POLICY IMPLEMENTATION AND FINANCIAL INCENTIVES FOR NURSES IN SOUTH AFRICA: A CASE STUDY ON THE OCCUPATION-SPECIFIC DISPENSATION

Policy implementation and financial incentives for nurses in South Africa: a case study on the occupation-specific dispensation

Background: In 2007, the South African government introduced the occupation-specific dispensation (OSD), a financial incentive strategy, to attract, motivate, and retain health professionals in the public sector.Implementation commenced with the nursing sector, but there have been unintended negative consequences.Objective: First, to examine implem

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A research on traditional ring making art of Qom

Abstract Metalworking art is one of the native arts of Iran that traditional artists of this territory have been working on it in different types and usages since the ancient times.Ring making handicraft is amongst the fine arts in this arena which in spite of many ups and downs that left behind, has remained alive and dynamic and covers a part of

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Effect of Different Differential Pressure Precooling Wind Speed on the Quality of Garlic Sprouts during Storage

In order to study the changes of life characteristics of garlic sprouts under different precooling processes, this paper adopts pressure difference precooling, taking Zhong Mou hybrid moss as the experimental material.The precooling wind speeds were set as 1.0, 1.5, and 2.0 m/s, and a case without-precooling treatment was set for comparison.The var

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