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Training need assessment of nursing personnel as super specialty tertiary care hospitals in Northern India
No full textBackground - Super specialty tertiary care hospital equips nurses with the requisite knowledge and skills to deliver high quality care in their practice areas. This has necessitated adopting a structured approach to the training needs assessment (TNA) to identify the development needs of the nursing workforce at a tertiary care centre. This study involves Micro Level – Task/Job analysis i.e. identifies and describes all the skills performed by employees in a particular job and the knowledge, skills, attitudes and other behaviours needed for successful job performance. Aim and objectives: The study explores the training needs of nursing personnel at super specialty tertiary care hospital in northern India by analyzing the areas of knowledge and skills deficit as perceived by the nurses and assessing the expectations of doctors, about the role of nurses and deficiencies in their current knowledge, skills Design: Structured questionnaire based descriptive cross sectional study Methods: A set of questionnaire were framed using core competencies of nurses listed by Massachusetts department of higher education and nursing council of Hongkong and A questionnaire based descriptive cross sectional study among nurses, faculty, senior residents and patients were done. Results: The total sample collected for the study was 274 which included 19 faculty, 44 senior résidents, 211 nurses.\ud
Training needs identified to be further developed for Grade II and grade I nurses both by nurses and doctors are maximum in patient care and research domain followed by managerial/administrative and communication domain.\ud
Training needs agreed to be promoted for ANS’s are maximum in managerial/ administrative and communication domain.\ud
Training needs recognized for DNS’s /NS/CNO are maximum in managerial/ administrative and research domain followed by communication domain\ud
Conclusion – This study reflects the training need assessment of nurses in a super specialty tertiary care hospita
The health impact of financial crisis: omens of a Greek tragedy
No full textThe health impact of financial crisis: Omens of a Greek traged
Themes and methods of research presented at European General Practice Research Network conferences
No full textThe World Organization of Family Doctors (Wonca) defined core characteristics of general practice and general practitioners' competencies. It is unclear to which extent research has addressed these issues so far
Publikowanie ze współczynnikiem impact factor – błogosławieństwo czy przekleństwo?
Full text linkReporting and publishing research from a country with limited research capacity experiences from an editor Christos Lionis as chief and associate editor that serves certain European and International biomedical journals presents key issues that researchers need to be aware when they prepare, present and submit their work to maximise their chances of publication. Sufficient reporting and all the steps: (a) Planning ahead or thinking about the type or research, (b) Choosing a suitable journal, (c) Considering what before submission – are discussed in the article. However, a successful publication with an impact factor in a well-recognized journal is not only achieved by the fundamental steps that the author needs to undertake but also by certain “secrets” which are presented within the paper. Common pitfalls when research is reported will be highlighted by the author, while recommendations for a successful reporting of the research findings. To what extent publishing with impact factor is a blessing or a curse would be also approached within the paper. The information that this article provides is based on personal experiences of an editor in certain biomedical journals but it is important not to forget that in clinical practice it is critical to be passionate about dis- coveries to make an effect in regards to the patients’ benefits.Natalia Pta
Are presentations of abstracts at EGPRN meetings followed by publication?
No full textBackground: Research presented at scientific meetings is inaccessible to clinicians, unless the findings are subsequently published in a journal. Aims: To assess the publication rate of studies presented at 10 European General Practice Research Network (EGPRN) meetings between 1999 and 2006. Methods: Survey by e-mail or postal questionnaire among all presenters. Results: Information was obtained on 251 presentations (response rate 60%). In total, 113 out of these 251 (45%) presentations had been published. However, only 60% of the research findings were published in English Medline-listed journals, whereas 20% were not Medline-listed. The most frequently cited reason for non-publication was that the paper had not been submitted yet at time of follow up (103 responses). The main reason for non-submission was that the research presented had not been completed yet.
Conclusion: Presentations at EGPRN meetings commonly concern research ideas or ongoing research. In this light, the ratio of published work to presented work compares well with the corresponding ratios found for international meetings in other specialist fields. This survey was also meant as an audit of the EGPRN meetings and gives better insight in needs for future strategy
Publikowanie ze współczynnikiem impact factor – błogosławieństwo czy przekleństwo?
No full textReporting and publishing research from a country with limited research capacity experiences from an editor Christos Lionis as chief and associate editor that serves certain European and International biomedical journals presents key issues that researchers need to be aware when they prepare, present
and submit their work to maximise their chances of publication. Sufficient reporting and all the steps: (a) Planning ahead or thinking about the type or research, (b) Choosing a suitable journal, (c) Considering what before submission – are
discussed in the article. However, a successful publication
with an impact factor in a well-recognized journal is not only
achieved by the fundamental steps that the author needs to
undertake but also by certain “secrets” which are presented
within the paper. Common pitfalls when research is reported
will be highlighted by the author, while recommendations for
a successful reporting of the research findings. To what extent
publishing with impact factor is a blessing or a curse would be
also approached within the paper. The information that this
article provides is based on personal experiences of an editor
in certain biomedical journals but it is important not to forget
that in clinical practice it is critical to be passionate about dis-
coveries to make an effect in regards to the patients’ benefits.Na podstawie doświadczeń w przygotowywaniu i publikowaniu materiałów w kraju o ograniczonym potencjale badawczym Christos Lionis, który jako redaktor naczelny i zastępca współpracuje z kilkoma europejskimi i międzynarodowymi czasopismami o tematyce biomedycznej, przedstawia istotne trudności, z których powinni zdawać sobie sprawę naukowcy przygotowujący, prezentujący i zgłaszający wyniki prac do publikacji, jeśli chcą zwiększyć prawdopodobieństwo opublikowania swoich tekstów. W pracy zostały opisane sposoby prawidłowego zgłaszania wyników badań oraz poszczególne kroki: (a) myślenie perspektywiczne lub myślenie o rodzaju badań, (b) wybór odpowiedniego czasopisma, (c) rozpatrzenie konkretnych kwestii przed przekazaniem badań. Skuteczne publikowanie ze współczynnikiem impact factor w znanym czasopiśmie jest osiągane nie tylko dzięki podjęciu przez autora niezbędnych kroków podstawowych, lecz również dzięki pewnym „tajnikom”, które zostały przedstawione w niniejszej pracy. Autor opisał przykłady najczęstszych pułapek pojawiających się na etapie zgłaszania publikacji oraz swoje zalecenia dotyczące skutecznego omawiania wyników badań. Zakres, w którym publikowanie ze współczynnikiem impact factor jest błogosławieństwem lub przekleństwem, również został opisany. Informacje zawarte w niniejszej pracy są oparte na osobistych doświadczeniach redaktora czasopism biomedycznych, jednakże
należy pamiętać, że w praktyce klinicznej niezbędna jest pasja
odkrywcza w celu osiągania rezultatów przynoszących korzyść
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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
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