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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"judgement and decision making"”.
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Aspects of registered psychaitric nurses' talk about their clinical judgement and decision-making.
Researchers have been investigating the clinical judgement and decision-making of nurses for several decades now. However, prior to the research described in this thesis, Registered Psychiatric Nurses (RPNs) working in the Irish Republic had not been the subject of a comprehensive study looking …
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Understanding Coaching As A Judgement and Decision Making Process: Implications For Coach Development Practice
… in two broad questions; what is coaching and how do we develop it? Surprisingly after nearly forty years of coaching research there is no agreed answer to these questions in the literature. This is perhaps not that surprising since other more established roles such as teaching are still …
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Are you thinking what I'm thinking? Explaining the relation between management control systems and managers' causal mental models
… the cognitive effects of management accounting and control systems is largely oriented toward understanding how decision makers use accounting information to inform their judgement and decision making activity. However, the effect of these systems on decision making is not limited to the …
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Integrating dual-process and pragmatic theories for the processing of verbal and numerical food quantifiers
… quantifier format affects people’s psychological judgement and decision-making in three areas: interpretations, attention to, and evaluation of quantified information. These formats are commonly used in nutrition communication, but there is a paucity of evidence in the literature on how they each …
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The relationship between emotional intelligence and burnout amongst social workers in the north and south regions of the Western Cape
… (Lloyd, King & Chenoweth, 2002). Social workers judgement and decision making are influenced by their emotions and the emotional context of the situation. Thus emotional intelligence is a core skill for every social worker. Morrison (2007) purported that in order to be a good practitioner one had …
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Flying by the seat of your pants and magic behind doors: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of difficult decision making in clinical practice
Introduction The process of decision making has been widely studied within different academic paradigms. Many theories and models have been developed from this research activity. However, there is a lack of in-depth research on individuals’ experience of decision making. The present research …
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A position on architectural education
… thinking shapes our historical present and reinterprets our historical past. This world is shaped by many keyhole views. The cornerstones of knowledge are built on a foundation of theory and objective reality. However, the fundamental underpinning of knowledge and theory lies in our …
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'Towards meaningful learning: A theory for improved assessment in higher education
… messages about assessment are conveyed by staff and how students' interpret them. In doing so, it embraces a humanistic approach to learning that stresses the interrelation of context, individual orientation and approach to learning. The thesis documents the findings of qualitative interviews …
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Judgement Analysis of Patient Management: General Practitioners' Policies and Self-Insight.
In this thesis judgement analysis (multiple linear regression techniques) was used to look at both GPs' decisions to prescribe certain types of drug for patients and their judgements of patients' risk of coronary heart disease. All of these were idiographic analyses in that decision making by each …
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“One Cannot Leave It Undecided”: On the Dynamic Production of Scoring Decisions in the School Inspection Process
… between research focussing on inspection policy and research focussing on the outcome of inspection. While most human judgement and decision-making as well as rater research focusses on the cognition of individuals, this study looks at scoring as a local and socially situated phenomenon in a …
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Learning to Land: A Qualitative Examination of Pre-Flight and In-Flight Decision-Making Processes in Expert and Novice Aviators
… Safety Board has cited deficiencies in judgement and decision-making as contributing factors in numerous general aviation accidents. Several studies have also indicated that some pilots exhibit <i>hazardous attitudes</i> in their decision-making processes. Although decision-making and …
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A phenomenological exploration of midwives accounts of midwifery expertise
… to illuminate the essential characteristics and skills that facilitate optimal birth outcomes for women. The primary aim of the research was to gain an in-depth understanding of the meanings midwives place on the; 'nature of midwifery', 'normal birth', and 'expertise in childbirth', exploring …
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Automation bias and prescribing decision support – rates, mediators and mitigators
Purpose: Computerised clinical decision support systems (CDSS) are implemented within healthcare settings as a method to improve clinical decision quality, safety and effectiveness, and ultimately patient outcomes. Though CDSSs tend to improve practitioner performance and clinical outcomes, …
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The Effects of Electronic Round-robin Brainstorming and an Explicit Idea Evaluation Process on Auditors’ Fraud Planning
Auditing standards require engagement team members to brainstorm the susceptibility of their clients’ financial statements to material misstatement due to fraud. The format of the brainstorming is not specified in the auditing standards but is continually evolving in practice with the increased use …