Ab.macl The dimension of tbe guard lOne along with its bounds for the Generalised Learning Algorithm (P"thak and Pal. 1986) is determined 1'01' optimum learning. The dimension is found to be dynamic dependlllg on the input sequence and tbe current estimates of classification parameters. Incorporation of tbis higher-order knowledge in a supervisory program improves the system performance. The pe...

The trauma coordinator (TC) position is a vital link in the development and operations of trauma care systems. In 1992 and 1993, the American Trauma Society conducted a national survey of TCs to describe the roles and characteristics of the persons who hold those positions. Of 354 trauma coordinators identified in 46 states, more than three-fourths were employed by large hospitals designated as...

This study aims to identify nurse managers' implementation of the nursing supervision function during COVID-19 pandemic. The method used is a case starting with data collection through interviews, surveys and document searches. results showed that head room had performed supervisory directive well (89%), but nurses' perception carried out by pandemic was sufficient (77%). In conclusion, activit...

Recent legislative trends toward early hospital dismissal and cost containment have shifted the setting for health care from the hospital to the home. Consequently, community health nursing supervisors are becoming increasingly responsible both for coordinating care for sicker clients with fewer available resources, and for guiding staff nurses who provide high-tech nursing skills in the home. ...

OBJECTIVE Measuring performance is the first step on the road to improving it. This report presents the results of an exploratory study sponsored by the Quality Assurance (QA) Project to describe and quantify the quality of supervisor-provider interactions in health care facilities in Zimbabwe in 1999. Supervisors were district and municipal nursing officers who are responsible for guiding, ass...

AIM AND OBJECTIVE To measure nursing students' experiences and satisfaction with their clinical learning environments. The primary interest was to compare the results between students with respect to clinical practice in nursing homes and hospital wards. BACKGROUND Clinical learning environments are important for the learning processes of nursing students and for preferences for future workpl...

Restorative care attempts to break the cycle of dependency and functional decline in nursing homes by addressing individual resident needs. The Restorative Care Education and Training (RCET) Program consists of a five-week workshop and resource manual for both supervisory and direct care staff. This paper describes the RCET approach and presents the implementation, process, and quasi-experiment...

Recent years have seen an increased interest and use of advanced practice nurses (APN) in long-term care. Models of best practices of supervision and collaboration have been promulgated by many organizations, but none have specifically addressed how these interactions should occur in the nursing home setting. In order to better define the role of the attending physician and APN to provide optim...

AIM This paper is a comparison of nursing's patterns of knowing with the systems identified by cognitive science, and evaluates claims about the equal-status relation between scientific and non-scientific knowledge. BACKGROUND Ever since Carper's seminal paper in 1978, it has been taken for granted in the nursing literature that there are ways of knowing, or patterns of knowing, that are not ...