Objectives To explore the prevalence and associated factors of burnout among five different medical professions in a regional teaching hospital. Design Cross-sectional study. Setting Hospital-based survey. Participants A total of 1329 medical professionals were recruited in a regional hospital with a response rate of 89%. These voluntary participants included 101 physicians, 68 physician assistants, 570 nurses, 216 medical technicians and 374 administrative staff. Primary and secondary outcome measures Demographic data included gender, age, level of education and marital status, and work situations, such as position, work hours and work shifts, were obtained from an electronic questionnaire. Job strain and burnout were measured by two validated questionnaires, the Chinese version of the Job Content Questionnaire and the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory. Results Among the five medical professions, the prevalence of high work-related burnout from highest to lowest was nurses (66%), physician assistants (61.8%), physicians (38.6%), administrative staff (36.1%) and medical technicians (31.9%), respectively. Hierarchical regression analysis indicated that job strain, overcommitment and low social support explained the most variance (32.6%) of burnout. Conclusions Physician assistant is an emerging high burnout group; its severity is similar to that of nurses and far more than that of physicians, administrative staff and medical technicians. These findings may contribute to the development of feasible strategies to reduce the stress which results in the burnout currently plaguing most hospitals in Taiwan.
More than one in four students in professional bachelor's programs drop out of their studies. Although the literature on dropout in higher education is extensive, the focus is most often on university students. Thus, we lack context-based knowledge regarding dropout in professional bachelor programs – knowledge that incorporates the unique characteristics of these programs as alternating education systems, in which the connection to and interaction with practice are fundamental. Drawing on Vincent Tinto's concept of student persistence, this article adopts a profession-oriented perspective on dropout by examining how practice acts as both a facilitator and a barrier to the persistence of students in professional bachelor's programs. We argue that students' persistence oscillates between perseverance and endurance across time, disciplines, and educational arenas (campus and practical training). Persistence is strengthened when students develop self-efficacy both academically and professionally, experience a sense of belonging academically, socially, and within the profession, and perceive their education as meaningful, preparing them for their future roles in the profession.
Social worker is one of the professions particularly vulnerable to burnout. This is due to the helping nature of the work, which causes an emotional burden resulting from the client’s growing expectations and often limited possibilities of fulfilling them, as well as from the sense of responsibility for the client’s fate. Moreover, social workers are aware of their moral responsibility for the decisions they make towards their own conscience, the client, the work environment or their superiors, as well as awareness of legal responsibility. Their occupational stress is often intensified by the need to enter the extremely sensitive, difficult and often complex sphere of their clients, because they are witnesses of human misfortunes, their learned helplessness or adaptation difficulties that make it impossible to function socially or effectively perform parental roles. Sometimes social workers become victims of aggression from demanding clients. The aim of the research was to determine the relationship between the burnout of the surveyed social workers, manifested in its various dimensions, and the level of their general occupational stress. In solving the main research problem, first of all, the diagnosis of burnout of the surveyed social workers (explained variable) was made. For this purpose, the LBQ Questionnaire (Santinello) was used, which is the Polish adaptation of the Italian Link Burnout Questionnaire (LBQ). The occupational stress of the surveyed employees (explanatory variable) was determined by using the Stress Feeling Questionnaire. An additional dimension was introduced into the questionnaire – a lie scale, which can serve as a reliable tool for the initial verification of the respondents’ statements. The statistical analyzes performed confirmed the adopted hypothetical assumptions about a statistically significant positive correlation between the two variables. For this reason, this issue requires constant research and analysis as well as adequate preventive actions. The article is one of the attempts to diagnose this phenomenon and contains specific conclusions that are not only cognitive but also utilitarian.
S. Dolzhenko, R. Dolzhenko, M. Chudinovskih
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The modern labor market, on the one hand, shows significant stability in terms of the unemployment rate and other basic indicators, on the other, it demonstrates variability and adaptability in relation to current technologies and approaches. One of the important professional sectors of the labor market is the field of personnel management, because it is associated with direct work with employees, considering the needs and goals of the business. The purpose of the study is to study the labor market in the personnel management segment in reflection of several data and to highlight key trends and drivers of development of the professional field. The main research method is the analysis of materials and data from Rosstat, Headhunter, analytical reviews, and expert interviews. The work presents the results of an analysis of the labor market in the personnel management segment (as of the end of 2021), which showed that this professional field is an important component of the labor market, involving up to 1 million people who are engaged in various areas of work with personnel (from selection, personnel document flow, motivation, assessment, training, etc. to general personnel management and HR-business partnership). Understanding the directions of development of this segment makes it possible to assess the demand for professions in the field of personnel work and determine promising development goals, including opportunities for the professional development of young specialists.
Evariste Bigirimana, Dr. Irénée Ndayambaje, Dr. Jean Francois Maniraho
Professional development has been considered and functioned as a booster of any employees’ capacity and career growth, teaching included. This assertion is true in the sense that professional development leads to promotion and career change. Professional development improves employee dedication and capability by providing access to education and training opportunities in the workplace. The Rwandan government has been undergoing a stressful massive recruitment of teachers of secondary schools in order to respond to the needs expressed in NST1 of having improved quality education and building economic based education. The recent recruitment of the teaching staff included the non-certified teachers who eventually were introduced to teaching for a short period. However, it was observed that the latter introduction plays a minor role in retaining teachers in their profession as they keep moving from their job due to the major reason of lacking enough confidence in handling teaching practices. Nyabihu District has been identified among the districts that recognized high teacher turnover for several years back. Many solutions have been thought through REB and MINEDUC and continuous professional development processes have been adopted to update teachers’ capacity in teaching profession in order to stabilize the teacher retention. The main objective of this study was to explore the implication of professional development on teacher retention in Nyabihu District, Rwanda. The highlighted specific objectives were (i) to assess the contribution of induction and mentoring on teacher retention in public secondary schools of Nyabihu District (ii) to analyze the effect of the career ladder pathway on teacher retention in public secondary schools of Nyabihu District (iii) to determine the role of working condition on teacher retention in public secondary schools of Nyabihu District (iv) to identify the contribution of Teacher preparedness on teacher retention in public schools of Nyabihu District. This study used mixed method research design as a method of investigation that associates or integrates both qualitative and quantitative forms. The current study population is made of 662 teachers, 45 head teachers of government secondary schools and 45 Directors of education (DOS), thus the target population is 752. In this research purposive sampling was used to select schools and respective teachers, Directors of studies, Head teachers, in those schools due to their concern in the implementation of professional development in their schools. Questionnaires and interviews were utilized by the researcher to gather data. Tables and graphs were used to display the data after they had been examined using descriptive statistics (frequencies and percentages). Generally, the findings of the study indicated that new teachers are not inducted which shows that this dimension is poorly planned during teachers’ recruitment (34 % of respondents strongly disagreed and 31.5% disagreed) against less than 25% of the respondents who have positively supported each of the items about induction and mentoring of teachers. The findings again indicated that the tendency of the majority of the respondents directed towards the disagreement side of the statements under career pathway development (13.3% strongly disagreed and 40% disagreed) against less than 10% who approved that career pathway processes exist in the schools as one way for professional development. Moreover, the findings indicated that the existing working circumstance neither support teachers nor promote their feeling and mind to do well their profession. Finally, the findings indicated that respondents were against the point that the preparation and planning are important aspects of good teaching and pull teachers to stay in the profession. Therefore, the research recommended that the government institutions in charge of implementation of education policies in regard of teacher professional development wake up for the raised issues such that the teacher retention in teaching profession can be maintained in Nyabihu District and in Rwanda in general. The recommendations also went to innovation of many other mentoring and coaching initiatives that aim at retaining teachers at work together with teachers own initiative to increase their level of education for them to become more professionals.
E. Shigan, I. Bukhtiyarov, Valery Budaragin
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Global changes in all spheres of social life, including its socio-economic side and general informatization, leading to new forms of development of the global labor market, make it necessary to search for more modern mechanisms for regulating and using labor resources. The labor market is irrevocably transformed into a qualifications market, based on the professional competencies acquired by the specialist. The system of occupational health physician professional competencies is the primacy of providing qualified medical care and workers` health protecting, and this system transformation is formed on the historical periodization basis of hygienic and clinical knowledge development and the improvement of expert decisions in the structure of the disease with the profession relationship, assessment of work ability, the risk of disease developing and early diagnosis of socially significant forms of pathology among workers in harmful and dangerous labor conditions. The COVID-19 pandemic has expanded old ones and set new ones for the occupational health physician, determining the availability of additional and more in-depth knowledge in his work activity. The occupational health physician labor functions analysis was carried out using the following methods: medico-sociological, scientometric, questionnaire survey and personalized opinion of occupational health specialists. The results analysis indicates the different significance of competencies, the need to expand knowledge on occupational and infectious diseases epidemiology, the factor hygienic assessment, and disease-occupation relationship. 80% of respondents prioritized the examination of the disease-occupation relationship: the ability to analyze medical records, knowledge of the procedure for conducting an examination based on the submitted documents and examination results. 60% of respondents consider it important: identification of factors exposure early signs and occupational diseases initial forms; knowledge the workers` health protection field legislation; justification of the decision in the examination of professional suitability; formulation of the final diagnosis of an occupational disease in accordance with the legislation, the ICD and the Occupational Diseases List. Occupational health physicians professional competencies differ significantly from specialists in other medical fields due to the high expenditure of time and knowledge on expert-analytical assessment of the working environment and the labor process factors in conjunction with the need for modern diagnosis and treatment of diseases in the field of therapy, neurology, pulmonology, otorhinolaryngology, dermatology by the need to interact with specialists in various medical and social fields. The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the need for broader knowledge of the occupational health physicians in the field of the occurrence of occupational diseases under the influence of a biological factor, their spread, diagnosis, treatment, and most importantly, an expert assessment of the connection between the disease and the factor, a clearer algorithm for the physician’s often immediate actions to assist the employee. According to experts, the occupational health physician competencies significance is approximately equal, highlighting only the priority issues of examination of occupational suitability and disease-occupation relationship. The activities of an occupational pathologist include a large number of professional competencies, which requires expanding his theoretical and practical knowledge through changes in specialized medical education and further postgraduate training.
Introduction. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, medical workers turned out to be the most vulnerable category of the population in terms of the risk of developing psycho-emotional disorders. Objective. To establish the characteristics of the psycho-emotional state among general practitioners of COVID hospitals, multidisciplinary hospitals, and polyclinics during the COVID-19 pandemic. Material and methods. The study included: group 1 – general practitioners of COVID hos pitals (n=111); group 2 – internists of multidisciplinary hospitals (n=106); group 3 – GPs working in polyclinics (n=102); group 4 – control group (healthy) (n=190). The assess ment of professional burnout was carried out by means of the Maslach Burnout Inventory, developed by American psychologists C. Maslach and S.E. Jackson, in adaptation by N.E. Vodopyanova and E.S. Starchenkova, as well as using V.V. Boyko’s questionnaire. The study utilized an integrative anxiety test to investigate the formation of psycho-emotional disorders in internists during the pandemic of the novel coronavirus infection. The quality of life was determined by means of the SF-36 questionnaire. The processing of the ob tained data was carried out using the Statistica package from StatSof t (USA). Results. It has been established that the work of general practitioners during the COVID-19 pandemic was associated with the impact of occupational stress related to caring for in fected patients on medical workers, as well as with significant changes in work regarding aspects of organization and safety, which contributed to an increase in the levels of oc cupational stress, professional burnout, and anxiety, and a decrease in the quality of life. Limitations of the study. The study has regional (Samara Region) and professional (in terms of detailing the working conditions in the studied comparison groups) limitations. Conclusions. The work of general practitioners of specialized COVID hospitals, internists of multidisciplinary hospitals, and GPs of polyclinics is associated with an increase in the levels of occupational stress, professional burnout, and anxiety, and a decrease in the quality of life. Notably, psychological changes are most pronounced in employees of specialized COVID hospitals. It is necessary to continue research on the emotional state of medical personnel in order to timely carry out preventive treatment to preserve the health of medical workers.
The article is devoted to analysing the level of satisfaction of the head of a school in Kyiv with the conditions of his professional activity. The authors conducted a survey of respondents (school principals and their deputies) from three districts of Kyiv; the questions were grouped into 4 main groups: the direct personality of the head, his or her satisfaction with the relationship with participants in the educational process, certain aspects of the functioning of the educational institution and the material support itself. The survey involved 119 heads of general secondary schools, of whom 75.6% have more than 20 years of teaching experience). Our analysis showed that the manager is quite satisfied with the choice of the profession of an educator and the place of work, relatively satisfied with the work as a manager and the results of management activities. He believes that he has a high level of professional training. The head is most satisfied with the relations with the students of the school, the relations with the education administration, the teaching staff, and the least with the relations with the parents. The manager is satisfied with the level of psychological comfort in the educational institution and the educational program created by the institution for grades 5–7. Considers the level of executive discipline of pedagogical workers to be acceptable. Furthermore, he has an average level of satisfaction with the material base in the educational institution. The only thing the manager is not satisfied with is his salary level. Despite this, he remains committed to his professional activity, which corresponds to his professional identification, and remains in his profession. We emphasise the importance of continuing research on establishing relations between teachers and parents of students and ways to improve the material base of general secondary education institutions.
Solving physical problems can be considered as a goal and method of teaching. Insufficient fundamental knowledge of medical university students will not allow them to meet modern requirements of medical science. The choice of physics tasks, the content of which is focused on the future profession, contributes to the formation of professional and general cultural competencies of a doctor and a pharmacist. It is reasonable to use such tasks in different types of classes: seminars, laboratory workshops, colloquiums. Motivation is increased by selecting tasks taking into account the future medical specialty and identifying interdisciplinary connections. The article provides examples of tasks in accordance with the goals set during the lesson.
The purpose of the work was to consider the general and special characteristics of professional legal activity from the standpoint of moral, ethical and moral components.The objectives of the work include the study of the ethical component of the legal profession, which represents a certain reputational basis characterizing the person of the legal sphere and the legal system as a whole, as well as the analysis of the professional status of the legal profession and its axiological and moral significance.To achieve this goal and solve problems, the author uses such general scientific and private scientific methods as analysis, synthesis, historical, system-structural, comparative methods.Results: the features of the moral component of the law enforcement process are determined, the characteristic features of local acts regulating the ethical side of the law enforcement officer's activities in state and non-state structures are highlighted, the aspect composition of professional ethics in general and ethics of judges in particular is highlighted.Conclusions: compliance with the norms of corporate ethics generally accepted in the professional legal community is one of the most important conditions for maintaining a high status and degree of trust in employees of the legal industry and public entities on the part of citizens. At the same time, in modern Russian reality, the regulators of the moral side of business and non-professional relations of a lawyer are directly or indirectly both legislation with a penitentiary background and local acts and norms of morality.
J. Akintunde-Adeyi, J. O. Akinbode, Emmanuel Taiwo Akinola
Purpose: The study examined the role of employees’ resilience and organisational culture in the sustainable performance of tertiary hospitals in Oyo State, Nigeria, it examined the nature of relationship that exist among employees resilience level, organisational culture and sustainable performance; examined the influence of employees resilience level on sustainable performance; determined the impact of organisational culture on tertiary hospitals sustainable performance; investigated the moderating role of organisational culture in the relationship between employee resilience level and tertiary hospitals sustainable performance; and examined the impact of medical personnel resilience on patient satisfaction in tertiary hospitals. The conditions of the health workers in Nigeria necessitated this study in order to draw the attention of policy makers and tertiary hospitals Management to the need of coming to the aid of health workers in terms of improved services. Theoretical framework: The aim of employees’ resilience in the tertiary hospital is to ensure effective performance of the health workers and for them to be able to withstand or recover quickly from difficult conditions in the world of works. Noting that they experience serious stress as a result of the mass relocation of health workers in Nigeria to the western world for greener pastures which therefore put pressures on the ones on ground and finding it difficult to cope with the rigor of work. The study proffers solutions to the difficulties being experience by the health workers. When compared with the developed countries, health workers welfare are well taken care of which the reverse is the case in Nigeria. Methodology/Design/Approach: This study adopted quantitative design through a survey approach to answer the research questions raised. Questionnaire was made use of to gather data. The data collected were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistical techniques of Social Package of Social Sciences, The population of the study comprises of two (2) sets of respondents which are Medical Personnel and Patients, 338 Medical Personnel and 50 patients were given questionnaire and wee returned. Findings: The outcome of the findings indicated that employees’ resilience level has a statistically significant positive and low correlation with sustainable performance ( ). Moreover, employees resilience has a statistically significant positive correlation with organizational culture ( ). In addition, organizational culture had a positive and statistically significant relationship with sustainable performance ( ). The result revealed that organizational culture did not moderate the relationship between employees’ resilience level and tertiary hospital sustainable performance ( ). This implies that organizational culture is not a moderator between employees’ resilience level and tertiary hospital sustainable performance. The results also revealed that patients are satisfied with the communication style of the medical personnel (100%), the explanation mode of the medical personnel (85%), the ways by which the medical personnel relate with them (95%), general relationship (100%), the technical skills of the medical personnel (80%) and awareness of their health issue (100%). The medical personnel are well trained and cultured through their professional ways of discharging their duties to safe lives. It also, charged the Nigerian Government to improve in the working conditions of the health workers. Research, Practical & Social implications: The study resolves by implication that, employees’ resilience and organizational culture have significant relationship with sustainable performance while employees’ resilience level has a statistically significant positive correlation with organizational culture. Employees’ resilience through contextual and behavioural dimensions do not significant predictors on sustainable performance while cognitive dimension significantly predicts of tertiary hospital sustainable performance. The study also clarified that organizational culture is not a moderator of the relationship between employees’ resilience and tertiary hospital sustainable performance. Patients are satisfied with the medical personnel service delivery in these tertiary hospitals. It recommends among others, that medical personnel’s behavioural and contextual dimensions of employees’ resilience should be further enhanced by hospital stakeholders, especially the management to enhance sustainable performance. Originality/Value: The study added value to body of knowledge because its implications both practical and social affirmed that without creating enabling environment, organizational culture, the level of employees’ resilience is advanced and better and appropriate management strategies, organizational culture that will meet up with its optimization level in terms service delivery and effective welfare of health workers should be put in place from time ti time. The study as recommends that medical personnel’s behavioural and contextual dimensions of employees’ resilience level should be further enhanced by hospital stakeholders, especially the management to enhance sustainable performance.
Анатолій Сільвейстр, Микола Моклюк, Вікторія Думенко
The article deals with the issues related to the formation of motives for the professional orientation of secondary school students in the course of studying physics. The main forms and ways of implementing the principle of practical orientation in the study of academic subjects in general secondary education institutions are identified: students are told about all the features of their future activities, the best ways to get involved in this profession, etc.; young people who have not made their choice are introduced to a list of promising professions, and forms of professional orientation are highlighted in physics lessons and in extracurricular activities.It is proved that vocational guidance work at school should be based on classical and modern developments in the segment of vocational guidance of youth and students. It has been found that the motives of professional orientation in high school physics lessons, which include questions about industrial objects, have significant potential for this.It is determined that the task of forming the motivation of high school students to get acquainted with engineering and high-tech working professions will contribute to the future choice of professional activity.It is emphasized that it is important to build the professional orientation of students, which is realized through the general natural and physical components, respectively, taking into account the age characteristics of students, the location of the region, based on the principle of systematicity.It is noted that the most effective means of career guidance work with students is to provide information about professions in the form of thematic conversations, excursions to production facilities, work with illustrations and textbook material during physics lessons.It is determined that the main task of forming motives for students to get acquainted with future professions is to reveal their various facets: to tell not only about the labor functions of an employee, but also to show the place of work, learning environment, familiarize them with modern equipment and leisure activities, etc.
In recent times, the relationship between research and teaching has often been framed in terms of experimental investigations demonstrating what are effective pedagogical techniques. However, this is only one of several influential models of that relationship. While research literacy plays a key role in all of them, these models vary according to the type of research knowledge and skill felt to be of value to teachers, and in how teaching and education are conceptualised. This can be illustrated by the diverse forms of educational action research, and by different interpretations of “reflective practice”. To further explore the role of research literacy, I examine the case of research on teaching about research methods, addressing the following questions: What role does pedagogical research play in research methods teaching? What might this tell us about the relationship between research and teaching more generally? What does it say about the notion of research literacy?
Purpose : To investigate undergraduate student healthcare professional experiences within the United Kingdom, in relation to receiving feedback, including exploring various topics within this process which may in fl uence performance and satisfaction levels. By understanding the student experience of feedback, this will help to plan and guide future practice to enhance student engagement with feedback to then apply in their chosen profession. Method : A survey-based approach was utilised to gain quantitative and qualitative data via an electronic survey. There was a total of 19 questions within the survey and 17 allowed a free text response. Analysis of the quantitative data was carried out using General Linear Models. Results : One hundred and sixty-nine students completed the survey from six health related programmes which equated to an 18% response rate. The quantitative data was analysed to identify differences in feedback perception between undergraduate health programmes in a School of Health Sciences. The main themes derived from the qualitative data were grouped into perception of feedback, student engagement and quality of feedback. Our data illustrates that whilst some healthcare disciplines had speci fi c areas to improve their feedback, students were generally satis fi ed and engaged with the feedback they received. There was a preference towards having annotations within their work and felt feedback was personalised and given in a feed forward manner. Discussion : This study found that students engaged with feedback and there was a strong desire of wanting to develop and improve future performance. Students preferred written feedback and identi fi ed text annotations within submissions as conveying a more personalised message and useful in clearly identifying areas for future improvement. Peer feedback was identi fi ed as a type of feedback which students did not prefer due to feeling unprepared to critique another student ' s work. This has highlighted a need for peer feedback to be embedded into all programmes, as the experience of giving and receiving feedback from peers is included in all the healthcare roles which these students will be entering once quali fi ed.