Work-Related Behaviour and Experience Patterns Among Ambulance Service Personnel of Different Organizational Structures in Urban and Rural Regions

2021 ◽  
Vol Publish Ahead of Print ◽  
Author(s):  
Beatrice Thielmann ◽  
Irina Böckelmann ◽  
Heiko Schumann
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Ambulance Service ◽  
Rural Regions ◽  
Service Personnel ◽  
Work Related

Immigrants and Associations: Their Role in the Socio-Political Process of Immigrant Worker Integration in West Germany and Switzerland

1980 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara E. Schmitter
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Host Country ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
West Germany ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Immigrant Worker ◽  
Work Related ◽  
The Way

This paper presents an analysis of the way “secondary political rights” have been used in two of Europe's foremost labor importing countries: West Germany and Switzerland. It focuses on structural possibilities that could provide avenues for participation to the migrants and on nonwork related organizational structures that can potentially provide important links between migrants and the larger sociopolitical structure of the host country that are absent from labor market and work related structures.

Mental health simulation training in psychiatric skills for police and ambulance service personnel

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (S1) ◽  
pp. S603-S603 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Attoe ◽  
M. Fisher ◽  
A. Vishwas ◽  
S. Cross
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Human Factors ◽  
Simulation Training ◽  
Ambulance Service ◽  
Health Conditions ◽  
Ambulance Personnel ◽  
Service Personnel ◽  
Mental Health Conditions ◽  
Health Simulation

IntroductionUK healthcare policy has highlighted a shift in mental health services from hospital to community, stressing the importance of training for professions not traditionally associated with healthcare. Recommendations have been made to introduce training for the police force designed with experts. Similarly, the value of further training for ambulance clinicians in assessing mental health, capacity, and understanding legislation has been highlighted.AimsTo investigate the effect of simulation training on the confidence, knowledge, and human factors skills of police and ambulance service personnel in working with people experiencing mental health conditions.MethodsOn completion of data collection from 14 training courses, approximately 90 police and 90 ambulance personnel (n = 180) will have completed the human factors skills for healthcare instrument, confidence and knowledge self-report measures, and post-course qualitative evaluation forms. A version of the hfshi for non-clinical professions will hopefully be validated following data collection. Results will also be compared by profession.ResultsAnalyses have not been fully completed, although preliminary statistical analyses demonstrate promising findings, with increases post-course for human factors skills, confidence and knowledge. Furthermore, qualitative feedback initially illustrates valuable learning outcomes and interesting findings from comparisons by professions.ConclusionsMental health simulation training appears to have a promising impact on the confidence, knowledge, and human factors skills of police and ambulance personnel for working with people experiencing mental health conditions.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

The Structure of Tasks at “Call Centers”: Control and Learning Difficulties

2000 ◽  
Vol 44 (12) ◽  
pp. 2-547-2-550
Author(s):  
L. I. Sznelwar ◽  
M. Zilbovicius ◽  
R. F. R. Soares
Keyword(s):  
Call Centers ◽  
Learning Difficulties ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Work Related

The organizational structures of “Call Centers” are based on standardized and rigorously controlled tasks. This article, based on studies done in companies located in São Paulo, Brazil, during the 90s, discusses the difficulties of learning and work-related anxieties present in these types of organization.

scholarly journals Difference between how ambulance service personnel use paper and electronic patient care records when attending older people at home

2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Buswell ◽  
Jane Fleming ◽  
Philip Lumbard ◽  
Larissa S. Prothero ◽  
Sarah Amador ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Patient Care ◽  
Ambulance Service ◽  
Service Personnel ◽  
At Home

Work-related stress indicator surveys in UK Ministry of Defence

2018 ◽  
Vol 165 (2) ◽  
pp. 128-132
Author(s):  
Sarah C Wattie ◽  
R S Bridger
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
Work Related Stress ◽  
Royal Air Force ◽  
Service Personnel ◽  
Stress Indicator ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Norm Group ◽  
Related Stress

IntroductionUK Ministry of Defence (MOD) policy and strategy recommend the use of a ‘Defence MODified’ version of the Health and Safety Executive Management Standards Indicator Tool to help managers identify risks of work-related stress among Defence personnel. The Defence MODified Tool (‘Stress Indicator Survey’) asks personnel to rate their perceptions of eight working conditions known to be significantly associated with work-related stress. MOD psychologists are developing a Defence norm group against which future survey scores can be compared. This article describes the use of the Stress Indicator Survey in MOD and gives an overview of findings from 2016 to 2018.MethodMOD psychologists conducted 27 Stress Indicator Surveys in 2016–2018. Data were collated from 6227 personnel for the Defence norm group and comparisons were conducted between Service personnel and MOD civil servants, and between Services (Royal Navy/Royal Marines (RN/RM), Army and Royal Air Force (RAF)).ResultsService personnel had significantly more favourable perceptions than MOD civil servants of most working conditions. The RN/RM had significantly more favourable perceptions than either the Army or the RAF of all working conditions. These findings indicate differential risks of work-related stress in different groups of personnel.DiscussionPossible explanations for the observed differences in risk of work-related stress are discussed, including the nature of military life and planned changes to Defence civilian headcount. Examples of managerial actions to improve working conditions based on individual survey findings are given.

Female UK Army Service personnel are at greater risk of work-related morbidity on return to duty postpartum

2020 ◽  
pp. jramc-2019-001282
Author(s):  
Robin F Cordell ◽  
C K Wickes ◽  
A Casey ◽  
J P Greeves
Keyword(s):  
Medical Records ◽  
First Year ◽  
Service Personnel ◽  
Skeletal Injury ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Risk Of Injury ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
Lifestyle Questionnaire ◽  
Army Service ◽  
Return To Duty

IntroductionThe 2016 Interim Report on the Health Risks to Women in Ground Close Combat Roles highlighted an increased risk of skeletal injury and significant physiological changes, including increased ligament laxity and decreased bone mineral content, during the postpartum period. The report called for further research and a re-evaluation of postpartum policy to optimise the return of female Service personnel to arduous employment. The purpose of this study was to determine whether returning to duty is at greater risk of injury and illness in the first year postpartum than they were prepregnancy.MethodsFifty-five female UK Army Service personnel aged 18–41 years, who had given birth in the previous 4 years, completed a lifestyle questionnaire and gave written consent for a review of their medical records. The number of working days lost (WDL) due to illness, injury and combined illness and injury was obtained from medical records, for 1 year prepregnancy and 1 year postpartum. Female Service personnel returned to duty at different time-points postpartum, so data were expressed as WDL/week.ResultsWDL/week due to illness and combined illness and injury were higher postpartum compared with prepregnancy (p<0.05). WDL/week due to combined illness and injury was significantly lower prepregnancy (p<0.05) and at 0–26 weeks postpartum (p<0.05), compared with 26–52 weeks postpartum.ConclusionsPostpartum female UK Army Service personnel are at greater risk of illness and a combination of illness and injury in the year after giving birth, compared with prepregnancy. The study suggests female Service personnel are unprepared for the demands of full active duty in the first year postpartum.

Health survey of ambulance workers with the help of generic questionnaire (SF-36)

2013 ◽  
Vol 154 (47) ◽  
pp. 1865-1872 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emese Pék ◽  
István Mártai ◽  
József Marton ◽  
József Betlehem
Keyword(s):  
Health Status ◽  
Physical Functioning ◽  
General Health ◽  
Bodily Pain ◽  
Ambulance Service ◽  
Subjective Perception ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Role Physical ◽  
Sf 36

Introduction: The high work-related stress among ambulance workers is a widely known a phenomenon. Aim: The aim of the authors was to asses self-reported health status of ambulance workers. Method: An anonym self-fill-in questionnaire applying SF-36 was used among workers from the northern and western regions of Hungarian National Ambulance Service. Results: Based on the dimensions of the SF-36 questionnaire the responders considered their “Physical Functioning” the best, while “Vitality” was regarded the worst. The more time an employee have been worked at the Ambulance Service the worse his health was in the first four dimensions including “Physical Functioning”, “Role-Physical”, “Bodily Pain” and “General Health”: p<0.001. Those working in part-time jobs considered their health in all dimensions worse. The respondents who did some kind of sports hold their health in all dimensions better (p<0.001). The workers with higher body mass index regarded their health status worse, in four dimensions: “Physical Functioning” (p = 0.001), “Role-Physical” (p = 0.013), “General Health” (p<0.001) and “Role-Emotional” (p = 0.05). Conclusions: According to the subjective perception of health and measurable parameters of health status of workers proved to be insufficient. Poor physical health can lead indirectly to psychological problems, which may lower the quality of the work and can lead to high turn-over. Orv. Hetil., 154(47), 1865–1872.

Project work, a challenge to traditional work life institutions

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 267-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eskil Ekstedt
Keyword(s):  
Work Organization ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Project Work ◽  
Work Place ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Traditional Work

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to illustrate and problematize how the expansion of project and temporary work challenges the traditional industrial work organization and its internal and supportive institutions. It highlights the transformation dilemma, which occurs when traditional industrial institutions are confronted by project organizations. It also discusses how one may prepare to meet these challenges.Design/methodology/approachThe long-run incremental changes in organizational structures of the economy are described in an economic historical context, focusing on the organizational form of work and the employment regimes. Challenges, at the societal, organizational and individual levels, related to the “projectification” process are illustrated in considering the case of Sweden.FindingsProject dense industries, like media, entertainment and consultancy, are growing faster than the rest of the economy. The share of project work in permanent organizations is increasing. More than a third of all working hours in industrialized countries, like Germany, was labeled as project work in 2013. This transformation challenges basic conditions for how work is designed and regulated, like the stipulated and uniform work time or the permanent and stable work place. Central institutions of today, like the labor law and the educational system, are challenged.Social implications“Projectification” challenges traditional conditions of work and work life institutions and organizations, like the social partners, the educational and law systems.Originality/valueThe paper brings together and problematizes several aspects of “projectification” of work life. It highlights what kind of challenges work and work-related institutions meet and discusses how to handle some of them, like education.

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