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Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"professional autonomy"”.
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Perspectives of ICU Nurses on Professional Autonomy: A Descriptive Qualitative Study
Background: Professional autonomy is an essential component of intensive care unit (ICU) nursing practice. Working in rapidly changing clinical conditions, ICU nurses need to make decisions, advocate for their patients, and use their clinical judgment promptly. While professional autonomy has been …
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Role transition and the nurse practitioner: an investigation into the experience of professional autonomy.
… experiences of role transition and professional autonomy, aiming to gain a new understanding of how nurse practitioners experience their role, and seeking new insight into the potential of the nurse practitioner role in the ever changing arena of health care delivery. The study …
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The Effect of Preceptor Role Effectiveness on Newly Licensed Registered Nurses' Perceived Psychological Empowerment and Professional Autonomy
… perceived level of psychological empowerment and professional autonomy.</p> <p><strong>Design</strong>: A prospective, cross-sectional, descriptive research design was used.</p> <p><strong>Methods</strong>: Sixty-nine newly licensed registered nurses who graduated from an academic institution in …
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The illusion of autonomy: an ethnography of teachers’ professional lives in a primary academy in England
… and capture the changing nature of the teacher professionalism in the new educational setting that is a primary academy. Academies are independent schools that are funded by the state but are managed privately. In England, academies built upon the ideas of the City Technology Colleges project …
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Understanding the Neoliberalization of Education Through Spaces of Labour Autonomy
… governments. A key manifestation has been the de-professionalization or deskilling of teachers. Organized labours response has been highly uneven geographically. Professional autonomy means a capacity and freedom of teachers to exercise their judgement in interpreting broad curriculum guidelines, …
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For My Oklahomies: Educators’ Perspectives on Policy, Public Discourse, and Professional Wellbeing
… rooted in ultra-conservative movements shape the professional lives of Oklahoma K–12 educators, and how they maneuver, resist, or accommodate ideological forces within a climate of surveillance and professional delegitimization. Grounded in critical social theory and drawing on Foucault (1977) and …
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Narratives of trust, accountability and autonomy in Welsh education
The need to establish and support high-trust professional relationships in schools has been re-affirmed frequently over the past twenty years. A broad range of research outputs, from different contexts, have concluded that the creation and maintenance of high-trust relationships in schools should …
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How nurses perceive the impact of health IT applications on their performance and satisfaction: Examining the organizational, social, and personal factors
… addresses the impact of result observability, autonomy, perceived barriers, task structure, privacy and security anxiety, and communication (social) patterns on the perception of the performance and satisfaction of nurses using IT applications in healthcare. Furthermore, the effects of nurses’ …
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Faculty perceptions of the effects of collective bargaining agreements on their professional roles: The New England public higher education experience
… college and university faculty perceived their professional concerns were affected by working under a collective bargaining agreement. The professional concerns, derived from the pertinent literature, included the following: the ability of the faculty to effectively influence who joined the …
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Acceptability to general practitioners of national health insurance and capitation as a reimbursement mechanism
… by GPs for support of NHI were retention of professional autonomy, fee for service reimbursement and adequate levels of reimbursement. Conclusions: Most GPs in the Cape Peninsula were amenable to some form of NHI. However, approval of NHI is to some extent conditional to details of the NHI …
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Teachers'' Perspectives on the Standards of Learning School Reform in Virginia
… of student learning, (3) teachers' sense of professional autonomy and level of teacher tension, and (4) school quality. The study examined whether there are differences in teachers' views based the income level of the school locale where teachers teach (low-, middle-, or high-income), the …
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How public management reform influenced three professional groups - teachers, nurses and social workers - in England during the period 1979-2010
… in the form of public management reform, on the professional development of teachers, nurses and social workers, described as 'social service professionals', delivering public services in England between 1979 and 2010. The influence of institutional and government policy changes were assessed …
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A qualitative study identifying the key components of independent midwifery practice in mainland UK.
… continuity of care whilst promoting women’s autonomy. They report associated high levels of physiological birth and positive outcomes for women and babies and low levels of interventions (Milan 2004). Since the publication of the Changing Childbirth Report (Department of Health 1993) it has …
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Objectivity and Autonomy in the Newsroom: A Field Approach
… of journalistic objectivity as well as the professional autonomy that is specific to journalism. Journalists understand objectivity as a worldview, value, ideal, and impossibility. A central question that remains is why the term objectivity has become highly devalued in journalistic …
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Ingenious Devices: Engineering Fictions and American Technophilia, 1900--1940
… to challenge the cherished American myth of professional autonomy, middle-class writers betrayed their anxiety in myriad compensatory myths. Science and technology thus provided a culturally charged playing field on which different social groups projected a host of unrelated anxieties.
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A Descriptive Study of the Organizational Attributes of Exemplar Tennessee Hospitals.
… must develop strategies related to staffing, professional autonomy, respect for nursing, and positive work environments in order to recruit and retain nurses to preserve a nursing workforce now, and in the future.</p>
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Reform-Based Science Teaching: A Mixed-Methods Approach to Explaining Variation in Secondary Science Teacher Practice
… of factors such as teachers' personal and professional background characteristics, beliefs about reform-based science teaching, feelings of preparedness to teach science, school context, school culture and climate of professional learning, and influences of the policy environment on the …
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Developing General Practice: The Role of the APO method
… the role of the method in general practitioners’ professional development and quality development. Subsidiary aims were: to examine perceptions of a holistic view; to obtain a deeper understanding of the meaning of general practitioners’ work with quality; to investigate how the actual …
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A critical analysis of devolution and the corporate reform of teachers' work
… and management of schools create personal and professional conflict for many classroom teachers. Devolution and corporate managerialism have not only marginalised and in many cases alienated teachers, but failed to improve student learning. In short, the reforms aimed at improving efficiency …
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Thriving to Surviving: Stakeholder Lived Experiences of School District Takeover in Texas Under Broad Academy Leadership
… as a profound disruption marked by loss of professional autonomy, heightened surveillance, emotional strain, and diminished democratic participation. Participants described corporate and managerial reform practices as misaligned with student needs, culturally responsive instruction, and …
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