Prevalence and contextual factors associated with compassion fatigue among nurses in northern Uganda

Background Compassion fatigue is associated with negative consequences that undermine workplace performance. However, literature is scarce on compassion fatigue among nurses in the context of Uganda who are at higher risk of compassion fatigue owed to the nature of their occupation and the unfavorable work environment. We aimed to assess the prevalence and predictors of compassion fatigue among nurses in Northern Uganda. Methods We conducted a cross-sectional survey among 395 randomly selected nurses from two referral and four general hospitals in Northern Uganda. Data was collected using a self-administered questionnaire. Data analysis consisted of descriptive statistics, cross-tabulations, and logistic regression at a 95% level of significance in SPSS version 25. Results Of 395 nurses who took part in the study, 58.2% were female, 39.8% had a diploma, 47.1% were single, and 32.4% had worked for between 11–15 years. Close to 50% of the nurses experienced compassion fatigue. The predictors of compassion fatigue among the participants were; workplace bullying (AOR: 3.83; 95% CI: 1.99–7.36; p = <0.001) career enhancement opportunities (AOR: 9.16; 95% CI: 2.32–36.22; p = 0.002; and remuneration (AOR: 7.30; 95% CI: 2.73–19.49; p = <0.001). Conclusion More than 3 in 4 nurses in Northern Uganda experience compassion fatigue. The Ministry of Health together with other stakeholders should strive to increase career enhancement opportunities for nurses, improve nurses’ remuneration and improve the overall workplace environment to prevent compassion fatigue among nurses in the country.

Proximal and Distal Influences on Fresh Management Graduate’s Employability: A Review of Literature and Orientations

The paper explores the factors that affect proximal and distal employability behavior within the employer satisfaction perspective a vis recruitment of the fresh management graduates. The study undertakes a comprehensive review of the literature and categories the literature as divided across three broad streams: individual preparedness, institutional support mechanisms and organization support to career enhancement. The ‘determinants’ of employer satisfaction in recruiting the fresh management post graduates and their effective operationalization is indeed challenging. The paper attempts to explore and bring together the divergent pieces of literature under the proximal and distal perspectives as shaping ‘employability’ prospects.

Women leadership in Vietnamese higher education institutions: An exploratory study on barriers and enablers for career enhancement

Barriers and enablers that the women leaders experience in the higher education (HE) sector have been a widely researched topic in many developed countries. However, the research on this topic is very limited in developing countries such as Vietnam. Despite the Gender Equality Law introduced in 2006 by the Vietnamese government to promote equal opportunities to women and also reducing the Gender Gap Index score of 70% in Vietnam, there are few women in leadership roles in several sectors including HE. This explanatory study has been conducted in nine universities in Vietnam to understand the barriers that prevent women from taking up leadership roles and the factors that motivate them in their career advancement to become a leader. The qualitative study was conducted with 21 participants (19 women and two men) working as senior leaders, middle managers, and lecturers in these universities. The study found that the main barriers in women’s career enhancement were work-life imbalance, subordinates’ perceptions regarding women leaders, social networking, and personal factors. The factors which motivated women leaders to advance in their career path were continuous family and mentor support, changing mindset of employers, and potential leadership competency of women leaders. The findings of this study would be beneficial for the Vietnamese HE institutions to determine policies and programs, which can support women’s career advancement to leadership roles bringing diversity and inclusion at these institutions. The results might be a steppingstone to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 5 on gender equality in Vietnam, which is one of the world’s fastest-growing economies.

The Principles of Organization of Career Enhancement Training Courses for Music Pedagogues in the Informational Educational Environment

The article examines the problems in organizing course preparations for a pedagogue musician’s, describes the aspects of actualizing the programs of career enhancement courses for specialists from the system of supplementary education for children. One of the main conditions for the organization of the courses is the use of the technical means — the computer and keyboard synthesizers, since particularly they open up the access to the necessary information, perfect the process of education and expand the forms, possibilities and technologies. The content of the supplementary professional programs of the career enhancement training courses correspond to the contemporary tendencies of development of Russian education and make it possible to use effectively the opportunities of the informational educational environment. The programs are developed with consideration of combining traditional musical education with innovational technologies. At the same time there appears the interdisciplinary integration: music — scholarship — informatics. Knowledge in the sphere of informational-communicational technologies is used as a tool for perfecting the instruction of the courses: mastery of the content of the material on the basis of utilization of the object environment and the present-day pedagogical technologies, including computer musical technologies and electronic musical instruments.

Customer Satisfaction in Career Enhancement with the Usage of E-Learning Software

Showcasing has its source in the way that people are animals of necessities and needs. Since numerous items can fulfill a given need, item decision is guided by the ideas of significant worth, cost and fulfillment. These items are realistic in a few different ways; self-creation, pressure, asking and trade. Promoting emerges from this last way to deal with obtaining items. The entire of promoting depends on the procedure of trade. Advertising thoroughly means working with business sectors to realize trade to fulfill human needs and needs. Association lifts its quality on its promoting approaches, which are the most fundamental piece of development and improvement of the association. In this unique circumstance, E-Learning Companies in Chennai is in the phase of reinforcing up its promoting capacities, along these lines making a need to grasp the effect of its arrangements on their customers. The task targets finding the effect of promoting approaches of E-Learning Companies towards its clients in Chennai city, which would go about as a venturing stone for the organization to spread the action to the whole nation.