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PubMed1989

The Adjective Check List as a predictor of lifelong learning in the human service professions.

The purpose of this study was to identify personality characteristics, using The Adjective Check List, that could be used to predict lifelong learners in the human service professions. 143 professionals responded to The Adjective Check List and a demographic form. 23 of the scales were subjected to principal factor analysis followed by a varimax rotation. Multiple regression was applied to the extracted factors to predict the average number of hours spent in learning activities per month. Characteristics identified were insufficient to develop a profile of lifelong learners. Only one factor-Organized-significantly correlated with the amount of time human service professionals spent in learning activities over the past year.

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PubMed1994

Symptom correlates and factor structure of the Health Professions Stress Inventory.

Generalizability, psychological symptom correlates, and the factor structure of the Health Professions Stress Inventory were assessed with a sample of 92 geriatric nurses. The inventory was designed to measure the sources and frequency of stress among nurses, physicians, and pharmacists; little is known, however, of the extent to which scores correlate with psychological symptoms or of the underlying dimensions of stress measured. Analyses showed high correspondence between responses of the geriatric nurses and the normative nurses as measured by mean values and Cronbach alpha. Factor analysis of the intercorrelations among items yielded 4 factors contributing to work-related stress, i.e., Lack of Perceived Enrichment Potential, Patient Care, Interpersonal Conflict, and Family Responsibility Conflict. Scores on the inventory correlated significantly with those of all SCL-90--R scales.

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PubMed2002

Confirmatory factor analysis and job burnout correlates of the Health Professions Stress Inventory.

Previous research in 1994 by Gupchup and Wolfgang identified four factors from Wolfgang's Health Professions Stress Inventory (1988) that were common among a sample of practicing pharmacists. The factors were labeled Professional Recognition. Patient Care Responsibilities, Job Conflicts, and Professional Uncertainty, respectively. We used confirmatory factor analysis to assess whether this factor structure was generalizable to nurses. To examine concurrent validity, we correlated the factors with Maslach and Jackson's three dimensions of job burnout, i.e., Emotional Exhaustion, Depersonalization, and Personal Accomplishment. Data were collected through a questionnaire survey of a random sample of 9,380 nurses from across 43 public hospitals in Hong Kong, from which 2,267 (24.2%) responded. Analysis indicated statistically acceptable goodness of fit indices for the four-factor solution. Except for the factor Patient Care Responsibilities. all other factors had moderate correlations between .44 and .53 with Emotional Exhaustion and Depersonalization. Correlations between the factors of Stress Inventory and Personal Accomplishment were small but significant, ranging from -.25 to .13. Areas for further improving the psychometric properties of the inventory are discussed.

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PubMed2002

Burnout syndrome in the helping professions.

Burnout can be defined as a long-term reaction to occupational stress which involves, particularly, the helping professions. The main aim of this study was the assessment of burnout in a sample of professional and voluntary health care workers and comparison of the two samples on scores from the Maslach Burnout Inventory. Analysis suggests a significant difference in mean scores for Emotional Exhaustion of volunteers vs professional workers. Some evidence has supported the hypothesis of a fourth dimension, called Behavioral Exhaustion, in the burnout syndrome.

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PubMed2002

Professions and intestinal infections in 15th-century Florence.

The aims behind this study are to verify a possible relationship between intestinal infectious diseases and certain professional activities carried out in 15th-century Florence by some categories of lesser labourers. Sources of the present study were the Libri dei Morti by the Florentine Ufficio della Grascia concerning the years 1424-25 and 1430 characterized by a plague epidemic. In this period, thanks to the particular social and economic circumstances of the times, the Libri dei Morti were enriched with additional notes about the illness that caused the deaths. The tables show an analysis of the data concerning the types of illness, the residence of the deceased and his/her social state. The present study suggests that certain professions were more exposed to infectious pathologies.

Communicable Diseases↗

PubMed2005

Passion and profession, doctors in skirts: the letters of doctors Frieda Fraser and Edith Bickerton Williams.

"Passion and Profession; Doctors in Skirts," is based on the extensive correspondence between Dr. Frieda Fraser and Dr. Edith Bickerton Williams, two Canadian women who were lovers from 1924 and life partners from 1937, until the death of Dr. Williams in 1979. Dr. Fraser became a prominent researcher and lecturer of Microbiology at the University of Toronto. Dr. Williams was one of the first women in North America to graduate as a Veterinarian. Dr. Frieda Fraser's medical training afforded her the freedom to foster a same-sex relationship with her partner Edith. Her freedom was constrained however, as women interns were placed in institutions thought appropriate for their sex, and prospects of private practice for a woman doctor were bleak. The letters' candid accounts of conflicts with male authority, challenges to ideas about sexuality, and the pervasiveness of prejudice, often reinforced by the scientific community, are important to the History of Medicine. The paper demonstrated that the same-sex relationship and identity, developed in the course of the Fraser/Williams correspondence, proved a primary source of strength in the face of the doctors' tribulations and triumphs as professionals in the medical field.

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PubMed2005

Evidence-informed education in the health care science professions.

The use of evidence to inform the practice and policy of professional education in the health care sciences is taking on an increasingly important role alongside the use of more traditional types of knowledge. It is an addition to the repertoire in this and many professions that draw on social-science discipline knowledge. In the field of health care science professional education, the Best Evidence Medical Education Collaboration (BEME) leads the movement toward evidence-informed practice. It is a movement not without controversy, and lively debate on epistemological and practical issues is in progress. With publication of the first BEME Reviews in 2005, this debate will be extended. We can expect energetic and healthy commentaries on both the review process and the substantive findings. All this will make a valuable contribution to an important aspect of professional education practice and policy that is here to stay.

Animals↗

PubMed2006

Training health professions instructors for the twenty-first century: the Dundee experience.

This article describes the award-bearing program of courses for instructors and trainers of health care professionals in medical education that is available through the Centre for Medical Education, University of Dundee, Scotland, UK. The program is designed for those who wish to enhance their teaching skills and acknowledges the different roles that a instructor must undertake. The program is open to health care professionals throughout the world. Participation from across the world has increased on a yearly basis; currently we have upwards of 1,000 health professionals studying with us. This article describes the educational philosophy underpinning the course structure. It looks at the special features of the course, such as the outcome-based approach and the linking of theory to practice. The course design, delivery, content, and assessment are explained, as well as some new developments and collaborative work. It is hoped that this article will be of interest to journal readers wishing to undertake a qualification in health professions education.

Competency-Based Education↗

PubMed2004

[Public health nurses: a profession under construction].

In France, the Training Institutes for Nursing Care (IFSI) primarily prepare individuals for care providing occupations. Thus nurses practicing in the field of public health are non-practicing care providers since their recruitment is solely based upon the criteria of having a State Nursing Diploma (DE) at the end of their initial training. If one admits that public health is scattered and dispersed in France, then the situation for nurses is as much so and on many levels. Assignments only slightly formalised, and a lack of regulation and heterogeneous training compromise the legibility of this profession which nevertheless strongly exists in fact in practice. This remark is notably illustrated in the situation of DDASS and DRASS nurses. State bureaucrats, equipped with their one experience in care provision without any specific supplementary training, they work with the health administrators and the multidisciplinary teams to implement national public health policies. They are few, geographically and operationally isolated, and many of them follow training courses with are often restrictive in nature due to the fact that they take their personal time to do them. These are the main elements of the analysis of position announcements and different work being done within the professional network in the field, issued following a study conducted by the National Association of Public Health Nurses (ANIDESP) in 2002, and further enhanced by the conclusions of a seminar held in March 2003 at the Ministry of Health. The framework of a newly formed reference, missions in abeyance of formalisation and the establishment of a training programme, these are the main supporting points of the different proposals that the authors are making to the Health Directorate, and the Personnel and Budgeting Departments of the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs.

Education, Nursing↗

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The patient care assistant program: the nursing profession's and a community college's response to educating unlicensed assistive personnel.

Preparing unlicensed assistive personnel for work in hospitals is one of the major challenges facing the nursing profession in the 1990s. Continued debate prevails over who should educate these health care workers and what content should be included in the curriculum. The 516-hour course described in this article was designed by nursing professionals to educate and train individuals to function as unlicensed assistive personnel in the acute care setting. The program takes place in a junior college and consists of learning activities in the classroom, skills laboratory, nursing home, and acute care hospital.

Curriculum↗

PubMed1984

Educating the nursing profession for role transformation.

This article proposes the use of a role transformation model to facilitate the assumption of more progressive attitudes and more autonomous, responsible behavior by nurses. Five major areas of content which need to be addressed in the role transformation process are detailed: 1) Defining and Articulating the Nursing Domain, 2) Legitimizing the Nursing Profession, 3) Communicating in Professional rather than Non-professional Modes, 4) Negotiating Collaborative Roles, and 5) Cultivating the Organizational Network. Emphasis is placed on the responsibility of nursing educators to model and facilitate role transformation for students and nursing colleagues.

Communication↗

PubMed2005

Aspects of the working life of women in the nursing profession in South Africa: survey results.

This article reports on a survey done among nurses registered with the South African Nursing Council. The survey was carried out in the last quarter of 2003. The purpose of the survey was to investigate aspects of the working life of women in the nursing profession in South Africa and to make recommendations on how their working environment could be improved. The important findings were that pay-related issues dominate as the main problem at work. Improving pay scales and being paid according to extra experience, responsibilities and qualifications could improve the nurses' working environment. Furthermore, training opportunities, medical insurance and equal opportunities should be addressed as a matter of urgency. In general, respondents had a positive attitude towards their job, which leaves the impression that nurses still regard their jobs as something they do for the sake of a service to the community and not only for the money they earn.

Adaptation, Psychological↗

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Leadership and achieving a vision--how does a profession lead a nation?

The author examines the role of leadership in achieving a new vision for health promotion. Leadership challenges and threats, and contemporary views on leadership are reviewed to frame the opportunity available to the health promotion profession to change national health policy. He concludes by describing the actions every professional can take to play a leadership role in helping to achieve the new vision articulated in this special issue.

Attitude to Health↗

PubMed1987

Creative partnerships: the profession's plan (Presidential Address).

Through interprofessional collaboration on behalf of the populations we serve, and through the integration of science and art, we shall transform our present and direct our future. The crisis of the entrepreneurial idea in health care must not become the pathology of our service ideals. Rather, this crisis must be viewed as our opportunity to adopt marketing as an exchange relationship and engage in activities that market ourselves as a vital profession that places the good of those we serve above our own self-interest. Through our creative partnerships, we can achieve professional excellence. Professional excellence is the key to assuring occupational therapy's position in the marketplace.

Art↗

PubMed1992

Occupational therapy: the role of ideology in the development of a profession for women.

This paper uses contemporary accounts, newspaper articles, and professional literature to describe the origin and development of the profession of occupational therapy. Ideas about the organization of work, women's characteristics, and the historical context of World War I are included. Occupational therapy is discussed from the perspective of values that contributed to the successful establishment and maintenance of a recognized structure in the work force for women performing occupational therapy services.

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Challenges and strategic solutions for a research emergent profession.

This paper explores some of the truisms associated with evidence-based practice. The intention is to remind the reader that evidence-based practice is a decision-making tool and not a rule; and to propose a strategic approach to overcoming the challenges we face as a research emergent profession.

Empirical Research↗

PubMed2002

Nurses eating nurses: the caring profession which fails to nurture its own!

For many years student nurses were trained in a more disciplined approach with considerable time allocated to working in the hospital environment and specified times allowed for gaining theoretical knowledge throughout their formal training. Nurses therefore gained a tremendous amount of experience and competency in their practical skills. With the introduction of more specialized equipment and technology it was now desirable to improve the professional status of nurses and nursing education. The introduction of university trained nurses has been met with much criticism. Student nurses are now being empowered and informed with theoretical knowledge from many health disciplines that allows them to use a holistic approach to patient care. The changes to nurse education were hoped to improve the professional status of nurses although this transition has not been without problems. Experienced nurses who are already working in stressful conditions with continuous staff shortages and poor recognition of service see the student nurse sometimes as an extra hindrance to their already increasing workload. Student nurses are theoretically competent but lack the clinical expertise and experience to complement this knowledge which can also add to the professional pressure that experience nurses encounter. Most nurses would like to see themselves, as promoters of nursing but are frustrated and disillusioned with their profession. It would seem then that student nurses as a result of this dissatisfaction are often devoured by some nurses instead of being encouraged and nurtured in their enthusiasm for nursing.

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PubMed1997

Are men taking over the nursing profession?

Although men are a minority in the nursing profession, many men obtain senior positions and hence their motivation for becoming registered nurses is often questioned. International nursing literature is used to clarify why men may want to become nurses and to suggest possible reasons for the gender inequities in senior nursing appointments.

Career Choice↗