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The experiences of students in role in simulation as the recipients and providers of nursing care
Get PDF30th World Congress on Advanced Nursing Practice 2017
Title:
Undergraduate students’ experiences of being ‘in role’ in simulated nursing practice as the recipients and providers of nursing care.
Background:
In undergraduate nursing education such things as decreased government health budgets, higher patient acuities and increased student numbers result in a reduction in the availability and quality of clinical placements (Cangelosi, 2008; Levett-Jones, Lapkin, Hoffman, Arthur, & Roche, 2011; Wilford & Doyle, 2006). Simulation, is an innovative educational strategy designed to address these concerns (Adamson, 2010).
Simulation encompasses techniques, from low fidelity role-play and scenario setting to high fidelity silicone masks to computerised manikins. All simulation however involves students engaging in role play (McNamara, Reid Searl, & Dwyer, 2014; Reid-Searl, Eaton, Vieth, & Happell, 2011).
Role-play is not a new concept in nursing education and forms an integral part of all simulation (Nehring & Lashley, 2009; Reid-Searl et al., 2011). Students involved in role play are actively involved in the construction of their own learning hence enabling multi-level brain processing of experiences (Clapper, 2010; Levitt & Adelman, 2010; Nehring & Lashley, 2009). Role-play also engages the motor and cognitive systems which, according to research allows the entire brain to be engaged in learning (Clapper, 2010). Emotional learning whereby reflecting on emotional experiences and relating them back to the source of information further adds to the benefits of role play. (Clapper, 2010; Gordon et al., 2010; Kolb, 1984; Lewis et al., 2013). The benefits of role play, although clearly evident rarely include a student as the recipient of nursing care (McNamara, 2015; McNamara et al., 2014).
This study therefore sought to gain an understanding of the experience of participants partaking in a simulated practice programame whereby participants had an opportunity to experience the roles of both the nurse and the patient within the same clinical simulation.
Methods:
Grounded Theory provided an appropriate methodology to understand participants’ experiences. Following ethical clearance, sixteen year one undergraduate nursing students took part in the study. Data was gathered through semi-structured interviews until saturation was reached. Data was analysed through the constant comparative method and the process of open, axial and selective coding.
Results:
Four major categories: personal engagement, learning from one another, simultaneous perspectives and patient focussed care emerged from the data in this study to answer the question “What are undergraduate nurses’ experiences of being in role in simulated nursing practice as the providers and recipients of nursing care.
Discussion:
Through experiencing both the nurse and patient roles, participants developed the ability to consider simultaneous perspectives in nursing practice. Increased patient empathy and a deeper insight into the patient experience facilitated more patient focused care in subsequent nursing practice.
Conclusion
This mode of simulated nursing practice may provide a highly effective adjunct to year one undergraduate nursing programmes. Through experiential learning, simultaneous provider recipient perspectives may emerge to influence and guide nursing practice toward more patient focussed care.
Nancy McNamara, MHSc, BN, RCompN, CATE
Professor Kerry Reid–Searl, (Central Queensland University, Australia).
Associate Professor Trudy Dwyer (Central Queensland University, Australia)
Recommender Systems in ECommerce
Get PDFE-commerce is growing rapidly offering a vast number of products and services to the users. Facing with a wide range of options, users cannot decide which one would be the most suitable option. Recommender systems help users to find the most suitable item easier and faster. To do this, recommender systems apply machine learning algorithms to user’s data to build sophisticated models to predict the user’s behavior in the future. There are many recommender systems employed by companies to increase their profitability. Some examples include Amazon, Movielens, Youtube, Facebook, and Linkedin.
This presentation details the implementation of a cluster based recommender system that can accurately recommend items to users
When Teacher Autonomy Meets Management Autonomy to Enhance Learner Autonomy
No full textDeveloping learner autonomy (LA) requires a shift of control from teachers to students. This development also relates to teacher autonomy (TA), which requires school managers to relinquish some degree of their own autonomy (MA) to teachers. Thus, a problem arises: how can the three levels of control-shifts co-exist and survive in harmony, and ideally, thrive each in its own way? Based on a recent case study, this paper aims to explore the complexity of the dynamic interaction between these three types of autonomy within an educational hierarchy. The study was conducted in a Chinese secondary school which was promoting whole-person development through a comprehensive innovation project. The participants comprised nine English teachers, the executive director, and the principal. Data collection methods included interviews, observations, and post-lesson discussions. Three issues are addressed in this paper: the principal ’s perceptions of LA, a classroom instruction model to cultivate LA, and a teacher training scheme to facilitate TA. The findings display a complex picture of these issues, and imply the importance of a genuine, shared understanding of the nature of autonomy and the need to carefully ensure the optimal balance among the three types of autonomy in the design and implementation of curriculum innovations
Classical Food and Literature from Archaic Greece to the Early Roman Empire
Get PDFThis chapter will consider the themes of hospitality, conviviality and the impact of unsociability which recur as tropes throughout key ancient texts, from Greek Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey through to Roman Virgil’s Aeneid, and on to Petronius’s Satyricon, a range of over nine centuries (from 800 BCE to 200 CE). While it is common today to consider any text from the ancient world as ‘literature’ so rare and treasured are they as artefacts, the focus herein will be upon those written in what have become considered conventional literary modes. Falling within this range come writers of epics, drama (both comedies and tragedies) and a wide range of poets and satirists, including Hesiod, Plato, Aristophanes, Ovid, Catullus and Athenaeus, but excluding non-fiction writers, historians and politicians such as Julius Caesar, Cicero and Tacitus, as a matter of necessity, in containing the time frame and range of sources. This chapter will first consider Greek literature and its discussion, and key representations, of food, and then proceed to consider food in Roman literature. Key themes of hospitality or commensality and contrasting extremes of inhospitality will become evident, alongside the elements of conviviality, which derive from ritual or worship, in these texts
More than Fifty Shades of Grey: The Landscape Paintings of Helen Brown
No full textArticle about the career of New Zealand landscape painter Helen Brown (1917-1986), published in Art New Zealand No. 164, Summer 2017-18, pp. 98-102.
The first paragraph of the article (p. 98) reads as follows:
"‘None of the greatest painters were eccentric in their work’, the (great) English landscape painter John Constable once proclaimed. ‘They were too consistent with themselves to merit such an epithet; too sensible of what they were about.’ Helen Brown (1917–1986) was an eccentric New Zealand painter. She painted landscapes, but did not follow the most progressive stylistic approaches of her era, and her focus was primarily on the unfashionable beauty (in terms of art, anyway) of Auckland’s harbours and the Hauraki Gulf. In keeping with her palette, he was a kind of ‘grey character’ of New Zealand art, neither overtly celebrated nor denigrated. In a 1967 review under the telling heading ‘Uncertain feeling apparent in Helen Brown’s paintings’, Gordon H. Brown suggested that she was of ‘historical interest’ in the context of post-World War II New Zealand painting, but added that this interest ‘has not carried over into the present’. Michael Dunn concludes that Brown ‘did not make any radical departures either stylistically or thematically.’ Yet it is precisely the fact that Brown was, in Constable’s terms, not consistent with herself that makes her an interesting painter. For much of her career she was caught between her enthusiasm for aspects of European modernism and the lure of certain kinds of subjects, notably tranquil, expansive, watery ones. If the results were not spectacular or ground-breaking (how many New Zealand artists of the period could claim to have achieved that?), there are nonetheless pictures that stand out as personal, satisfying and, sometimes, pleasantly odd."
https://www.art-newzealand.com/Noarticles/issue164.htm
Exhibition review: Ian Scott, Art New Zealand 163
No full textExhibition review: Ian Scott, Sprayed Stripes and New Lattices, Michael Lett Gallery, 17 May - 17 June 2017, published in Art New Zealand No. 163, Spring 2017, p. 45
"A New Life in Niue: A Conversation with John Pule", Art New Zealand 161
No full text"A New Life in Niue: A Conversation with John Pule", Art New Zealand No. 161, Autumn 2017, pp. 46-53.
The introduction to the article reads as follows:
"I met John Pule for the first time at the end of last year, a hurried introduction at the opening of his solo show at Gow Langsford where, with toddler in tow, I barely had time to quaff a beer let alone digest the paintings. It was immediately clear that the paintings were new – somehow more joyous and freer than much of Pule’s previous work. A more leisurely return visit to the gallery gave me a fuller appreciation for the sense of continuity with earlier paintings too, in the artist’s characteristic combination of raw materiality and fine, elegant drawing. Our subsequent interview also allowed me to enjoy more of Pule’s distinctive humour and humanity, and yielded a glimpse of his new life on Niue where he has built himself a writer’s hut and painting studio and spent the most time on the island since he left at the age of two.
Comparative Rheology Techniques for Assessment of MIM Titanium Metal Powder Feedstocks.
No full textAbstract: In this study standard industry processing equipment, the torque mixer and twin screw extruder, are used to measure the melt flow of several titanium metal powder feedstocks. The study was to determine whether test data from specialised rheology equipment might be reproduced with standard processing equipment used by the MIM industry. Considering the wide range of flow defects possible there is a valid assumption that flow behaviour measurement is better represented by a number of processes, especially those most representative of the injection moulding process.
In this study the data analysed was based on mixing torque, screw work, specific mechanical energy and viscosity calculated relative to (L/D) ratio during extrusion. It was compared with viscosity data from capillary rheometer both without, and with, account for end effects and slip.
The results showed that all the techniques provide similar ranking for the feedstocks with regard to melt flow during processing. The results also showed an inversion of the ranking where the shear rate increased from (1000 to 5000) s-1 as a result of shear sensitivity. The agreement of results from the different techniques clearly show that conventional processing equipment may provide valid feedstock assessment. The results if not definitive will provide good comparative measure where upper and lower bounds can be determined
Housing Affordability in New Zealand – Evaluation of the issue and a package of reform
Get PDFHousing affordability is a major problem in New Zealand and it has escalated following unprecedented increases in residential property values over the last five years. The issue is extremely complex with a wide assortment of variables that have an influence. This paper has focused on New Zealand’s property taxation policies
The tax structure in New Zealand is inappropriate as it relies heavily on taxing the productive sectors of the economy. A major hole in the tax base exists concerning the taxation of capital, particularly around property where subjective legislation and susceptible exemptions almost encourage speculation.
This paper has reviewed the impact of foreign investment, a land transfer duty instrument and the bright line test on housing affordability. It is recommended that data collected on foreign investment is revised to deem non-permanent New Zealand residents as foreign buyers. It is also recommended that foreign buyers are restricted from buying existing residential property stock. The low-rate and broad based land transfer duty scheme described in this report should be implemented to correct distortionary investment choices while simultaneously generating significant revenue. The revenue should be used to significantly reduce income taxes, creating a tax switch. The main home exemption should be removed from the bright line test to create more equitable outcomes and improve the tests effectiveness.
It is hoped this reform package would steer people away from the pursuit of tax-free capital gains from residential property and encourage investment in productive sectors of the economy that actually stimulate economic growth
Investigation of brand awareness for NZ dairy products in South Korea
Get PDFNew Zealand is an exporting country that has long been negotiating bilateral and multilateral trade agreements for the overseas market. The most recent Free Trade Agreement (FTA) was signed with South Korea and taken effect since December 2015. Though not soon, it is hoped that the market share for New Zealand products will gradually grow especially in dairy products due to tariff reduction. Marketing research should be in progress to promote more trade between the two countries. The present study provides a look into potential market in South Korea by investigating the brand awareness for New Zealand dairy product. A theoretical framework was given on brand awareness, brand equity and pricing, and country-of-origin on brand equity, while a survey was conducted in South Korea with quantitative research method. There were 166 respondents and the results suggest that Koreans do have New Zealand product awareness but not particularly for a brand product. The overall country image of New Zealand is quite positive with a favourable perception of New Zealand products and for long-term sustainability for good brand equity, exporting New Zealand brand dairy products should be continuously regulated by the government’s quality mark