Source:International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health
(2005)
Background: The incidence of occupational skin disease (OSD) in geriatric nurses (GNs) is increasing in Germany. Objectives: A prospective controlled study of secondary individual prevention (SIP) of OSD in GNs was conducted. Methods: Two hundred and nine participants completed questionnaires prior …
Source:International Journal of Lifelong Education
(2005)
Over the last decades educational researchers and politicians have shown a growing interest in the concept of learning in practice, i.e. learning in the workplace. Learning in practice plays an important role in connection with lifelong learning, as the workplace is an obvious setting for realizing …
Source:Human Resource Development Quarterly
(2005)
The 1990s and early 2000s saw the increased development of advanced training, skills standards, and certification exams by private organizations in the United States. Employers began accepting these skill certifications in lieu of traditional on-the-job training, thereby encouraging employees to acq…
Source:Scottish Journal of Political Economy
(2005)
Apprenticeship programmes are in many countries important stepping stones into the labour market. However, recruitment of apprentices seems to follow the business cycle. This pattern may be caused by firms' contemporaneous demand for labour, but may also be consistent with an investment hypothesis. …
Teachers involved in the development of competency-based higher education (CBE) are expected to fulfil a new role of instructional designer. As a consequence, they are confronted with the problem to translate abstract new curriculum principles into concrete learning tasks. Recent studies have shown …
Aim and objectives. This paper reports the views of teaching staff and clinical assessors on their experience of programme delivery and assessment. Background. In 2001, the Irish Department of Health and Children developed a vocational training programme for healthcare assistants. This programme was…
Source:Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved
(2005)
In the face of the serious problem of lack of access to health care in the United States, with over 45 million uninsured,1 there exist many models of collaborative local programs serving the uninsured. One such approach is the student-run free clinic, small projects managed by health professional st…
Although new understandings of career decision-making processes are emerging, the prevailing rhetoric points to careers imbued with new worker attributes-flexibility, job mobility, and constant upskilling. This discussion of the pragmatics of youth career decision making draws on a series of transit…
