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Showing 1 to 20 of 63 for “"Practice development"”.
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Protecting children: a critical contribution to policy and practice development
… contribution to child protection policy and practice from the late 80's to the present day. The work provides a critical reflection on child protection social work policy and practice informed by research of documentary evidence from survivor's accounts, legislation, policy, practice …
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An exploration of developing skilled facilitation within transformational practice development in healthcare
… This research investigated the experiences of practice development (PD) facilitators regarding their understanding of transformational facilitation and becoming skilled. The research was situated within the Constructivist paradigm and used Naturalistic Inquiry as the guiding methodology. The …
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Model for a teaching practice : development of a prototype through design inquiry
This thesis examines the role of the architect in practice, specifically the architect's relationship with a health maintenance organization faced with the challenge of designing a model teaching practice. The primary goal of the project is to design a workplace that fosters communication and …
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Evidence-based Change in Practice: Development and Implementation of Type II Diabetic Flow Sheet
… caring for these patients. This change in practice project employed an evidence-based practice diabetic flow sheet (EBPDFS) for staff that care for the adult type II diabetic patients at Samaritan House clinics in California. The goal of this pilot project at San Mateo Samaritan House was …
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"I bet you wished you'd picked a different group": an ethnographical study of practice development unit accreditation.
Research Aims Practice development accreditation is growing rapidly as it is praised for transforming cultures of health care, inciting empowerment, instigating multidisciplinary teamwork and creating more effective services. However, literature is vague on what occurs during accreditation, the …
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Enforcement practice, development assistance and servicing clients: progressing compliance with wastewater discharge regulations in industrialised north Vietnam
… case of wastewater pollution law enforcement practices at provincial scales in north Vietnam. It seeks to understand dominant logics and practical norms that help constitute the institutional context in which environmental officials operate, in part through considering responses to foreign …
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Exploring the Intersection of Creative Practice Development and Second Language Acquisition in Adult Artists Professionally Connected to Seattle
… ways artists acquire English so as to inform the development of curricula and programs to address their language learning needs. This study’s theoretical framework is created by Long’s (1981) interaction hypothesis and Skehan’s (1996) theory of task-based learning. The author proposes that …
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“They transformed our thinking”: An exploration of how, and under what conditions, working with historians and historical scholarship can contribute to UK secondary history teachers’ professional learning and practice development
… contribute to their professional learning and practice development. Engagements between schools and disciplinary scholarship are established, supported by universities, meso-level curriculum actors and policy makers, yet educational research into these engagements is not yet equally …
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Make or break: factors influencing the development of nursing practice within the UK National Health Service.
The development of nursing practice has become a central feature of modern healthcare. The advent of clinical governance has resulted in the development of an organisational climate where practitioners are encouraged to develop direct care and health services. Despite the desire of many …
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"That's how we do it...we treat them all the same": an exploration of the experiences of patients, lay carers and health and social care staff of the care received by older people with dementia in acute hospital settings.
… thesis: a literature review, a research study, a practice development project and an integrative review. A literature review sets person-focused research in the context of dementia research as a whole. It also identifies ways in which studies have been conducted in an ethical and meaningful …
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Common Space, Safe Place: Lived Experiences of Former Settlement House Participants From the West Town and Humboldt Park Neighborhoods of Chicago
… general. There are implications for policy and practice development in the areas of social work, education, and urban planning. The most significant social implications point to the need to create and sustain social capital that in turn will advance human capital in poor neighborhoods.
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Being a real nurse : nurses' accounts of learning and working in practice
… mentors, eight (8) ward managers, one (1) practice development coordinator and one (1) senior nurse responsible for clinical development. Interviewing and observation techniques were used to obtain the data. PBL as a teaching and learning strategy is investigated and discussed, in relation …
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Differential spectrophotometric analysis of intravenous admixtures containing metaraminol with selected corticosteroids
… are used extensively in current medical practice. Development of reliable methods to predict the compatibility of the admixture components is essential as a guide for their selection.</p><p> Because the majority of the reports published, to date, have used a visible change as the …
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The effects of auditor-client relationships, auditor-auditor relationships, and persuasive communication on auditor's' objectivity
… states induced by partner: less aggressive practice development vs. more aggressive practice development) between subjects design using audit professionals with an average of less than 1 year of public accounting experience. Experiment 2 is a 2 X 2 X 2 between by within subjects design with …
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Physiotherapy palliative cancer care: a case study approach.
… service provision in the light of best practice recommendations, using both my own practice development and a research study. For my research a qualitative approach using a single case study design was chosen as it provided a framework to facilitate the inclusion of multiple perspectives …
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Exploring foster carers' experiences with children who have complex attachment problems
… to understand peak experiences and effective practice in fostering. Thematic analysis of interview data yielded thirty-six robust child behaviour codes that were combined into five themes: i) Developmental growth, ii) increased ability to manage emotions, iii) emergence of new positive …
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A Comparative Analysis of the Management of Pupil Assessment Data in Schools in the United States and the United Kingdom - Wales
… and understanding of current assessment practice. Through my own observations of the need to develop an understanding of current practice and from an increasing awareness of opportunities for sharing best practice both within the UK and further a field, I decided to undertake an …
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