background & aim: undoubtedly, the knowledge and skills of the employees lead to the survival of the organization. the purpose of this study is to investigate the important issues in designation and implementation of staff in-service training models to determine a framework for designing the efficient nursing continuing education models. methods & materials: this study is a structured review ba...

The purpose of this study was to assess the views of staff members and staff training initiators on how the current staff trainings were conducted and contributed to quality training/ education at Haramaya University. In the process of this study, evidences were collected from academic staff members, center coordinators and professional development training facilitators. Data collecting instrum...

background: in-service education is one of the best and major methods to provide, train and improve the performance of the staffs. this study aims to determine the strengths and weaknesses of the virtual trainings from the staffs' perspective of mashhad university of medical sciences. methods: this is a cross-sectional study conducted among staffs from different parts of the therapy depart...

Three new direct-service staff participated in a program that used a video model to train target skills needed to conduct a discrete-trial session. Percentage accuracy in completing a discrete-trial teaching session was evaluated using a multiple baseline design across participants. During baseline, performances ranged from a mean of 12% to 63% accuracy. During video modeling, there was an imme...

This short project report presents an evaluation of a training workshop for health and social-care staff working in one of the most rural areas in Scotland. The objective was to explore the learning needs and outcomes of training participants delivering services to people with dementia in a rural area. The training workshop encouraged health and social-care staff to discuss key challenges they ...

BACKGROUND Workforce development is an important aspect of evidence-informed decision making (EIDM) interventions. The structure of formal and informal social networks can influence, and be influenced, by the implementation of EIDM interventions. METHODS In a mixed methods study we assessed the outcomes of a targeted training intervention to promote EIDM among the staff in three public health...

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...

The successful completion of a software development process depends on the analytical capability and foresightedness of the project manager. For the project manager, the main intriguing task is to manage the risk factors as they adversely influence the completion deadline. One such key risk factor is staff training. The risk of this factor can be avoided by pre-judging the amount of training re...

When epidemic cholera appeared in Haiti in October 2010, the medical community there had virtually no experience with the disease and needed rapid training as the epidemic spread throughout the country. We developed a set of training materials specific to Haiti and launched a cascading training effort. Through a training-of-trainers course in November 14-15, 2010, and department-level training ...

OBJECTIVES To determine the common stages and strategies involved in the dispensing accuracy-checking process used by pharmacy staff and to determine the training activities used by these staff to gain the knowledge and skills for accuracy checking. METHOD Face-to-face tape-recorded ethnographic interviews (n = 28) were undertaken in 2009-2010 at two large teaching hospitals with a purposive ...