred to the corporate headquarters (HQ) of multinational corporations (MNCs) still remains in its infancy. Due to this research gap a qualitative approach to the analysis of inpatriates’ experiences was selected to uncover directions for subsequent r...

Originating from medical education, problem-based learning is increasingly used in other types of professional education. Tempted by the many successful experiences elsewhere, we have taken a bold step to try out this teaching approach in a course on apparel merchandising. We started with a pilot project with the objective to enhance students’ experience so as to to encourage lifelong learning ...