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The role of the registered nurse in Taiwanese nursing homes : a grounded theory study
No full textThe global trend towards an ageing population presents challenges for
health-care professionals, including registered nurses (RNs). In Taiwan,
health care policies relating to the aged and to gerontological nursing are still
in the early stages of development. Integral to this development is the
evolving definition of the clinical role of RNs who make a major contribution
to aged care. Using data from in-depth interviews of 29 RNs working across
eight nursing homes, this grounded theory study examines the factors that
shape the care work of RNs in long-term aged care in Taiwan.
The objectives of this study were to:
* examine the work-experience perceptions of RNs employed in nursing
homes in Taiwan
* explore the factors that influence the delivery of nursing care to the
aged by RNs
* explain the events that constitute nursing practices in aged care
provision that have an effect on the roles of RNs, and
* develop a theoretical proposition that can guide future nursing practice
in aged care.
Grounded theory and symbolic interactionism are the complementary
methodologies selected to underpin this study. The perspective of grounded
theory allows for a critical investigation of the social processes that are
integral in shaping the perspectives of RNs who work in Taiwanese nursing homes. The application of the theory of symbolic interactionism facilitates an
exploration of the roles of RNs in this context and of the different meanings
for individuals in the various situations they confront. Organizational factors
and interactions that shape the role of RNs in the working environment of
aged care are highlighted in the interaction between the data and the theory.
The core category that emerged from the study was searching for an identity.
This core process reflects ambivalence in the perceptions of RNs in
describing and explaining the nursing role in Taiwanese nursing homes. Five
categories that bring some greater understanding of this ambivalence are:
coming to know, doing anything and everything, negotiating the work role,
dealing with the system, and learning by being there.
The specific intention of this study was to extend our understanding of
nursing work and the delivery of care to older people in nursing homes in
Taiwan. The findings of this study will contribute to the development of an
educational framework that may be applied to improve nursing practices in
nursing homes. These findings also have the potential to make a positive
contribution to aged health care policy-making in Taiwan
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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