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Hotspots critical care evaluation
No full textThis report evaluates a series of critical care education interventions for nurses which took place within Southampton University Hospital Trust (SUHT) and Portsmouth Hospital Trust (PHT) in 2004 and 2005. These interventions were funded by the Hotspots project and commissioned by the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Workforce Development Directorate (WDD). As part of the ongoing commitment to incorporate evidence into practice, the WDD commissioned an independent impact evaluation of these interventions. This evaluation was undertaken collaboratively by the Health Care Innovation Unit (HCIU) and the School of Management at the University of Southampton.Prior to the empirical work, the researchers undertook a review of literature relating to critical care training, learning transfer and evaluation. Critical care literature points to the fact that policy drivers and the increasing acuity of patients on wards have necessitated enhanced skill levels amongst ward nurses, which are not provided by pre-registration training in its current form. Post registration training is varied and results in a lack of standardisation of nursing competencies (‘post code competencies’) (Scholes et al, 1999). Post registration education can also be characterised by a theory-practice gap resulting from the separation of nursing education provision from service provision. The literature suggests a number of potential benefits which could result from enhanced critical care skills amongst ward staff. These include better patient care, earlier detection and intervention in instances of deterioration and improved interdisciplinary team working. To investigate this fully, long term evaluation is called for which goes beyond comments on teaching received and begins to investigate lasting impacts on practitioners and patients.The literature on learning transfer identifies a need for further research to identify how learning is passed from an individual and integrated on an organisational level. Whilst a significant amount of money is spent on training interventions, this aspect is not generally given enough attention. However, it is suggested that lack of relevance has a detrimental effect on learning transfer; if skills cannot easily be implemented into the participant’s job role, learning will be lost. Conversely, two factors which foster learning transfer are identified as social support and opportunity to use new skills.By using an adapted version of Kirkpatrick’s (Kirkpatrick 1994) evaluation framework, the research employed a mainly post hoc methodology of questionnaire, semi-structured interviews and collection of Performance Indicator (PI) data. Software packages were used to analyse the interview and questionnaire data
Leadership evaluation: an impact evaluation of a leadership programme
No full textThe HCIU and the School of Management undertook an empirical investigation into the impact of Leadership Development for NHS middle-management staff. The cohort was a cross-disciplinary mix of clinical and management personnel from 17 NHS organisations in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. The research focused on evaluating the impact of the development intervention on the individuals and their organisations. The aims were to identify if such an intervention changes the thinking and behaviour of staff and their organisations, without losing sight of evaluating the costs and benefits of a development programme. The framework used for the evaluation was Phillips and Phillips’ modified version of Kirkpatrick’s framework for training evaluation.The results show that the intervention had a substantial impact on the individuals taking part. The participants reported improved self-confidence, more reflective and broader thinking, a heightened sense for other people’s behaviours and actions, and some participants also reported the acquisition of useful management tools to initiate and deal with change and its inherent challenges. However, the research also showed that training and development within the NHS tends to happen haphazardly rather than as an organisation-wide coordinated action. Nearly all research participants (including line-managers of the course participants) confirmed that there are rarely any mechanisms in place to support the application or integration of newly acquired knowledge and skills once back within the working environment. This was amplified by the disintegrated approach of selection and needs analysis on an organisational level before sending individuals on the programme. As the evaluated programme was part of a WDC sponsored pilot project, the cost-benefit analysis did not deliver any significant results. However, it was clear that the lack of appropriate needs analysis contributed to the lack of potential measure to assess the usefulness and benefits of such an intervention. Based on these findings the research report produced a number of recommendations for the strategic, operational, and individual levels within an organisation.<br/
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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