scholarly journals A QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT OF AN INNOVATIVE EDUCATION PROJECT FOR PHARMACY STUDENTS

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 134-138
Author(s):  
Zuzana Pagáčová ◽  
Daniela Mináriková
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Quantitative Assessment ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
Pharmacy Students ◽  
Advanced Training ◽  
Future Health ◽  
Education Project ◽  
Educational Project ◽  
Innovative Education

The changing environment of pharmacy care represents an opportunity to implement an innovative educational form into the teaching process, which represents a significant potential in preparing pharmacy students for their future profession. The main objective of the assessment was to evaluate the contribution of the innovative education project Advanced Training in Pharmacy Care (ATIP) as a complement to the compulsory curriculum at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the Comenius University in Bratislava. Another objective was to analyse the obstacles to dispensation and counselling perceived by students of the educational project. The assessment uses data from the ATIP educational project carried out between 2015/2016 and 2020/2021 at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the Comenius University in Bratislava. Data collection was provided through a questionnaire survey among the participating students after completing each year of the project. The assessment focused on students' perception of the ATIP educational project, characterizing their readiness to provide pharmacy care and obstacles to the implementation of pharmacy care. Students perceived the project as an interesting addition to the curriculum, which was organized at a high professional level with reasonable difficulty. In the case of their readiness for their future profession by studying and passing compulsory practice, students were critical in their answers. Obstacles affecting the implementation of pharmacy care that prevailed among students were a lack of practical experience, a lack of time to address the patients' problems, and different requirements of patients from the knowledge acquired during study at the faculty. In other obstacles, such as a patient's lack of interest, lack of privacy to talk, etc., students have taken a neutral stance. This innovative education project pointed out the importance of cooperation between various organisations, such as academic, pharmaceutical and student, in the field of education of future health professionals.

scholarly journals Improving mobility and participation of older people with vertigo, dizziness and balance disorders in primary care using a care pathway: feasibility study and process evaluation

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva Seckler ◽  
Verena Regauer ◽  
Melanie Krüger ◽  
Anna Gabriel ◽  
Joachim Hermsdörfer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Older People ◽  
Process Evaluation ◽  
Feasibility Study ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Implementation Strategy ◽  
Care Pathway ◽  
Main Trial ◽  
Telephone Helpline

Abstract Background Community-dwelling older people are frequently affected by vertigo, dizziness and balance disorders (VDB). We previously developed a care pathway (CPW) to improve their mobility and participation by offering standardized approaches for general practitioners (GPs) and physical therapists (PTs). We aimed to assess the feasibility of the intervention, its implementation strategy and the study procedures in preparation for the subsequent main trial. Methods This 12-week prospective cohort feasibility study was accompanied by a process evaluation designed according to the UK Medical Research Council’s Guidance for developing and evaluating complex interventions. Patients with VDB (≥65 years), GPs and PTs in primary care were included. The intervention consisted of a diagnostic screening checklist for GPs and a guide for PTs. The implementation strategy included specific educational trainings and a telephone helpline. Data for mixed-method process evaluation were collected via standardized questionnaires, field notes and qualitative interviews. Quantitative data were analysed using descriptive statistics, qualitative data using content analysis. Results A total of five GP practices (seven single GPs), 10 PT practices and 22 patients were included in the study. The recruitment of GPs and patients was challenging (response rates: GP practices: 28%, PT practices: 39%). Ninety-one percent of the patients and all health professionals completed the study. The health professionals responded well to the educational trainings; the utilization of the telephone helpline was low (one call each from GPs and PTs). Familiarisation with the routine of application of the intervention and positive attitudes were emphasized as facilitators of the implementation of the intervention, whereas a lack of time was mentioned as a barrier. Despite difficulties in the GPs’ adherence to the intervention protocol, the GPs, PTs and patients saw benefit in the intervention. The patients’ treatment adherence to physical therapy was good. There were minor issues in data collection, but no unintended consequences. Conclusion Although the process evaluation provided good support for the feasibility of study procedures, the intervention and its implementation strategy, we identified a need for improvement in recruitment of participants, the GP intervention part and the data collection procedures. The findings will inform the main trial to test the interventions effectiveness in a cluster RCT. Trial registration Projektdatenbank Versorgungsforschung Deutschland (German registry Health Services Research) VfD_MobilE-PHY_17_003910, date of registration: 30.11.2017; Deutsches Register Klinischer Studien (German Clinical Trials Register) DRKS00022918, date of registration: 03.09.2020 (retrospectively registered).

scholarly journals Changing relationships: how does patient involvement transform professional identity? An ethnographic study

BMJ Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. e045520
Author(s):  
Marie-Pierre Codsi ◽  
Philippe Karazivan ◽  
Ghislaine Rouly ◽  
Marie Leclaire ◽  
Antoine Boivin
Keyword(s):  
Quality Improvement ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Clinical Care ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Administrative Team ◽  
Nurse Clinician ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Relational Framework

ObjectivesTo understand identity tensions experienced by health professionals when patient partners join a quality improvement committee.DesignQualitative ethnographic study based on participatory observation.SettingAn interdisciplinary quality improvement committee of a Canadian urban academic family medicine clinic with little previous experience in patient partnership.ParticipantsTwo patient partners, seven health professionals (two family physicians, two residents, one pharmacist, one nurse clinician and one nurse practitioner) and three members of the administrative team.Data collectionData collection included compiled participatory observations, logbook notes and semi-structured interviews, collected between the summer of 2017 to the summer of 2019.Data analysisGhadiri’s identity threats theoretical framework was used to analyse qualitative material and to develop conceptualising categories, using QDA Miner software (V.5.0).ResultsAll professionals with a clinical care role and patient partners (n=9) accepted to participate in the ethnographic study and semi-structured interviews (RR=100%). Transforming the ‘caregiver–patient’ relationship into a ‘colleague–colleague’ relationship generated identity upheavals among professionals. Identity tensions included competing ideals of the ‘good professional’, challenges to the impermeability of the patient and professional categories, the interweaving of symbols associated with one or the other of these identities, and the inner balance between the roles of caregiver and colleague.ConclusionThis research provides a new perspective on understanding how working in partnership with patients transform health professionals’ identity. When they are called to work with patients outside of a simple therapeutic relationship, health professionals may feel tensions between their identity as caregivers and their identity as colleague. This allows us to better understand some underlying tensions elicited by the arrival of different patient engagement initiatives (eg, professionals’ resistance to working with patients, patients’ status and remuneration, professionals’ concerns toward patient ‘representativeness’). Partnership with patients imply the construction of a new relational framework, flexible and dynamic, that takes into account this coexistence of identities.

scholarly journals An Experimental Education Project for Consultations of Older Adults during the Pandemic and Healthcare Lockdown

Healthcare ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 425
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Neumann-Podczaska ◽  
Mikołaj Seostianin ◽  
Konrad Madejczyk ◽  
Piotr Merks ◽  
Urszula Religioni ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Interprofessional Education ◽  
Comprehensive Evaluation ◽  
Pharmacy Students ◽  
Education Project ◽  
Experimental Education ◽  
Senior Patients ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Remote Consultations

Objective: To develop a mentor-supervised, interprofessional, geriatric telemedicine experiential education project in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Method: Medical and pharmacy students collaborated via remote consultations to address the coexistence of multimorbidity and polypharmacy in geriatric patients. In-depth interviews of students and patients as well as Likert scale-based telephonic survey were performed for a comprehensive evaluation of the project’s significance. Results: To date, 49 consultations have been conducted. Remote consultations performed by medical and pharmacy students working collaboratively were beneficial for both students, participants. Conclusions and Practice Implications: This experimental education project provided students with authentic challenges while simultaneously delivering care to the older adults who are susceptible to disruption of care associated with the pandemic. Further development and expanded implementation of such approaches may be a post-pandemic practice to provide more accessible care for senior patients while incorporating interprofessional education.

MINEHERITAGE: AN INNOVATIVE EDUCATION PROJECT LINKING EUROPEAN MINING HISTORY WITH THE MODERN EUROPEAN SOCIETY DEVELOPMENT

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ursula Sanjuán Sanchez ◽  
Juan Herrera Herbert ◽  
João Pedro Veiga ◽  
Alicia López Mederos ◽  
María Muñiz Fernandez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
European Society ◽  
Education Project ◽  
Mining History ◽  
Innovative Education

scholarly journals Willingness to treat drug dependence and depression: comparisons of future health professionals

2011 ◽  
pp. 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jim Anthony ◽  
Brian Ahmedani ◽  
Maureen Mickus ◽  
Sheryl Kubiak ◽  
Carlos Rios
Keyword(s):  
Health Professionals ◽  
Drug Dependence ◽  
Future Health

scholarly journals Training of Teachers-Psychologists for the Competition of Professional Skills within the Framework of the Professional Development Program

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 21-25
Author(s):  
S.K. Pogrebnaya
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Training Program ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
Professional Development Program ◽  
Advanced Training ◽  
Professional Skills ◽  
Methodological Aspects

The work reflects the practical experience of training teachers-psychologists for the participation in competitions of professional skills. The organizational and methodological, theoretical and methodological aspects of the training for future competitors are presented. The goals, objectives, planned learning outcomes of the trainees of the additional professional advanced training program on the topic: “Organization the activity of the participant in the professional competition “Teacher-psychologist of Kuban” are reflected. The main content components of the program and profession-al competencies that must be acquired or developed by students as a result of training are de-scribed.

scholarly journals El duelo en medicina desde la visión y piel del profesional sanitario

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-100
Author(s):  
Erik Gabriel Díaz Avila ◽  
Marcela Fernández-Carrera Muchova ◽  
Teresa Sánchez Villanueva ◽  
Vega Sánchez Calvo ◽  
Jesús Francisco Mesonero Robles
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Health Personnel ◽  
Natural Process ◽  
Future Health ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Loved One ◽  
Scientific Databases ◽  
Salud Mental

El duelo es un proceso natural que han de pasar las personas tras la pérdida de un ser querido. Durante la actual pandemia COVID-19 los profesionales sanitarios han sido víctimas, pues se han tenido que enfrentar a una situación sin precedentes en la que se ha puesto en juego su propia salud mental. El objetivo principal del estudio ha sido analizar el duelo en los profesionales sanitarios durante la actual pandemia COVID-19. Se realizó una revisión de la literatura, no sistemática, en las diferentes bases de datos científicas para analizar el duelo en el ámbito de la medicina ligado al duelo vivido por los profesionales sanitarios, centrado en la situación actual de crisis sanitaria, así como los problemas que añadió la pandemia COVID-19. La pandemia COVID-19 ha puesto de manifiesto la importancia del duelo y la despedida justa, la cual no se pudo dar en la mayoría de los casos. Es imperiosa la preparación que han de recibir los profesionales sanitarios para enfrentar dicho proceso e incluso, los futuros profesionales sanitarios. Queda de manifiesto la importancia de la capacitación y cuidado de la salud mental, tanto en pacientes, familiares, personal sanitario y futuros profesionales de la salud. A la vez que, se ha de garantizar la resiliencia enfocada a los aspectos relacionados con el duelo. Grief is a natural process that people go through after the loss of a loved one. During the current COVID-19 pandemic, health professionals have been victims, as they have had to face an unprecedented situation in which their own mental health has been put at stake. The main objective of the study has been to analyze the grief in health professionals during the current COVID-19 pandemic. A literatura review, non-systematic was carried out in the different scientific databases to analyze the grief in the field of medicine linked to the grief experienced by health professionals, focused on the current situation of health crisis, as well as the problems added by the COVID-pandemic. 19. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of mourning and a fair farewell, which could not be given in most cases. The preparation that health professionals must receive to face this process and even future health professionals is imperative. The importance of training and mental health care is evident, both in patients, relatives, health personnel and future health professionals. At the same time, resilience focused on aspects related to grief must be guaranteed.

scholarly journals Training Needs Measure for Health Care of the LGBT+ Public

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Willian Roger Dullius ◽  
Lara Barros Martins
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Diagnostic Tool ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Training Needs ◽  
Factorial Structure ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
Lgbt People ◽  
Two Stages

Abstract Inadequate and ineffective care provided by health professionals to the LGBT+ public can cause countless damages to those who demand care. An alternative to improve the service provided is to promote training actions for professionals that should be initiated by the Training Needs Analysis (TNA). This study aimed at building and validating, theoretically and statistically, a TNA instrument for health professionals related to humanized care for LGBT+ individuals for the Brazilian context. The data collection was done in two stages, in person and virtually, and had 449 professionals who responded to the TNA instrument built. The data was analyzed by means of content analysis, exploratory factors and internal consistency. The scale presented a uni-factorial structure with evidence of validity and reliability, and can be used as a diagnostic tool to verify the gaps in the competence of health professionals in the care of LGBT+ people.

scholarly journals Conceptions of the professionals about their attributions in the Expanded Nucleus of Family Health

Psico-USF ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 661-671
Author(s):  
Meyrielle Belotti ◽  
Alexandra Iglesias ◽  
Luziane Zacché Avellar
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Family Health ◽  
Work Processes ◽  
The Family ◽  
Specialized Care

Abstract The article aims to analyze the conceptions conferred by the health professionals that compose the Expanded Nuclei of Family Health (NASF) on their work assignments. This is a qualitative research, in which was used, for the data collection, eight focus groups, with a total of 43 participants. The data were submitted to content analysis. The results outlined the following categories: integrating NASF work with the Family Health Teams (ESF); developing specialized care; promoting intersectionality; contributing to the promotion of teamwork in Primary Care (AB) and strengthening AB. The study indicates the importance of a better understanding of the functions of the NASF, so that it does not restrict the opportunity to perform specialized care in AB. It is pointed out, the need for adjustments in the work processes of the ESF, in order to enable the shared work in the AB.

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