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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Urban teaching"”.
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Shifting The Paradigm Toward Intent To Stay: Creating A Nurse Career Crafting Program To Increase Nurse Engagement In An Urban Teaching Hospital
<p>Nearly 50% of all RNs experience job disengagement, dissatisfaction, and signs of burnout during their career (National Academy of Medicine, 2019). RN burnout is largely the corollary of two predominant themes: perception of engagement in meaningful and motivating work and perception of personal …
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Emergency Preparedness on an Inpatient Hospital Unit
… on an inpatient cardiac unit, Unit H, at an urban teaching hospital in Northern California, Hospital B. An assessment of the current state of emergency preparedness, a diagnosis of Unit H’s area of greatest needs, the details of planning and implementing the quality improvement as well as the …
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Fall Prevention Through Proactive Toileting
… Victory, & Bobay, 2012). Hospital A, an urban teaching hospital, uses the Schmid scale for determining if a patient is a fall risk which includes the assessment of need for ambulatory aids, history of falls, and impaired cognition among other criteria (Schmid,1990). Fall rates are …
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The urban classroom : views and lived experiences of early-career teachers
… inquiry, this study explored the views of urban teachers’ experiences teaching in an urban classroom. The main question this study sought to examine was: How did recently certified teachers placed in an urban setting view their early-career experiences? This study focused on lived …
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Improving Nurse Education on Research Informed Consent
… Internship on the Clinical Research Unit of an urban teaching hospital. This unit did not have any formal training on research informed consent for their nursing staff. An evidence-based education tool was created to train new nurses on the unit about research informed consent to increase nurse …
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Meaningful Recognition in a Healthy Work Environment for Nurse Engagement in a Critical Care Setting
… Two hundred-two critical care nurses from an urban, teaching hospital in the southeastern US were invited to participate in the study. Data collection occurred in September and October 2014.</p> <p><strong>Results</strong>: Nurses report the most meaningful recognition is salary and schedule. …
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The Consequences of the State Implementation of a Nationally Standardized Teacher Performance Assessment as a Certification Requirement: A Mixed Methods Study
… demographics, school of education, and student teaching placements. Additionally, the edTPA affected participants' personal, professional, academic and student teaching experiences. Furthermore, the study revealed ways that implementation of the edTPA affected teacher educators and the teacher …
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Waiting Room Rounding to Decrease LWBS
… risk as well as a profit loss. One high volume urban teaching emergency department (ED) in southern California has struggled with a percentage of LWBS well over the benchmark.</p> <p>Objectives: The department implemented waiting room rounding as an evidence based change in an effort to reduce …
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Minimizing Avoidable Interruptions During Medication Administration
… adult medical-surgical overflow unit at a large, urban teaching hospital in Northern California. A series of surveys for nurses and patients and observations of medication administrations were conducted to assess barriers during mediation administration. It was determined phone calls interrupt a …
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A Narrative Inquiry of Latina/o Teachers in Urban Elementary Schools
… to explore the experiences of Latinas/os who are teaching in urban school districts. The central question addressed by this narrative inquiry was: To what do Latina/o teachers attribute to their academic and career attainment? The sub-questions that helped achieve the central question were: 1) …
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An investigation into the Professional Development of English Teachers in Syrian Secondary Schools.
… as an important topic within English language teaching, the researcher identified some areas where there is much still to reveal. These include: teachers' customary engagement with different TPD activities aside from when a researcher imposes some TPD activity on them for a study (normal TPD …
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Tri-Ethnic Differences: an Examination of Associated Symptoms Within an Inpatient Setting
… from a sample of inpatients admitted to a large urban teaching psychiatric mental health facility between January 1, 2004 and December 31, 2007. The extant literature suggests that African Americans are more likely to have a discharge diagnosis of a psychotic disorder and Caucasians are more …
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The impact of hospital surveillance programmes on the incidence of adverse drug reaction reporting in a South African teaching hospital
… were conducted in the medical wards of an urban teaching and referral hospital. All patients admitted to the designated wards were monitored by a dedicated pharmacist in the intensive programme, ward pharmacists in the first voluntary programme and by medical and nursing staff in the second …
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Symptom burden in individuals with inflammatory bowel disease: a mixed methods study
… = 247) at an IBD Outpatients department in one urban teaching hospital in Ireland. Disease activity was determined using clinical disease activity indices, which were completed by the consulting physician. A sequential qualitative, descriptive study was then conducted aimed at explaining …
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A Case Study of Why Teachers Choose to Remain in One Urban School District
… (1987) attributed the shortage of qualified urban educators to factors such as racism, fear, a generally negative perception of what teaching in an urban setting is like, and the low percentage (5%) of faculty in schools of education who have urban teaching experience, which affects their …
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CRITICAL PEDAGOGY IN URBAN SCHOOLING: A GUIDE FOR CLASSROOM PRAXIS
… tradition of critical pedagogy as they relate to teaching practices in contemporary American urban public schooling. Objectives for critical pedagogies are discussed and applied to various aspects of teaching and education, including urban schools and school systems as problematical institutions; …
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Perceptions of Effective Teaching and Pre-Service Preparation for Urban Elementary General Music Classrooms: A Study of Teachers of Different Cultural Backgrounds in Various Cultural Settings
This study examined perceptions of effective, urban, elementary general music teachers concerning effective teaching and pre-service preparation for urban, elementary general music classrooms. The study was conducted in two phases: survey and interview. Survey phase participants were experienced, …
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Beyond Survival to Thrival: A Narrative Study of an Urban Teacher's Career Journey
… by the time they reach their fifth year of teaching. Conversely, there are urban teachers who survive burn out and thrive as career- long educators.</p> <p>This qualitative study is an in-depth look into one 40-year veteran teacher's career narrative, answering the question: How did this …