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Evidence-Based Practice Teaching Integration in College Nursing Studies: Historical and Legal Aspects
Get PDFTo better understand and analyze the education of evidence-based practice, it is necessary to review the context and premises of the formation of evidence-based practice itself. The beginning of the evidence-based practice movement in the teaching of health professionals’ dates back to 1910 and looking at the health care system; first, there was evidence-based medicine. In 1990, Sackett's initiative at McMaster University in Canada, it was decided to change the term "evidence-based medicine" to "evidence-based practice" (Mackey & Bassendowski, 2017; Thom & Eaves, 2015). In nursing, the beginning of evidence-based practice is linked to the reforms of nursing science and practice by the first nursing researcher, Florence Nightingale, from 1854 to 1910, although the term of “evidence-based practice” was not yet known at the time. The professional training of nurses as one of the leading health professionals is related to health policy and the development of nursing science. The European Qualifications Framework (EHEA) defines the expected learning outcomes for professionals with a bachelor's degree, including the skills to find, evaluate, reflect, and apply scientific information in practice (Bologna Working Group, 2005). Despite international and national recommendations, it is difficult for many higher education institutions to refine the steps of teaching evidence-based practice in nursing study programs. These difficulties are revealed by the ambiguity in the definition of the concept of evidence-based practice (Horntvedt et al., 2018). The problematic question is: What is the basis for integrating evidence-based practice training into college nursing study programs? The study is based on the scientific literature review
ES socialinės viešosios politikos socializavimas
No full textThe socialization of public economic policy is a topical and inevitable process of a global nature. The role of intellectual capital is increasing along with the value of human capital, which acts as one of the key indicators of the development of a company,
country, and region, and of the formation of the consumer market. The socialization of the economic process, as well as deepening the economic traits of a person, forms an active and well-founded process that is becoming a common feature of every country in the global economy. In particular, it is also a defining feature of the formation of a convergent model of EU socio-economic policy. Studying the individual features of the manifestation of these trends, mechanisms, and forms of implementation of the process of socialization – and designing national and regional models of the social and solidary economy on this basis – will
allow for the management, control, and direction of these processes in the direction necessary to maximize their effects and minimize production losses
A Systematic Literature Review of Metacognition in Lithuanian Universities: Past, Present and Future Considerations
Get PDFPurpose – The goal of this paper is to map the state of research in the field of metacognition in Lithuanian university studies to overview and analyze the previous research to identify the trends and questions for future studies
Literature Review of Business Risk of Transport Services
Get PDFPurpose – to present an analysis of business risks assessment faced by transportation industry
in trying to deliver services to customers from the point of production to storage and final deliveries to end users with a little insight to explain in simple terms what transportation, risk and
business risk entails
Social Transformation of Pakistan under Urdu Language
Get PDFUrdu is the national language of Pakistan under article 251 of the Constitution of Pakistan 1973. Urdu language is the first brick upon which whole building of Pakistan is built. In pronunciation both Hindi in India and Urdu in Pakistan are same but in script Indian choose their religious writing style Sanskrit also called Devanagari as Muslims of Pakistan choose Arabic script for writing Urdu language. Urdu language is based on two nation theory which is the basis of the creation of Pakistan. There are two nations in Indian Sub-continent (i) Hindu, and (ii) Muslims therefore Muslims of Indian sub-continent chanted for separate Muslim Land Pakistan in Indian sub-continent thus struggled for achieving separate homeland Pakistan where Muslims can freely practice their religious duties which is not possible in a country where non-Muslims are in majority thus Urdu which is derived from Arabic, Persian, and Turkish declared the national language of Pakistan as official language is still English thus steps are required to be taken at Government level to make Urdu as official language of Pakistan. There are various local languages of Pakistan mainly: Punjabi, Sindhi, Pashto, Balochi, Kashmiri, Balti and it is fundamental right of all citizens of Pakistan under article 28 of the Constitution of Pakistan 1973 to protect, preserve, and promote their local languages and local culture but the national language of Pakistan is Urdu according to article 251 of the Constitution of Pakistan 1973
Tourism in the Era of Covid-19 and Its Impact on the Environment
Get PDFThe Covid-19 pandemic has affected all areas of socio-economic life around the world. Its impact concerns not only the health system and the health of the population, but also the economy. Tourism is one of the sectors hardest hit by the restrictions imposed by governments in the wake of the pandemic. The pandemic has resulted in restrictions and limitations on movement and travel, covering both domestic and international tourism, which raises the question of have these restrictions imposed on tourist activities also caused an environmental impact? The aim of this article is to examine what impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the environmental issues within the tourism sector in the Central and Eastern European (CEE) region. The research task is to investigate whether this impact has changed in the pandemic era compared to previous years, and whether it has been positive or negative. The research method is multiple regression analysis. The results of the study indicated that the COVID-19 pandemic caused a decrease in greenhouse gas emissions from tourism in all CEE countries. Such decreases are both relative to 2019 and the estimated level of emissions that would be achieved if the countries surveyed achieved economic growth in 2020 consistent with the European Commission's projections for that year. The scale of the impact varies from country to country, while the relationship between tourism development and pollution levels is positive
Legality of Human Rights Restrictions during the COVID-19 Pandemic under the European Convention on Human Rights
Get PDFCC BY 4.0The European Convention on Human Rights, the regional international treaty adopted in 1950,
requires that any restriction, limitation, or interference with the rights and freedoms guaranteed in the Convention should be ‘prescribed by law’, ‘in accordance with the law’ or ‘provided
by law’. In the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights, the assessment of ‘legality’
requires that the impugned measure have a legal basis in national law, and refers to the quality of law. At the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, numerous states worldwide rolled out
a patchwork of different provisions limiting (restricting) the implementation of human rights
and fundamental freedoms. Understandably, the immediacy of the emergency required a quick
and efficient reaction from states; therefore, some situationally appropriate, however aggressive, restrictions on the exercise of human rights were imposed without a proper legal basis in
national law. The article deals with the concept of the legality of limitations (restrictions) on
the implementation of human rights and fundamental freedoms in a public health emergency,
and in particular, the question of whether Article 15 of the Convention includes the possibility
to deviate from the “classical” legality standard. The ‘derogation clause’ enshrined in Article
15 and the ‘restrictive clause’ established in, e.g., the second paragraphs of Articles 8–11, have
an essential value in assessing the ‘legality’ of interference in the exercise of the Convention
rights and freedoms during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in cases where States Parties to
the Convention had not used the possibility to derogate from the Convention obligations under
Article 15. Relying on the case-law of the ECtHR in respect of the legality of interference in
the exercise of human rights, the authors argue that legality in a state of emergency should
follow the same logic as in the absence of such a state. This is reflected in the constitutional
case-law, although the national dimension of the legality requirement varies depending on different constitutional arrangements in the countries
Kartų skirtumai ir rinkodara: naujausių studentų pritraukimo į komunikacijos studijas atvejų analizė
No full textCC BY-NC-ND 4.0University faculty members and managers agree that modern generations
of students differ in values, beliefs, and dominant traits, while their attitudes and preferences are often conflicting and contradictory. This leaves open the question of whether
those generational peculiarities are taken into account by university recruitment officers? To address this question, a research project was initiated to examine the ways in
which students made the decision to enroll in communication study programs at specific
university in the 2018 intake. This research aimed to look into the communicational
priorities of the newly recruited students as well as into their content preferences.
A questionnaire was designed to systematically assess the students’ motives in seeking specific information, their choice of specific communication channels, and the possible triggers that led to their decisions to enroll in specific communication programs.
To further identify differences, Generation Y students were researched in an additional focus group study on the attitudes of students who started communications studies
at the same university in 2016. Both scientifically and practically valuable results showed
surprisingly different preferences for visual and textual material. The data gathered also
indicates a considerable difference between the attitudes of students, which emerged over
the course of just two years.
Apart from its data, the scientific novelty of this research can be seen in the interdisciplinary fusion of different approaches that involve marketing, education science, communication, the management of educational organizations, and generational theory.
Practically, the findings of this research will help university recruitment officers to
design new and more efficient marketing strategies that effectively target Generation Z
students
Viešojo sektoriaus inovacijos besivystančioje šalyje: viešųjų paslaugų inovacijų konkurencijos pažanga ir iššūkiai Indonezijoje
No full textCC BY-NC-NDInnovation is complicated and understudied in developing countries such
as Indonesia, which has run a public service innovation competition since 2014 as part
of its governance reform. Therefore, this study examined the dynamics of innovation in
the Indonesian public sector by applying the content analysis method to these competitions from 2014 to 2019. The results showed the progress of innovation by the increasing
number of entries, the variation of public sector typology in winning the competition, and
competitiveness. However, some challenges remain, including: the limited number of institutions that successfully participate in the competition; domination by some public sector
organizations; dependence on the innovative leader; uneven innovation capacity; and the
problem of sustainability
Computer Programming E-Learners’ Personality Traits, Self-Reported Cognitive Abilities, and Learning Motivating Factors
Get PDFEducational systems around the world encourage students to engage in programming activities, but programming learning is one of the most challenging learning tasks. Thus, it was significant to explore the factors related to programming learning. This study aimed to identify computer programming e-learners’ personality traits, self-reported cognitive abilities and learning motivating factors in comparison to other e-learners. We applied Learning Motivating Factors Questionnaire, the Big Five - 2, and the SRMCA instruments. The sample consisted of 444 e-learners, including 189 computer programming e-learners, mean age was 25,19 years. It was found that computer programming e-learners demonstrated significantly lower scores of extraversion and significantly lower scores of motivating factors of individual attitude and expectation, reward and recognition, and punishment. No significant differences were found in the scores of self-reported cognitive abilities between the groups. In the group of computer programming e-learners, extraversion was a significant predictor of individual attitude and expectation; conscientiousness and extraversion were significant predictors of challenging goals; extraversion and agreeableness were significant predictors of clear direction; open-mindedness was a significant predictor of diminished motivating factor of punishment; negative emotionality was a significant predictor of social pressure and competition; comprehension-knowledge was a significant predictor of individual attitude and expectation; fluid reasoning and comprehension-knowledge were significant predictors of challenging goals; comprehension-knowledge was a significant predictor of clear direction; visual processing was a significant predictor of social pressure and competition. The SEM analysis demonstrated that personality traits (namely, extraversion, conscientiousness, and reverted negative emotionality) statistically significantly predict learning motivating factors (namely, individual attitude and expectation, and clear direction), but the impact of self-reported cognitive abilities in the model was negligible in both groups of participants and non-participants of e-learning based computer programming courses, χ² (34)=51.992, p =.025; CFI =.982; TLI =.970; NFI =.950; RMSEA =.051 [.019-.078]; SRMR =.038. However, as this study applied self-reported measures, we strongly suggest applying neurocognitive methods in future research