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La valutazione del dolore negli anziani con deterioramento cognitivo mediante l’impiego della scala PAINAD: studio osservazionale in due case residenza
No full textObiettivo: indagare i fattori che hanno influenzato la gestione del dolore nei pazienti geriatrici con deficit cognitivo valutati con scala PAINAD.
Materiali e metodi: studio osservazionale retrospettivo condotto nel biennio 2014-15 attraverso la documentazione sanitaria degli ospiti di due strutture residenziali della Regione Emilia Romagna, Italia.
Risultati: un campione di 25 ospiti è stato reclutato per un totale di 152 schede PAINAD compilate.
Conclusione: nonostante la provata efficacia della PAINAD la gestione del dolore è ben lungi dall’essere risolta. Lo studio sottolinea la centralità dell’infermiere nella gestione del dolore, la necessità di percorsi formativi interdisciplinari e ipotizza la necessità di una rivisitazione della legislazione ai fine del miglioramento della qualità dell’assistenza infermieristica
L'apprendimento clinico in simulazione: studio osservazionale sulla soddisfazione percepita dagli studenti di infermieristica [Learning in clinical simulation: observational study on satisfaction perceived by students of nursing]
No full textIntroduzione: la simulazione nel contesto del laboratorio didattico sta divenendo un’importante
metodologia di apprendimento, in quanto consente di riprodurre situazioni clinicoassistenziali
realistiche. Tali attività formative professionalizzanti favoriscono lo sviluppo di
abilità cognitive, affettive e psicomotorie in un contesto pedagogico sicuro e privo di rischi,
ma richiedono di essere valutate con strumenti validi e affidabili.
Obiettivo: indagare il grado di soddisfazione degli studenti di un Corso di Laurea in Infermieristica
del nord Italia riguardo le esercitazioni con simulatori statici e ad alta fedeltà e i
casi clinici.
Metodo: è stato condotto uno studio osservazionale prospettico che ha coinvolto un campione
non probabilistico di 51 studenti del terzo anno durante tutto l'a.a. 2013/14. Lo strumento
di raccolta dati si compone dei 3 questionari Student Satisfaction and Self-confidence in
Learning Scale, Educational Practices Questionnaire, Simulation Design Scale e di 3 domande
sulla soddisfazione complessiva. L'analisi statistica è stata condotta con i programmi SPSS
vers. demo. ed Excel di Office 2003.
Risultati e Conclusioni: il tasso di risposta ottenuto è dell’89,5%. L’Alfa di Cronbach, ha
evidenziato un’affidabilità interna ottima ( = .982). Gli studenti sono stati complessivamente
soddisfatti delle attività svolte nel laboratorio didattico, dimostrando più entusiasmo
per la simulazione con i manichini statici (71%) e con i simulatori ad alta fedeltà (60%), attività
per le quali hanno avvertito un significativo coinvolgimento e apprendimento attivo. La
didattica con i casi clinici ha ottenuto un grado di soddisfazione minore (38%) e per questo
metodo si è riscontrato il maggior numero di elementi di debolezza.
Parole chiave: studenti infermieri, simulazione, strategia di apprendimento attivo, simulatori
ad alta fedeltà, soddisfazioneINTRODUCTION:
Simulation in the context of the educational workshop is becoming an important learning method, as it allows to play realistic clinical-care situations. These vocational training activities promote the development of cognitive, affective and psychomotor skills in a pedagogical context safe and risk-free, but need to be accounted for using by valid and reliable instruments.
AIM:
To inspect the level of satisfaction of the students of a Degree in Nursing in northern Italy about static and high-fidelity exercises with simulators and clinical cases.
METHODS:
A prospective observational study has been conducted involving a non-probabili- stic sample of 51 third-year students throughout the academic year 2013/14. The data collection instrument consists of three questionnaires Student Satisfaction and Self-confidence in Learning Scale, Educational Practices Questionnaire, Simulation Design Scale and 3 questions on overall satisfaction. Statistical analysis was performed with SPSS 20.0 and Office 2003 Excel.
RESULT AND CONCLUSION:
The response rate of 89.5% is obtained. The Cronbach Alfa showed a good internal reliability (α = .982). The students were generally satisfied with the activities carried out in the teaching laboratory, showing more enthusiasm for the simulation with static mannequins (71%) and with high-fidelity simulators (60%), activities for which they have experienced a significant involvement and active learning. The teaching with clinical cases scored a lesser degree of satisfaction (38%) and for this method it was found the largest number of elements of weakness
Nursing students' experiences of and satisfaction with the clinical learning environment: the role of educational models in the simulation laboratory and in clinical practice
No full textBackground and aim of the work: Student satisfaction is an important element of the effectiveness of clinical placement, but there is little consensus in the literature as to the preferred model of clinical experience for undergraduate nursing students. The aim of this study was assess, for each academic year, students’ perception of the roles of nurse teachers (NT) and clinical nurse supervisors (CNS) who perform tutoring in both apprenticeship and laboratories and to identify and evaluate students’ satisfaction with the environment of clinical learning. Method: This analytic cross-sectional study was conducted in a sample of 173 nursing students in the Northern Italy. The research instrument used is the Clinical learning environment, supervision and nurse teacher (CLES+T) evaluation scale. Data were statistically analysed. Results: 94% of our sample answered questionnaires. Students expressed a higher level of satisfaction with their training experiences. The highest mean value was in the sub-dimension “Pedagogical atmosphere on the ward”. Third year students expressed higher satisfaction levels in their relationship with the CNS and lower satisfaction levels in their relationship with the NT. This result may be due to the educational model that is adopted in the course, in which the simulation laboratory didactic activities of the third year are conducted by CNS, who also supervises experiences of clinical learning in the clinical practice. Conclusions: The main finding in this study was that the students’ satisfaction with the supervisory relationship and the role of NT depend on how supervision in the clinical practice and in the simulation laboratory is organized
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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
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