Professional Way Research Articles

A Nurse's Journey with Cultural Humility: Acknowledging Personal and Professional Unintentional Indigenous-specific Racism

This is a first-person reflection of my journey through cultural humility to identify a connection between my inherent beliefs about Indigenous Peoples and Indigenous-specific systemic racism. The co-authors of this paper provided guidance, mentorship, and support in organizing the framework due to the challenging and sensitive nature of the content. As part of my relational practice, I worked with a Cree scholar to write this paper. As a descendant of white European colonial settlers, I grew up in a small community in western Canada populated by people of similar backgrounds. My exposure to Indigenous Peoples and culture was very minimal; however, conversations and attitudes about Indigenous Peoples generally centered around negative and racist stereotypes. Childhood games and jokes insidiously contributed to the construction of my worldview by dehumanizing, belittling, and humiliating Indigenous Peoples. A necessary part of my journey was to recognize how these words and attitudes have informed my worldview and at the same time hurt Indigenous Peoples. Historical facts of Indigenous treatment were brushed off or minimized as something that happened in the past. Although sharing my experience is uncomfortable, I am compelled to identify and acknowledge how the deep-rooted beliefs and attitudes that I have towards Indigenous Peoples have been shaped by my education, culture, and experiences. I hope that my own developing journey with cultural humility may serve as a guide to deconstructing the historical, personal, and professional ways in which Indigenous-specific racism exists and is perpetuated in health care. My own first steps are an open invitation for the nursing profession to similarly begin to address unintentional and intentional racism in healthcare. By understanding Canadian history, committing to allyship, advocating for social justice, actively intervening by speaking up, and integrating trauma-informed care/principles into our practice, we may begin to effectively address Indigenous-specific racism in health care.

ФОРМИРОВАНИЕ ЭФФЕКТИВНЫХ КОПИНГ-СТРАТЕГИЙ У МОЛОДЫХ ЛЮДЕЙ В ПРОЦЕССЕ ГРУППОВОГО КОНСУЛЬТИРОВАНИЯ С ПРИМЕНЕНИЕМ АРТ-ТЕРАПЕВТИЧЕСКИХ ТЕХНИК

Statement of the problem. Life in the modern reality is dynamic and contradictory, young people constantly have to overcome different kinds of difficulties (age crises, choice of their professional way and its development, interpersonal relations, questions of finance, everyday life stresses, etc.). In the period of the pandemic essential factors for the Russian youth were the fear infecting themselves and their loved ones; danger (mistrust of the health care system) [Kozlova, 2020]. The conditions of modern life only emphasize the relevance of the problem of coping behavior. In a situation when the general level of tension and stress is quite high, it is important to provide psychological assistance to young people in the formation of diverse and effective coping strategies. We consider expedient to use group work to solve this problem. This helps reach a sufficient number of participants and provide support and exchange of experience that are important to young people. For group consultations to be effective, it is important to understand the problem field of coping behavior and actual and potential demands of young people for psychological aid. We believe that one of the ways to solve this problem is to study and find effective and efficacious techniques of psychological help in forming coping strategies in young people. The purpose of the article is to present the results of the forming experiment, dynamics of the choice of coping strategy in young people after the carried out group work with application of art therapeutic techniques. The theoretical and methodological basis of research was made by the ideas of foreign psychologists in the field of studying of coping strategies: L. Murphy, R. Lazarus, S. Folkman, J. Amirhan, E. Haim, E. Skinner, etc. Ideas of Russian researchers in the field of studying coping strategies: L.I. Antsyferova, N.E. Vodopyanova, V.A. Bodrov, S.K. Nartova-Bochaver, E.V. Bityutskaya, T.L. Kryukova, E.I. Rasskazova, T. O. Gordeeva, E.N. Osin, etc. and also Russian studies in the field of art therapy: A.I. Kopytin, M.V. Kiseleva, E.A. Medvedeva, T.D. Zinkevich-Evstigneeva, E.V. Tararina, etc.. The study involved 30 students from 18 to 28 years old. Richard Lazarus’ “Coping Strategies” questionnaire and the “Cope” questionnaire (E.I. Rasskazova, T.O. Gordeeva, E.N. Osin) were chosen as diagnostic tools. Respondents, numbering 10 persons, took part in the forming-up experiment (group counseling). Research results. Tension level of the coping strategy “Confrontation” decreased in this group. There was a decrease of a high level of tension of the coping strategies “Self-control” when overcoming of the problem occurs at the expense of suppression and restraint of emotions, and the strategy “Escape-avoidance” when the person evades the problem, denying it. It is possible to point out that among emotional coping strategies, “optimism” increased, among behavioral ones – “cooperation” increased, among cognitive ones – “relativity” increased. Conclusion. The obtained data and their analysis allow us to speak about the importance and relevance of the topic of coping with stress. The program of group consultations, including art therapeutic techniques, promotes the formation of various coping strategies of behavior, providing effective coping with stress. The obtained changes give reasons to continue the research in this direction.

Avoiding Plagiarism of Students' Scientific Writing by Using the QuillBot Paraphraser

This research reviews the use of QuillBot to paraphrase the students' scientific writing in avoiding plagiarism. This research is descriptive qualitative. Observation is used as the main instrument to collect data. The data uses the app of QuillBot as an object of research. The analysis data use three ways of qualitative analysis, namely reducing data, displaying data, and conclusions. The analysis shows that several ways QuillBot in paraphrasing includes changing the word/phrase/ clause order, using synonyms, changing the sentence structure from active to passive voice, and vice versa, also separating the information into separate sentences. QuillBot Premium contains different modes of paraphrasing depending on writing needs, such as Standard, Fluency, Formal, Simple, Creative, Expand, and Shorten. Standard mode rewrites text reliably to maintain meaning, Fluency mode sure text is readable and free of errors; Formal mode presents the text in a more sophisticated and professional way; Simple mode makes writing more readable and accessible; Creative mode presents the text in a way most people can understand; Expand mode adds more detail and depth to increase sentence length; and Shorten mode strips away extra words to provide a clear message. QuillBot can be used by students to rewrite any writings or as an alternative tool when they cannot paraphrase manually. However, the site is a product of technology. Of course, human intelligence remains the main. Students need to understand in-depth and re-check their writing to get better or higher-quality paraphrasing.

Unggul dan Bepretasi

The library is the most important part of an institution because the library is very far from the ancient system with now, so the use of this library is very urgent in the world of education in general and in the world of students in particular. With a library system that is used in a professional way, superior and outstanding students will be formed. This study focuses on how the model of student empowerment in reading, library management in increasing reading interest, supporting and inhibiting factors of library management in increasing students' interest in reading at MTs Salafiyah Syafi'iyah Bandung Diwek Jombang. This research is qualitative research. While the data collection techniques using observation, interviews, and documentation. The data analysis technique uses data reduction, data display, and data verification. The model of empowering students in reading at MTs Salafiyah Syafi'iyah Diwek Jombang can be simulated with several points, namely programming for reading, motivating, and coaching the reader. In the management of the library at MTs Salafiyah Syafi'iyah Diwek Jombang there are several things that are carried out as functions of management, namely planning, organizing, implementing, and supervising. The inhibiting factor for library management in increasing students' reading interest is that it can be influenced by several factors, namely management management is still not carried out optimally, collections of books or library materials have not been maximized, human resources or librarian staff, and facilities and infrastructure.

Clinical case of leptospirosis in a woman against chronic alcohol intoxication

An interesting clinical case of leptospirosis infection in an elderly woman with a professional way of getting infection on the background of alcohol abuse has been described. The authors emphasized the clinical features of this bacterial zoonosis, considered aspects of differential diagnosis of leptospirosis with other common infectious diseases. It has been emphasized on the intricacies of a detailed epidemiological anamnesis taking in order to identify and evaluate biorisk factors for pathogenic leptospira con­tami­nation in a particular occupational environment. It has been pointed out the necessity of a complex laboratory-instrumental investigation in the infectious hospital, since the delay of hospitalization and adequate treatment can worsen the prognosis for a favorable outcome of the clinical case and recovery. Such specific laboratory methods for verifying leptospiras in the blood of patients as a reaction of microagglutination and lysis with a kit of leptospira and bacterioscopic examination of a smear in the dark field are of high sensitivity and specificity and therefore are widely used in clinical practice.

"You can't touch, you can't bond": Exploring COVID-19 pandemic impacts on rheumatoid arthritis patient goals and communication with clinicians.

"You can't touch, you can't bond": Exploring COVID-19 pandemic impacts on rheumatoid arthritis patient goals and communication with clinicians.

Design of a software prototype to make a Tour in the Infantery Museum Marine Park using View 360 technology.

Before the arrival of the pandemic due to SARS-CoV-2, the Infantery Museum Marine Park was among the most visited tourist sites in Coveñas, however, due to Colombian decree 457, the museum closed its doors to the visitors, thus avoiding the exposure of the national military heritages that are exposed in it, restricting one of the most important contributions to the educational context in the Caribbean Region. Therefore, the objective of the research is to design the model of a web prototype, using View 360 ° technology, for the remote exhibition of the facilities and heritage of the Infantery Museum Marine Park. The type of research is basic and applied, where a documentary analysis of the 360 ° view technology was carried out, identifying the technical and user requirements for the development of the prototype design, which will integrate 360 ° panoramic photographs and points of access, strengthening the exhibition of the heritages and there was a completely new way for the museum professionals to communicate the exhibits to the public. It is concluded that the proposed prototype meets the functional requirements necessary to solve the problem presented.

Empowering Users with Narratives: Examining the Efficacy of Narratives for Understanding Data-Oriented Conceptual Models

Elevator PitchA quiet revolution is happening in the offices, cubicles, and boardrooms of the world. Non-IT professionals are becoming empowered by leveraging organizational data for analytics. We support this movement by offering a powerful way to make data more usable via a combination of graphical conceptual models with narratives.Longer VersionWe are witnessing a quiet revolution—the rise of empowered users. These non-IT professionals increasingly seek to leverage the ever-expanding amount of organizational data for analytics to support their initiatives, decisions, and actions. All too often, however, the enthusiasm of these users collides against the harsh reality—many of them lack sophisticated IT skills, and they struggle to find/access relevant data, understand their meaning, and extract and adapt them to meet their needs.We propose a powerful way to support empowered users with a combination of conceptual models and narratives. Conceptual models are diagrams that accurately and succinctly represent rules and patterns captured in data. Although somewhat intuitive, these models alone do not suffice, as interpreting them still requires some specialized IT knowledge. Hence, we add narratives—stories written in natural language. The narratives intuitively explain some of the challenging aspects of the conceptual models.We conducted a series of experiments and interviews with empowered users to assess our idea. These studies show the value of the conceptual models with narratives for understanding organizational data. Our work unlocks an important missing puzzle for further user empowerment—a way for non-IT professionals to get the most out of the data.

Forms of professional interkinesthesia in nurses' body work: A case study of an infant's stepping

Moving their bodies in knowledgeable and professional ways in order to handle and connect affectively with infants entails a large part of child health care nurses' work. We deploy a phenomenological approach to videoanalysis of interaction to analyze an episode of a 1-month-old infant visiting the child health care clinic with their caregiver to have their body assessed for a neonatal stepping. Focusing on the co-movement of the baby and the nurse, we ask: how do various ways of moving as a co-embodied entity allow and corporeally prompt the baby's age-appropriate bodily ability to emerge? We develop the notion of professional interkinesthesia to indicate specific forms of body work of nurses which in this case entails moving together with the baby to make her successfully perform a specific health care task—the stepping. Building on Charles Goodwin's concept of professional vision, we uncover how the nurse moves and touches the infant's body in ways relevant to the institutional task. The study shows that accomplishing “normally” developed neonatal stepping is not work accomplished by the baby alone but requires that the bodies of the baby and the professional move in unison. While neonatal stepping is but one specific type of health care task, we propose that nurses' work entails numerous forms of professional touch and interkinesthesia that make it possible to successfully perform different types of health care operations.

Reversible Control of Reproduction In Queens: Mastering the use of reproductive drugs to manipulate cyclicity.

The literature is full of papers reporting side effects of progestogens in cats; however, they are, in fact, safe drugs, as discussed in this article. Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) agonists and melatonin are additionally a practical solution for controlling cyclicity in queens, but they also have some contraindications and need to be used carefully. Mastering the use of reproductive drugs allows feline practitioners to handle many more clinical situations than can be solved using surgery. It is not necessary to be a specialist in reproduction to be able to halt cyclicity in a valuable breeding queen using hormones. A sound knowledge of appropriate dosages and criteria for patient selection for all reproductive drugs currently used in feline reproduction is the best guarantee of owner satisfaction and of ensuring the queen's health. Availability of a serum progesterone assay, either in-house or via an external laboratory, is also important, in order to confirm a queen is at an appropriate stage of the reproductive cycle for treatment. This article is aimed principally (but not exclusively) at veterinarians working with cat breeders and whose clientele is increasingly interested in alternative methods of controlling reproduction in pet queens. Surgery is no longer the only choice, and practitioners who manage to keep abreast of new developments will be able to address clients' needs in a modern, professional way. This review draws on a vast body of scientific evidence-based literature. Previously, personal (and sometimes misinformed) opinions, such as the proposed dangerous side effects of progestogens, have been perpetuated in the scientific literature. The papers cited in this review have therefore been carefully scrutinised to distinguish reliable information based on controlled studies from non-evidence-based information.

Breaking bad news: a clinical skill for postgraduate exams.

Breaking bad news is a challenging station in postgraduate exams. Candidates can struggle if they have not practised delivering sensitive information in a professional and empathetic way. Limited experience of using this clinical skill as a junior doctor often compounds candidates' uncertainty in exams. A clear structure is essential for examination success. The most commonly used is the SPIKES framework, the elements of which are Setting, Perception, Invitation, Knowledge, Emotions and Strategy. This is a stepwise approach that allows candidates to break bad news in a structured way. This is beneficial in clinical practice, but is also invaluable in postgraduate exams, which often have prescriptive marking schemes. This article highlights the key topics and pitfalls that candidates may encounter and suggests tips for success in exams.

Juxtaposing generic skills development in collaborative knowledge work competences and related pedagogical practices in higher education

This study employs the term knowledge work competence to address generic aspects of higher education graduates’ expected learning outcomes. Twenty-eight higher education courses were investigated: 1069 students responded to the Collaborative Knowledge Practices (CKP) questionnaire to rate their self-evaluated competence development. From the same courses, 56 teachers provided descriptions of the course pedagogical practices. First, students’ self-reported generic collaboration competence gains were analyzed statistically for differences between courses. Second, qualitative categorization of the pedagogical practices based on rich description of pedagogical designs and teachers’ reflective responses was carried out. This offered a categorization with elaborated descriptions and a clustering to three types of enacted pedagogical practices. Finally, the study juxtaposed these previous two results to investigate how the pedagogical features were related to students’ self-evaluations on collaboration competence gains. The findings highlighted one cluster of pedagogical practices, collaborative knowledge creation with systematic support for epistemic and group work, as most beneficial for student competence gains. In it, professional ways of working were explicitly modeled and practiced, teacher support for knowledge creation during contact teaching was available, and time was reserved for reflection with students. Such pedagogical practices are important to ensure graduates’ fluent transition to complex knowledge work.

Effectiveness of Integrated Emotional-Self Enhancement (IESE) program among staff nurses: protocol for a quasi-experimental study.

Background: Staff nurses face frequent emotional situations in their work environment. The constant contact with suffering patients, and the busy work environment, pose tremendous stress on nurses' physical and emotional health. The Emotional Intelligence skills of empathy, self-awareness, motivation, self-control, and keeping relationships, can help handle difficult emotions and allow nurses to work in an organized, calm, and professional way. This study aims to implement and assess the effectiveness of a training program developed by the investigator, tailored to the mental and emotional needs of staff nurses who are working in an organization. The study also aims to observe any significant change, correlation, and association in the staff nurses' level of emotional intelligence, intrinsic motivation, self-compassion, emotional labor, and nurse-in-charges' and patients' perception of nursing care after the program. Methods: A quasi-experimental (one-group) study design was used in this study. The study will involve 80 staff nurses working in a selected hospital in India. The staff nurses will be selected from the hospital's general wards using convenience sampling. For the current study, a quasi-experimental design will be used. The investigator will deliver a training program, divided into four sessions of two hours each. Data will be collected from the participants at baseline and 3-months pre-intervention; and post-test data will be collected immediately after the intervention, at 3-month, and 6-month follow-up, to observe any significant change in the study variables before and after the intervention. Results: The current study primarily focuses on the vital aspect of developing emotional needs, for promoting a better work-life balance. Research findings from the study will significantly contribute to the evidence based Emotional Intelligence programs for staff nurses, and if proven effective, could be delivered extensively in the hospitals. Trial registration: The study is registered in June 2019 under the Central Trial Registry of India ( CTRI/2019/08/020592).

Green organizational identity and sustainable innovation in the relationship between environmental regulation and business sustainability: Evidence from China’s manufacturers

Bridging government involvement and business sustainability, particularly in manufacturers, is becoming a new research interest. To enrich this knowledge area guided by the Institutional Theory, this study builds a multiple mediation model to investigate the effect of environmental regulation on business sustainability by concerning on the chain mediation effect of green organizational identity and sustainable exploration/exploitation innovations. China’s manufacturers that are a key component of emerging markets have been analyzed by this study because of their significant impacts on climate change, substantial contributions to the boom of industries, and distinctive governance structures. By investigating China’s manufacturers such as shipbuilding, energy, food, and daily necessities manufacturing sectors, we witness that the relationship between environmental regulation and business sustainability could be positively subsequently mediated by green organizational identity and sustainable innovation. While this identity does not exercise a positive mediation between environmental regulation and business sustainability significantly. Furthermore, both sustainable exploration/exploitation innovations exercise a significantly positive mediation between green organizational identity and business sustainability. We therefore conclude that manufacturers of emerging markets need a thoughtful deployment in pro-environmental psychologies and behaviors to closely bridge environmental regulation and business sustainability instead of only concerning on one aspect. This study has significant implications for emerging markets constructing a comprehensive as well as systematic pro-environmental path by using the merit of Institutional Theory to enhance business sustainability with more standardized and professional ways.

Career Recommendation using ANN

Abstract: There is a pattern among understudies to, for the most part, settle on professional ways in light of their colleagues' choices or, on the other hand, the most significant compensation-paying jobs.They neglect to know their assets and pick their careers randomly, leading to frustration and demoralization. Moreover, while recruiting thecandidates, recruiters need to assess them in all different aspects. Consequently, there is a requirement for a framework that helps students decide on a job role best suited for them based on/her skillset and other evaluation metrics, which is now possible due to advancements in deep learning. This project proposes an automated system using an Artificial Neural Network, which considers the individual's personality traits and personal interests, and academics to predict which computer science job role would be best suited for them.

Effectiveness of Integrated Emotional-Self Enhancement (IESE) program among staff nurses: protocol for a quasi-experimental study

Background: Staff nurses face frequent emotional situations in their work environment. The constant contact with suffering patients, and the busy work environment, pose tremendous stress on nurses' physical and emotional health. The Emotional Intelligence skills of empathy, self-awareness, motivation, self-control, and keeping relationships, can help handle difficult emotions and allow nurses to work in an organized, calm, and professional way. This study aims to implement and assess the effectiveness of a training program developed by the investigator, tailored to the mental and emotional needs of staff nurses who are working in an organization. The study also aims to observe any significant change, correlation, and association in the staff nurses’ level of emotional intelligence, intrinsic motivation, self-compassion, emotional labor, and nurse-in-charges’ and patients’ perception of nursing care after the program. Methods: A quasi-experimental (one-group) study design was used in this study. The study will involve 80 staff nurses working in a selected hospital in India. The staff nurses will be selected from the hospital's general wards using convenience sampling. For the current study, a quasi-experimental design will be used. The investigator will deliver a training program, divided into four sessions of two hours each. Data will be collected from the participants at baseline and 3-months pre-intervention; and post-test data will be collected immediately after the intervention, at 3-month, and 6-month follow-up, to observe any significant change in the study variables before and after the intervention. Results: The current study primarily focuses on the vital aspect of developing emotional needs, for promoting a better work-life balance. Research findings from the study will significantly contribute to the evidence based Emotional Intelligence programs for staff nurses, and if proven effective, could be delivered extensively in the hospitals. Trial registration: The study is registered in June 2019 under the Central Trial Registry of India (CTRI/2019/08/020592).

The importance of establishing professional objectives and ways of communication during the initial didactic training of the physical education and sports teachers

The importance of establishing professional objectives and ways of communication during the initial didactic training of the physical education and sports teachers

Examining Teacher Competencies in Content and Language Integrated Learning: Professional Profiles and Ways Forward

Despite the upsurge of research interest in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) teachers’ professional competencies, very little evidence has been presented from the Chinese academia. To bridge this gap and understand Chinese CLIL teachers’ status quo of competencies in relation to their demographic characteristics, the present study adopted a cross-sectional quantitative survey approach and investigated the differences of linguistic competence, content competence, pedagogic competence, CLIL fundamentals, interpersonal and collaborative competence, and reflective and developmental competence in a sample of 205 CLIL teachers from Chinese higher education providers. They had dissimilar genders, language expertise, content subject specialisation, affiliations, academic degrees, educational backgrounds, years of teaching CLIL and professional titles. Inferential analyses of the data obtained from a questionnaire indicated a high heterogeneity in the sample, allowing of the description of CLIL teachers’ profiles of professional competences in accordance with their demographic factors. It is concluded that professional training and ongoing research into CLIL teachers’ needs are essential to achieve the homogeneity of competencies and that a supportive network should be established to encourage active partnership amongst CLIL teachers and educational institutions.

Jose F. Abaño, MD (1940-2021) A Tribute to the Father of Hearing Care in the Philippines

Jose F. Abaño, MD (1940-2021) A Tribute to the Father of Hearing Care in the Philippines

“Care is needed the most, when it is deserved the least” – the experience of BPD-women

Introduction BPD are often characterized by dependence, affectability, unpredictability, impulsivity and self-destructiveness. Paradoxically, the symptoms associated with BPD are the same behaviors that makes them difficult to accommodate by health professionals. They constitute the most excluded and stigmatized patient group.ObjectivesTo gain knowledge on how BPD patients felt acknowledged when they experienced the need for professional help.MethodsWe conducted semi-structured interviews with six BPD-women, aged between 18 to 46, all inpatient at different psychiatric units in the Capital Region of Denmark. The data were analyzed and interpreted through meaning condensation. We entered the philosophical hermeneutic framework of Hans-Georg Gadamer.ResultsWe found that the women experienced that; the diagnosis was a filter, in which they were always viewed and judged through as “just another BPD-patient” and not a unique individual. their cry for help was expected to be verbalized in a certain manner and therefore was often not understood nor heard, but instead they experienced to be scolded by health professionels. the emergency plan became a legitimate way for the health care professionals to avoid spending to many resources, rather than a helpful tool. the psychiatry as a unit was largely characterized by stigmatization and a distrustful attitude towards them. Therefore they felt deeply dependent on meeting that one special health professional who were experienced to have a genuine interest and desire to help them.ConclusionsFindings correspond with the findings of existing research. Hence, there also seems to be significant barriers nationally for patients with BPD to experience being acknowledged and helped, when in need of professional help.DisclosureNo significant relationships.