Think of it the way Billy Beane, immortalized in Moneyball as General Manager of the Oakland A's, does about a baseball season: you spend the first third of the season evaluating your team and figuring out what you are, the middle third addressing needs through trades, and the final third finding the next gear.
The idea was to bring together international and regional experts and professionals, local residents and organizations, and area entrepreneurs to address community needs through design-oriented activities promoting sustainable local and regional businesses.
Primary Health Care Teams (PHCT) aim to provide a comprehensive approach to address community needs through assessment of, and response to, local social and health deficits [ 1– 6].
Oncology nurses have an opportunity to address patient distress needs through leadership of implementation programs and support for the positive outcomes that engaging in psychosocial services provides.
Alternatively, beginners in the early stages of learning ultrasound skills are able to address their learning needs through simulated learning compared to the experts who expect variety and advanced or more complex performance rather than basic tutorials [12].
For practitioners, our study might suggest that unmet needs for care remain an important indicator of the clinics' capacity to address their patients' needs through the level of affiliation that they develop with their patients.
Lastly, nurses need to take responsibility to identify and address their own learning needs through performance reviews.
The discussion focused on opportunities to address needs in resource poor settings through the application of wearable technologies.
This is particularly problematic for qualified doctors, who, as life-long learners, become responsible for addressing their own learning needs through self-directed continuing professional training (CPD) [ 38, 40].
We propose that recognising these stages can help staff pre-empt problems, and better address patient and family carer needs through inclusion and proactive communication.
The whole family dynamic, placed under stress by dislocation and dereliction, had been transformed by the confidence that one woman had built from joining with other women to address their needs through microcredit.
