A request from the Essex health and social care mental health commissioners for a series of broad consultations to seek the views of service users and carers emerged as a response to the potential need for service redesign engendered by…

Undergraduate physiotherapy programmes aim to equip graduates with basic skills, knowledge and behaviours to allow them to
enter the profession. The aim of this study was to explore employers’ perceptions of key factors in work place preparedness of novice
physiotherapists.…

Competence approaches are among the techniques that claim to measure the behaviour, skills, knowledge and understanding crucial to effective managerial performance. It is claimed that competence approaches empower and develop managers while enabling them to meet organizational objectives. Since the…

AIM: To discover whether nursing students believed that a post-registration cardiac module was meeting their needs.

METHOD: A descriptive qualitative approach was used in this study. Semi-structured interviews were recorded with a purposive sample of six registered nurses who…

Earlier versions of this paper were presented at the conference
of the Australian Association for Professional & Applied Ethics
in June 2008, and at the Quality in Postgraduate Research
conference held in Adelaide in April 2008., Although postgraduate research is

Rather limited research and few significant field studies have been done on recent immigrant students particularly from the Muslim societies of the Horn of Africa and the Middle East in the American high school context regarding their linguistic, cultural and…

This article describes the authors' experiences of delivering a 3-day introductory diabetes workshop for healthcare professionals and unregistered practitioners (such as healthcare assistants), aimed at helping them develop diabetes knowledge and confidence in working with people with diabetes. The training…

The article provides up-to-date knowledge about the availability and use of emergency contraception (EC) necessary for primary care nurses. Emergency contraception is defined as a post-coital method under female control which produces an effect before implantation. The three licensed forms…

This paper contributes to our knowledge of the determinants of job satisfaction by analysing the effects of employment status (self-employed or salaried employee) and work characteristics (autonomy, variety, task identity, task significance and feedback) on job satisfaction in a sample…

The closing decades of the twentieth century saw a dramatic shift from institutional to community-based care for the mentally ill. This paper describes a study of the social representation of mental illness by mental health professionals working in Britain and…