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Inclusive education: issues surrounding the needs of students with dyslexia being met in clinical settings
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Automaticity, dysfunctional organisation and the dyslexic profile: issues connected with nursing practice, and the professional’s dilemma
No full textDyslexia is often considered as affecting student abilities with course work. However the education of nurses involves not only academic study but also the requirements to develop appropriate nursing practice skills. This paper will explore ethical issues and the impact the dyslexic profile have upon nursing practice. The key issues that will be examined include: Ethical Issues The protection of the public The demands of professional regulation Disclosure of disability - the tripartite between the student, the academic tutor and the clinical setting Dichotomy of the Disability Discrimination Act and the Code of Professional Conduct Tensions between the organisational structures and the demands of emergency procedures Dyslexic Profile and Nursing Practice Automaticity Working memory capacity Literacy challenges for nurses with dyslexia Dysfunctional organisation Compensatory strategies - the dilemma between reasonable adjustments and practice reality The aim of this paper is to raise awareness of the impact that having dyslexia may have upon an individual's ability to acquire professional qualifications. Whilst the issues explored will focus on nursing practice there are implications for other professional education providers
The impact of the dyslexic profile on clinical placement practice of dyslexic nursing trainees: pedagogical issues and considerations
No full textRumours abound questioning the safety of dyslexic nurses and whether they were a danger to their patients.
The realities of learning nursing skills for individuals with dyslexia has not been well researched. There are studies which examine the institutional infrastructure of support, the dyslexic students’ perceptions of the support received in the academic setting, and the effect of self esteem upon learning. No research has been found that explores the impact that dyslexia has on clinical practice. One study by Wright (2000) had recommended studies were undertaken to illuminate how dyslexia might have an impact upon nursing care. He suggested that this would lead to an understanding of the support needs of this group of practitioners. Stenhouse (1987) suggests that the study of cases is important in educational research as it can provide the basis for educational judgements to be made so that inferences and informed decisions can be made if similar data is collated from diverse settings.
This unique, phenomenological study sought to discover the impact of the dyslexic profile on clinical practice for nursing trainees. Two focus groups of second year nursing students in Higher Education were set up to gather the data: a control group and a dyslexic group.
The findings were congruent with the literature in that students provided evidence of literacy difficulties, memory problems, lack of automaticity skills, issues of self-esteem and some specific skills deficits. The study discovered some cognitive processing problems but it also uncovered some strategies the students were using to compensate, as well as a significant underpinning ethos of ensuring patient safety. It also revealed some evidence of apparent disability discrimination, usually resulting from ignorance by nursing mentors who knew little or nothing about dyslexia.
Pedagogical considerations for the support of dyslexic students in the academic setting have been well researched. However, it is apparent from this study that methods do not always transfer to the clinical setting. This paper seeks to explore the pedagogical issues for clinical practice and the implications for support in the work setting.
This paper will provide examples of typical clinical practice to exemplify the problems encountered by the dyslexic students
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
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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