Health care professionals' knowledge of procedural issues in transplantation: the need for continuing education programs

2004 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
İ Tokalak ◽  
Ö Başaran ◽  
R Emiroğlu ◽  
A Kut ◽  
H Karakayali ◽  
...  
1996 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 259-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
David L. Byers ◽  
Cheryl S. Hilgenberg ◽  
Dent M. Rhodes

Although many reports have evaluated interactive technology in distance learning, there is a lack of reports focused on utilizing interactive television to meet adult continuing education needs of professionals. This study describes the evaluation of live two-way interactive television (ITV) continuing education programs for health-care professionals. The programs were evaluated using adult learning characteristics as the evaluative framework. Data collection consisted of surveys, interviews, and participant observation. Results indicate that these continuing education programs delivered through interactive television technology met the adult learning requirements of the healthcare professionals who participated. The overwhelming majority of those in the sample indicated the interactivity of the system enhanced their learning and they would be likely to attend future professional education programs offered via ITV.


Author(s):  
Jennifer Day

The Queen’s University Interprofessional Working Team, as part of the Interprofessional Education (IPE) Curricula Models for Healthcare Providers in Ontario (IPECM) working group, has been tasked to present a scoping review of existing national and international interprofessional education programs and to develop a guiding curriculum framework for pre‐registration, continuing education and post‐ registration health provider education. Achieving this project’s aims will ultimately provide a foundation that promotes collaborative, patient‐centred practice by utilizing the skills, knowledge and scope of practice of all members of the health care team. The current scoping review of interprofessional continuing education programs for the 21 regulated health professions and social work in Ontario will be presented here.  A comprehensive scoping review of voluntary and suggested IPE continuing‐education programs available for registered health care professionals was investigated. Both peer, and non‐peer reviewed literature, as well as grey literature, from sources such as university/ college websites and professional organizations, were examined. Identified gaps in research include a widespread lack of IPE curriculum documentation in research as well as few available IPE continuing education programs. Some barriers enabling these shortfalls may include lack of funding, lack of human resources, and lack of support, experience and knowledge in developing interdisciplinary programs.  Next steps include synthesizing and summarizing the current available training courses and modules for each regulated health profession. These summaries will be integrated with the pre‐ and post‐registration scoping review and guiding curricula framework.


2011 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. S60-S66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Suchanek Hudmon ◽  
Robert L. Addleton ◽  
Frank M. Vitale ◽  
Bruce A. Christiansen ◽  
George C. Mejicano

Author(s):  
Salmeen D. Babelgaith ◽  
Mansour Almetwazi ◽  
Syed Wajid ◽  
Saeed Alfadly ◽  
Ahmed M Shaman ◽  
...  

Background: This study aimed to evaluate the Impact of diabetes continuing education on knowledge and practice of diabetes care among health care professionals in Yemen. Methods: A quasi-experimental study was carried out among health care professionals. The original questionnaire consisted of 22 multiple choice questions. A total of 73 HCPs received continuing education (CE) intervention.  Knowledge attitude and practice (KAP) was assessed using a validated questionnaire.  Results: The result showed that majority of the HCPs has a good general knowledge on diabetes and its managements prior to the CE program. Evaluation of the general knowledge score of the HCPs found some improvement in the knowledge score, however the improvement was not significant (p=0.31). The result of this study found that HCPs has good knowledge on monitoring the sign, symptoms and laboratory parameters. Conclusion: Evaluation of the knowledge score on Goal of Diabetes Management of HCPs found significant (p=0.024) improvement in the knowledge score. The results indicated that the lab values were rated as the most important in the goal for the treatment of diabetes patients.  The study also found no significant difference in practice score after CE program among HCPs.


2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 285-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
Indre Brasaite ◽  
Marja Kaunonen ◽  
Arvydas Martinkenas ◽  
Vida Mockiene ◽  
Tarja Suominen

This study looks to describe health care professionals’ knowledge regarding patient safety. A quantitative study using questionnaires was conducted in three multi-disciplinary hospitals in Western Lithuania. Data were collected in 2014 from physicians, nurses, and nurse assistants. The overall results indicated quite a low level of safety knowledge, especially in regard to knowledge concerning general patient safety. The health care professionals’ background factors such as their profession, education, the information about patient safety they were given during their vocational and continuing education, as well as their experience in their primary speciality seemed to be associated with several patient safety knowledge areas. Despite a wide variation in background factors, the knowledge level of respondents was generally found to be low. This requires that further research into health care professionals’ safety knowledge related to specific issues such as medication, infection, falls, and pressure sore prevention should be undertaken in Lithuania.


2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-19
Author(s):  
Katarina Boričić

Objective. The aim of this study is to determine the quality of accredited education on the topic of gender-based violence to health care professionals, health and professional associates in the Republic of Serbia. Methods. A search of a database of accredited continuing education programs published on the website of the Health Council of the Republic of Serbia for the period between January 2010 and July 2019. identified programs using the keywords "violence", "family" "gender-based". The ch2 test was used to examine the differences between the independent variables versus the dependent variable. Results. This study showed that two thirds of the training was intended for health care professionals, only while health care workers, health and professional associates were allocated for every seventh education. If the type of institution is observed, it can be noticed that twice as many programs are accredited by civil society organizations in relation to the number of programs accredited by health institutions. Considering the time period in which the programs are accredited, a trend of increasing number of programs can be observed. Among the accredited programs, national courses accounted for 42.6% of the accredited programs while every other program was free. There is a statistically significant difference between educations organized by different types of institutions in relation to the type and cost of education. Conclusion. Although in the observed period there is an increasing trend in the number of accredited programs dealing with gender-based violence, there is still room to improve the quality of continuing education in terms of increasing the number of trainings with an interactive method of work, trainings aimed at different profiles of health professionals and health and professional associates, as well as free on line trainings.


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