Roman Dorczak

• Jagiellonian University

The aim of this article was to present the current research on coping with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and, on this basis, to indicate the implications of risk management in the situation of adaptation to the crisis or re-adaptation after its end. This article considers the psychological significance of the socially experienced situation ba...

Critical study on public school system.

The primary duty of every doctor is to successfully treat patients. However, in their daily practice they have a number of additional tasks permanently inscribed in their profession. Among others, they are obliged to continuous professional development (e.g. by conducting research and reporting results at scientific conferences), cooperation in a m...

The profession of a nurse is in itself extremely difficult due to the stressful working conditions. They are result of a high level of responsibility for human health and even life, and therefore require not only extensive knowledge, rich experience and properly developed skills; it also requires appropriate legal and organizational conditions for...

The phenomenon of solidarity is deeply rooted in Polish history and culture. It is also a way to defend employee rights, which is particularly visible among some professional groups, for example among nurses who have been fighting for their rightful position in the healthcare system in Poland for years. On the other hand, the nursing community seem...

It must be argued that during the last few decades the importance of nurses in healthcare organizations is growing rapidly. They have to undertake more and more complex roles which brings the necessity of adequate professional education and continuing training. Professional development is becoming a professional life-long activity vital from the pe...

Since the beginning of the 20th century the role of nurses in Poland has evolved significantly: from care-takers and orderlies, through nurses (first, with secondary education only, currently with higher education), to performing management functions (that is ward nurses, nursing officers, chief nurses and even directors or deputy directors of orga...

Nowadays, when highly-educated Polish nurses are still fighting for a decent pay and for improving the status of their profession within the healthcare system, new action plans to keep them in the profession in Poland are being actively sought after. Solutions proposed to date are insufficient, as the problem is much more complex. The potential of...

A manager performs many demanding roles, and the responsibility that falls on him or her is much bigger than in case of regular employees because he or she is responsible not only for the results and effects of the whole organization but, above all, for the team, for the people that work in it. This is why performing a management function is connec...

Recent research has shown that health is the most important value for Polish citizens, more important than family life and love. Personal health becomes an important issue for people - according to official statistics more than 80 % visit doctors every year and half of them also take part in health prevention programmes. Regardless of those figures...

Book edited by Prof. Dorczak and Prof. Dobrowolski. Study on the Polish school system (some aspects)

Managing healthcare organizations is a great challenge, as it requires an array of diverse leadership competencies that may be divided into 4 categories: - technical competencies connected to management and organization in healthcare; - cultural competencies referring to the mission, vision, values, norms and principles; - interpersonal competencie...

There is a growing awareness of the importance of soft competencies in training and development of professionals such as doctors and nurses. Soft, interpersonal competencies are important first of all from the ethical perspective of healthcare professionals working with people but they also become especially important in a highly competitive enviro...

It seems that regardless of some decades of development, educational management and leadership theory still needs clearer definition and independence from general management theory. Many authors argue that in order to solve this problem, thinking about management and leadership in education has to take into account the idea of organizational cultur...