November 10, 2010
Given the demographic changes expected in the coming decades, labour markets will experience increased competition for talent. Recruitment and retention of health professionals are priorities in the health sector.
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October 31, 2010
Public spending on physicians has become the fastest-growing expense to Canada’s health-care system, a trend sparking growing calls for an overhaul to the payment system for doctors.
The findings are contained in a new report released Thursday by the Canadian Institute for Health Information, which also found drug costs are eating up an increasing portion of Canada’s health-care budget.
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September 30, 2010
The study’s goal was to understand the incidence of nurse turnover and its cost by examining the loss of human capital as nurses leave and lost productivity as new nurses are orientated.
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September 13, 2010
This descriptive study with qualitative approach aimed to identify the feelings that result from the practice and training of nurses working in mobile Emergency Medical Services (EMS). Nine nurses were interviewed in September 2007. Bardin’s content analysis was used and six categories emerged: “Feelings aroused in the EMS”, “Experiences in the daily routine”, “nurses’ activities in EMS”, “Personal and professional preparedness”, “Reflecting on the professional training” and “Nurses’ perceptions of the EMS”. The importance of this study lays in the need for personally, professionally and emotionally prepared nurses and also in the need to acknowledge and value the nursing practice in this service. The results revealed that nurses working in EMS feel secure, prepared and motivated to work and they also experience diverse feelings such as compassion, gratitude, anger, pity, sadness and anxiety. Acknowledgment and the possibility of restoring lives motivate them.
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September 3, 2010
A 2009 nationwide survey of health care workers in Greece (HCWs) investigated the intentions of HCWs to receive vaccinations for influenza A H1N1. The study found low acceptance rates among HCWs for vaccinations. This article recommends that public heath bodies make vacinations mandatory for HCW and that new strategies to change the perception of risk should be investigated.
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