background: this study investigated the relationship between people's attitudes towards the safety culture and comparing its perceptions among three levels of refinery personnel: top management, supervisory staff and frontline workers by conducting safety culture survey. methods: a questionnaire comprising general information and 59-safety attitude statement were distributed among 237 workers, ...

introduction: health information plays a vital role in managers' decision making and planning. health information in the form of medical records is also useful for caregivers, quality assessment, financial payments, legal measures, education, research and planning. in this study, to examine the managers and personnel's viewpoints about the application of medical records. methods and material: i...

Nursing service managers need certain essential managerial attributes in taking the lead in effective management of the nowadays health care organisations in South Africa. Major changes in restructuring and human resources planning are taking place through transformation of health services and specific managerial attributes are needed in this scenario. Without nursing service managers with the ...

introduction: management is a specialized science and most of the health managers are not familiar with scientific management methods and direct their organization on the basis of their own experiences and assumptions, it is necessary to devise comprehensive educational programs according to the results of needs assessment in order to promote the quality of health care services. materials and m...

BACKGROUND Management in health sector is becoming focus of attention world over being an important subject due to resource crunch particularly in developing countries. Beside sociodemographic factors, poor management in health sector is also an important factor responsible for poor health in developing countries. Moreover, there is gross lack of effective leadership in our national setup. It i...

background the traditional roles of managers are insufficient in today’s evolving healthcare market. therefore, they need to improve management practices through playing new roles. so the present study aimed to explore the roles of nurse managers in the context of iranian health care system. methods a qualitative content analysis with semi-structured interviews was used in this study. the study...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study is to describe nurse managers' perceptions of the use of electronic information systems in their daily work. Several kinds of software are used for administrative and information management purposes in health care organizations, but the issue has been studied less from nurse managers' perspective. METHODS The material for this qualitative study was acquired a...

Background In South Africa, integrating the management of health services at a decentralized district level within the authority of general health service (GHS) managers is a reform priority. The reforms promote administrative integration, i.e. transfer of administrative authority over disease control programmes (DCPs) from DCP managers to GHS managers and re-defining DCP manager roles from imp...