Staff Relationships Research Articles

Student perceptions of behavior and discipline: a PBIS survey for student voice

Student voice is essential for PBIS, but a tool for gathering students’ perspectives of PBIS is not available in the literature. The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a universal–level PBIS survey for students, the Student Perceptions of Behavior and Discipline (StPBD). This survey was designed to mobilize student engagement and guide implementation with cultural and contextual fit. Survey development was informed by literature review, feedback from users and researchers, pilot tests, and exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. Analyses of items designed to measure aspects of school climate, student–staff relationships, and family connections confirmed these three distinct factors. Linear mixed–effect analyses revealed significant relationships between the survey, student perceptions of PBIS practices in the school, school level, discipline, and gender identity.

A Longitudinal Exploration of How Connections to Staff Facilitate Efficacy and Service Use in Drop-in Centers Serving Youth Experiencing Homelessness

Introduction: Youth experiencing homelessness (YEH) benefit from a variety of services to meet their immediate and long-term needs. Drop-in centers are a popular service venue used by YEH. However, the mechanisms responsible for engaging youth in drop-in services are not clear. The current study uses longitudinal data to explore the role of positive staff relationships in increasing youths’ knowledge and efficacy to access and subsequently use drop-in center services. Methods: 731 youth (Mage = 21.8, SD = 2.2, 25.1% female) accessing services at three drop-in centers in Los Angeles, California participated in the study. Surveys were completed at baseline, 1-month, and 3-months later. Path models examined the direct effect of positive relationships with adult staff on service use at the 3-month follow-up, and the indirect effect of service knowledge (assessed at the 1-month follow-up). Results: The direct effect model showed that positive staff relationships at baseline were significantly associated with number of services used at the 3-month follow-up (aIRR = 1.24, 95% CI: 1.00, 1.54). Positive staff relationships were also associated with greater service knowledge at 1-month (b = 0.93, p < 0.001), which in turn was associated with greater service use at 3-months (IRR = 1.15, 95% CI: 1.04, 1.28). The indirect effect of service knowledge was significant (b = 0.13, p = 0.02), suggesting that the association between positive staff relationships and service use was completely mediated by service knowledge. Conclusions: The current study adds to the literature by demonstrating that positive relationships with staff lead to increased service use by increasing youths’ knowledge and efficacy to access services. Efforts should be made to develop positive relationships with YEH in order to engage them in essential services needed to exit homelessness.

Burnout syndrome, doctor-patient relationship and family support of pediatric medical staff during a COVID-19 Local outbreak in Shanghai China: A cross-sectional survey study.

To explore burnout syndrome (BOS) incidence, doctor-patient relationship, and family support on pediatric medical staff in Shanghai comprehensive hospitals during a COVID-19 local outbreak. A cross-sectional survey of pediatric medical staff from 7 comprehensive hospitals across Shanghai was conducted from March to July 2022. The survey included BOS, doctor-patient relationships, family support, and the related factors of COVID-19. The T-test, variance, the LSD-t test, Pearson's r correlation coefficient, and multiple regression analyses examined the data. Using Maslach Burnout Inventory-General Survey (MBI-GS), 81.67% of pediatric medical staff had moderate BOS, and 13.75% were severe. The difficult doctor-patient relationship was positively correlated with emotional exhaustion(EE), cynicism(Cy), and negatively with personal accomplishment(PA). When medical staff need help, the greater the support provided by the family, the lower the EE and CY, and the higher the PA. "In our study, the pediatric medical staff in Shanghai comprehensive hospitals had significant BOS during a COVID-19 local outbreak." We provided the potential steps that can be taken to reduce the increasing rate of BOS in pandemics. These measures include increased job satisfaction, psychological support, maintaining good health, increased salary, lower intent to leave the profession, regularly carrying out COVID-19 prevention training, improving doctor-patient relations, and strengthening family support.

The limits of limit cases: Sexual ethics and graduate student–staff relationships

AbstractThis article examines whether, and if so how, the alternative model of sexual ethics, namely, apleasure and care‐centred ethic of embodied and relational sexual Otherness, performs when given scenarios or case studies that push up against its ethico‐political limits. I focus here on the case of intimate relationships that emerge between graduate students and their supervisors. The two case studies examined are the Avital Ronell case and a composite case constructed from the lived experience and personal stories of women who have what they deem are/were successful intimate relationships with their PhD supervisors—sometimes resulting in marriage. Following a critique of sexual consent, the article engages in a close critical analysis of each case in line with the pleasure and care‐centered ethic of embodied and relational sexual Otherness and, in doing so, engages with issues of power, ethicality, pleasure, justice, and gender norms before offering ways forward.

An Examination of Faculty and Staff Collaboration and Relationships In Higher Education

An Examination of Faculty and Staff Collaboration and Relationships In Higher Education

THE INCREASE OF LIFE EXPECTANCY IN ROMANIA, A FACTOR DETERMINED BY A STABLE FINANCIAL SUSTAINABILITY OF THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE HEALTH SYSTEM

We live in a modern but transitory society, with the determining effects of economic crises, pandemics, diseases or chronic conditions that cannot be detected in time, war, immigrations that cannot be controlled, but can be explained in each country by the potential of each country's governance state, social, economic, political. We already have an aging demographic population that requires attention in terms of the conditions for providing medical services, on time, preventively, in hospital units equipped with technology, with qualied medical personnel, who practice their medical act correctly, transparently, humanely, so that the patient-medical staff relationship is efcient and benecial for both parties. We can say that the funding sources of the health system, whether public or private, are diversied, thus offering possibilities of their sustainability over time, for detailed programs on hospital units, in rural and urban environments. It is necessary to stimulate qualied medical personnel, such as after the graduation of university and post-graduate studies both in the country and abroad, to stop their massive emigration, for full coverage with qualied potential in the health system. Any state is healthy if it has a healthy population, t and able to work. The different demographic conditions, the population diversied by age, sex, origin, nationality, make our country dene the strategies necessary to ensure a viable, sustainable health system with positive effects on the population. The situation of the SARS-COV 2 pandemic, the effects of economic crises, must become situations that can be mastered, regardless of the transitory conditions, so that there are no negative repercussions on the population. The health of any citizen can be controlled over time, giving prevention through family medicine an important role in the timely detection of both chronic and communicable diseases, that is, through a correct cause-effect analysis. The National Health Insurance House has an important role in the collection and distribution of funding sources for the health system, but also as a mediator between hospital units and medical service providers.

Socio-cultural and health system factors influencing late booking among pregnant women: Case of selected health care facilities in Temeke Municipality

The study examined the socio-cultural and health system factors influencing late booking of antenatal care among pregnant women in Temeke District. Guided by the Health Belief Model, the study used qualitative techniques of data collection. Open-ended semistructured interviews were used and a hospital-based crosssectional study design applied. The findings revealed various sociocultural and health system factors influencing late booking among pregnant women. Poor knowledge on when to first book for antenatal care, poor knowledge on the importance of early booking, past experience of their pregnancy, unfriendly provider-patient relationship and shortage of staff. Other factors include beliefs and fear of being bewitched during the early stages of pregnancy made women book late, the belief that they are not at high risk of getting pregnant related complications as well as family and economic activities attribute to late booking. The timing of antenatal care service, though believed to be the best practice for positive pregnancy, is challenging for most women due to various socioeconomic and systemic factors. The age for the first booking of antenatal care was 15.5 weeks, which is late according to the WHO recommended time of first booking within the first 12 weeks of the gestational age. The study recommends for more educational initiatives which will liberate the public especially women from ignorance and misconceptions related to pregnancy complications as well as poor socio-economic beliefs.

Coproduction in evaluating a dual diagnosis tool with youth in a residential mental health service

PurposeThe purpose of this study was to utilise a lived experience (LE) informed/co-designed approach to explore the service-user experience of using the reasons for use package (RFUP) within a youth residential rehabilitation mental health setting.Design/methodology/approachLE researchers (those who have lived through mental illness or distress), Master of social work students, a community of mental health service manager, community of mental health researchers, dual diagnosis service researchers and university-based researchers collaborated on the project. The study used an exploratory, qualitative approach of semi-structured interviews to invite young people's experiences of the resource. The research team conducted a collaborative thematic analysis drawing on the range of perspectives.FindingsThrough five interviews with young people, key themes identified included: client factors and extra-therapeutic events, relationship factors, technique/model factors/delivery and outcomes/things noticed.Practical implicationsThe RFUP was a useful clinical tool with the young people in this pilot as it improved awareness of reasons for drug use and impact on mental health, service user to staff relationship, quality of the resource, mode of delivery and participant self-knowledge.Originality/valueYoung people valued the supportive role that the RFUP played in facilitating positive relationships with their workers.

Factors Influence the Performance of Training Organizations: A Study on Bangladesh Public Administration Training Centre

Bangladesh Public Administration Training Centre (BPATC), an apex training organization, is a key player in the development of public sector human resources by offering and arranging high-quality training programs. A current curriculum and qualified training professors and staff are required for quality and effective training. As a result, the study's goals are to identify variables that determine training institution performance and as well measuring factors that influence, or impact training organizations’ performance and policy implications are drawn. A quantitative approach is adopted and as a research technique employs a highly known and frequently utilized structured questionnaire survey instrument. The respondents' data is collected using a purposive sampling approach. For data analysis, a scholarly software program called SPSS is employed. In addition to descriptive statistics, principal component factor analysis is used in this study. Unstandardized Coefficients values with significant levels (p&lt;.001) are used to test stated hypotheses and ANOVA is used to evaluate model significance. For organizational performance, PCA has identified four variables. Factors have high loading values. Among the four hypotheses, regression results confirmed that only one hypothesis ‘training staff relationship’ is having a positive and significant relationship with training organizations’ performance.

Operationalizing sustainable food systems through food programs in elementary schools

Healthy eating supports optimal growth, development, and academic achievement. Yet, the diet quality of school-aged children is poor. Food insecurity and chronic disease are concerns, as are unsustainable agricultural practices. Sustainable food systems have a low environmental impact and can address both dietary and sustainability concerns. This multi-case study was conducted in two Community Schools in a mid-sized Canadian city. Data was collected through interviews, observations, a checklist, and curriculum and policy review. The purpose of this study was to understand the capacity of local elementary schools to implement sustainable food systems strategies in curriculum, policy, and practice. Teachers were doing some cooking and gardening with students, and schools were doing some recycling. There were no specific food policies. Infrastructure challenges varied by school. Insufficient funding and curriculum resources were seen as barriers to implementing sustainable food systems. Staff characteristics and relationships were seen as facilitators. Schools can be positioned to be strong leaders in the area of school food by prioritizing food literacy and sustainable food system strategies and developing supportive policies, including community members and students in programming, and including experiential food production opportunities for all students.

Sharing Lessons From Successes: Long-term Care Facilities That Weathered the Storm of COVID-19 and Staffing Crises.

To identify leadership styles and staffing strategies in Missouri long-term care (LTC) facilities that stood out among their peers as "positive deviants" with regard to COVID-19 infections and staffing shortages. Statewide survey of all LTC facilities to identify exemplar facilities with stable staffing and low rates of COVID-19. Interviews with senior leaders were conducted in 10 facilities in the state to understand the strategies employed that led to these "positive outliers." A result-based educational program was designed to describe their actions and staff reactions. Exemplar leaders used transformational leadership style. Top reasons for their success were as follows: (1) trusting and supportive staff relationships; (2) positive presence and communication; and (3) use of consistent staffing assignments. Strong statewide participation was noted in the educational programs.

How UK surgeons experience burnout and the link between burnout and patient care: A qualitative investigation.

Poor well-being affects the performance of all kinds of workers, including surgeons. This study aimed to answer two questions: (1) how does burnout affect surgeons personally, and what is their burnout experience like? (2) How does burnout affect the care that surgeons provide in the United Kingdom (UK)? This study conducted thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews with 14 surgeons recruited from the UK National Health Service (NHS). The study found three themes in surgeons' experiences of burnout: first, burnout is common but frequently not recognised nor understood; second, burnout is a personal crisis; and third, burnout creates vulnerability at work. The study also revealed four themes related to burnout's effect on patient care: first, burnout reduces the quality of surgeon-patient relationships; second, burnout affects patient safety; third, burnout impairs staff relationships; and fourth, burnout makes surgeons less motivated to improve. Burnout is common but not well recognised in surgeons. Improving understanding and treatment of burnout could have benefits for both surgeons themselves and the care they provide to patients.

Little time, lasting impact: Bereaved caregiver perceptions of legacy in perinatal and infant loss.

Legacy interventions are standard in most children's hospitals, but little is known about how bereaved parents understand and describe the concept of legacy that these interventions are designed to Address. The aim of this qualitative study was to understand the legacy experiences and perceptions of parents who have experienced perinatal or early infant (less than three months of age) loss. Grounded in constructionist epistemology and phenomenological qualitative traditions, ten bereaved parents completed an in-depth phenomenological interview regarding their perceptions of and experiences with the legacy of their deceased child. Interviews were transcribed verbatim and analyzed using an open, inductive coding process to illuminate the essence of participants' experiences. Three themes were identified: 1) legacies are composed of memories and experiences that have a lasting effect on others; 2) healthcare experiences both generate and participate in infants' legacies; and 3) parents' legacy perceptions are shaped by cultural conceptions, spiritual beliefs, and grief experiences. Parents described experiences and interactions with community members and healthcare providers that honored or challenged their perceptions of their child's unique legacy. In the context of perinatal or early infant loss, bereaved parents describe legacy as enduring, unique to each child and family, and heavily influenced by healthcare experiences and staff relationships. Parent-led, legacy-oriented interventions are needed in maternal/fetal, labor/delivery, and neonatal intensive care settings to support parent coping with loss.

Morality Predicts Empathy in the Relationship of Medical Staff with Patients

This study aimed to investigate the relationships between medical professionals’ empathy and two moral coordinates, moral foundations and moral identity. A sample of 157 physicians and nurses completed an adapted version of the Jefferson Scale of Empathy, addressing three dimensions of empathy: compassionate care, perspective taking, and the cognitive dimension of empathy; the Moral Identity Questionnaire, addressing two facets of the importance of moral standards, Moral Self and Moral Integrity; and the Moral Foundations Questionnaire. We found specific patterns of associations between the three dimensions of empathy, moral identity, and moral foundations. Moral self was a significant predictor of all the dimensions of empathy while moral integrity was also significantly related to compassionate care and purity to perspective taking. Health professionals with more than five years of work experience also emerged as lower in compassionate care. Their adherence to moral standards and the importance of moral values should be further enhanced in education as their moral identity can contribute to more empathic behaviors toward patients.

Non-profit Brand Orientation as a Strategic Communication Approach

ABSTRACT In the context of an emerging economy, this study aims to identify the factors that shape non-profit brand orientation (NBO). It also seeks to identify the main antecedents, outcomes, and barriers that are involved in its strategy implementation. The focus of this research is non-profit organizations (NPOs) in Brazil. Qualitative exploratory research with NPOs’ employees, donors, non-donors, and partners was performed using data collected from interviews, non-participant observation, and documents. The data were analyzed using content analysis. The results reveal four themes with associated categories: NBO (cause, mission, communication, and symbols); antecedents (internal factors, external factors, and community involvement); outcomes (staff relationships, partners, reputation, and performance), and barriers (a non-commercial mindset, short-term focus, communication challenges, organizational culture, government barriers, and a lack of resources). We suggest that brand strategic communication is a key factor that enables an NPO to disseminate the organization’s mission, cause, and symbols. All these factors together reflect the NBO. An NBO model is proposed, highlighting its antecedents, outcomes, and barriers, and pointing out similarities to and differences from the previous literature based on well-developed economies. This research discuss the peculiarities of NBO strategy in an emerging country context and the central point of brand strategic communication.

Family involvement in nursing homes: an interpretative synthesis of literature.

BackgroundFamily involvement in nursing homes is generally recognized as highly valuable for residents, staff and family members. However, family involvement continues to be challenging in practice.AimTo contribute to the dialogue about family involvement and develop strategies to improve family involvement in the nursing home.MethodsThis interpretative synthesis consists of a thematic analysis and care ethical interpretation of issues regarding family involvement from the perspective of families in nursing homes reported in literature.FindingsThis study reveals the complexities of family involvement in the nursing home by drawing attention to the moral dimension of the issues experienced by families, as seen through the theoretical lens of Baier’s care ethical concept of trust as a theoretical lens. The synthesis of literature resulted in a thematic categorization of issues reported by families, namely, family–staff relationship, psychosocial factors and organizational circumstances. The care ethical interpretation of the synthesis of literature showed that the concept of trust resonates with all reported issues. Trust evolves over time. Early issues are mostly related to getting to know each other. Secondly, families want to experience that staff are competent and of good will. Difficult feelings families may have, such as guilt or loneliness, and dealing with the deterioration of the loved one puts families in a vulnerable position. This power imbalance between family and staff impedes a trusting relationship. Issues related to organizational circumstances, such as understaffing, also undermine families' trust in staff and the nursing home.Discussion and conclusionBaier’s theoretical concept of trust provides a deeper insight into the moral dimension of family involvement from the perspective of families in the nursing home. To improve family involvement in practice, we propose to aim future interventions at reinforcing trust in the relationship between family and staff as well as in the organizational context in which these care relationships occur.

Challenges of a School in Teaching and Learning: A Grounded Theory

Education amidst COVID 19 was a big challenge faced by the government as It challenges the educational system in terms of financial, technological, and emotional constraints faced by the administrators, teachers, and students. This study was able to identify the challenges of teachers and students in teaching and learning, as well as how these challenges are addressed with solutions in the context of the new normal. The study made use of a qualitative research design to gather in-depth insights about the problem and generate new ideas for research. Theoretical sampling is used as prescribed for grounded theory. It identifies the participants which allow a theory to emerge and supports the conducting of interviews with an initial interview from the school principal until saturation is achieved. The results of the study showed that the school recognizes the challenges like teachers’ complaints, insufficiency of the number of employees in school, accountability of school’s properties, current principal’s role, the new normal situation, constraints of school activities, transportation issues, limitation of transaction in school, issues of onsite monitoring, choice of modality, the safety of parents and teachers, and coordination with the barangay officials. In addition, challenges for teachers are teaching delivery and strategies, assurance of students’ learning, poor internet connectivity, the authenticity of assessment, and the safety of teachers and parents. The teachers also observed the issues faced by the students such as parental support, inability to meet the resources needed for learning, modality issues, adjustment to the new normal way of education, and failure of producing outputs on target dates. The school responded with solutions like collaboration among staff, good and strong relationships with different stakeholders, and transformational leadership of the principal. The mechanism utilized in addressing the challenges faced is a learning continuity plan, an agreed choice of modality, and capacity building program.

Just a human error…? Case study of a condensate vessel explosion

AbstractIn the early morning of June 28, 2019, a strong explosion occurred at an ethylene plant that fortunately had no impact on lives or injuries, but it provoked significant damage to the assets of the facility, business interruption, and concern in the neighboring community as the loud bang was heard several kilometers around, even producing some glass breaks in some of the nearby plants. This work analyzes what happened, what the consequences were, and the learning experiences from the accident. The failure that originated the explosion was produced in a condensate container of 2 m3. The author analyzes how smaller pieces of equipment with relative relevance in the final operation of a facility can become serious accident triggers. This work also evaluates the accident from the perspective of the risk‐based process safety management system, the selection and appropriate design of the protection hierarchies, and the human factor as a fundamental part of a management system robustness. One of the relatively new learning experiences being analyzed is the appearance of fake news on social media immediately after the explosion occurred. This further potentiated the drama of the situation, increasing the fear of the population, the distress of the staff's relatives who were at the plant at the time of the accident, and the confusion of the authorities and response teams.

Professional identity and professional services staff: understanding and impact

ABSTRACT This article explores the findings from my professional doctorate that focused on professional services staff in a university in the North West of England and their perceptions of identity. With little literature surrounding the identity of professional services staff, this paper asks if professional services staff relationships with academic staff impact their professional identity and how they perceive their identity at work. It concludes with a view that professional identity is not a well-known concept amongst the interviewees but interactions with academic staff, job roles and recognition of their work are important in how they view themselves and their identity.

Enacting autonomy reform in schools: The re-shaping of roles and relationships under Local Schools, Local Decisions

Local Schools, Local Decisions (LSLD) was a package of school autonomy reforms operating in the state of New South Wales, Australia from 2012 to 2020. The set of reforms centred on the devolution of additional powers and responsibilities to school principals, namely enhanced capacity to manage staffing and financial functions in response to local conditions. Using a conceptual lens of policy enactment, we analyse interview data gathered from 31 teachers and school leaders on how these reform areas were understood and enacted at the school level. Our findings highlight the tensions in enacting devolutionary reform in schools. While the centrality of the school principal’s role was emphasised, including in relation to contested levels of principal discretion, the enactment of devolved powers and responsibilities also produced a fracturing of staff relationships within schools, notably between principals and teaching staff. This finding is understood within a context of heightened workload and unclear expectations which attended the policy’s introduction. We contribute to the school autonomy literature through: (a) the inclusion of teachers’ voices, a stakeholder perspective often missing in the autonomy literature, enabling the impact of the reforms on interpersonal, relational dynamics to come to the fore; and (b) exploring implications for future reform suggested by the fate of LSLD. In doing so, this article deepens knowledge on the enactment of autonomy reforms in schools, drawing implications for understanding school autonomy reform around the globe.