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A synthesis and review of Primary Industries Health and Safety Partnership Publications
No full textInjuries and illness in the Primary Industries sector represent a significant burden on the Australian economy. In 2010-11, Primary Industries had the highest workplace fatality rate (17.64 deaths / 100,000 people), which was nine times higher than the all industry fatality rate (1.93 / 100,000 people). Australia’s Primary industries are among the country's most challenging workplaces, requiring a range of skills and knowledge to be successful, and including individual enterprises, often operating with small or reduced workforces compared to workloads. While there has been a reduction in the number of deaths, the primary industries sector remains the most dangerous in which to work.
To address this burden, the Primary Industries Health and Safety Partnership (PIHSP) funded a range of health and safety research projects over the 17 years it has been operating, addressing health and safety in Australia's primary industries. To date, a comprehensive review of this body of research has not been completed. As the PIHSP moves into its next phase of work addressing the challenges of implementing strategies to reduce injury and illness, there is a need to collate previous research findings and identify key lessons, outcomes, outputs and recommendations. The review will highlight areas where future action is required to enhance OHS in the Primary Industries
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
Advocating for patient safety: Power dynamics in nurse advocacy practice in Australia—An integrative review
Full text linkIntroduction: Nurses play a vital role in advocating for patient safety, yet their ability to fulfil this role is influenced by the power dynamics within healthcare systems. Understanding the relationship between power and nurse advocacy in Australia is essential to fostering a supportive environment for effective advocacy.
Aim: This integrative literature review aims to identify and examine the relationship between power and the advocacy role of nurses in Australia.
Methods: The review followed an integrative literature review design, guided by the approach outlined by Toronto and Remington. A comprehensive search was conducted in electronic databases such as Medline, CINAHL, Emcare, Scopus, ProQuest Health & Medicine, and Informit. The search terms used were ‘nurse OR nursing OR nurses’ AND ‘advocacy OR whistleblowing’ AND ‘Australia.’ A total of 2507 articles were retrieved, and 26 studies met the inclusion criteria, comprising 18 qualitative studies, one quantitative study, one mixed-method study, one review of existing literature, and four editorial commentaries. The search was completed in May 2023.
Findings: The findings suggest that enhancing nurses’ advocacy for patient safety requires a multifaceted approach. This includes empowering nurses through professional development and leadership opportunities, fostering a culture of patient safety, and engaging in political action to advocate for policies that support advocacy efforts and patient safety. This approach aims to advance patient well-being and elevate the professional standing of nurses within the healthcare system.
Discussion: Power dynamics significantly shape nurse advocacy practices. Nurses with greater personal power are more likely to advocate confidently, while those with less power may be hesitant. Healthcare organisations can either support or hinder advocacy efforts, with unsupportive systems creating barriers and fostering a culture of silence. Whistleblowing, as a form of advocacy for patient safety, is also affected by organisational culture and power structures.
Conclusion: Power dynamics play a critical role in determining how effectively nurses can advocate for patient safety. Empowering nurses and addressing organisational barriers are crucial for promoting advocacy in healthcare. This review highlights the need for healthcare systems to cultivate environments that support and facilitate nurse advocacy
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
Public Health Career Development Action Plan: Post Graduate Student Career Development Support and Learning Activities for the Discipline of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
No full textA feature of university study, including postgraduate study, is to move into and within the labour force, and obtain meaningful employment. As such, universities and students are keen to ensure employability is embedded into curriculum. The discipline of Public Health and Tropical Medicine at James Cook University has a large postgraduate cohort and represents about 19% of the university’s postgraduate students in 2018.
This report outlines the stages in the creation of a career development action plan for the discipline of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. An audit of existing employability related content within subjects was undertaken and from this a consideration of opportunities for extension within curriculum informed by the action plan components. An antecedent to these considerations which informed the proposed next steps is that understanding student motivation for enrolment is an important pre-requisite for directing career and employability into curriculum. A model has been created to reflect the proposed interactions between student motivation, career development, adaptability and employability; although more work is required to determine whether this model fits the postgraduate student journey.
The JCU Career Action Plan for Curriculum (CAP-C) is an online planning tool developed by the JCU Careers and Employability Team to assist staff in boosting career development, employability and entrepreneurship learning strategies and activities into curriculum. The CAP-C was developed with a focus on undergraduate courses and as such a slightly modified CAP-C was used for exploring employability within a postgraduate specific cohort. This modified CAP-C was used to audit a selection of subject offerings within public health and tropical medicine. Each subject offering was considered against 29 action points from the CAP-C that were seen by the project team as being relevant to postgraduate study. Additional points of reflection, for staff who were completing the audit, related to perceived value and how time intensive embedment activities would be for those action points not already embedded.
A total of 24 subjects of the 39 available were audited. Key findings were that career and employability content was embedded into some subjects, although the included content varied depending on the subject focus and also by delivery mode. Career and employability related content that already exists relates to a provision of staff career snapshots, problem based activities, use of professional online networks , assessment items which establish knowledge acquisition and build practical skills relevant to potential future work situations. Examples of best practice for these existing embedded action points are outlined.
A number of key action items for the discipline of Public Health and Tropical Medicine are outlined including to boost student networking and communication opportunities, clearly articulate the employment services available, to enable past students to illustrate their career trajectory after graduation and their associated tips and thoughts on success.
Key opportunities for future enhancement relate to promoting practical skill acquisition, showing the diversity of career paths and trajectories in public health, encouraging student networking during and post study. A number of easy actions can be undertaken without creating additional workloads but provide value. Examples include supporting students to explore opportunities and to be future orientated, promote communication within and beyond subjects and to highlight the relevance of the material with respect to careers and future work related roles.
Through undertaking an audit of current examples of embedding of employability and career content in the postgraduate Public Health and Tropical Medicine offerings it was determined that a number of existing actions are being undertaken. There is always room for improvement, but importantly these actions need not be time intensive for staff to implement to have value. Some key action points for the discipline have been articulated as well as some Meta considerations regarding strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats with respect to the disciplines engagement and championing of employability and career embedment. It is hoped that through this audit process it will lead to improvements for the disciplines’ students (current and future) but also might offer some insights for other disciplines
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
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