Ali Azarnoush; Shayesteh Salehi
Volume 13, Issue 2 , June 2016, , Pages 160-171
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Background & Objective: Efficient emergency call answering services are vital for the medical emergency services all around the world The provision of emergency services is based on ordering and prioritizing received calls In addition educating this kind of services has a prominent role in answer ...
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Background & Objective: Efficient emergency call answering services are vital for the medical emergency services all around the world The provision of emergency services is based on ordering and prioritizing received calls In addition educating this kind of services has a prominent role in answer time and quality The aim of this study was to describe the experience of telephone triage nurses in 115 Emergency Call Center of the Emergency Medical Services and Disaster Management Center at Kerman University of Medical Sciences Iran Methods: This study was conducted in form of phenomenological qualitative study The sample was selected based on purposive sampling method including 5 nurses in emergency medical services at Kerman University of Medical Sciences with at least 5 years of experience in the 115 Emergency Call Center Data were collected using deep unstructured individual interviews The average time of each interview was 63 minutes and an electronic recorder was used to record the interviews The data were analyzed using Colaizzi method The collected data were reconsidered by the researcher in order to confirm their reliability Results: From the interviews 737 summarized concepts were extracted and formed 9 thematic categorizations Finally the 3 themes of “performing cultural and societal roles” “performing professional and organizational roles” and “performing personal roles” were obtained Experiences of nurses were stated in the form of a compact and continuum set between strengths opportunities weaknesses and threats Conclusion: The findings of the study can be summarized in two fundamental points First evaluation skills which are used in facetoface consultation cannot be transferred directly by telephone This shows that specific training on telephone consultation treatment evaluation and decisionmaking skills should be provided for triage nurses who work at such centers Second a greater degree of job satisfaction can be achieved among the emerging class of telephone triage nurses through allowing independent decisionmaking and decreasing decisionmaking errors by consistent telephone triage instructions and creating suitable educational methods in order to control experienced stresses These are points that must be considered by the Medical Emergency and Disaster Management Centre to promote occupational knowledge of nurses in 115 Emergency Call Center
Alireza Mooghali; Saeed Talebi; Mohamad Hassan Seif
Volume 8, Issue 1 , July 2011, , Pages 33-40
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Background & Objective: The main audience of information technology is human resources and in the case of lack of positive attitude toward information technology the desired results can not be achieved The main purpose of this study was to evaluate factors related to the attitudes toward the use ...
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Background & Objective: The main audience of information technology is human resources and in the case of lack of positive attitude toward information technology the desired results can not be achieved The main purpose of this study was to evaluate factors related to the attitudes toward the use of ICT among the students of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences School of Management Methods: The present c orrelation study was performed on the students of School of Management Shiraz University of Medical Sciences Data collection instrument was a standard questionnaire and data were analyzed by path analysis and Lisrel software Results: Variables of c omputer selfefficacy (023) perceived ease of using technology (037) and perceived usefulness of technology (028) had significant direct relationship with attitude toward use of ICT Computer experience (014) computer selfefficacy (020) and perceived ease of using technology (018) showed significant direct effect on perceived usefulness of technology It is also observed that computer experience (027) and computer selfefficacy (018) have significant direct effect on perceived ease of using technology and finally variable of computer experience (029) showed significant direct effect on computer selfefficacy Conclusion: Among the studied variables perceived ease of using technology had the greatest impact on the attitude toward ICT use and also the model showed appropriate and acceptable fitness with data
Mousa Alavi; Ali Reza Irajpour; Heidar Ali Abedi
Volume 4, Issue 1 , July 2007, , Pages 10-18
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Background & Objective: One of the most important goals of clinical education is ensuring from students clinical competency In such process the evaluation of clinical skills is one of the most important challenges The aim of the present study was to introduce some of the important concepts related ...
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Background & Objective: One of the most important goals of clinical education is ensuring from students clinical competency In such process the evaluation of clinical skills is one of the most important challenges The aim of the present study was to introduce some of the important concepts related to the evaluation of clinical skills Methods : Using phenomenological approach participants were selected from students and teachers of Isfahan Nursing and Midwifery School A purposive sample of 18 individuals (10 nursing students and 8 clinical teachers) who had experienced at least one course of clinical education was recruited An indepth interview was undertaken and Colaizzi method was used for data analysis The reliability and validity of the study was grounded on the four items (factual value applicability consistency and neutrality) Results : The transcribed interviews were analyzed in the seven stages of analysis Emerging codes were categorized in the following three major themes: Triangulation in evaluation the atmosphere of clinical evaluation and Evaluation syndrome Conclusion : Based upon an emphasis on the relationship among clinical evaluation environment (physical and psychosocial) the characteristics of the evaluator and the evaluated and relevant concepts the findings of the present study identified a need for the integration of all influential factors in the process of clinical evaluation Findings also suggest that clinical evaluation has to enjoy relevant models including various influential factors rather than strict structured tools
