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Exploring the Charge Nurse Role in the Inpatient Psychiatric Unit
Full text linkThe United States is experiencing a shortage of psychiatric mental health nurses as the number and complexity of individuals diagnosed and treated for mental health services increases. Psychiatric mental health nurses are equipped with the clinical and leadership skills to address this and are one of the largest providers in the inpatient psychiatric setting characterized by unpredictability, chaos, and violence. As frontline leaders, charge nurses play an essential role in overseeing safety and quality of care in complicated health care environments such as psychiatric mental health. Yet, their role in this specialty has been understudied both nationally and internationally. This study presents a thematic analysis of a series of semi-structured interviews with seven charge nurses in inpatient psychiatric units. Its results illustrate some of the characteristics that nurses in this role face. Further research is warranted on the leadership of charge nurses in these settings to fully understand their current roles and responsibilities and their influence on maintaining patient, staff, and unit safety
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
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Exploring the Experience of Ambiguous Loss among Partners of Persons with Dementia
No full textObjective: This dissertation aims to inform on the development and use of practice-facing process models as tools for addressing the experience of ambiguous loss among partners of persons with dementia in clinical practice. Background: Ambiguous loss has been described as a relational loss due to the person with dementia appearing to be “psychologically absent.” The relational unknown renders the caregiver motionless and unable to make decisions regarding the care of oneself or of the person with dementia. This frozen state is characterized by ambivalence and emotional reactions which may contribute to higher rates of depression in partners of persons with dementia. To date, however, addressing ambiguous loss in clinical practice is challenged by lack of knowledge about the perceived relational losses and how these can be intervened upon. Results: The dissertation reports on the development of the conceptual model, two concepts that emerged through data analysis, and a proposal for the operationalization of the conceptual model in practice. The first paper reports on the identified need and development of the practice-facing process models. The second paper reports on the partners’ perceptions of the relational losses; these were then arranged to describe the concept of relationship integrity. The third paper reports on the partners’ perceptions of receiving value congruent care when interfacing with different healthcare settings and providers throughout the dementia journey. Finally, paper four proposes the operationalization of the practice-facing process model in a caregiving clinic. Conclusion: The dissertation answers a few classical questions about ambiguous loss such as the identification of partner’s perceptions of relational losses that occur due to a dementia diagnosis. Moreover, the study reports on ways that clinicians can intervene to sustain relationship integrity. Importantly, this dissertation underscores the fruitfulness of practice-facing process models that may be implemented in clinical practice to close the “relevance gap.
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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