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Acute Illness: The child and their family
No full textChild, Youth and Family Health 2e begins by discussing issues and challenges in child, youth and family health, before addressing contexts for nursing and midwifery, all of which helps readers apply theory to practice. This community healthcare textbook offers additional insight into the importance of the healthcare professional’s role when working with children, young people and their families, and looks at practical approaches such as program development, supporting family transitions and mental health promotion. [Book Synopsis
Practice integrity : advocacy, ethics and legal issues
No full textReading this chapter will help you to: \ud
Explore the role of advocacy in nursing children, young people and their families. \ud
Understand the obligation to advocate for children, young people and their families.\ud
Consider the relationship between advocacy, ethics, and lawful practice.\ud
Analyse ethical frameworks for nursing practice.\ud
Recognise the relevance of the United Nation’s Declaration of the Rights of the Child to nursing practice. \ud
Analyse clinical cases to integrate knowledge of advocacy for children, young people and their families. \ud
Critically analyse the nursing responsibilities and priorities within practice relating to families at risk, children’s rights and child protection legislation. \ud
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<A> Introduction\ud
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Nurses working in paediatric, child, and youth health settings operate within a framework that is informed by lawful scope of practice, and ethical standards. This chapter presents a review of the nurse’s role as advocate for children, young people and families, and examines this role across the landscape of children’s and youth health services.\ud
While nursing shares the role of patient advocate with a number of other health professions, it is notable that nursing has included advocacy in its scope of practice as a fundamental role since the mid 1990’s (Mallik & Rafferty 2000). The International Council of Nurses (ICN 2006) lists advocacy as a ‘key nursing role’ and commitment is expressed through professional codes of conduct set at the domestic level (ANMC 2002, NZNA 1995). The ICN code of ethics for nurses is relevant to nursing practice in both Australia and New Zealand (2006). There are four primary components guiding standards of conduct for nurses:\ud
Nurses and People \ud
Nurses and Practice\ud
Nurses and the Profession\ud
Nurses and co-workers\ud
(ICN 2006)\ud
That is, nurses are responsible for acting as advocates for the needs and welfare of patients, for the profession of nursing, and for the interests of colleagues in nursing. Nevertheless, ambiguous interpretations of the concept of patient advocacy continue to pose a number of problems for nurses in practice. Hence, an overview of what advocacy means for nurses working specifically with children, young people and their families is necessary.\u
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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