To prepare dental hygienists for future roles in the health care system, dental hygiene education must prepare graduates with skills, ethics, and values that align with professional responsibility. The objective of this study was to determine the effectiveness of curricular changes designed to develop professional identity and responsibility over the entire span of the dental hygiene curriculum...

Government departments procure a large variety of products and services in or carryout its normal operational responsibilities and to implement various plan policies. For effectively execution of these tasks the government asks for quo (Request For Quotation) from different contractors. After receiving the quotation contractors a sequence of procedure are followed before the award of contract i...

BACKGROUND Few studies have paid attention to ethical responsibility related to malnutrition in elder care. The aim was to illuminate whether politicians and civil servants reason about malnutrition in elder care in relation to ethical responsibility, and further about possible causes and how to address them. METHOD Eighteen elected politicians and appointed civil servants at the municipality...

This commentary is a brief response to Nir Eyal's argument that health policies should not make healthy behaviour a condition or prerequisite in order to access healthcare as it could result in the people who need healthcare the most not being able to access healthcare. While in general agreement due to the shared concern for equity, I argue that making health behaviour a condition to accessing...

Patient safety is a global concern that involves all healthcare members, so that achieving a high level safe care is responsibility of all healthcare services, particularly nurses. This qualitative study aimed to describe nurses’ perspectives on factors affecting patient safety. We recruited 32 nurses working in teaching hospitals by purposeful sampling method. Data were collected by semi-struc...

pharmacists are healthcare professionals who practice in pharmacy, the field of health sciences focusing on safe and effective medication use. the role of pharmacist has shifted from the classical “lick, stick and pour” dispensary role, to being an integrated member of the health care team directly involved in patient care. but, in our country pharmacists are mainly engaged with manufacturing o...

This article summarizes the scientific assumptions of medicine and holistic practice as a basis for clarifying the professional responsibilities of health practitioners. The basic elements of contracting are then applied 10 the dynamics of clinical relationships, creating a mutually defined plan as framework for allocating responsibility among doctors, patients, holistic practitioners and clien...

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