In 1983 a group of nurses from the state of Colorado, US, convened to discuss the issues related to substance abuse among their colleagues. The absence of peer support for…
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In 1983 a group of nurses from the state of Colorado, US, convened to discuss the issues related to substance abuse among their colleagues. The absence of peer support for colleagues experiencing problems with addictions, and regulatory licensure sanction was of serious concern to them. They first determined that nurses themselves should provide services to nurses and students of nursing with substance abuse problems. After a review of the other state efforts, they concurred that the Employee Assistance Program (EAP) offered the comprehensive model of service delivery they envisioned. Originally incorporated in 1984 as NURSES (Nurses United for Recovery, Support and Education Successfully) of Colorado Corporation, this group also viewed the EAP as an important strategy to operationalise professional self‐regulation (Pace, 1990).This paper focuses on employee assistance programming, provided by nurses, as an effective workplace intervention strategy for the identification and referral to treatment of nurses affected by substance abuse and dependence.
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The purpose of this case study was to increase the knowledge base of how research librarians experience and cope with the turbulence of change within their library system. A…
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The purpose of this case study was to increase the knowledge base of how research librarians experience and cope with the turbulence of change within their library system. A library belonging to the Association of Research Libraries was selected for case study investigation. Seventeen librarians participated in on-site interviews, utilizing a protocol composed of a clustering technique and semi-structured interviewing. Instrumental case studies of each individual were then developed through a collective case method. The findings presented in this chapter include: the competing tensions between the physical and virtual environments, the speed of change, the search for professional meaning, and coping with the experiences of professional change. Analysis of the findings suggest: the emergence of a hypercritical state, the limiting nature of negative feedback, a complex systems framework for professional thinking, and coping in the hypercritical organization.
Maureen P. Boyd, Elizabeth A. Tynan and Lori Potteiger
The purpose of this paper is to deflate some of the pressure-orienting teachers toward following a curricular script.
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to deflate some of the pressure-orienting teachers toward following a curricular script.
Design/methodology/approach
The authors connect effective classroom teaching and learning practices to a dialogic instructional stance that values local resources and student perspectives and contributions. The authors argue that effective teachers have agency to make decisions about content and pacing adjustments (they call this agentive flow) and that they practice response-able talk. Response-able talk practices are responsive to what is happening in the classroom, responsibly nurture joint purposes and multiple perspectives, and cultivate longer exchanges of student exploratory talk. These talk practices are not easily scripted.
Findings
The authors show what these effective, local and dialogic instructional practices look like in a second-grade urban classroom.
Practical implications
The authors call upon every teacher to robustly find their local ways of working.
Originality/value
In this paper, the authors argue that harnessing the local is an essential aspect of dialogic instruction and a critical component of a dialogic instructional stance.
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Of all discoveries and inventions of the past fifty years, information technology is probably advancing more rapidly, and touching more aspects of society as a whole, than any…
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Of all discoveries and inventions of the past fifty years, information technology is probably advancing more rapidly, and touching more aspects of society as a whole, than any other. Comparisons between the speed with which information technology has been developed and disseminated have been made by a number of observers. Perelman estimates that had the productivity of education increased during the last forty years as did the productivity of computers, a bachelors degree from Harvard could be attained in ten minutes at a cost of ten cents. Similarly, had the airplane advanced at the pace of the computer, the time from the Wright brothers to the Concorde would have been six months (Freedman). Finally, if automobiles had developed like computers you could buy a Rolls‐Royce for $2.75, get 3 million miles to the gallon, and have enough power to drive the Queen Elizabeth II across the Atlantic (Evans).
Provides a bibliography of nursing and nursing‐related reference sources available in The Henry Birnbaum Library at Pace University. Lists bibliographies, biographical sources…
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Provides a bibliography of nursing and nursing‐related reference sources available in The Henry Birnbaum Library at Pace University. Lists bibliographies, biographical sources, dictionaries, directories, encyclopedias and guide and handbooks as well as statistical sources and various online reference sources. Aims to be of use to nursing students.
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Don A. Moore and Elizabeth R. Tenney
Purpose – The purpose of this chapter is to explore the question of whether there is an optimal level of time pressure in groups.Design/approach – We argue that distinguishing…
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Purpose – The purpose of this chapter is to explore the question of whether there is an optimal level of time pressure in groups.
Design/approach – We argue that distinguishing performance from productivity is a necessary step toward the eventual goal of being able to determine optimal deadlines and ideal durations of meetings. We review evidence of time pressure's differential effects on performance and productivity.
Findings – Based on our survey of the literature, we find that time pressure generally impairs performance because it places constraints on the capacity for thought and action that limit exploration and increase reliance on well-learned or heuristic strategies. Thus, time pressure increases speed at the expense of quality. However, performance is different from productivity. Giving people more time is not always better for productivity because time spent on a task yields decreasing marginal returns to performance.
Originality/value of chapter – The evidence reviewed here suggests that setting deadlines wisely can help maximize productivity.
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Elizabeth Anne Yeager and Stephanie van Hover
This paper examines how a beginning teacher in Virginia and a beginning teacher in Florida make sense of the high-stakes tests in their state. By examining beginning teachers in…
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This paper examines how a beginning teacher in Virginia and a beginning teacher in Florida make sense of the high-stakes tests in their state. By examining beginning teachers in two states where the tests are so very different, we gain important insight into whether there are similarities and differences across states and how the nature of the test affects the teaching and learning of history. We first offer insight into the context of accountability in Virginia and Florida and then discuss what ambitious teaching and learning look like in these states as informed by the literature. Then, we turn to our research methods, findings, and implications for the field of social studies.
Stephanie van Hover, David Hicks and Elizabeth Washington
This qualitative case study explores how one secondary world history teacher, teaching in a high-stakes testing context in a district pushing teachers to utilize differentiated…
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This qualitative case study explores how one secondary world history teacher, teaching in a high-stakes testing context in a district pushing teachers to utilize differentiated instruction, makes sense of this pedagogical approach. We examine teacher sense-making within a conceptual framework of policy realization and ambitious teaching and learning. The teacher made no claims to being an expert on differentiation; yet, the findings indicated that she did possess an understanding of differentiation congruent with the literature and, whether she recognized it or not, used many strategies suggested by Tomlinson and other experts on differentiation. Her thinking about differentiation also appeared to be shaped by relational and contextual issues. Stated differently, the Virginia Standards of Learning exams and the pressure from administration for high pass rates appeared to shape how the teacher thought about her students, her content, her instruction and, ultimately, her approach to differentiation.
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Peter D. Ørberg Jensen and Bent Petersen
While mainstream theories in international business and management are foundedeither explicitly or implicitly on studies of manufacturing firms, prior attempts to develop theoryon…
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While mainstream theories in international business and management are foundedeither explicitly or implicitly on studies of manufacturing firms, prior attempts to develop theoryon the internationalization of service firms are sparse and have yet to establish solid andcomprehensive frameworks. The thrust of this study is that value creation logics, a constructoriginally developed by Stabell and Fjeldstad (1998) can assist us in better understanding why and how service firms internationalize. The authors extend this construct and propose that the internationalization of service firms must be based on a thorough understanding of the fundamental nature of these firms.
Design/methodology/approach
Theoretical study.
Findings
The authors put forward propositions concerning the pace of internationalization and the default foreign operation modes in service firms.
Research limitations/implications
The use of value creation logics can be a useful complement to the conventional approaches to the study of service firms’ internationalization. However, the fact that most firms encompass more than one value creation logic complicates the use of firm databases and industry statistics.
Practical implications
The authors suggest that managers in service firms should consider primarily the nature of the value creation logic(s) in their firms when deciding and designing an internationalization strategy.
Originality/value
The study presents a novel theoretical approach and a set of propositions on service firm internationalization founded on the specific characteristics of the service activities.