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"Adding pizzazz". A presentation skills workshop for healthcare practitioners.

Healthcare practitioners are often called upon to share their expertise with colleagues. Frequently, expert practitioners are asked to make presentations at patient support groups, professional rounds, workshops, meetings, and conferences. Often these expert practitioners have not had the opportunity to develop strong presentation skills. Consequently, many are reluctant to give presentations. When they do present, they often have difficulty communicating their ideas effectively. This article describes the creation of a presentation skills program for healthcare practitioners. Essential program content is identified as well as measures taken to make this an effective, economical, and popular training program.

Audiovisual Aids↗
PubMed2026

Status of dementia care among healthcare practitioners in Nigerian tertiary hospitals: a cross-sectional study.

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: Dementia is an escalating public health concern globally. This study evaluated the knowledge, attitudes, practices, and perceived barriers to dementia care among healthcare practitioners in Nigerian tertiary hospitals, aiming to identify practitioner-related sociodemographic predictors and systemic barriers affecting dementia care delivery. METHODS: We collected data from May 2024 to May 2025 for this cross-sectional study in 12 purposively selected tertiary hospitals across Nigeria's six geopolitical zones. Participants included physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and other professionals involved in geriatric psychiatric care. Using multistage and convenience sampling, 394 respondents were recruited (response rate: 99.5%). Data were collected via a validated Dementia Care Practice Questionnaire (Cronbach's α = 0.84) and analyzed with SPSS v22. Descriptive statistics, Chi-square tests, and odds ratios (ORs) identified associations (significance: p ≤ 0.05). RESULTS: Of 394 respondents, 51.5% were aged ≥40 years, and 54.8% were female. While 62.9% demonstrated adequate knowledge, negative perceptions (51.3%) and attitudes (56.9%) were common. Despite this, 71.3% reported engagement in dementia care, and 75.6% demonstrated appropriate professional help-seeking behaviour when confronted with dementia care challenges. Practitioner-reported barriers included limited training opportunities, geographical barriers affecting patient access to dementia services, and inadequate staffing. Predictors of desirable care practices among healthcare practitioners included age ≥40 years, female gender, Christian affiliation, and ≥5 years of professional experience. CONCLUSION: Although many healthcare practitioners are involved in dementia care, gaps in perceptions, attitudes, and structural support persist. Interventions should focus on targeted training, system strengthening, and policy reform to improve dementia care outcomes.

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Defining outpatient scopes of practice for allied healthcare practitioners.

The definition of scopes of practice for allied healthcare practitioners in outpatient settings is an emerging healthcare topic in this era when technologically advanced procedures are being done and diagnostics, therapies, and care are being given in outpatient settings. The standards of care and practice under which allied health professionals provide care must be defined within an organization in order to provide the high-quality integrated healthcare that is the benchmark of excellence. One way to increase leadership and staff awareness is to provide experts in each allied health discipline the opportunity to define their scopes of practice, as the Joint Commission suggests, based on the rules and regulations that govern those practices.

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PubMed1993

Sexual harassment: preventive steps for the healthcare practitioner.

Like other employers, healthcare providers can be held liable for sexual harassment in the workplace. However, by implementing an effective sexual harassment policy, healthcare providers can avoid corporate liability for sexual harassment and create a more productive working environment as well.

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PubMed2000

Developing new competencies in healthcare practitioners in the field.

The Life-long Learning concept is one which is appropriate for those who have (or create) the opportunities to develop their competencies once they are in an operational role. All models of healthcare delivery and management are VOLATILE and therefore the way of addressing new competencies cannot be prescriptive or stand still for too long, but the concepts do endure. Learning, in order to 'keep up to date' is very necessary--technology, new clinical practices and interventions, new drug interactions, increased patient demands ... all add to the need to move with the times. This paper addresses some of the issues surrounding this challenge in the domain of informatics in support of healthcare delivery and management.

Competency-Based Education↗
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Healthcare practitioners' perceptions of clinical guidelines.

This article gives an update on developments in the field of clinical guidelines with particular reference to guidelines issued by the General Medical Council and the Clinical Negligence Scheme for Trusts. It also focuses on a recent academic study on healthcare professionals' perceptions of clinical guidelines (Cotton and Sullivan, 1999) and introduces the National Guideline Clearing House which is based in the USA.

Attitude of Health Personnel↗
PubMed1998

The ethics of care: a feminist virtue ethics of care for healthcare practitioners.

In this paper I seek to distinguish a feminist virtue ethics of care from (1) justice ethics, (2) narrative ethics, (3) care ethics and (4) virtue ethics. I also connect this contemporary discussion of what makes a virtue ethics of care feminist to eighteenth and nineteenth century debates about male, female, and human virtue. In conclude that by focusing on issues related to gender--primarily those related to the systems, structures, and ideologies that create and sustain patterns of male domination and female subordination--we can begin to appreciate that true care and bona-fide virtue can flourish only in societies that treat all persons with equal respect and consideration.

Empathy↗
PubMed2026

Power as equal ability, knowledge and resistance: Systematic review of experiences of adults with noncommunicable diseases.

PURPOSE: To analyse subjective experiences of power of adults with noncommunicable diseases in relationships with healthcare practitioners as well as underlying facilitators and barriers of these experiences. METHODS: Systematic review (4 databases) of experiences using reflexive thematic analysis underpinned by critical realist approach. The analysis was conducted with an abductive reasoning using previous theories on social power as well as retroduction. RESULTS: Based on 24 studies, we formed three themes, which depict experiences of power as 1) the position, equal ability and freedom to make one's own choices and (re)negotiate within shared dialogue, 2) the ability to use knowledge to claim one's rights, 3) resistance. Facilitators were connected to acknowledgement as an equally valuable individual, positive healthcare practitioner attitudes and actions towards patient activity and views, safety in the relationship as well as to sufficient, clear and varied information. Main barriers were experiences of dehumanisation, negative healthcare practitioner attitudes and actions, perceived or assumed practitioner domination in interactions, lack of or incomprehensible knowledge and testimonial smothering. CONCLUSION: Results suggest that adults with noncommunicable diseases may experience power primarily as a positive power: being acknowledged as having legitimate position to make decisions and being in possession of varied knowledge through which they can gain agency to protect and claim their rights, by resisting, if necessary. Healthcare practitioners are in key position to support these experiences through positive transforming actions, while knowledge asymmetries, persistent inequality and paternalistic structures continue to hinder it.

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PubMed2003

The relationship between risk and insight in a high-security forensic setting.

It is often intimated amongst practitioners in mental healthcare that clients who display poor insight either into their mental health or behaviour present a greater risk either to themselves or others. This paper reports relationships found between the risk and insight subscales of the Behavioural Status Index. This is an instrument designed specifically for healthcare practitioners to measure health functioning amongst mental health clients, in particular those in forensic mental healthcare. Data were collected, using a repeated measures method by primary nurses, from a sample of 503 patients in two high-security mental health hospitals. Seven factors emerged through factor analysis. The first of these contained all the insight items. Significant differences were found on a number of factors between independent groups. Generally, results indicate that patients on lower dependency wards scored more normatively on the factors, adding to instrument validity. Men were found to score more normatively than women. Clinical practice implications and ongoing European studies examining the use of the instrument in clinical practice and its association with treatment planning are discussed.

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PubMed2000

Healthcare knowledge acquisition: an ontology-based approach using the extensible markup language (XML).

The healthcare enterprise requires a great deal of knowledge to maintain premium efficiency in the delivery of quality healthcare. We employ Knowledge Management based knowledge acquisition strategies to procure 'tacit' healthcare knowledge from experienced healthcare practitioners. Situational, problem-specific Scenarios are proposed as viable knowledge acquisition and representation constructs. We present a healthcare Tacit Knowledge Acquisition Info-structure (TKAI) that allows remote healthcare practitioners to record their tacit knowledge. TKAI employs (a) ontologies for standardisation of tacit knowledge and (b) XML to represent scenario instances for their transfer over the Internet to the server-side Scenario-Base and for the global sharing of acquired tacit healthcare knowledge.

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PubMed2001

Integrating complementary therapies into health care education: a cautious approach.

The movement of complementary therapy training and education into higher education in the United Kingdom (UK) and the interest in alternative therapeutic approaches within the health professions presents an ideal opportunity for multidisciplinary teaching and shared learning. The diversity and similarities of complementary therapies and areas of convergence with conventional healthcare practice can be explored. The recent publication of the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology report on complementary and alternative medicine (HL Paper 123) provides a broader context for discussion and makes specific recommendations about regulation, education and research in the UK. This paper considers the appropriateness of integrating complementary therapies into education for conventional healthcare practitioners, what we should integrate, and when might be the most appropriate time in the education of healthcare practitioners to introduce different therapeutic modalities and their respective philosophical languages. Rather than present a range of solutions, the paper raises some fundamental issues that are central to the integration of complementary therapeutic approaches. If these issues are neglected as we hurry to incorporate different 'techniques' into our conventional practice, we may simply be left with additional tools that we are ill equipped to use.

Complementary Therapies↗
PubMed1995

Toward an intelligent wound assessment system.

There is general agreement regarding the need for pressure ulcer assessment methodology which more discretely reflects relevant aspects of wound status than does the commonly used staging system. The Pressure Sore Status Tool (PSST) is one such instrument which was developed with consensual expert input. While the psychometric properties of the PSST have been reported in the literature, the instrument was validated using ET nurses, highly trained wound care specialists, and existed only in manual form. This paper reports results from attempts to establish reliability estimates for healthcare practitioners without extraordinary wound care training or experience. The paper further describes the automation of the PSST and provides examples of pressure ulcer profiles tracked over time. Results indicate that inter-rater reliability with general healthcare practitioners was .78 and intra-rater reliability was .89. The practitioners were able to use the PSST for over six months and the automated system allowed analysis of wound healing profiles that would have been difficult using a manual system. These results imply that movement toward an automated system which makes discriminations regarding the effects of various treatment and intervention strategies is possible and practical.

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