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The integration of nurse prescribing : case studies in primary and secondary care
Get PDFNurse independent and supplementary prescribers have legal authority to prescribe all licensed and unlicensed medicines with some minor restriction to prescribing controlled drugs. These prescribing rights are similar to those of doctors. To be effective, the integration of nurse prescribing must be consistent with the legal framework for nurse prescribing and, be acceptable to the nurse, employer, patient and healthcare team. There is little known about how prescribing is integrated in practice but agreements are potentially important to the organisation of professional work and may ultimately affect patient safety. These case studies set out to investigate how nurse prescribers integrate prescribing in primary and secondary care. Each case, a nurse prescriber,had completed the independent and supplementary prescribing course at one university between September 2004 and January 2007. Of the 26 cases recruited 13 had been qualified to prescribe for between 7 and 13 months, and 13 for 14 and 26 months. Data collected through semistructured interviews, field notes and attribute data was drawn together in case summaries. Data analysis showed effective integration to be dependent upon professional relationships and prescribing role agreements. Prescribers outlined three approaches to integrate prescribing. These were; prescribing as the opportunity presents, prescribing for specific conditions and prescribing for individuals. Prescribing as the opportunity presents reflects medical models of prescribing. Condition specific and individual approaches restrict prescribing to specific medical condition(s)or individual patients. These nurse prescribers preferred to use Independent prescribing. Reflecting this, prescribers showed higher levels of dependence on doctors than previously reported. This was most common in the first year of prescribing. Relationships between nurse prescribers and the team were important. New nurse prescribers raised unexpected issues in some intraprofessional relationships. However, it was the inter-professional relationship between nurse and doctor that determined integration. The nurse must believe, trust exists and is reciprocal to integrate prescribing in practice. Where there was an absence of trust or a concern of mistrust the nurse would not integrate prescribing.EThOS - Electronic Theses Online ServiceGBUnited Kingdo
The integration of nurse prescribing: case studies in primary and secondary care
No full textTHE INTEGRATION OF NURSE PRESCRIBING IN PRIMARY AND SECONDARY CARE.
Nurse independent and supplementary prescribers have legal authority to prescribe all licensed and unlicensed medicines with some minor restriction to prescribing controlled drugs. These prescribing rights are similar to those of doctors. To be effective, the integration of nurse prescribing must be consistent with the legal framework for nurse prescribing and, be acceptable to the nurse, employer, patient and healthcare team. There is little known about how prescribing is integrated in practice but agreements are potentially important to the organisation of professional work and may ultimately affect patient safety.
These case studies set out to investigate how nurse prescribers integrate prescribing in primary and secondary care. Each case, a nurse prescriber,had completed the independent and supplementary prescribing course at one university between September 2004 and January 2007. Of the 26 cases recruited 13 had been qualified to prescribe for between 7 and 13 months, and 13 for 14 and 26 months. Data collected through semistructured interviews, field notes and attribute data was drawn together in case summaries. Data analysis showed effective integration to be dependent upon professional relationships and prescribing role agreements.
Prescribers outlined three approaches to integrate prescribing. These were; prescribing as the opportunity presents, prescribing for specific conditions and prescribing for individuals. Prescribing as the opportunity presents reflects medical models of prescribing. Condition specific and individual approaches restrict prescribing to specific medical condition(s)or individual patients. These nurse prescribers preferred to use Independent prescribing. Reflecting this, prescribers showed higher levels of dependence on doctors than previously reported. This was most common in the first year of prescribing. Relationships between nurse prescribers and the team were important. New nurse prescribers raised unexpected issues in some intraprofessional relationships. However, it was the inter-professional relationship between nurse and doctor that determined integration. The nurse must believe, trust exists and is reciprocal to integrate prescribing in practice. Where there was an absence of trust or a concern of mistrust the nurse would not integrate prescribing
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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