introduction: high quality of care is one of the requirements of nursing which depends on the nursing competency. in this connection, the aim of this research was to determine the problems related to the academic training (nursing’ educational program) and clinical practice to achieve competency from the viewpoint of nurses, faculty members, and nursing students. methods: the study was an analy...

background critical thinking is one of the most important concepts in the field of education. despite studies published on nursing students’ critical thinking skills (cts), some suggest that there is not enough evidence supporting the relationship between content of nursing education programs and nursing students’ cts. conclusions the students were low skilled in critical thinking and their cts...

Human resource management is a process of bringing people and organizations together so that the goals of each other are met. Nowadays it is not possible to show a good financial or operating report unless your personnel relations are in order. Over the years, highly skilled and knowledge based jobs are increasing while low skilled jobs are decreasing. This calls for future skill mapping throug...

Judgements and decisions in many political, economic or medical contexts are often made while sleep deprived. Furthermore, in such contexts individuals are required to integrate information provided by - more or less qualified - advisors. We asked if sleep deprivation affects advice taking. We conducted a 2 (sleep deprivation: yes vs. no) ×2 (competency of advisor: medium vs. high) experimental...

OBJECTIVE This study presents a conceptual model to investigate the healthcare technology management (HTM) competency required by healthcare IS professionals and the impact of such competency in gaining strategic advantages through information technology (IT) by development of partnerships with people from different divisions of healthcare organizations. METHODS First, a scale to measure HTM ...

OBJECTIVES To assess factors affecting competency development of the Australian public health nutrition workforce and investigate competency development intentions, barriers and self-reported training needs. DESIGN Cross-sectional study using self-administered mail- or email-delivered questionnaire. SETTING AND SUBJECTS Two hundred and forty practitioners working in designated community and...

the efficiency of the health care system is significantly dependent on the appropriate leadership and guidance of employees. one of the most frequently used new approaches in human resources management is the study of competencies and competency models. the aim of this research is to develop a competency model for leaders in nursing, and to compare it with the leadership competency model for st...

despite the existence of a large variety of competency frameworks for medical graduates, there is no agreement on a single set of outcomes. different countries have attempted to define their own set of competencies to respond to their local situations. this article reports the process of developing medical graduates' competency framework as the first step in the curriculum reform in tehran univ...

Identifying and developing project managers’ competencies arebecoming more and more important in today’s competitive market. This importance also has absorbed the attention of main project management institutions such as Project Management Institute (PMI) and Australian institute of Project management (AIPM). These professional project management institutes have developed project managers’ comp...