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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,782 Views
12 Pages

In this study, we investigated the motivations of paramedic staff serving in rural and remote communities, given the consistent shortage of healthcare workers in these areas. Using a modified Global Motivation Scale (GMS) questionnaire, we surveyed 4...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
9,516 Views
12 Pages

Violence against paramedics is increasingly recognized as an important occupational health problem, but pervasive and institutionalized underreporting hinders efforts at risk mitigation. Earlier research has shown that the organizational culture with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,556 Views
13 Pages

Representations of Research among Newly Graduated Paramedical Professionals: A Qualitative Study

  • Evelyne Decullier,
  • Mathilde Chauliaguet,
  • Arnaud Siméone,
  • Julie Haesebaert and
  • Agnès Witko

Despite a keen interest in clinical research, most paramedical professionals are unwilling to play an active role. Our objective was to explore paramedical professionals’ representations of research. Using an existing database of final year paramedic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
9,882 Views
12 Pages

Cultural Competence and Cultural Intelligence of Healthcare Professionals Providing Emergency Medical Services

  • Anna Majda,
  • Iwona Elżbieta Bodys-Cupak,
  • Joanna Zalewska-Puchała and
  • Krystian Barzykowski

Background: There are more and more foreigners in Poland who become clients of the Polish healthcare system. They use, among others, emergency medical services provided by healthcare professionals: doctors, nurses, and paramedics. Skillful care for c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,938 Views
20 Pages

Correlation between Overconfidence and Learning Motivation in Postgraduate Infection Prevention and Control Training

  • Milena Trifunovic-Koenig,
  • Stefan Bushuven,
  • Bianka Gerber,
  • Baerbel Otto,
  • Markus Dettenkofer,
  • Florian Salm and
  • Martin R. Fischer

Introduction: Training in hand hygiene for health care workers is essential to reduce hospital-acquired infections. Unfortunately, training in this competency may be perceived as tedious, time-consuming, and expendable. In preceding studies, our work...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
7,579 Views
14 Pages

Frontline Healthcare Workers’ Knowledge and Perception of COVID-19, and Willingness to Work during the Pandemic in Nepal

  • Dipak Prasad Upadhyaya,
  • Rajan Paudel,
  • Dilaram Acharya,
  • Kaveh Khoshnood,
  • Kwan Lee,
  • Ji-Hyuk Park,
  • Seok-Ju Yoo,
  • Archana Shrestha,
  • Bom BC and
  • Mukesh Adhikari
  • + 8 authors

11 December 2020

This study investigated the contextual factors associated with the knowledge, perceptions, and the willingness of frontline healthcare workers (FHWs) to work during the COVID-19 pandemic in Nepal among a total of 1051 FHWs. Multivariable logistic reg...

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  • Article
  • Open Access
132 Citations
21,624 Views
14 Pages

31 January 2018

New accessible learning methods delivered through mobile mixed reality are becoming possible in education, shifting pedagogy from the use of two dimensional images and videos to facilitating learning via interactive mobile environments. This is espec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
159 Citations
26,760 Views
12 Pages

Sustainable Work Performance: The Roles of Workplace Violence and Occupational Stress

  • Samma Faiz Rasool,
  • Mansi Wang,
  • Yanping Zhang and
  • Madeeha Samma

The purpose of this study is to analyze the relationships between workplace violence, occupational stress, and sustainable work performance. Multiple dimensions of workplace violence (harassment, mobbing, ostracism, and stalking) were used in this st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
68 Citations
7,299 Views
21 Pages

Remote Pain Monitoring Using Fog Computing for e-Healthcare: An Efficient Architecture

  • Syed Rizwan Hassan,
  • Ishtiaq Ahmad,
  • Shafiq Ahmad,
  • Abdullah Alfaify and
  • Muhammad Shafiq

18 November 2020

The integration of medical signal processing capabilities and advanced sensors into Internet of Things (IoT) devices plays a key role in providing comfort and convenience to human lives. As the number of patients is increasing gradually, providing he...