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Women in Anti-Colonial and Nationalist Movements: A Comparative Study of India and South Africa
Get PDFWomen have been at the forefront of global nationalist movements. In Latin America, Asia and Africa colonialism and its subjugation of men and women inevitably led to the rise of nationalistic fervour. In both South Africa and India women were at the forefront of the struggle challenging gender roles and creating new spaces for their political activism. This paper adopts a gender lens and engages in a comparative approach to document the role and contributions of women in the nationalist and anti-apartheid movement in India and South Africa respectively. It highlights the similarities and differences in terms of their mode of resistance, political agency and mobilisation. More significantly, it documents the challenges and constraints they endured in different geographical settings, in the context of gender, class, race/ethnicity and religion and how it shaped and defined their political activism and consciousness. This article contributes to narratives on gender and nationalism and how regional and continental histories shape and define women’s participation and opportunities. 
Emotional Intelligence and Academic Performance
Get PDFFew areas of psychology have attracted as much controversy as that of intelligence. Some experts argue that intelligence is the most important aspect of individual differences, whereas others doubt its value as a concept (Deary 2014). Emotional intelligence (EI) was defined by Salovey and Mayer (1990) and seen as a subset of social intelligence and similar as that of intrapersonal intelligence. The concept involves the individual’s ability to appraise his own and other’s feelings and emotions, discriminate among these emotions and use the emotion information to accomplish tasks to reach goals. The specific aim of the study was to determine the relationship between general cognitive ability, emotional intelligence and academic performance. The instruments utilized were the Learning Potential Computerised Adaptive Test (LPCAT) and Emotional Intelligence Test Body-Mind (Jerabek 1996). The sample comprised of 32 third year students studying Human Resources Management. The results indicated a positive relation between academic performance and emotional intelligence. Inferential statistics proved that males and females do not differ significantly on the three dependant variables
Creating Spaces and Enabling Transitions for Engagement in SoTL: Can Policy Provide a Framework for Action?
Get PDFMuch has been written on the conceptualisation of the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), and on the approaches and methods used by scholars across the globe. A major challenge is how SoTL can be moved from being an add-on option for academic staff, to a culture embedded in the way higher education institutions engage with teaching and learning. This paper reflects on an institutional policy on the evaluation of teaching as a means to create spaces and enable transitions for academics’ engagement in SoTL. Elements of the policy aimed at encouraging SoTL and their implications for the anticipated change are discussed. The paper argues that the practices foregrounded in the policy statements create spaces to support academics’ transitions to engage in SoTL. However, for this to happen, the paper suggests that a clear strategy is needed to support change at all levels. This strategy should provide support and guidance on the uptake of SoTL at the individual, faculty, and institutional level
ePrescribing: An Important Part of Medication
Get PDFePrescribing is the next service tool that will enable pharmacists and providers the ability to manage a patient’s current and historical medications. Allowing the provider to easily send an electronic prescription directly to the pharmacist will help eliminate errors in prescribing, reduce fraud and narcotic abuse, decrease the waiting time at the clinic and pharmacy, and focus on patient safety and continuity of care. Going to the doctor can sometimes be tough when your community does not have a permanent provider in the community. Time is taken to get an appointment, explain your medical history to a travelling locum, and then get a prescription. The patient then needs to go to the local or closest pharmacy and wait again for the prescription to be filled. A patient can wait for up to two hours for the whole process to be completed. There has to be a more efficient way to get the proper information, access and care the patient needs. Between 2009 and 2014, there were approximately 655 deaths reported from fentanyl overdoses in Canada. With ePrescribing, the patient will never touch the prescription, hence minimising the risk of multiple prescriptions being filled. Instant messaging between the provider and pharmacist will save on fax and phone communication, and allow the right information to be communicated promptly to the right person. The instant communication between a provider and pharmacist can ensure that the drug being prescribed is not going to interact with other medications and ensure that the patient has not already filled the prescription. The pharmacist can also give details on the current course of medication, and inform the provider if the patient is covered by their current insurance. While a patient’s healthcare record is changing from paper to an electronic format, we need to ensure we are providing the tools necessary to help healthcare providers attain the best healthcare for patients. Hence optimal use of ePrescribing will ultimately reduce medication error rates and other safety risks
The RE-Endo Registry: A Prospective, Interoperable, Standardised Clinical Registry of Infective Endocarditis Patients
Get PDFPurpose: To describe the creation and implementation of the RE-Endo, a prospective, interoperable, highly scalable and standardised clinical registry of patients with infective endocarditis Methods and Results: We developed the RE-Endo through the following steps: i) data standardisation in accordance with national and international standard variables to allow for interoperability among systems; ii) development of an initial data collection and clinical research workflow; iii) development of electronic case reports using REDCap (Research Electronic Data Capture) and in accordance with the HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) privacy rule; iv) pilot test and validation of the data collection and clinical research workflows and CRFs; v) development of automated data quality report using REDCap. Data collection occurs at the outpatient department at the moment of inclusion and every 12 months during the follow-up (phone calls and visits to the outpatients department). Conclusions: The RE-Endo Registry represents a comprehensive database capable to represent real clinical practice favouring clinical research, technology assessment, services management and health policies
The Re-Heart Registry: A Prospective, Interoperable, Standardised Clinical Registry of Outpatients With Heart Failure
Get PDFPurpose: To describe the creation and implementation of the RE-Heart Registry, a prospective, interoperable, highly scalable and standardised clinical registry of outpatients with heart failure (HF). Methods and Results: We carried out the steps, as follows: (1) data standardisation in accordance with national and international data elements. Dataset included all applicable standardised data elements published by the American Heart Association (AHA), American College of Cardiology (ACC) with the National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR)and the Brazilian Cardiovascular Registries, as a reference the BREATHE (I Brazilian Registry of Heart Failure) and PINNACLE (heart failure and atrial fibrillation); (2) development of an initial data collection and clinical research workflow; (3) development of electronic case reports using REDCap and in accordance with the HIPAA privacy rule; (4) pilot test and validation of the data collection and clinical research workflows and CRFs; (5) development of automated data quality reporting using REDCap. Data collection occurs at the outpatient department at the moment of inclusion and every 6 months (phone calls and visits to the outpatients department). Conclusions: The RE-Heart Registry represents a comprehensive database capable to represent real clinical practice favouring clinical research, technology assessment, services management and health policies
Self-Assessment Survey: A Tool for Data Mining in the Virtual Learning Environment
Get PDFThe Open University of the Unified Health System, of the University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNA-SU/UERJ), focusses on meeting the training needs and ongoing education of health professionals. The object of study was to analyse the student's route in the virtual learning environment (VLE) and measure their degree of satisfaction in the completion of the self-instructional course "Approach of Violence in Home Care" using a self-evaluation survey. Data were collected from 63 participants between 4 August 2016 and 10 October 2016. Results: 89.0% of the students followed the course in the order of the units of each book, 85.7% reported that they did not stop studying any subject to move to another unit, 66.7% did not have difficulty in accessing the didactic materials in VLE, 98.4% indicated that the content was presented with clarity and was easy to understand. In addition, 73.0% reported that the content of the course met their expectation of teaching and learning, and that 81.0% of teaching materials were useful for learning. Students were satisfied with the course, and its design which aided access to content and navigation in the VLE. The metrics collected in the VLE will be used to guide the development of new projects, and will help in the planning and development of new courses
Fourth European Congress on eCardiology and eHealth - 8-10 November, 2017 - Berlin, Germany
No full textRevisiting the role of the ‘expert other’ in learners’ acquisition of workplace competence
Get PDFSkills development policies in South Africa and further afield consider learning in and from the workplace as critical to the training of artisans at intermediate level, bringing together theoretical learning undertaken in formal institutions and practical, on-the-job training for the purpose of achieving occupational competence, demonstrated ultimately in the prescribed trade test. Ellstrom (2001) asserts that “in spite of a widespread belief in the importance of integrating learning and work, little is known about the conditions that promote such integration” (p.421). While apprenticeship training has a long history in South Africa, and historical anecdotal accounts exist of the workplace experiences of trainee artisans, there are only a few recent local empirical studies that have advanced our understanding of this domain. This research thus sought to investigate learning in the workplace from the perspective of the candidates: the methodologies, practices, and affordances for learning which they perceived to be available to them, and employed a qualitative approach for exploring how candidates in engineering trades experienced the ‘real world environment’ of learning and engagement in the workplace. The juxtaposition of complementary theories that lent themselves to explaining workplace learning phenomena, in particular the works of Engeström (1987); Vygotsky (1978); and Lave and Wenger (1991), formed a richly informative system for the data which showed that candidates experienced diverse learning modalities and affordances in their workplace settings. However, the central role of the expert artisan as a quintessential didactic practitioner in moving candidates towards competence was a significant finding, pointing ultimately to the need for collective effort in harnessing the teaching potential of this ‘expert other’
Muslim Women and Social Responsibility in Nigeria: Contributions of the Federation of Muslim Women’s Associations in Nigeria (FOMWAN)
Get PDFThis paper explores the various ways in which Federation of Muslim Women’s Associations in Nigeria (FOMWAN) has acted as a socially responsible organisation in Nigeria. Since the 1980s several Muslim women led organisations have emerged in Northern and Southern parts of Nigeria, some of which have formed networks to advocate for Muslim women’s rights. Therefore, to identify the contributions of FOMWAN in Nigeria, this article looks at the emergence of Federation of Muslim Women’s Associations in Nigeria (FOMWAN) in particular, an organisation which was established more than three decades ago. Drawing empirical evidence from activities of FOMWAN and using historical and descriptive approaches to analyse the data, this study outlines how FOMWAN strategically engage in development projects and thus further their own vision of development. This paper discovers that FOMWAN envisages a world where women are completely enabled to be good role models in making a beneficial impact in the society. FOMWAN supports the religion of Islam in Nigeria through Da’wah (invitation and propagation), the establishment of educational institutions and other outreach activities. It also works towards the improvement of the conditions of the people, especially women, youths and children through training, provision of qualitative education, health, and humanitarian services, micro-enterprise scheme and advocacy as ways of playing its social responsibility role. It is, therefore, anticipated that this paper will add to the body of knowledge on Muslim women, especially as it relates to Nigeria and provides some insights to Muslim women organisations operating in Nigeria