Evaluation Scale of Clinicians’ Views and Expectations About Academics and Academic Productivity Process, Validity and Reliability Study

Basic medical education, clinical education and academician processes are closely related concepts. Long-term professional practice can disrupt the harmony between these dynamic processes. In this study, it was aimed to evaluate the answers given by clinicians who try to balance the triangle of basic and clinical medical education, patient relations and academic life to questions about their academic processes. The questionnaire, consisting of nineteen closed-ended questions, was answered by clinicians who are experts in their fields, academics and non-academicians, the data obtained were scaled, analyzed and evaluated, and the results were interpreted.

Estrategias y limitaciones de aplicación de consejería de salud en enfermería: revisión integradora de literatura

Objetivo: Identificar los ámbitos y limitaciones de aplicación de consejería de salud en enfermería. Materiales y Métodos: revisión integradora de literatura, la búsqueda de los estudios se realizó en las bases de datos: Web of Science, Scopus, PubMed, ClinicalKey, OVID y Proquest. Se localizaron artículos originales, publicados en el período del 2008 al 2018, en idiomas: español, inglés y portugués, que incluían en el título y/o resumen alguno de los siguientes descriptores: “Nursing health counseling”, “Health promotion”, “Patient centered care”, “Nurse patient relations”, con el operador booleano “AND”. Resultados: El análisis de los artículos seleccionados permitió agrupar la información en dos dimensiones: a) estrategias para brindar consejería de salud en enfermería y b) limitaciones de la consejería de salud en enfermería. Conclusiones: Los ámbitos de aplicación de la consejería de salud en enfermería son amplios dentro de la atención primaria de salud, existen limitaciones para su aplicación, sin embargo, la evidencia demuestra que el costo-efectividad de la consejería es mayor, que cualquier limitación relacionada.

Peplau’s Theory of Interpersonal Relations: A Case Study

Theoretical frameworks offer guiding principles to guide nursing practice on well-defined nursing knowledge. Peplau’s theory of interpersonal relationship empowers nurses in their work for regaining health and well-being for people. Understanding the theory and the connectedness that arises from this theory provides a structure for nurse-patient relations, even working through a language barrier as evidenced by the case scenario detailed in this article.

Publishing and Paternalism in the Grenfell Mission: Wilfred Grenfell’s Accounts of a Boy Patient and Doctor-Patient Relations in Northern Newfoundland and Labrador, 1900–14

In 1906 Dr. Wilfred Grenfell, founder and head of the Grenfell medical mission of northern Newfoundland and southeastern Labrador, published a short article in Putnam’s Monthly about a nine-year-old boy named Clem Richards, who had shot himself in the knee while hunting seabirds. The boy’s identity was disclosed in full, with Grenfell including his name and image as well as a detailed description of his living conditions. The “story” of the boy’s injury and recovery became a favourite of Grenfell’s, and it was modified and republished in a number of magazines and books between 1906 and 1923. This article explores the appeal that Richards’ accident held for Grenfell and argues that his dramatic mid-winter rescue of the boy helped Grenfell promote his mission and construct a public image of himself that would appeal to American readers and donors. By comparing published accounts with Richards’ medical case record, however, we also see how much Grenfell distorted the incident to heighten its drama and reader appeal. The article also considers how the mission’s dominance over northern Newfoundland and southeastern Labrador enabled Grenfell to use Richards’ name and image for mission publicity with no consideration of patient consent.

Does radiology require informed consent for radiation risk?

Recent trends in medical decision-making have moved from paternalistic doctor-patient relations to shared decision-making. Informed consent is fundamental to this process and to ensuring patients’ ongoing trust in the health-care profession. It cannot be assumed that patients consent to the risk associated with medical exposures, unless they have been provided with the information to make that decision. This position is supported by both the legal and ethical framework around Radiation Protection detailed in this commentary.

HEKİM-HASTA İLİŞKİSİNİ İYİLEŞTİRMEDE ETKİLİ BİR YÖNTEM: BALİNT GRUP YÖNTEMİ

Balint groups were put forward by Michael Balint, who studied the physician-patient relationship with its deep dimensions in the 1950s. The Balint group method consists of case presentations and general discussions that emphasize the emotional content of physician-patient relationships following the case presentation. One of the aims of establishing Balint groups is to help health professionals and medical students develop empathy skills to reduce communication difficulties between people. Today, worldwide widely used in a manner Approaches of Balint Group, was not given sufficient importance in Turkey. Today, although many scientific studies have been published about Balint groups, there is not any work published in Turkey. The purpose of this study is to discuss the results of some studies about the Balint Group Method and to explain the definition, content, and application of this method in family medicine. It is known that the Balint Group Method contributes greatly to the increase of physicians' empathy levels and to decrease their burnout levels. Nowadays, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, healthcare workers have quite tiring and difficult days and their burnout levels are increasing considerably. According to the results of the study, the application of the Balint Group Method by physicians in Covid-19 and the following period will contribute to better physician-patient relations as well as reduce the burnout levels of physicians. In Turkey, the introduction of the Balint Group Method, implementation, and inclusion in educational curricula are recommended. Also, it is recommended that physicians who have experienced the Balint Group Method contribute to the increase of the physician-patient relationship by making these experiences into scientific publications, sharing the results with the literature. As a result of the literature review, the implementation of this method in the virtual environment during the pandemic period and its spread throughout the world will make the application of this method even easier.

Methodology for assessing the executives’ performance ensuring the healthcare companies sustainable development

The article presents the methodological tools for the evaluation the executives’ performance ensuring the companies’ sustainable development: the essence and the quantitative assessment concept of the organizational leaders’ performance; the performance conceptual apparatus features and assessment. The performance evaluation concept is proposed on the basis of various management theories combining, taking into account the stage of the organization’s life cycle. The performance evaluation stages are shown in five blocks. An indicative approach is used to assess performance, it is quantified as an indicator which integrates particular performance indicators that characterize the goals achievement for the main managing parameters (finance, patient relations, business processes, staff training and growth, and corporate management). The indicative approach features to the integrated commercial organization heads performance assessment are shown using commercial healthcare company as an example. The lifecycle stage is reflected by modification the number, composition, weights and standards value of assessment indicators. The necessity of BSC building is justified as a reflection of the social orientation and the profit generation sustainable development for the medical organization.