INTRODUCTION The aim of this study was to evaluate the quality of the MR compilation in some Operative Units of the "Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria--II Università di Napoli" (AOU- SUN)-Italy, before and after an intervention of quality improvement, underlining the potential differences in the behaviour of different specialists (physicians vs. surgeons). METHODS Two random samples of 660 MR...

BACKGROUND Amongst healthcare workers (HCWs), compliance rates with influenza vaccination are traditionally low. Although a safe and effective vaccine is available, there is little Australian data on reasons for poor compliance, especially amongst allied health and ancillary support staff. METHODS Cross-sectional investigation of a sample of clinical and non-clinical HCWs from two tertiary-re...

In my 27 years as an NHS hospital doctor, my admiration for nurses in hands-on clinical roles has only grown. Whether staff nurses, ward sisters, charge nurses, specialist practitioners, or consultants, they’re dedicated, skilled, underpaid, and often undervalued. I can’t muster such consistent respect for their senior managers. One advantage of medical career structures is that senior doctors ...

A sense of urgency exists among nurse educators to determine the best possible teaching strategies to create a rich, engaging learning environment for students. With the calls for transformation, innovation, and excellence in nursing education from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, the National Council of State Boards of Nursing, and the National League for Nursing, educators may...

This work in progress paper describes collaborative research, taking place on three continents, towards creating a ‘mixed reality teaching & learning environment’ (MiRTLE) that enables teachers and students participating in realtime mixed and online classes to interact with avatar representations of each other. The longer term hypothesis that will be investigated is that avatar representations ...

A major problem in teaching computer architecture and organization courses is how to help students make the cognitive leap that connects their theoretical knowledge with practical experience. Numerous researchers involved in computer architecture and organization education have tackled this problem, resulting in a variety of educational tools for computer system simulation. The tools differ gre...

Ben Shneiderman[1], Azriel Rosenfeld[2], Gary Marchionini[3], William G. Holliday[4], Glenn Ricart[5], Christos Faloutsos[6], and Judith P. Dick[7] University of Maryland, College Park [1] Professor of Computer Science [2] Research Professor and Director, Center for Automation Research [3] Associate Professor of Library and Information Services [4] Professor of Curriculum and Instruction [5] Di...

BlueJ is a visual programming environment designed to teach objectoriented programming, using Java as the implementation language. BlueJ allows students to concentrate on solving programming problems without becoming distracted by the mechanics of compiling and executing Java programs. This paper reports on the first use of BlueJ to teach Java to an introductory programming class, in a computin...

Electronic Commerce is now seen as the future direction of commerce. Organisations are now developing and implementing a wide range of electronic commerce systems However, before organisations will be able to harness the potential of electronic commerce systems suitably trained people will be required. This paper examines virtual electronic teaching environment: the Deakin Electronic Trading Co...

Teaching is challenging in a real environment. One problem is that not all examples may be available to teach. We show how to teach several important concept classes namely conjunction, disjunction and linear threshold functions under different characterizations of the domain of available examples. We show that a monotone linear threshold function is teachable using a polynomial number of examp...