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This article describes the aims and the process of risk management, which the author argues should be seen as a positive concept, aimed at ensuring better quality of care. The article relates to UKCC professional development category: Educational development.
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A closer orientation of blood banking toward optimal donor and patient care will depend upon an enlargement of the manpower pool of physicians with specific competence in this area. Toward this end, programs must be developed within medical school curricula, and comprehensive postgraduate training programs must be available for those interested in committing themselves fully to this specialty. Continuing education must be made available to part-time blood banking professionals in order that they remain abreast of newer developments. Recognition of their skills can now come about through competence testing and certification programs. Improvements in management of the blood resource may then be expected to occur in parallel with the increase in numbers and quality of the professionals within this unique specialty.
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Access to the Internet increases rapidly, also among physicians. Little is known, however, of to what extent this tool is actually used among various groups of medical professionals, and how it compares to the use of more traditional ways of professional development such as reading of medical literature or participation in continuing medical education (CME) activities. In December of 1998, a 10% random sample of all Norwegian doctors, 1,646 in all, were mailed a questionnaire regarding their use of the Internet. 78% responded. 72% of Norwegian doctors had Internet access, 24% respectively had access either at work, at home or at both places. Doctors with access both at work and at home used the Internet significantly more often and found it of greater professional value than did the other groups. A smaller proportion of general practitioners than of other groups in the profession, had access. About half (48%) of Norwegian doctors use the Internet in a professional context. Research-oriented, male doctors, 30-49 years of age, indicated the highest activity on the net. Doctors using the Internet professionally had longer working hours, read more medical literature and participated more often in CME activities than did non-users. With its universal accessibility, the Internet has been seen as a major force in making medical knowledge available to all doctors. This is not yet the case; for the time being, it appears that the net widens the gap between doctors who actively seek new professional knowledge and those who do not.
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The third European Commission action plan to combat cancer recognized the need to develop effective continuing and in-service training programmes for doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals. A literature review and course documentary analysis commissioned by the English National Board for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting Education (ENB) in 1997 found that, within their initial training, nurses in England and Wales are seldom adequately prepared to work with cancer sufferers; that very few nurses undertake subsequent specialist training in cancer care; that up to half the places available on specialist training programmes remain unfilled at any one time; and that, 3 months after such training, studies showed that competence has again decreased. As post-qualifying continuing and in-service education for nurses in their specialist areas is not yet mandatory in the UK, it is unlikely that the objectives of the European Commission's third action plan or those of successive British governments, in successfully combating cancer, will be achieved.
This article takes the position that the current ethic of nursing is inadequate. It is limited to an ethic of process. This ethic limits the discipline of nursing to process-oriented activities, including research and the clinical nursing process. These processes are not, however, unique to nursing but are shared by all professional disciplines. Nursing will continue to be insufficient without the development of structure or expert clinical knowledge accompanied by an ethic of accountability.
Nutrition scientists in the food industry use nutrition monitoring data in a variety of ways that include developing nutrition communications for consumers and health professionals, guiding product development and reformulation, and applying research applications. Continuous nutrition monitoring is essential to influence positively the nutrient content of the food supply and meet the changing nutrition needs of the population. This article reviews food industry application of nutrient intake information and provides specific examples of use.
BACKGROUND: How and what RNs working in the perinatal area initially learned about the medical devices they use and the sequelae of device use both for patients and staff were explored. METHOD: Eighty-five perinatal staff nurses working at a 500-bed tertiary care hospital in a medium-size midwestern American city were surveyed using a mailed questionnaire comprised of 26 open-ended and closed-ended questions pertaining to device education, consequences of device use, demographic characteristics, and employment situation. RESULTS: Most participants (n = 48, 62.3%) initially learned about the most frequently used device by reading the user/instruction manual. At least 90% (n = 77) of participants indicated they initially had learned how to operate the device, its purpose, function, and patient factors indicating use. Inadequate device knowledge was related to nurse stress, and being unsure how to use the device and fear of harming the patient were the two reasons most frequently identified as causing the stress. Six percent (n = 5) of staff nurses had used a device that caused patient harm. CONCLUSION: What RNs initially learn about medical devices may be related to how they learn, and the continuing increase in nurse use of medical devices has implications for all aspects of professional nursing: curriculum, teaching clinical nursing, continuing education and staff development, and research.
Past recipients of ASHP Foundation fellowships were surveyed to determine their professional activities and the impact of the fellowships on their careers. Questionnaires were mailed to 92 former fellowship recipients. Questions covered the respondents' education and postgraduate training, employment, job and career satisfaction, opinions on the ASHP Research and Education Foundation Fellowships Program, publications and presentations, achievements, experience, honors, and demographics. Respondents returned 77 usable questionnaires, for an 83.7% response rate. Most respondents worked primarily in academia or teaching; one fourth primarily taught. Most of the respondents indicated a positive attitude about both their professional careers and the ASHP Foundation Fellowships Program. Respondents have published (alone or as coauthors) 477 research articles and 359 professional articles; they have given 548 podium presentations and 438 poster presentations at national or regional scientific or professional meetings. Some respondents commented that the program helped them develop needed professional skills and urged that the program be continued. Some suggested that funding be increased to two years and that scoring and selection criteria be revised. Others suggested that the stipend be increased, the results be disseminated, and certain fellowships be re-established. The former ASHP Foundation fellows surveyed have made substantive contributions to the advancement of pharmacy and pharmaceutical science. ASHP Foundation fellowships seem to have favorably affected the professional careers of these fellowship recipients.
Evaluations of diagnostic (clinical) tests should be conducted so that the material can be critically assessed. The results should be reported in a manner that will allow synthesis with data from other similar investigations. Collective professional efforts to fulfil these minimal requirements comprise the continued development of recommendations on research methods and good reporting practice. This paper presents some examples of suggested requirements for good reporting practice for further consideration and discussion.
Discusses the impact of a self-governing hospital trust's accredited management development programme designed for health-care professionals responsible for managing natural clinical groups. The programme was a dual qualification: a level 5 national vocational qualification in management, and a diploma in management. Identifies key issues resulting from this type of programme. Discusses participants' evaluation of the two different formats for management development. Highlights the reservations of health-care professionals in respect of competence-based management development, particularly regarding assessment of their work performance. Recognizes that when a group of senior health-care professionals are involved in a long-term in-house management development programme, they may be perceived as a threat by senior management. Concludes that health-care professionals will only engage proactively with management development activities which they perceive to have value for them.
Because nursing is a professional area in which costs continue to rise faster than in other academic areas, it is imperative to provide quality education that is within the financial reach of those students who can benefit from it. This study sought to develop a specification equation that could be used to predict retention in the academic area and workplace.
Training in injury prevention and control represents a major deficit in the fields of health promotion and public health. Internet-based distance learning is an innovative method of offering continuing education to professionals, but this approach has not yet been widely researched or implemented with public health audiences. VINCENTweb involved the development and evaluation of a no-cost continuing education course on injury prevention and control presented exclusively on the World Wide Web. The course was evaluated using online surveys at baseline and follow-up. Participants, especially those with lower education levels, provided positive feedback about the course and reported high levels of learning and satisfaction. This article describes the development and evaluation of VINCENTweb and discusses the implications for developing future Internet-based courses in public health.