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Hand hygiene and professional practice: comparative studies exploring attitudes and practice among healthcare students and among healthcare professionals
No full textHand hygiene is widely recognised as an effective measure in preventing the
transmission of healthcare-associated infection (HCAI). HCAI is a public health
challenge internationally and the emergence of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and
multi-drug resistant organism-associated infections add to the complexity and
diversity of the challenge. Now, more than ever, the strategic and operational
implementation of infection prevention and control policies, including hand hygiene
improvement strategies, is a priority in managing the acute patient safety risk posed
by the transmission of pathogenic organisms.
Despite this, evidence shows that hand hygiene compliance among healthcare workers
(HCWs) internationally is low, while little is known about the hand hygiene practices
of HCWs in Ireland. Heretofore, a comprehensive independent study of hand hygiene
practice among HCWs in Ireland has not been published. This thesis presents an
independent study of hand hygiene in Ireland and includes the following
Hand hygiene and professional practice: comparative studies exploring attitudes and practice among healthcare students and among healthcare professionals
No full textHand hygiene is widely recognised as an effective measure in preventing the
transmission of healthcare-associated infection (HCAI). HCAI is a public health
challenge internationally and the emergence of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and
multi-drug resistant organism-associated infections add to the complexity and
diversity of the challenge. Now, more than ever, the strategic and operational
implementation of infection prevention and control policies, including hand hygiene
improvement strategies, is a priority in managing the acute patient safety risk posed
by the transmission of pathogenic organisms.
Despite this, evidence shows that hand hygiene compliance among healthcare workers
(HCWs) internationally is low, while little is known about the hand hygiene practices
of HCWs in Ireland. Heretofore, a comprehensive independent study of hand hygiene
practice among HCWs in Ireland has not been published. This thesis presents an
independent study of hand hygiene in Ireland and includes the following
Quality of life following formation of an ileal conduit due to urinary bladder neoplasm: a systematic review
No full textAim: To present the findings of a systematic review on reported quality of life following the formation of a urinary diversion as a result of cystectomy due to urinary bladder neoplasm.
Background: Bladder cancer is the most commonly occurring cancer of the urological
system. Treatment often involves undergoing a radical cystectomy with an ileal conduit formation. Quality of life issues associated with this surgery are complex and
varied.
Design: A systematic review using thematic synthesis.
Data Sources: A comprehensive search, using The Cochrane Library, CINAHL,
PubMed and PsycInfo databases, focusing on the years from 2007 to 2020.
Review methods: The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta Analyses was the chosen checklist used. Studies were critically appraised using the
Crowe Critical Appraisal Tool.
Results: The formation of an ileal conduit negatively affects respondent\u27s quality of
life particularly regarding body image, social distress, reduced sexual activity and
employment. Poor research focus on the impact of ileal conduit formation on sexual
well-being postoperatively was apparent.
Conclusions: Further research using qualitative methodologies is needed to gain a
deeper understanding of how this life-changing procedure impacts quality of life
Fourth year nursing students' perceptions of their educational preparation in medication management: an interpretative phenomenological study
No full textBackground: Medication safety is an integral aspect of patient safety. Nurses, as advocates of patient safety, actively consider medication safety in the course of their daily work. Hence, it is important to consider the educational preparation of nursing students in
medication management, as future caregivers. There are inherent links between nurses'
undergraduate educational preparation in medication management and patient safety.
Objective: This research study identifies fourth-year nursing students' perceptions of their
educational preparation in medication management. Design: An interpretative phenomenological methodological approach underpinned this research study. Setting: This study was conducted at a University in the West of Ireland. Participants: Participants were final year students of three undergraduate nursing programmes, Bachelor of Science in Nursing (General), Bachelor of Science in Nursing (Intellectual Disability) and Bachelor of Science in Nursing (Mental Health). Methods: Fourteen semi-structured, face-to-face interviews were conducted with students on a one-to-one basis. Data were analysed using thematic content analysis. Results: The voices and interpretations of the participants in this study were fundamental to understanding nursing students' perceptions of their preparation in medication management and provided the foundation for this research. These perceptions were captured in the format of four themes: developing an understanding, embedding knowledge in practice, engaging in practice and accepting professional responsibility. Conclusions: Findings point to the important role of the university and the clinical placement settings in nursing students' medication management education and the need for further collaboration and development across both settings. Teaching and learning strategies which promote the integration of theory and practice throughout the four years of the undergraduate degree programme should been encouraged,such as technology enhanced learning and simulation
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
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