Introduction: A widely acknowledged aspect of emergency preparedness is hospital-wide staff education. Maintaining interest in hospital among challenging. education process involving a robust lecture and hands on donning doffing sessions followed by periodic disaster drills has been recently undertaken as quality improvement process. Method: prospective pre- post-test study 256 were given six-h...

Having well-trained staff is key to ensuring good quality autism services, especially since people affected with autism generally tend to have higher support needs than other populations in terms of daily living, as well as their mental and physical health. Poorly-trained staff can have detrimental effects on service provision and staff morale and can lead to staff burn-out, as well as increase...

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY To survey employment and training characteristics of Canadian radiation oncology training program graduates and foreign medical graduates with Canadian radiation oncology post-graduate education or specialist certification. METHODS A 38-question, web-based survey was distributed to radiation oncologists who completed specialty training between 2000-2010. RESULTS Out of ...

Workplace violence can lead to serious consequences for victims, organizations, and society. Most workplace violence prevention programs aim to train staff to better recognize and safely manage at-risk situations. The Omega education and training program was developed in Canada in 1999, and has since been used to teach healthcare and mental health workers the skills needed to effectively interv...

PURPOSE This article describes, and provides data on, an innovative, comprehensive, dementia-specific training program designed to teach direct care staff in assisted living residences to improve care and reduce problems in residents with dementia. DESIGN AND METHODS STAR-which stands for Staff Training in Assisted living Residences-provides two 4-hr workshops augmented by four individualized...

The aim of this study was to develop a competency based training programme to support multidisciplinary working in a combined biochemistry and haematology laboratory. The training programme was developed to document that staff were trained in the full range of laboratory tests that they were expected to perform. This programme subsequently formed the basis for the annual performance review of a...