Movement Of Staff Research Articles

ASSESSMENT OF SCHOOL RECORD MANAGEMENT IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN FEDERAL CAPITAL TERRITORY

The study was carried out with the purpose of assessing school record management in FCT secondary schools. Record management is the area of administrative management that is concerned with achieving economy and efficiency in the creation, maintenance, use and disposal of records of an organization throughout its life cycle. Implementing good record management practices in schools would provide information for educational planners and administrators, serves as historical source for documenting history of the school. School records comprise all existing and accessible records, books, files and other documents containing useful information that relates to what goes on in the school system They are evaluation tools for accessing progress made by schools and also show evidence of compliance with legislative laws. The descriptive research design was used for this study. The population was drawn from ten (10) secondary schools in FCT. The instrument for data collection comprised of questionnaire titled “Assessment of School Record Management in Secondary Schools in FCT” (ASRMSS). A sample size of eighty respondents from schools was used. Simple percentage was adopted in analyzing the research questions while chi-square was adopted in analyzing the hypotheses. Research findings revealed that the various record books used in schools include: log-book, attendance register, lesson plan, syllabus, staff movement book, visitors’ book, admission and withdrawal register, to mention a few. It was also revealed in the findings that most of the records in school are not properly kept. Also, timely supply of school records, availability of funds, teachers’ training and proper back up of records were the solutions proffered by respondents. It was however recommended that stakeholders in the school should make use of the school’s record books for efficiency purposes. Furthermore, stakeholders should ensure timely update of record materials and finally, delegation and follow-up on record procedures should be given adequate attention by school principals.
 Odeniyi, O. A. | Department of Education Administration and Planning, National Open University, Abuja, Nigeria

Internet communications of military personnel and their families in social networks as an object of digital sociology’s study

The conceptual, methodological and technological approaches to organization of sociological study of communicative Internet activity ofmilitary personnel in a social networks, the specific behavior in accordance with the requirements as to members ofthe militaryprofessional corporate group of people in the information-communication network “Internet” have been considered. The constitutional norms that restrict the rights of military personnel in various spheres of social interaction, as well as the norms of domestic legislation that specify these requirements have been analyzed. The described type of Internet communication has been characterized as an object of study of military sociology at various levels: general scientific, private scientific and empirical. The author's found a connection between a considered problem with the concepts of “information society”, “digital society”, “digital economy” and virtualization of social relations, as well as the concept of “human rights”. The general tendency to include of various countries confrontation with a likely enemy in the virtual space in the military- doctrinal documents has been revealed. At the same time, ensuring military security involves protecting the minds of their military personnel from negative impact, including in the case of their use of services in the Internet space. The experience of other countries in regulating the social activity of military personnel and their families in the Internet has been described. Based on the generalization of social practice, conclusions from the risk analysis of the participation of subjects of military professional activity in social networks, which is associated with threats to determine the location of military units, plans for the movement of troops, weapons, staff and personnel, that is, information constituting a military secret, have been presented. A list of other threats related to social communications of military personnel and their families in the virtual space also has been adduced. The ways to reduce the risk of negative impact on military members and their families participate in social networks and other Internet communications by implementing legal, organizational and outreach activities have been presented.

Environmental maintenance with effective and useful zoning to protect patients and medical staff from COVID-19 infection.

AimThe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic has accelerated all over the world, and global health‐care systems have become overwhelmed with potentially infectious patients seeking testing and care. It is essential to set up effective and useful zoning to prevent the spread of infection to and from medical staff or other patients with effective use of standard precautions with personal protective equipment (PPE).MethodsWe repurposed a general ward into an acute care unit for severe COVID‐19 patients taking into consideration airflow, the direction of movement of medical staff, and prevention of the spread of infection to medical staff and other patients. We checked the daily condition and body temperature of all medical staff for 60 days.ResultsThere was no evidence of COVID‐19 infection in any medical staff or other patients during the period thanks to effective and useful zoning with PPE.ConclusionSpecial wards and rooms should be set up for future protection of medical staff and other patients, and prevent the explosion of COVID‐19 infection with effective and useful zoning with PPE.

STRUCTURE AND STAFF MOVEMENT WITHIN STATE VETERINARY SERVICE OF RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Major resources for any organization are human resources which condition the company’s performance. The article presents the analysis of quantitative and qualitative indicators of the number, structure and movement of staff of the state veterinary service of the Russian Federation in 2018. All indicators were examined at diff erent organizational levels of the veterinary service: the country’s veterinary service as a whole, at the level of the executive veterinary bodies of Russian subjects (including the state veterinary surveillance divisions), establishments for control and prevention and those for laboratory analysis and diagnosis. The work deals with the staff structure of the country’s state veterinary service categorized by education, length of service, age and gender. To study the movement of staff of the state veterinary service connected to recruitment and retirement of specialists, we calculated and analyzed a number of parameters: employee turnover rate for recruitment, employee turnover rate for leaving, total staff turnover rate, staff replacement rate. In 2018 the Russian state veterinary service comprised around 52,304 veterinary specialists, the majority of them (81%) being employed at establishments for control and prevention. The core of veterinary specialists is represented by employees with a university degree (75%), work experience of more than 10 years (55%), belonging to age group of 36–50 years (43%), female (62%). The results of analysis of human resources of the veterinary service allow us to determine the weak points of personnel policy and work out measures to deal with them if the need arises.

Retention and brain drain of academic staff in higher institution in Nigeria: a case study of University of Calabar

Since the inception of higher education, it has been observed that academic staff has been catalysts who have been propellers of the development of higher education through teaching (lecturing), learning, researching and community development when necessary tools and materials were provided to enhance effective teaching and learning of students who invariably become the leaders of tomorrow. But for some decades now, the higher institutions have been criticized for not providing students what it takes so that they can compete favourably with their counterparts in international markets. This unwanted assumption has happened as a result of mismanagement of academic staff in terms of staff development, proper incentives, infrastructure decay such as office accommodation and motivation, proper remuneration, delay in payment of salaries, staff training and retraining, fringe benefits and promotion when due. Based on the stated facts, highly qualified, competent, dedicated, diligent, skilled academic staff always find their way out to where their needs would be met rapidly. This movement of academic staff in tertiary institutions have negative effect on the institution and also the students in that they would be no immediate replacement to fill the vacuum and this can affect their academic performance and expert. If rapid and pragmatic approach for retention is not given proper attention, the academic staff leave the system to seek for a place where there are better conditions of service possibly in overseas countries such as the United Kingdom. If they find that there is disparity, they leave where they were for where better conditions of service are available. This paper suggests various ways where retention of academic staff would be given proper attention to curtail brain drain to the bearest minimum.Keywords: Retention, brain drain and academic staff

BIM and QR-codes interaction on a construction site

The study presents the methods of construction site Quick Response Code (QR) codes implementation and gives suggestions to improve routine construction site tasks management. QR-code exchange data technologies are integrated into construction control system based on BIM providing availability of data, security and mutual cooperation on a construction site. The task of the study was to present Internet of Things (IoT) integration solution scheme, a mobile integration for data exchange system via QR-codes, using smartphones to scan and upload data about construction processes, and use “smart scanners” to process and print these codes as tags. These tags are to be attached to construction elements and equipment. It allows to control staff, machine and mechanisms movement, as well as follow up the stages of construction process. As a result, the statistics and advantages of working with smartphones over computers were considered. IoT integration solution scheme is presented. Except basic identification information BIM/QR-code subsystem should contain additional data associated with the Quality Management System (QMS) “quality records” on construction site. The scheme could be used as the basis of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system together with construction control system and QMS within the IoT concept.

Establishing and Sustaining a Culture of Evidence-Based Practice: An Evaluation of Barriers and Facilitators to Implementing the Best Practice Spotlight Organization Program in the Australian Healthcare Context.

Background: Nurses and midwives are central to the implementation and delivery of quality care through evidence-based practice (EBP). However, implementation of EBP in nursing and midwifery is under-researched with few examples of systematic and sustained change. The Registered Nurses Association of Ontario’s Best-Practice Spotlight Organization (BPSO) Program was adopted in South Australia as a framework to systematically implement EBP in two diverse and complex healthcare settings. Methods: The study was a post-implementation, mixed-method evaluation conducted at two healthcare settings in Adelaide, South Australia utilizing qualitative and quantitative data. Proctor’s implementation evaluation framework guided the evaluation design. Information sources included; interviews, focus groups, questionnaires, and document review. Results: Clinical and executive staff (n = 109 participants) from a broad range of stakeholder groups participated in the interviews, focus groups, and returned questionnaires. A number of facilitators directly affecting program implementation were identified; these pertained to embedding continuity into the program’s implementation and delivery, a robust governance structure, and executive sponsorship. Barriers to implementation were also identified. These barriers pertained to organizational or workforce challenges; staff turnover and movement (e.g., secondment), insufficient staff to allow people to attend training, and a lack of organizational commitment to the program, especially at an executive level. As a result of successful implementation, it was observed that over three years, the BPSO program positively influenced the uptake and implementation of EBP by clinicians and the organizations into which they were introduced. Conclusions: The BPSO model can be translocated to new healthcare systems and has the potential to act as a mechanism for establishing and sustaining EBP change. This study was the first to apply an implementation evaluation framework to the BPSO program, which allowed for structured analysis of facilitating or impeding factors that affected implementation success. The findings have important implications for other health systems looking to translocate the same or similar EBP programs, as well as contributing to the growing body of implementation evaluation literature.

Lessons learned from a prolonged norovirus GII.P16-GII.4 Sydney 2012 variant outbreak in a long-term care facility in Portugal, 2017.

To investigate an outbreak of acute gastroenteritis caused by norovirus (NoV) in a long-term care facility (LTCF) in Portugal to describe and estimate its extent, and we implemented control measures. Outbreak investigation. Probable cases were residents or staff members in the LTCF with at least 1 of the following symptoms: (1) diarrhea, (2) vomiting, (3) nausea, and/or (4) abdominal pain between October 31 and December 8, 2017. Confirmed cases were probable cases with positive NoV infection detected by real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and the same genotype in stool specimens. The outbreak was caused by NoV GII.P16-GII.4 Sydney 2012 variant and affected 146 people. The highest illness rates were observed in residents (97 of 335, 29%) and nurses (16 of 83, 19%). All 11 resident wards were affected. Data on cases and their working or living areas suggest that movement between wards facilitated the transmission of NoV, likely from person to person. The delay in the identification of the causative agent, a lack of restrictions of resident and staff movement between wards, and ineffective initial deep-cleaning procedures resulted an outbreak that continued for >1 month. The outbreak ended only after implementation of strict control measures. Recommendations for controlling future NoV outbreaks in LTCFs include emphasizing the need to control resident's movements and to restrict visitors, timely and effective environmental cleaning and disinfection, leave of absence for ill staff, and encouraging effective hand hygiene.

Map Use in Transit Control Centers: Mapping geographic information flows

Map Use in Transit Control Centers: Mapping geographic information flows

Surgical nurses' perceptions and experiences of a medications and oral restrictions policy change: A focus group study.

To explore the perceptions and experiences of surgical nurses before and after introducing the Medications and Oral Restrictions Policy (the Policy). The Policy was developed following extensive consultation, and evidence-based strategies were considered for its implementation. However, it is possible uptake did not meet expectations. Focus group interviews. Three focus groups were conducted in November 2015 around 'what worked, what didn't and why, before and after hospital-wide implementation of the Policy.' Data were coded and analysed using an inductive-deductive thematic analysis approach. The COREQ checklist guided reporting. The three groups consisted of 16, 14 and six surgical nurses. Before the Policy, there was confusion, lack of clarity and guidance, and lack of experience and confidence in managing medications when patients had oral restrictions. After the Policy rollout, there was a sense of 'knowing what to do' because of improved clarity and decision support; but there were also problems with: not everyone knowing about the policy, particularly due to staff movement and turnover; and, individual interpretation of the policy including use of its signs outside of context, and decision-making processes. Exploration of nurses' perceptions of a medication-related policy change found that while the Policy provided clarity and decision support for some, it made little difference for others. Limited reach of the policy was an issue despite an effort to address this at the outset, as well as variations in interpretation of the policy and subsequent decision-making. How individuals interpret information and their understanding of the context behind the policy or guideline may affect implementation and should be considered alongside other barriers when implementing medication-related initiatives. Furthermore, implementation strategies that are independent of ongoing resources and/or key champions to sustain should be prioritised for all initiatives.

Processing plant and machinery sanitation and hygiene practices associate with Listeria monocytogenes occurrence in ready-to-eat fish products

Listeria monocytogenes causes the foodborne illness listeriosis, which exhibits high fatality among people in risk groups. The incidence of listeriosis has increased in Europe, which raises concerns about L. monocytogenes occurrence in foodstuffs. Ready-to-eat seafood products are considered particularly risky vehicles. Poor hygiene at processing facilities predisposes them to L. monocytogenes contamination, which can be controlled by stringent self-checking system measures. We examined the association of fish-processing plant operational and hygiene practices with the occurrence of L. monocytogenes in vacuum-packaged gravad (cold-salted) and cold-smoked salmon and rainbow trout products. Product sampling of 21 fish-processing plants was carried out, and operational procedures relating to L. monocytogenes control were surveyed using an in-depth risk assessment questionnaire. L. monocytogenes occurred only in sliced and mainly in gravad products of seven fish-processing plants. Shortages in preventive measures were discovered predominantly among the L. monocytogenes positive fish-processing plants. Using generalized linear modeling, we identified the following features associated with L. monocytogenes product contamination: the number of processing machines, deficiencies in the processing environment and machinery sanitation, and staff movement from areas of low toward high hygiene. Furthermore, performing frequent periodic thorough sanitation alongside everyday sanitation practices associated with a decreased risk of product contamination.

Political will: necessary but not sufficient for control of an outbreak of acute watery diarrhoea in the Sudan, 2016-2018

Background: During the period between August 2016 and April 2018, an outbreak of Acute Watery Diarrhea (AWD) spread all over the Sudan. The aim of this paper is to assess the role of political will of the government in institution of control measures. Methods: A total of 269 high-level decision-makers in the country were interviewed using detailed, adapted standardized tools with open-ended questions. Interviewees including selected Federal and five state Ministers of Health, parliamentarians, Country Representatives for selected UN agencies, senior officials in the government, media were conducted. Furthermore, many Focus Group Discussion (FGD) among others with healthcare workers, community groups, and partner organizations were held. Issues discussed during the interviews and focus group discussions included in-depth review of thematic and cross-cutting intervention areas; e.g., surveillance, case management, environmental health, health promotion, resource mobilization including funding, supplies and logistics; coordination and leadership in outbreak response. Results: High-level officials made containment of the outbreak a top priority, paid field visits to the affected areas, mobilized resources, closely provided sound stewardship for inter-sectoral activities and nurtured a collaborative environment for different stakeholders. The Humanitarian Aid Commission facilitated the activities of registered national and international NGOs and their international staff movement in the country, permitted easy and unlimited access to 92% of the country to ensure the safety of the international staff. Indicators reflected high political will of the government to respond to the AWD to its best ability. Yet, the outbreak continued for almost two years. Donors and UN agencies demonstrated flexibility to support response activities as they reprogrammed some ongoing activities to secure funds. Discussion: Inadequate transparency, primarily related to difficulties in sharing results of laboratory investigations during the AWD outbreak constrained and limited the potential benefits from partners. The Government needs to foster stronger coordination between water and health sectors; and explore information sharing portals e.g. website and Epi-bulletin; with partners. Partners and the government should jointly clarify their mandates and map their roles during outbreaks so as to avoid duplication, competition, and delays in response. Conclusion: Political will is a high level enabler which is necessary but not sufficient for control the AWD outbreak. "Health in All Policies" initiative offers a platform to address observed gaps both in financing of outbreak response and addressing underlying root causes for AWD outbreak.

Introducing 5P's Methodology as Healthcare Marketing Plan: Using 5P's Healthcare Marketing Plan in Diabetic Foot Care Management

This study will focus on introducing 5P's (Product, Place, Process, Price, and Promotion) methodology as health care marketing study through implementing the lean process in diabetic foot management in outpatient services in a five hundred and fifty six bed, tertiary hospital in the UAE. The Quality specialist applied lean methodology to eliminate unnecessary staff and patient movement. Focussing on analysing delays, defects, and variations in diabetic foot care management and streamlining the patient pathway to improve quality and safety, reduce costs, and increase profit margins. Lean methodology can be used to eliminate wasteful practices and reduce variation in clinical services. Innovation in healthcare processes uses lean methodology to focus on value stream mapping of a process. This in turn leads to superior utilization of hospital resources.

PM 9/26 (1) National regulatory control system for Globodera pallida and Globodera rostochiensis

Specific scopeThis Standard describes a national regulatory control system for Globodera pallida and Globodera rostochiensis.

Development of an evacuation policy at a healthcare facility

An Evacuation Policy is a procedure and plan that is needed for a healthcare facility to ensure the safety of patients, families, and the staff in the event of an Emergent or Non-Emergent Evacuation. While disasters are unplanned, a procedure of any caliber can be used to maximize resources and abilities of a healthcare facility. An Evacuation Policy is the designated policy and procedure for a partial or complete evacuation of a hospital or clinic. During an evacuation, the organization and coordination of the evacuation policy are at top priority for the successful and safe relocation of patients, families, and staff. Without an effective policy, there would be an increased risk of chaos due to uncoordinated staff and patient movement. This paper proposes an efficient evacuation plan to ensure patients are evacuated in a smooth manner on and between floors. This proposed plan is based on four fundamental principles: staff hierarchy, universal patient triaging, patient movement procedure, and end point locations. Using these four principles, an efficient flow will be created for moving patients between the affected area and the safe end point. Evacuation plans are necessary for any emergency when mass coordinated patient and staff movement to safety is required.

P 160 - Non-linear analysis of trunk movement of air defense staff: Pilot study

Measurements of acceleration of a person’s body segment by wearable MoCap system is one of the most important tool to investigate a movement activity. However, the aim of our study is to assess the ability of the trunk movement activity assessment by non-linear method to identify and differences in traffic density and hours of shift work. Poincaré plot with five minute intervals in four hour length data was used to calculate the standard deviations SD1 and SD2. Also, air traffic density with five minute intervals in four hour length data was calculated. The results show that SD1 reflects the short-term variability, and SD2 reflects both short-term and long-term variability. The statistically significant differences found on SD1 values of different hours is the most important finding and indicates that the short-term variability of trunk movement activity is changing during hours of shift work. On the other hand, the traffic density does not have influence on SD. An explanation for this is that motion activity does not change with higher workload, but longer work activity does. Therefore, these findings and the proposed method can be used to optimize the duration of work shifts and working breaks of Air Defense Staff members.

The Motif-Based Approach to the Analysis of the Employee Trajectories within Organization

The analysis of the employees’ movement within organization building is an important task of the investigation of the business processes existing in the organization, including provision its cyberphysical security. In the paper, the motif-based approach to behavior pattern description and anomalies in organization staff movement is proposed. The motif of the employees’ movement represents a combination of the spatial and temporal attributes of the movement enforced by attributes of the visited controlled zone. The usage of motifs enables transformation of the raw logs from the proximity sensors of the access control system containing only identifiers of the controlled zones into semantically meaningful list of the activities. This approach is demonstrated with an application to the 2016 VAST Mini-Challenge 2 data set, which describes movement of the employees within organization building.

A textual analysis of the African language expressions used during the #RhodesMustFall campaign

The #RhodesMustFall is a student and staff movement that resulted in the removal of Rhodes' statue from the University of Cape Town in 2015. Language, in particular the #AfrikaansMustFall movement, took centre stage as one of the discourses that emerged following the removal of the statue. However, languages have received very little attention in research, despite the prominent role they played during this period. This paper therefore provides a textual analysis of rhetorical questions, metaphors and syntax of the phrases used on social media and in newspapers. through this analysis, we explore the relationship between the text, language form, and the context of the use of African languages during the campaign. We propose that, contrary to the commonly held belief, text-based communication coupled with social media innovations such as hashtags(#) played a major role in transferring feelings, emotions and states through specific language forms. We partly attribute the success at unity during this period to this creation of personal relationships, which were generated through a web of interconnected #communities with multiple identities. We further argue that within the #communities, group and individual identities were maintained in a manner that permeated the traditional relationships between language and ethnicity.

The Influence of Traffic, Area Location, and Other Factors on Operating Room Microbial Load.

OBJECTIVE To determine how the movement of patients, equipment, materials, staff, and door openings within the operating room (OR) affect microbial loads at various locations within the OR. DESIGN Observation and sampling study. SETTING Academic health center, public hospital. METHODS We first analyzed 27 videotaped procedures to determine the areas in the OR with high and low numbers of people in transit. We then placed air samplers and settle plates in representative locations during 21 procedures in 4 different ORs during 2 different seasons of the year to measure microbial load in colony-forming units (CFU). The temperature and humidity, number of door openings, physical movement, and the number of people in the OR were measured for each procedure. Statistical analysis was conducted using hierarchical regression. RESULTS The microbial load was affected by the time of year that the samples were taken. Both microbial load measured by the air samplers and by settle plates in 1 area of the OR was correlated with the physical movement of people in the same area but not with the number of door openings and the number of people in the OR. CONCLUSIONS Movement in the OR is correlated with the microbial load. Establishing operational guidelines or developing OR layouts that focus on minimizing movement by incorporating desirable internal storage points and workstations can potentially reduce microbial load, thereby potentially reducing surgical site infection risk. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2018;39:391-397.

Network Analysis of MERS Coronavirus within Households, Communities, and Hospitals to Identify Most Centralized and Super-Spreading in the Arabian Peninsula, 2012 to 2016.

Contact history is crucial during an infectious disease outbreak and vital when seeking to understand and predict the spread of infectious diseases in human populations. The transmission connectivity networks of people infected with highly contagious Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in Saudi Arabia were assessed to identify super-spreading events among the infected patients between 2012 and 2016. Of the 1379 MERS cases recorded during the study period, 321 (23.3%) cases were linked to hospital infection, out of which 203 (14.7%) cases occurred among healthcare workers. There were 1113 isolated cases while the number of recorded contacts per MERS patient is between 1 (n=210) and 17 (n=1), with a mean of 0.27 (SD = 0.76). Five super-important nodes were identified based on their high number of connected contacts worthy of prioritization (at least degree of 5). The number of secondary cases in each SSE varies (range, 5–17). The eigenvector centrality was significantly (p < 0.05) associated with place of exposure, with hospitals having on average significantly higher eigenvector centrality than other places of exposure. Results suggested that being a healthcare worker has a higher eigenvector centrality score on average than being nonhealthcare workers. Pathogenic droplets are easily transmitted within a confined area of hospitals; therefore, control measures should be put in place to curtail the number of hospital visitors and movements of nonessential staff within the healthcare facility with MERS cases.