(FG1) This study has identified four main career and professional development concerns raised by Hong Kong tertiary trained TCM practitioners who had graduated within the first 5 years of the new training scheme.
8 9 In addition to the day-to-day demands of health practice, community nurses may experience inadequate staffing levels, frequent overtime, on-call duties, violence in the work place, limited opportunities for career development, professional isolation, concerns for personal safety, and limited management support and supervision.
Beyond career development programming, a persisting concern of administrators--and postdocs--has been the need to equalize postdoc compensation and benefits across status categories and funding sources.
The mentor provided me with many suggestions about career development and highlighted the relevant concerns.
The first concerns orderliness of career development (orderly vs. disorderly), meaning that occupational transitions are socially constructed.
For example, the results of several local postdoctoral association (PDA) surveys corroborate the findings of the Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy ( COSEPUP) (2000) and the AAU Committee on Postdoctoral Education (1998), both of which identify career development, salary, and benefits as main concerns of postdoctoral scientists.
When trainees are able to meet them, there may be such a large disconnection that it's impossible for the trainees to truly be transparent about what's going on, whether it's emotional issues, confusion about career goals, or any other professional development concerns.
Develop individualized career development plans.
In the work domain, benevolent leaders allow followers opportunities to correct their mistakes, avoid publicly embarrassing them, provide them with coaching, and be concerned with their career development.
Concerning dissatisfaction with career development, it was suggested that this has much to do with the current promotion practices in Ghana which seem to favour health workers from the urban centres over those from rural areas [ 18, 30].
