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Evaluation of Community Veterinary Outreach (CVO) One Health Clinics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
No full textIn Canada, it is estimated that 20% of people are experiencing housing insecurity and homelessness are pet owners. It has been reported that the bond between companion animals and this population is typically stronger than the general population. This bond is associated with numerous health benefits and can act as a motivator for changes in healthy behavior, yet vulnerably housed pet owners also experience increased barriers to accessing healthcare services for both themselves and their pets. The registered charity Community Veterinary Outreach (CVO) has the mandate to mitigate these structural and socioeconomical barriers by coordinating and delivering “One Health” clinics in the community. One Health clinics offer integrated veterinary and human health services, which aim to improve public health and build on the health benefits of this human-animal relationship. CVO has been operating in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada since 2016, and anecdotal data demonstrates the success of the program. However, to date, no formal program evaluation has been completed for Vancouver’s One Health clinics.
The aim of this project was to evaluate the CVO Vancouver One Health Clinics and its capacity to connect marginalized community members to healthcare services and promote public health, through the use of the CDC Program Evaluation Framework. Findings from this study demonstrate that CVO Vancouver One Health Clinics achieve their short, intermediate, and long term outcomes by promoting access to care and improving the health of vulnerably housed people and their pets.Applied Science, Faculty ofNursing, School ofGraduat
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
What do nurses need to know about delirium & delirium prevention? : UBC Synthesis Project
No full textOUR ANALYSIS
● Respondents are professionally less experienced, with the majority having practiced less
than 5 years as a Registered Nurse (RN) or Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN)
● Nurses struggle with managing the difficult behaviours that accompany delirium
● Burnout in caring for these patients is experienced by over a quarter of respondents
● Tools to capture delirium are not adequate, as many respondents answered that policies
are unfamiliar, not user friendly or too time consuming to implement
● Suggestions on how to improve delirium are included - most notably, many nurses
would prefer CAM/PRISME tools be formatted a flowsheetApplied Science, Faculty ofNursing, School ofUnreviewedUndergraduat
Nursing scope of practice defined and operationalized in Canada : a systematic review
No full textAim: To examine the conceptual and operational definitions of RNs and LPNs respectively in a Canadian context.
Design: A systematic review of Canadian research articles related to RN and LPN scope of practice will be undertaken.
Methods: A systematic search looking for Canadian research studies published from 2009 to 2019 was conducted using CINAHL and MEDLINE databases. Other publications and websites, such as the BCCNP, were screened for relevant documents.
Results: The final data set contained eight articles. Results indicate that four articles provided conceptual definitions for RNs, two articles provided conceptual definitions for LPNs, three articles provided operational definitions for RNs and two articles provided operational definitions for LPNs. Results include a lack of a strong operational scope of practice measure for RNs and LPNs respectively. Implications for nursing practice include scope overlap and ambiguity, leading to both LPNs and RNs in positions they felt underprepared for.Applied Science, Faculty ofNursing, School ofGraduat
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
Realist evaluation of violence prevention education in British Columbia healthcare : how does it make a difference?
No full textPsychological and physical violence from patients and visitors towards healthcare workers is an increasing problem internationally that negatively affects the wellbeing of workers and the care they deliver. The predominant intervention has been to educate workers in violence prevention (VP); however, the complexity of both the healthcare environment, the multiple reasons for violence, and a chronic underreporting of violent incidents makes it challenging to evaluate VP program effectiveness. To address these obstacles, this research used a lesser-known realist evaluation approach that asks for whom, how and in what contexts VP education makes a difference. Building upon theories developed from a realist literature review, the synthesis of data from interviews and focus group interviews conducted in British Columbia emergency departments resulted in 15 explanations of contexts that support participants to learn and apply VP education. Findings include how credible trainers and applicable content increases engagement as participants see the content as relevant; how teams with a shared mental model of VP apply knowledge and skills due to confidence in a team approach; and how workplaces that support physical safety increase application of VP knowledge and skills as individuals feel less physically vulnerable.Graduate and Postdoctoral StudiesGraduat
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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