today, market orientation plays a vital role in determining customers’ needs and success of organizations. market orientation has also influenced various organizations’ measures including innovation. therefore the aim of this research is to study the role of market orientation in innovation of bodybuilding clubs of golestan province. the population of this study comprised all 170 managers of bo...

BACKGROUND Diagnosis and treatment of cancer can contribute to psychological distress and anxiety amongst patients. Evidence indicates that information giving can be beneficial in reducing patient anxiety, so oncology specific information may have a major impact on this patient group. This study investigates the effects of an orientation program on levels of anxiety and self-efficacy amongst ne...

BACKGROUND Although medical students' initial orientation is an important point of transition in medical education, there is a paucity of literature on the subject and major variations in the ways that different institutions orient incoming medical students to their programs. METHODS We conducted a discourse analysis of medical education orientation in the literature and on data from a survey...

Nursing orientation for acute or critical care nurses typically occurs in 3 stages: general hospital orientation (1 day), general nursing orientation (3-5 days), and a 6to 12-week (or longer) precepted clinical experience whereby new nurses are paired with experienced nurses to learn directly on the unit of hire. Preceptors assist orientees to acquire basic nursing/unit-specific skills and beco...

Despite the plethora of research on market orientation, our understanding of how different dimensions of market orientation interact with each other in generating new intelligence for marketing programs is limited. In this paper, we develop and test a model that examines the interaction effects of the three dimensions of market orientation—customer orientation, competitor orientation, and cross...