BACKGROUND The aim of this study has been to determine if sociodemographic factors: age, sex and duration of employment as well as the presence of chronic comorbidities exert significant effect on subjective assessment of psychosocial working conditions of nurses. Moreover, we analyzed whether the abovementioned variables influenced the level of absenteeism at work during a year preceding the s...

in this article the role of creativity and innovation in the survival of corporations, the major factors in fostering and development of potentiality and talent for creativity and innovation. the role of managers in nurturing -such talents have been vowed as an important one. managers with their behavior and leadership approach would-be able to-make the people to become creative and innovative....

BACKGROUND Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most commonly diagnosed cancer in Canada and accounts for 11.9% of all cancer-related mortality. Fortunately, previous studies have provided evidence of improved outcomes from access to timely and appropriate health services along the disease trajectory in CRC. As a result, the CIHR/CCNS Team in Access to Colorectal Cancer Services in Nova Scotia ...

Nurses occupy a central position in today's increasingly collaborative health care teams that place a premium on quality patient care. In this study we examined critical team processes and identified specific nurse-team communication practices that were perceived by team members to enhance patient outcomes. Fifty patient-care team members were interviewed to uncover forms of nurse communication...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the perception of medical students of the new approach to problem-based learning which involves students writing their own problem-based learning cases based on their recent clinical attachment, and team assessment. DESIGN Focus group interviews with students using purposive sampling. Transcripts of the audio recordings were analysed using thematic analysis. SETTING I...

Drawing from team-level job demands-resources theory, we hypothesize that team workload demands moderate the positive link between boundary work (i.e., spanning and buffering) effectiveness innovation performance), such is more beneficial for when teams face higher demands. Furthermore, predict this interaction occurs through increased vigor, where vigor defined as an affective emergent state c...

Co-operative learning or working in teams (also referred to as collaborative learning or group work) has a demonstrated potential in achieving positive results (Slavin: 1986) in development of both academic (Johnson et al: 1981) and nonacademic skills such as promoting understanding and self-esteem (Slavin et al: 1985). In addition, co-operative learning prepares students for working life, as t...