OBJECTIVES Infected hospital wastes are among hazardous wastes, and special treatment methods are needed for their disposal. Having information about present status of medical waste management systems is of great importance in finding weak, and for future planning. Such studies have not been done for most of the hospitals in Iran. METHODS This paper reports the results of a study on the prese...

BACKGROUND Medical records are kept in the interest of both the patient and clinician. Proper filing of patient's medical records ensures easy retrieval and contributes to decreased patient waiting time at the hospital and continuity of care. This paper reports on an intervention study to address the issue of misfiling and multiple patient folders in a health facility. DESIGN Intervention stu...

In developed countries like Australia, Canada, UK and USA, continuous professional development (CPD) is statutory or mandatory training for all regulated healthcare staff such as doctors, midwives, nurses, pharmacists physiotherapists. All patients facing professionals are expected to attend stipulated programs of learning some with annual recall. These trainings compulsory attend. Staff employ...

Human capital is the foundation for organizational improvement and innovation. Lots of organizations have been relentlessly focusing on education and trainings for employees to increase employees’ capabilities and organization’s performance. The objective of this study is to integrate QFD and ISO 10015 to set up a framework of human capital management by applying ISO 10015 as a planning tool to...

Three new direct-service staff participated in a program that used a video model to train target skills needed to conduct a discrete-trial session. Percentage accuracy in completing a discrete-trial teaching session was evaluated using a multiple baseline design across participants. During baseline, performances ranged from a mean of 12% to 63% accuracy. During video modeling, there was an imme...

Gatekeeper training is a core strategy of the Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Suicide Prevention Act of 2004. Using data gathered from school-based gatekeeper trainings implemented by GLS grantees, this analysis examines training and gatekeeper factors associated with (1) identification and referral patterns and (2) services at-risk youths receive. Time spent interacting with youths was positively c...

BACKGROUND Although disaster simulation trainings were widely used to test hospital disaster plans and train medical staff, the teaching performance of the instructors in disaster medicine training has never been evaluated. The aim of this study was to determine whether the performance indicators for measuring educational skill in disaster medicine training could indicate issues that needed imp...

The growing concern with cultural competency in health care settings is an ironic development from the perspective of tribal health care, where biomedical clinicians and patients have struggled for decades with the challenges of cross-cultural healing.1 Both anthropological and other literatures on minority health have declared cultural competency to be a critical tool requiring both cross-cult...

Based on the fact that face-to-face and virtual meetings in organizational units increasingly take place in today’s business processes, it is not surprising that a lot of valuable information is generated during such events. Further, meeting information can be a valuable knowledge source for teaching and learning activities, e.g. it can support trainers and teachers in identifying emerging topi...