This study was undertaken to provide first-time estimates for the seroprevalence of parvovirus B19 infection among daycare educators in Montréal, Canada, and to identify factors associated with seropositivity. A cross-sectional design was used. Directors and educators from 81 daycare centres (DCCs) were surveyed about DCC and personal characteristics respectively, and serum samples from 477 fem...

PURPOSE The National Practice Study (NPS) is conducted biannually to assess current diabetes education practices in the United States with the goal of understanding current trends in the work in which diabetes educators engage. METHODS The 2015 NPS contained 54 questions about the individuals providing diabetes education, people with diabetes participating in education, and programs providing...

A quantitative, descriptive, cross-sectional survey was carried out in the Limpopo Province to identify the perceptions of student nurses, nurse educators and unit supervisors concerning student nurses’ clinical accompaniment in this province. The research objective was to determine whether or not clinical accompaniment of student nurses in the Limpopo Province was perceived to be adequate by t...

this qualitative study attempted to determine the approaches of select ‎iranian translator educators for assessing students’ translation quality. so, ‎a purposive sample of twelve experienced, specialist translator educators‎at major universities across iran was invited for interviews. the analysis ‎of the interview data revealed the approaches they advocated and so ‎applied to assessment of st...

Nurse educators assisted the director of professional nursing practice in a large healthcare system to implement a human caring program across 108 nursing units. These educators used transformational learning principles to reunite bedside nurses with the art of caring. Implementation included core content in a 30-minute training session, large-scale leadership conferences, and consistent educat...

This paper presents a theoretical framework for guiding inquiry in an emerging field of research concerned with the learning and development of mathematics teacher educators. Such research is needed for two reasons: to open up the practices of mathematics teacher educators to critical scrutiny in order to better understand the nature of their impact on mathematics teaching in schools, and to sy...