Anger and fear are frequently felt and impactful workplace emotions, espe­ cially in times of crisis when critical decisions need to be made. An important question is how these emotions might influence decision makers' depth of processing: whether when feeling angry or fearful decision-makers engage in more conscious and analytical rational decision making, or less-conscious and heuristic intui...

OBJECTIVE To describe the location, staffing, clientele, safety product disbursement patterns, education provided and sustainability of safety resource centres (SRCs) in US children's hospitals. METHODS A cross-sectional survey was distributed to children's hospital-based SRC directors. Survey categories included: funding sources, customer base, items sold, items given free of charge, educati...

The Second International Conference on Rapid Response System (RRS) and Medical Emergency Team (MET) took place at the Pittsburgh Convention Center in June 2006. The conference was attended by more than 450 people from seven different countries. The majority of the participants were Americans, but the US attendees came from 32 different states. Michael DeVita, MD, from the University of Pittsbur...

In a January 31, 2003 letter to the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) (Footnote 2) commenting on its proposed new standards, leaders of the hospital bar made their position clear (Footnote 3). According to them, the medical staff is not an independent, self-governing body -it is just a part of the hospital, like the dietary department. In their view, the medi...

AIM The present study investigates the factors Nurse Executive Directors (NEDs) consider important to their effectiveness, examines whether factors identified in previous studies remain relevant and identifies themes that might inform current practice and future research. BACKGROUND Increasing competition in healthcare markets is increasing the demands on Nurse Executive Directors. There is a...

Background Underrepresented-minorities (URM) remain few in number amongst practicing cardiologists and across cardiology fellowship training programs the U.S. Increased diversity is needed entire field particularly necessary within graduate medical education programs. Objectives This cross-sectional study was performed to identify which strategies were supported implemented by program directors...

BACKGROUND Motivational interviewing is a collaborative conversational style intended to strengthen motivation to change. It has been shown to be effective in addressing many different lifestyle problems as well as in chronic disease management, and many disease prevention guidelines promote use of motivational interviewing. The aim of the present study was twofold: to assess to what extent the...

hr strategy is the pattern of hr-related decisions. that is, the gestalt of negotiated people related policies and practices in use indeed the formulation and enactment of an hr strategy designed to link hr policies and practices with the strategic goals and objective of the firm. the purpose of this research is human resources strategy formulation for prk company. integrative model (bamberger ...

The authors describe a program to reduce the use of physical restraint on three psychiatric units of a university hospital. One component of the program involved interviewing patients to determine their stress triggers and personal crisis management strategies. The second consisted of training staff members in crisis de-escalation and nonviolent intervention. During the first two quarters after...