Preparation For Registration Research Articles

Implementing 3rd-year learning disability student nurse-led clinics and evaluating self-efficacy and confidence

Background Workplace self-confidence and self-efficacy has been strongly associated with increased coping strategies, job satisfaction and resilience to workplace adversity ( Bandura, 1982 ) which results in higher quality care delivery. The main aim was to evaluate the growth of confidence and autonomy in developing a Learning Disability professional identity within primary care settings, through student led clinics, utilising a long arm supervision approach. Methodology/Methods An explorative hermeneutic phenomenology approach, using semi structured interviews was utilised to explore themes and experiences around self-efficacy and confidence in students, practice assessors and supervisors. Findings Long arm approach is an effective learning approach for students to develop their own autonomy in primary care clinics. However, placement planning and a supportive environment are vital for its success and for the student to build self-efficacy and autonomy in a primary care setting. Conclusion and Implications Increased confidence is viewed as a crucial factor in evolving role identity and managing change which are major factors in the preparation for registration and joining the healthcare workforce. The 3rd year Learning Disability nurse led clinics did have impact on workforce well-being by alleviating workload on quality outcomes and frameworks (QOF); prepared students for autonomous working; and increase practitioners’ confidence in using long arm supervision.

Pendampingan Usaha Asmantoga Bunga Telang Bu Mimik Berbasis Legalitas Usaha Melalui Online Single Submission (OSS) Kelurahan Medokan Ayu, Kecamatan Rungkut

Currently Micro, Small and Medium enterprises really need to have business legality. Business legality is a form of business identity that has protection from the government. However, the problem that still exists today is the lack of understanding of MSME actors about the legality of business and the large amount of social stigma about the difficulty of managing business legality because it requires a lot of documents and needs money a lot, so that some of these MSME actors are reluctant to take care of business legality. Therefore, the researchers provided assistance to one of the MSMEs in the Medokan Ayu Village, namely Asmantoga Bunga Telang Bu Mimik for managing business legality through the Online Single Submission (OSS) website. The purpose of this assistance and management is to provide education and awareness to MSME actors regarding the importance of NIB as a guarantor of business legality that is recognized by the government. The method used by researchers is preparation for registration and issuance with the expected results of this activity aimed at the business owner's knowledge of NIB as business legality. The main objective of this activity is the issuance of NIB certificates to MSME actors Asmantoga Bunga Telang Bu Mimik.

Maximizing virtual meetings and conferences: a review of best practices.

PurposeIn the current COVID-19 pandemic, it is more important than ever to maximize communication in the scientific and medical community. In the context of academic meetings and conferences, there is the growing need for a set of guidelines secondary to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the growing environmental and economic challenges that large academic and medical conferences face. These Virtual Meetings Best Practices were established in response to the scant evidence and guidance on the topic.MethodsThese best practice guidelines were developed from a scoping review of peer-reviewed literature, grey literature and lay literature. MEDLINE and Embase databases were scoped for relevant, non-duplicate articles. For lay articles, Google searches were utilized. The recommendations that comprise this document are a compilation of nonexperimental descriptive studies (e.g. case studies) and expert committee reports, opinions and/or experience of respected authorities, and lay articles.ResultsWe identified four phases of the meeting cycle: Pre-planning considerations, Planning, Accomplishing conference goals through execution, gauging Response and Engaging the target audience for future cycles (PrePARE). Akin to the Plan, Do, Study, Act Cycle of quality improvement interventions, this document is meant to drive meaningful initial and subsequent interventions in the meetings of the medical and academic community. This covers actions and preparation for registration, scheduling, speakers, attendees, event type, technology, monetization/marketing, dealing with disruptions, post-event deliverables, response and engagement strategies. Enhanced access to integrated, high-quality and efficient virtual meetings will establish a new norm as an effective alternative for innovative health research, education and information dissemination in orthopaedics and beyond.ConclusionsGiven the uncertainty of whether large in-person gatherings will be permitted, advisable or responsible later into the summer of 2020 and beyond, these guidelines will aid events being converted and scheduled as virtual-only meetings. As we move forward in the era of increased utility and utilization of virtual conferencing, these guidelines will serve as a benchmark and standard for surgeons in the field.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (10.1007/s00264-020-04615-9) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

A photogrammetry-based image registration method for multi-camera systems – With applications in images of a tree crop

In precision agriculture, estimating crop yield using remote sensing techniques is an active research field. To achieve high accuracies, researchers frequently combined different imaging sources, such as colour (Red, Green, Blue [RGB]) images, thermal images, and near-infrared images. However, fusing information from those images has been a difficult task. Therefore, accurate image registration methods are necessary. This study aimed to develop a thermal-colour camera system which will register thermal images with colour images of tree canopies in preparation of information fusion and fruit detection. The registration method created in this study was based on photogrammetry. In preparation of registration, a camera system was built, consisting of a thermal camera and two colour cameras. Camera calibration, image intersection, and space resection were combined in a single step named ‘stereo-calibration’, to compute cameras' parameters and poses. Speeded-up robust features (SURF) were used to find points of interest from colour images. Random sample consensus (RANSAC) was utilised to search for optimal homography transforms between thermal and colour images. In addition, this study created a procedure for accurate registrations of regions of interest in thermal-colour image pairs, utilising structural similarity (SSIM) index. The proposed method offered pixel-level registration accuracy and achieved an average accuracy of 3 pixels in 640 × 480 – pixel citrus canopy images.

Assessment of undergraduate nursing students from an Irish perspective: Decisions and dilemmas?

Assessment of clinical competence plays a pivotal role in the education of undergraduate nursing students in preparation for registration. The challenges that face preceptors are represented in the international literature yet few studies have focused on the factors that influence the decision-making process by preceptors when students under-perform or appear to be borderline status in relation to clinical practice. This study explored the lived experiences of the preceptors during the assessment process using a phenomenological approach. This was a qualitative study that utilised a phenomenological approach to explore the lived experiences of the preceptors in relation to student assessment of those students who were incompetent and underperformed in clinical practice. Three categories emerged from the findings: First impressions, Emotional turmoil of failing a clinical assessment and competing demands in the workplace. It is proposed that employing a tripartite approach would enhance the assessment process to ensure a more robust and decision-sharing mechanism. This would support decisions that are made in the cases of incompetent or borderline nursing students and increase the objectivity of the competency assessment to ameliorate the emotional turmoil that is experienced by preceptors.

Intraoperative navigation for single-splint two-jaw orthognathic surgery: From model to actual surgery

ObjectiveThis study reported an intraoperative navigation system for single-splint two-jaw orthognathic surgery, and assessed the accuracy of transferring the computer assisted surgical simulation. MethodsA skull model was used for validation, and twenty patients receiving such procedure were enrolled. The procedure contained five phases, including virtual surgery on three-dimensional images, fabrication of surgical positioning guides, preparation of registration and validation landmarks, confirmation of bony position during surgery, and postoperative assessment. Target registration error (TRE) and differences between simulation (T0) and postoperative images (T1) were measured from landmarks to Frankfort horizontal plane (FHP), mid–sagittal plane (MSP), and coronal plane (COP). ResultsFor the model experiment, mean TRE was lowest using the hard tissue landmarks (0.60 ± 0.27 mm), and the mean difference (T1-T0) was less than 1 mm to all three planes. For the patients, mean TRE was 1.07 ± 0.18 mm from the hard tissue landmarks. The mean difference was 0.96. ± 0.60 mm from MSP, 1.39 ± 1.11 mm from FHP, and 2.12 ± 1.82 mm from COP. The differences were not significant. Both surgeons and patients were satisfied with the surgical outcome. ConclusionThis study showed that the navigation system had acceptable accuracy and was useful for the two-jaw orthognathic surgery using single-splint method.

Preregistration nurses' views on the delivery of tissue viability

This article outlines an evaluation of preregistration nursing students' views on the delivery of tissue viability during their preregistration education in preparation for registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC, 2010). Data were collected from two cohorts of preregistration (n=170) over a 2-year period by means of interactive voting keypads. The author concludes that preregistration preparation within the university was inadequate for both the prevention and provision of tissue viability care in clinical practice.

Preregistration nurses' views on the delivery of tissue viability

This article outlines an evaluation of preregistration nursing students' views on the delivery of tissue viability during their preregistration education in preparation for registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council ( NMC, 2010 ). Data were collected from two cohorts of preregistration (n=170) over a 2-year period by means of interactive voting keypads. The author concludes that preregistration preparation within the university was inadequate for both the prevention and provision of tissue viability care in clinical practice.

Commentary on Mooney M (2007) ‘Newly qualified Irish nurses’ interpretation of their preparation and experience of registration. Journal of Clinical Nursing 16, 1610–1617

Commentary on Mooney M (2007) ‘Newly qualified Irish nurses’ interpretation of their preparation and experience of registration. <i>Journal of Clinical Nursing</i> 16, 1610–1617

Towards an excellent health care system: Singapore nursing poised with 2020 vision

Nurses from Singapore have a reputation as good clinicians, with very good English language skills that help them quickly adapt to work and life in many overseas countries, where their registration is readily accepted. Their reputation has been in part enhanced by the need for many of them to move overseas to pursue Bachelor Degrees and higher degrees in nursing because until 2006, the preparation for registration as a nurse was a Diploma at a Polytechnic. This meant that the majority of nurses left school at ‘O’ levels then with three years of Polytechnic education were eligible to register as a nurse. The net effect on career structure, the brain drain, research and educational developments has been significant on the profession. However recent initiatives have seen a rapid move towards developing an excellent health care system, supported by high standard biomedical research and translational clinical research initiatives, which will rapidly see Singapore develop as a health hub and Singapore nursing as a regional leader with an international reputation.

Newly qualified Irish nurses’ interpretation of their preparation and experiences of registration

The aim of this paper is to report on the insights of newly qualified Irish nurses into their preparation for registration as general nurses and to develop insights into the postregistration experience. Nurse education in Ireland has undergone much reform over the past decade. These changes include the introduction of supernumerary status for nursing students and the formation of links with institutes of higher education. No Irish literature was found on this subject. Individual semi-structured, in-depth interviews were held with 12 newly registered nurses, from two cohorts, within 10 months of qualification. A grounded theory approach was adopted and content analysis employed to analyse the data. Two categories, entitled Learning the Ropes and The Metamorphosis emerged from the analysis of data. Within each of these categories there were two subcategories. All respondents reported that since qualification, they had become increasingly conscious of their isolation and unmet needs as nursing students. Postregistration, they enjoyed their increased status and widespread recognition by others. This study details how improvements can be made at clinical level to assist the preparation of nursing students for registration. The positive aspects of registration are revealed through descriptions of comparisons of pre- and postregistration experiences, while the shortcomings of the journey to registration are described. Pre-registration nurses have unmet clinical needs which, if fulfilled, would benefit them post-registration. Good ward morale is elementary for student learning and enhances the post-registration experience. Registered nurses are highly conscious of their altered status. These findings are pertinent to clinicians and educationalists as they prepare nursing students for practice.

The role of mentors in supporting pre-registration nursing students

Students' practice experience is one of the most important aspects of their preparation for registration. There is currently considerable emphasis on improving this practice experience with adequate support and supervision. Mentors play a vital role in supporting, teaching and assessing students in practice. This article offers a literature-based discussion of the development and current practice of the mentor role in the support and assessment of students undertaking pre-registration programmes. The development of the mentor role is discussed. Issues relating to the role in nurse education today are addressed in relation to supporting, teaching and assessing students in practice and mentor accountability. This article discusses how Higher Education Institutions and universities and service managers might support mentors in their role. The implications for practice are outlined and include the NMC standards to support learning and assessment in practice due for publication in 2006.

ISO 9000 Performance in Japanese Industries

This research analyses the factors that determine the performance of ISO 9000standards in Japanese industries. A questionnaire survey was conducted to collectdata from ISO 9000 certified companies nationwide. Our research hypothesis is thatthe performance of ISO 9000 depends upon the aspects that motivate a company toobtain certification, the process followed or approach taken during preparation forregistration, the maintenance activities after certification, and the practice of previousor existent quality measures within the organization. These measures should predicthow successful the standards are for an organization. In order to test the hypothesis,statistical data analysis includes t-test of the means, factor analysis, and regression.Slightly different trends are found in small, medium, and large organizations regardingthe potential benefits from the ISO 9000 system and the influential measures.Small corporations focus on motivational issues and implementation proceduresduring the preparation for registration stage. In the case of medium size companies,motivational aspects, implementation procedures, maintenance activities, and previous/existentquality measures are all emphasized. Large corporations, similar tomedium corporations, focus on the four independent variables, emphasizing thesignificance of employees' involvement and understanding, MIS, and SixSigma. Our findings suggest that the integration of the influential issues within theorganizational system allows the organization effectively to improve quality, minimizecost, develop international markets, and optimize profits through ISO 9000.

Data protection and the Institute

The Institute is a body of physicists and since physicists are people it follows that the Institute possesses a considerable amount of personal data. In the initial stages of preparation for registration under the Data Protection Act, it became apparent that the total extent to which the data were held in electronic form and the purposes for which they were used in connection with the Institute's activities were not known.

Mental health legislation in psychiatric nurse training: survey of nurse tutors

THIS SURVEY was undertaken as part of an assignment for the Certificate of Education course, in preparation for registration as Nurse Tutor; it was carried out five months after publication of the Mental Health (Amendment) Act 1982. The aim was to assess information and understanding of the current legislation among nurse tutors involved in the training of students for whom knowledge of the legislation is a syllabus requirement.