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Showing 1 to 20 of 1489 for “"Practitioner"”.
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Nurse practitioner transition experience into independent practice after a student nurse practitioner internship
… study was to explore and describe a new Nurse Practitioners (NPs)’ transition into their NP role after participating in a student NP internship, to obtain a better understanding of the transition time a new NP needs. The setting of the study was at a large academic research medical center in …
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On Becoming a Reflexive Practitioner
Research into the world of the only child has been dominated by the existence of the enduring stereotype of the spoilt and lonely child. This has resulted in a wide range of studies that vary in opinion and have tended to polarise the experience from a negative and damaging one, moving to a more …
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Rural Acceptance of the Nurse Practitioner
… Collaboration between physician and family nurse practitioner is an option for meeting the need for delivery of primary healthcare in the rural community. A descriptive design was used to describe the acceptance of the nurse practitioner by patients living in rural southcentral Kentucky who …
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Nurse Practitioner Adoption of Clinical Innovations
<p>Adoption of clinical innovations by Nurse Practitioners (NP) is a complex phenomenon, rooted in personal values and influenced by challenges within health care environments. When clinical innovations are adopted or rejected by NPs, this decision has meaning for patients, NPs, health care …
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The clinical psychologist as science-practitioner
The scientist-practitioner model in clinical psychology is critically examined and illustrated by reference to applied research using archival data as well as survey, single-case and group design methodology. A definition of the scientist-practitioner as one who consumes and utilises research …
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Course climate, student stress and practitioner burnout
… to subsequent burnout in social work practitioners. To investigate this problem, the study was structured according to five interrelated key research questions, as outlined in Chapter One. The first research question asks to what extent what Tobin and Carson (1994) have referred to as …
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Towards a Practitioner Model of Mobile Music
… identity and as a consequence lead towards a practitioner model of mobile music.
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Building A Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Fellowship
… With the increasing number of graduating nurse practitioners, now is a crucial time to validate an educational model to ensure these clinicians are providing quality care in the primary care setting. This paper explores the current educational model of nurse practitioners and the increasing …
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Trust and gender in patient-practitioner relationships
… 'lived' experiences of trust within the patient-practitioner relationship. The central question of this research, then, was: How do male and female patients describe and perceive their experience, both positive and negative, of trust in primary health care practitioners (PHCPs)? Following the …
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Offering Preceptor Incentives In Nurse Practitioner Education
… and retention of clinical preceptors for Nurse Practitioner (NP) students is a challenge for coordinators of NP academic programs. The purpose of this mixed-methods study was to explore what incentives and benefits are offered to clinical preceptors of NP students in accredited NP academic …
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Becoming an effective practitioner through guided reflection
… of guided reflection and its impact on enabling practitioners to achieve desirable and effective caring practice. A secondary focus of the study was to monitor and explore the process and outcomes of guided reflection as a form of critical action research which may generate theoretical insights …
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Practising-as-inquiry: developing self-as-practitioner
… my professional practice and my development as a practitioner. It is an inductive inquiry, from which I draw universal conclusions from my unique reflections on my sense-of-self and my experiences of my practice. Through practising-as-inquiry I interpret, discover and make the value, benefits and …
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Assessment of practitioner intervention in physical activity
… were over the age of 50 (58.5%), group practitioners (60.5%), male (59.9%), and have been practicing more than 20 years (50.3%). The majority of physicians “almost always” (47.6%) counseled their patients on physical activity. Time, however (81.6%), was identified as the main barrier. A …
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Identity construction in nurse practitioner-patient interactions
… dissertation explores interactions between Nurse Practitioners (NPs) and patients during both inpatient and outpatient visits. Through an analysis of interactional data coupled with ethnographic observations and interviews, I focus on the ways that both patients and providers construct particular …
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Appreciative Inquiry Practitioner Formation: A Grounded Theory Study
… understanding of the development journeys of AI practitioners that help organizations uproot the cycle of old thinking applied to current challenges. The work of AI practitioners aligns directly with the field of human resource development (HRD), which aims to cultivate and enhance learning, …
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Role Expectations of the In-patient Nurse Practitioner
Although many nurses are becoming nurse practitioners, there are numerous people who are confused and unaware of the role functions of the nurse practitioner including other nurses. The problem under investigation was to determine the extent to which registered nurses in a staff position accepted …
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Nurse Practitioner Role Enactment in Community Palliative Care
… respond to issues of access and quality, nurse practitioners (NPs) have been increasingly added to diverse practice settings across the globe and research showing how they are contributing to diverse care settings. As a strategy to improve community palliative care locally, NPs have been added …
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The innovative practitioner: reconceptualising the special needs task
This study has two main themes. The first is concerned with re-examining the relationship between 'ordinary' and 'special' education in the light of developments in thinking and practice over the past decade. A case study approach was used to explore the limits and limitations of the thesis that …
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Practitioner based inquiry: taking the case of homeopathy.
… (Smith, 2009) as a means of articulating practitioner based knowledge (Freshwater and Rolfe, 2001, Rolfe et al., 2001). The subjectivity of the practitioner researcher is transformed from a research problem into an opportunity to critically examine practitioner experience (Lees and …
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