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Nurse teacher perceptions of the practice architectures for nursing education in Kenya
No full textThis study explores nurse teacher perspectives on the availability and adequacy of the requisite infrastructure for nursing education in diploma level nurse training institutions in Kenya, and how the existing infrastructure influence the teacher’s work. The nurse teachers’ descriptions of their work conditions are compared to the expected practice conditions as prescribed by the NCK Training and Accreditation Standards (2014). The theory of practice architectures is used to map how the prerequisites are connected to teachers practices and, subsequently, the outcomes of education.
Qualitative data was collected through policy document review and use of questionnaires to collect perspectives of nurse teachers in diploma level nurse training institutions in Kenya.
The findings show that there are opportunities for improvement of teacher preparation and development programs and the nurse training curriculum. Material-economic resource constraints remains a major challenge to nurse training institutions in Kenya and creative nurse teachers are needed to come up with sustainable solutions. Improved partnership and collaboration can also help to mitigate resource shortages for improved nursing education.
The nurse teachers’ recommendations provide a great starting point for enhancement of nursing education in Kenya. Further participatory research on how the practice architectures affect teachers’ practices will provide opportunity for all stakeholders to communicate and take collective action to improve practice architectures, and outcomes of nursing education.
Keywords: nurse teacher perspectives, practice architectures, nursing education as a practiceunknown accessibilityei tietoa saavutettavuudest
Factors Promoting Effective Nurse Student Mentorship in Clinical Learning Environments in Finland.
Get PDFClinical placements account for at least half of the nurse training programme. For this reason, clinical mentoring plays a key role in development of future nurses to provide quality and safe health services. Effective mentoring not only support nurses in developing the required competencies but can also help in transitioning to nursing practice and subsequently retention of the nurse workforce.
The study aimed to identify the factors that promote effective nurse student mentorship in the clinical learning environment in Finland.
A literature review was conducted whereby reviewed studies were collected from Cinahl (Ebsco) and PubMed. Overall, seven articles were reviewed, and results were analyzed through inductive content analysis.
Four factors were identified as supporting effective student mentorship in the clinical learning environment: conducive learning environment, well prepared mentors, student attributes, and successful mentor-student relationship.
To improve quality of nursing education, there is need for collaboration between policy makers and nursing education and healthcare organizations to develop quality clinical training and mentorship programs. More studies involving diverse areas of nurse student clinical placements are needed to provide more insights on the overall requirements for effective mentorship programs
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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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