IIW/EWF system for professional qualification and its impact in metalworking companies in Europe

Disserta����o para obten����o do grau de Mestre em Engenharia de Soldadura

International News Reporting in the Multidimensional Network: The socio-demographics, professional culture and newswork of foreign correspondents working across Sub-Saharan Africa

Tese apresentada para cumprimento dos requisitos necess��rios �� obten����o do grau de Doutor em Media Digitais

The impact of job insecurity on adaptive performance via burnout

Difficult and unpredictable times, due to economic instability, lead employees to feel high job insecurity. Organizations��� only way to subsistence is to search innovative ways of solving problems and find creative solutions. This study focuses on the impact that job insecurity has on adaptive performance, a recent measure integrating the response of creativity, reactivity in the face of emergencies, interpersonal adaptability, training effort, and handling work stress, and, mediated by burnout. From the responses of two questionnaires (????????1=252; ????????2=145), we conclude that job insecurity leads to exhaustion, but not to disengagement. In turn, it is the latter that demonstrates to have negative relations with some measures of adaptive performance. Thus, it is crucial to understand how organizations can minimize the inherent process.

The World Health Organization Multi-Professional Patient Safety Curriculum : implementation of key modules and its impact on patient safety knowledge, skills, and attitudes of medical students at the University of Algarve

ABSTRACT - Objectives: We attempted to show how the implementation of the key elements of the World Health Organization Patient Safety Curriculum Guide Multi-professional Edition in an undergraduate curriculum affected the knowledge, skills, and attitudes towards patient safety in a graduate entry Portuguese Medical School. Methods: After receiving formal recognition by the WHO as a Complementary Test Site and approval of the organizational ethics committee , the validated pre-course questionnaires measuring the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to patient safety were administered to the 2nd and3rd year students pursuing a four-year course (N = 46). The key modules of the curriculum were implemented over the academic year by employing a variety of learning strategies including expert lecturers, small group problem-based teaching sessions, and Simulation Laboratory sessions. The identical questionnaires were then administered and the impact was measured. The Curriculum Guide was evaluated as a health education tool in this context. Results: A significant number of the respondents, 47 % (n = 22), reported having received some form of prior patient safety training. The effect on Patient Safety Knowledge was assessed by using the percentage of correct pre- and post-course answers to construct 2 �� 2 contingency tables and by applying Fishers��� test (two-tailed). No significant differences were detected (p < 0.05). To assess the effect of the intervention on Patient Safety skills and attitudes, the mean and standard deviation were calculated for the pre and post-course responses, and independent samples were subjected to Mann-Whitney���s test. The attitudinal survey indicated a very high baseline incidence of desirable attitudes and skills toward patient safety. Significant changes were detected (p < 0.05) regarding what should happen if an error is made (p = 0.016), the role of healthcare organizations in error reporting (p = 0.006), and the extent of medical error (p = 0.005). Conclusions: The implementation of selected modules of the WHO Patient Safety Curriculum was associated with a number of positive changes regarding patient safety skills and attitudes, with a baseline incidence of highly desirable patient safety attitudes, but no measureable change on the patient safety knowledge, at the University of Algarve Medical School. The significance of these results is discussed along with implications and suggestions for future research.

School health promotion and teacher professional identity

PURPOSE ��� Health and education are inextricably linked. Health promotion sits somewhat uncomfortably within schools, often remaining a marginal aspect of teachers��� work. The purpose of this paper is to examine the compatibility of an HP-initiative with teacher professional identity. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH ��� A qualitative research design was adopted consisting of semi-structured interviews. In total, 49 teachers in two school districts in the Auvergne region in central France were interviewed in depth post having completed three years��� involvement in a health promoting schools initiative called ���Learning to Live Better Together��� (���Apprendre a Mieux Vivre Ensemble���). FINDINGS ��� Teachers in the study had a broad conceptualisation of their role in health promotion. In keeping with international trends, there was more success at classroom than at whole school level. While generally teachers can be reluctant to engage with health promotion, the teachers in this study identified having little difficulty in understanding their professional identity as health promoters and identified strong compatibility with the HP-initiative. PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS ��� Teachers generally viewed professional development in health promotion in a positive light when its underlying values were commensurate with their own and when the context was seen as compatible with the school mission. The promotion of health in schools needs to be sensitive to professional identity and be tailored specifically to blend more successfully with current teacher identity and practice. ORIGINALITY/VALUE ��� The promotion of health in schools needs to be sensitive to professional identity and be tailored specifically to blend more successfully with current teacher identity and practice.

All different or all the same? Exploring the diversity of professional practices in Portuguese school psychology

"Published online: 29 March 2016"

The construction of professional identities in the contexts of work

This chapter identifies and analyzes some characteristics of working situations that are important in the construction of professional identities. It is claimed that professional identity presumes a dynamic process and is constructed and reconstructed in social situations and interactions. Work has a central place in the life of individuals and societies. The contexts of work are places par excellence for investment, expression, negotiation and recognition of the actor themselves and of others. They are, thus, situations for the attribution offeelings about work, ofrelational transactions, oflearning and production of professional know ledge, which are fundamental elements in the (re )construction of professional identity and which are emphasized here below.

Construcci��n de un modelo explicativo del Burnout y Engagement en trabajadores cordobeses: el rol de las emociones y la autoeficacia profesional

Este proyecto trata sobre la construcci��n de un modelo explicativo del Burnout y Engagement en trabajadores cordobeses. Se presentan como variables fundamentales al rol de las emociones y la autoeficacia profesional en este modelo. Se detallan primero los antecedentes del tema, los objetivos general y espec��ficos, luego la metodolog��a a implementar en una muestra de 300 trabajadores cordobeses. Se describen los procedimientos estad��sticos a utilizar y las escalas psicom��tricas (Escala de Autoeficacia Profesional, AP-10, Escala PANAS, Escala de Burnout Maslach, Escala de Engagement (en las versiones adaptadas al medio local)

An��lisis cr��tico de la formaci��n y capacitaci��n del profesional de la seguridad en la Provincia de C��rdoba en los ��ltimos diez a��os. A critical analysis of the formation and training of the professional in the area of security in the province of C��rdoba in the last 10 years.

El problema que abordaremos es la transformaci��n y la toma de decisiones en los procesos de formaci��n y capacitaci��n de las instituciones de seguridad, espec��ficamente, los motivos y fundamentos de los cambios en los planes de estudios, en relaci��n a los contenidos curriculares de los institutos de formaci��n de los profesionales en seguridad. Esto sobre la hip��tesis de que las organizaciones educativas policiales y penitenciarias han llevado a cabo transformaciones en su organizaci��n y gesti��n curricular para adecuarse a las nuevas demandas sociales y pol��ticas. El objetivo del presente proyecto es analizar cr��ticamente los contenidos curriculares de los institutos de formaci��n y capacitaci��n de la Polic��a y Servicio Penitenciario de la Provincia de C��rdoba. Abordaremos el an��lisis de los planes de dichas instituciones en los ��ltimos 10 a��os, sus modificaciones y criterios utilizados para responder a los nuevos escenarios sociales. Se har�� una exploraci��n de la informaci��n y la documentaci��n existente en los ��mbitos oficiales. Asimismo, la investigaci��n contar�� con la realizaci��n de entrevistas y encuestas a directivos, docentes, alumnos y dem��s actores claves, con la finalidad de recabar la opini��n de los mismos respecto de las transformaciones en la educaci��n policial y penitenciaria. A partir del proyecto de investigaci��n se pretende construir conocimiento acerca de las pol��ticas educativas en el ��rea de seguridad especialmente sobre la formaci��n y capacitaci��n de recursos profesionales espec��ficos, dentro del ��mbito local. De tal modo, se pretende aportar elementos te��ricos de an��lisis al modo en que se han instituido la oferta educativa y las transformaciones en los planes de estudios en las instituciones de formaci��n profesional de la seguridad y c��mo ��stos han sido implementados a la luz de los nuevos escenarios pol��ticos y sociales. Esto nos permitir�� aportar al incipiente campo de los estudios sobre la seguridad, espec��ficamente sobre la formaci��n de los profesionales en seguridad, poniendo a diposici��n de los responsables gubernamentales e institucionales un estudio que explora y sistematiza las transformaciones y fundamentos de la politica de educaci��n en el campo de la seguridad provincial. Este desarrollo investigativo nos permitir�� inagurar la actividad de producci��n de conocimiento dentro del ��mbito acad��mico de la Licenciatura en Seguridad de la Universidad Nacional de Villa Mar��a a trav��s del presente proyecto que describir�� el proceso de formaci��n y capacitaci��n policial y penitenciaria y los cambios que con el transcurso del tiempo se han verificado.

Kritische Betrachtung des Burnout-Syndroms

Fragestellung: Diese Arbeit befasst sich mit der kritischen Auseinandersetzung mit demBurnout-Syndrom, sowie der Stellung dessen in der ��ffentlichkeit und den Medien. Im diesemZusammenhang wird der Frage nach der Notwendigkeit dieser Diagnose nachgegangen.Methode: W��hrend einer ausf��hrlichen Literatur- Recherche, in der Stendaler Hochschulbibliotheksowie einer Online-Recherche, wurden viele aktuelle Beitr��ge zum Thema gesammelt.Auf dieser Grundlage erfolgte die theoretische und kritische Auseinandersetzung mitdem Burnout-Syndrom.Ergebnisse: Bei der Auseinandersetzung mit dem Thema Burnout f��llt auf, dass in den letzten40 Jahren seit der ���Entdeckung��� lediglich zus��tzliche Informationen hinzugef��gt werdenkonnten. Jedoch wurden keine validen Daten erhoben und so ist die wissenschaftliche Abgrenzungvon Burnout als eigenst��ndiger Diagnose nicht erfolgt.Diskussion: Positive Effekte, die sich durch die Diagnose ergeben haben, sind Burnoutunspezifischund f��hren daher zu dem Schluss, dass Burnout als eigenst��ndige klinischeDiagnose unbrauchbar ist.Schl��sselw��rter: Burnout ��� Kritik ��� Depression - Medien

The Spanish cadet in the European military context a comparative analysis of the professional socialisation

Research on the attitudes, motivations and social and political behavior of European cadets have been made throughout the last decade. Nowadays Spain also joins those surveys. Thru the analysis of polling data, we can consider the different attitudes of Spanish cadets in relation with the other European ones. The conclusion is that although the Spanish political transition to democracy has not ended already in the military teaching system, there are a lot of similarities among Spanish and European cadets.

Negotiation advantages of professional associations in health care

In several instances, third-party payers negotiate prices of health care services with providers. We show that a third-party payer may prefer to deal with a professional association than with the sub-set constituted by the more efficient providers, and then apply the same price to all providers. The reason for it is the increase in the bargaining position of providers. The more efficient providers are also the ones with higher profits in the event of negotiation failure. This allows them to ext act a higher surplus from the third-party payer.

Challenge of transition in the socio-professional insertion of youngsters with neurodisabilities ��

Patients with neurodisabilities require early management, continuing into adulthood. Thus, transition services were implemented in hospitals. To have a better support when they enter into adult life, it is useful to know the problems that they could face. The aim of this study is to evaluate their activities and to assess their insertion problems in the professional world. It is based on medical records of patients, aged 16 to 25 years, followed in the transition clinic of young adults in the Neurorehabilitation services of a tertiary centre. From 387 patients of the paediatric consultation, there are 267 patients (69%), included 224 with neurodevelopmental diseases and 43 with neuromuscular diseases. Nearly half of them (46.8%) were in a protected environment, 37.08% studied and 3.4% worked. Paradoxically, only 29.2% reported work problems. These results highlight the need to increase the integration of young adults with neuromotor disorders in the labor market.