Dissertations / Theses: 'Innovative Practice'

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Bayard, Max, Jim Holt, Cathy Peoples, and Bendik Clark. "An Innovative Practice Management Curriculum." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2002. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/6504.

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Parry-Jones, Beth. "Innovative practice and occupational stress in care management." Thesis, Bangor University, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.275178.

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Vernay, Rüdiger. "Good classroom practice – how a new journal supports this." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-88187.

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Williams, Maryshannon. "Assessing the Impact of an Innovative Community of Practice on Teacher Efficacy, Leadership and Practice." Thesis, University of Missouri - Columbia, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10629019.

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The purpose of this study was to assess the nature of participation in a hybrid Community of Practice; exploring how teacher efficacy influenced participation; and how participation impacted both technology teacher leadership and technology integration practice. The researcher addressed the following research questions: What is the nature and frequency of the activities and interactions evidenced by participation in a hybrid CoP? What types of knowledge capital were found in a hybrid CoP? Does teacher efficacy influence participation in the online component of a hybrid CoP? How does participation in a hybrid CoP impact teachers’ technology integration and the development of their technology leadership ability? Participants included 31 teachers enrolled in an Innovative Teacher Leaders (ITL) program. The researcher implemented a mixed methods comparative case study, collecting data via participant observations, monthly self-reports, and semi-structured interviews. A survey instrument was administered to collect data on Teacher Efficacy and Teacher Leadership. Frequency data were collected based on interaction logs and face-to-face training observations of the CoP. Findings of this study pointed to the need for time to practice, implementation support, and peer coaching/discourse as necessary factors for successful professional development. Participation in this hybrid CoP was found to have a positive impact on teacher technology integration and technology leadership ability.

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Fisher, Jason (Jason Dean). "Innovative practice in the building process : a convergent development approach." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/106759.

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Thesis: S.M. in Real Estate Development, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Real Estate Development in conjunction with the Center for Real Estate, 2016.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 60-61).
The current practice of building is a slow-moving, fragmented, and conflicted industry that operates on a variety of scales, emotions, professions and realities. The current practice of making buildings has the potential for innovation to align interests among otherwise adverse parties. Buildings are complex and dynamic physical realities, operating as economic, social, and emotional constructs in the urban environment. Buildings also constitute the single unifying element upon which all stakeholders in the process place their expectations. Financial, spatial, emotional, and civic success hangs in the balance of a zero-sum process. The background of the development process is presented, focusing on the current practices of real estate development and architecture and highlighting the critical relationship between each entity. Following the description of the underlying relationships and processes, three case studies of actual practices are presented as innovative and unique alternatives to the current process of building. Each case study outlines a potential integration and convergence of real estate development and architectural design, providing a new viewpoint from which to analyze current practice. Five principles of excellent development emerge from the case studies as decisive benchmarks to analyze the building process. Following initial background information and explicit understanding of current processes and potential innovative alternatives, this thesis proposes a new practice model of integrated real estate development and architectural design, the Convergent Model, which seeks to simplify the building process and align economic, social, and cultural goals within a truly interdisciplinary team of professionals. The process is a potential solution to the compounded and interconnected issues of current practice and is more likely to meet the five principles of excellent development. Finally, the Convergent Model is put into practice through a hypothetical demonstration project. The demonstration project consists of a comparison between a Baseline and a Proposal, two developments on the same site. The Baseline utilizes traditional practices and the Proposal employs the Convergent Model. The development processes are compared side by side and evaluated as an illustrative depiction of the potential for a new development process that is more capable of creating excellent buildings.
by Jason Fisher.
S.M. in Real Estate Development

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Kempster, Jonathan. "Integrating innovative environmental pedagogies into practice in adult community education." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2016. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/16421/.

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This study explores whether innovative environmental pedagogies that encourage learners to reflect on nature and are socially-critical can be integrated into teaching practice in a local government adult community education setting. Existing environmental education (EE) research reports that integrating innovative environmental pedagogies into teaching practice is problematic as a result of institutional constraints and teachers’ subjective influences. Most of this existing research has been conducted in schools, not in adult community education. My study recognises this gap in knowledge and explores how eleven practitioners working in one particular local government adult community education setting in England make meaning of innovative environmental pedagogies. In my study I employ an action research strategy, collecting data through semi-structured interviews and cooperative inquiry meetings. Heron and Reason’s (1997) extended epistemology provides an appropriate theoretical framework. Their extended epistemology resonates strongly with my methodology and supports the practical methods required to address my research aims and questions. My findings show that integrating innovative environmental pedagogies into one adult community education setting is indeed problematic. Problems include: practitioners’ concerns with adhering to externally imposed government performance targets; their practice of working in isolation and how their beliefs over remaining neutral in teaching significantly influences their attitude towards innovative environmental pedagogies. Unlike previous research, my findings also make visible how practitioner beliefs about nature and privileging learner needs mitigate against the integration of innovative environmental pedagogy into practice. I conclude that innovative environmental pedagogies cannot simply be grafted on to pre-existing practices. Innovation in EE must be situative and aligned with the contexts in which practitioners work.

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Al, Afifi Maan Nadeem Ali. "Leadership best practice for sustaining business excellence in innovative organisations." Thesis, Sheffield Hallam University, 2015. http://shura.shu.ac.uk/19229/.

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Innovative organisations are facing exceptional changes and challenges. To meet such changes and challenges, it is recognised that appropriate leadership is essential. This leadership organises and encourages thoughts and good intentions by putting the interests of others as the top priority, energises positive thoughts; loyalty, integrity and determination, and facilitates creative thinking by using all creative methods to solve problems and think outside of the box. Leadership best practices are the basis and driver for "innovative organisations and excellence" across the world. However, achieving best practice is almost impossible without defining a common understanding of leadership and sustainable business excellence within organisations. For five decades, scholars almost failed to agree on one common definition. This has led to the need for new, agreeable leadership roles to ensure that organisational excellence is sustainable, innovative, and valid for all. The aims of this research include, firstly, to provide a framework for understanding leadership. Secondly, it aims to provide a methodology to build and validate "business excellence" and "leadership" models and theories. Thirdly, this research will develop a sustainable business excellence framework that integrates quality management and the majority of the necessary components for considering the performance of enterprises in today's environment, taking into consideration the creativity and sustaining excellence in innovation by organisations in this 21st century. The research methodology used in this thesis includes a literature review of approximately 1000 articles and definitions that were collected from different sources, interviews of carefully selected experts in the field of leadership and business excellence, and different sets of questionnaires. Moreover, a validation tool has been developed, which is a combination of well-known management tools (Deming Cycle, RADAR logic, and Structural Equational Modelling (SEM)). In addition, statistical software (SPSS) and AMOS have been used to carry out the necessary statistical analysis and to facilitate the development of the proposed leadership framework and validation model. There are four major new outcomes of this thesis: 1) developing a framework for understanding leadership, 2) developing the six essential elements of leadership, 3) developing a model to validate business excellence models, 4) developing a new leadership framework for the 21st Century that is characterised by innovative principles and sustainable business excellence within an organisation.

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Sherwin, C. "Innovative ecodesign : an exploratory and descriptive study of Industrial Design practice." Thesis, Cranfield University, 2000. http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/3543.

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This research provides a study of practices of Innovative Ecodesign. The literature has extensively highlighted the need for more radical innovations and more innovative approaches to ecodesign, to fall in line with sustainability targets. However, both theory and practice (and the resultant tools and methods) describe and present a more incremental approach, as prevalent and most suitable. Using a single case study methodology within the Industrial Design department of a major Electrical and Electronics manufacturer, this exploratory and descriptive study contributes to the theoretical framework and practical understanding of more innovative practices of ecodesign. Earlier work suggested that integrating ecodesign at the early stages of product development was critical to its environmental effectiveness and ability to innovate. This study therefore aimed to investigate Innovative Ecodesign by considering two key factors: - Its integration into the early stages of the product design and development process - Industrial Design practices of ecodesign. The research concluded on Industrial Design practice as well as on the characteristics of Innovative Ecodesign. Industrial designers conduct ecodesign in there own unique way, not fully represented in existing theory or accounted for in existing methods. They require specific types of information usually general and visually presented as well as substantiated with case studies and examples. The potential to innovate is seen as the greatest motivator for designers to conduct ecodesign, while their design processes use environmental priorities and 'the product' in an ambiguous way. Designer s key role and most significant contribution is in creative and strategic thinking (new ideas), and the proposal of new concepts which have a strong emphasis on increasing the desirability of these 'eco-products' or new behaviours. This demand-side orientation in the design considerations is particularly unique to Industrial Design. The practices of Innovative Ecodesign undertaken here can be characterised as follows. It is an exploratory form of designing with an emphasis on openness and design freedom. Such design activities are perhaps best not immediately answerable to product development or aimed directly at the launch of new products. Among its aims are in embodying and expressing ecodesign principles and communicating these to others. Such design activities are strategic in their nature and requiring greater levels of participation across the production and consumption chain in future. They are systems based and holistic and prioritise environmental issues within the design brief. An important early aspect is the identification of either/or core business and consumer needs, which broadens the design considerations. The study relates these findings back to existing ecodesign theory, and conclude that both ecodesign (its theory, descriptions, definitions and practice) and design itself (its profile, uses and practice) need to change and mature.

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Davison, Graydon, University of Western Sydney, College of Law and Business, and School of Management. "Innovative practice in the process of patient management in palliative care." THESIS_CLAB_MAN_Davison_G.xml, 2005. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/498.

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This thesis examines the management of multidisciplinary teams in a highly innovative environment through a study of multidisciplinary patient care teams in palliative care. It investigates management that enables spontaneous innovation where necessary, yet maintains discipline and compliance with legislation, regulation and policy. To assist the explanation a model of palliative care multidisciplinary team management and operation is developed, building on work described in the continuous innovation and organisational configuration literatures. This thesis describes innovative practices as focusing on changing the organisation’s social potential, when necessary, in order to match changes in an individual patient’s situation. A definition of innovation suitable to this environment is developed here, adapted from the innovation literature. A definition of social potential suitable to this environment is also developed, based primarily in the literature of the socialisation of organisations. In palliative care organisations, care is delivered to the patient and any group of people supporting the patient during the end of life process. Care provided to these supporters, referred to in this thesis as patient-based carers, can extend beyond the death of the patient. Palliative care is more than symptom management during the dying process and can involve an interaction lasting weeks or months between the organisation and patients and patient-based carers. A patient’s situation is described at many levels and involves a number of aspects of the patient’s condition and life; for example medical, social, psychosocial, spiritual and physical. In palliative care, patients and patient-based carers are the major sources of information about their situation and changes to it. This makes them active participants in the care team, although some patients and patient-based carers choose not to take this role. Every patient and every group of patient-based carers creates individualised situations when progressing through their end of life processes, requiring individualised care from teams that can change the membership mix to suit the situation. Palliative care professionals can be members of multiple individual patient care teams simultaneously and teams can include heads of discipline (managers). Multidisciplinary palliative care teams can be managed from inside or outside the team, as the situation requires. Uncertainty pervades this environment and the response is flexibility based in learning and understanding. From the model developed of the management of innovation in the palliative care environment implications for the management of multidisciplinary teams in a highly innovative environment are drawn.
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

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Davison, Graydon. "Innovative practice in the process of patient management in palliative care." View Thesis, 2005. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20051025.104715/index.html.

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Gunn, Frances Elizabeth. "The process of discursive institutional work in creating an innovative degree development practice : an institutionalisation approach to innovation." Thesis, Open University, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.664516.

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Developing sector-specific university degrees is a challenging process for universities and sectoral members. The development of these degrees needs to incorporate industry-specific resources whilst satisfying the universities' institutional degree requirements. The process is particularly problematic when there has not previously been a degree devoted to the sector and when there has not been sector-wide communication about the need for a degree. This study provides an empirical investigation of the development of Canada's first retail management degree and examines how discursive processes constituted an innovative practice of sector-specific degree development in a fragmented, occupational field. These processes were innovative because they involved a corporate-university partnership, multiple collaborations of institutional and corporate embedded actors, and particular forms of legitimating discursive work. Given the institutional nature of the university, this practice represents a process of institutionalisation, whereby the innovative practice becomes a legitimate means of degree development. By examining this unique case, this study develops an analytic framework to analyse discursive institutionalisation through archival documentation and qualitative interviews. The discursive work performed through the data is characterised by the prominence of generalised issues, and by the nature of its synchronicity, recursiveness and convergence. The resulting institutionalisation processes perform discursive institutional work that is purposive, synchronised, recursive and convergent. This study therefore provides an understanding of how discursive processes institutioalise an innovative practice of retail management degree development.

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Armendariz-Batiste, Mary Josette. "New Graduate Nurses: Evaluating an Innovative Mixed Method Orientation Program." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2199.

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Institutions are recruiting new graduate nurses to fill their vacancies. The aim of this project was to create a new graduate nurse orientation program that consists of the Essentials of Critical Care Orientation (ECCO) program created by the American Association of Critical Care Nurses (2014), scenarios, and simulation that will result in an increase in nurses' sense of their ability to provide safe patient care, communicate effectively, perform skills, and increase their sense of institutional support. The theoretical framework for this mixed methods project was Benner's "From Novice to Expert." The convenience sample participants consisted of 17 baccalaureate-prepared new graduate nurses. The Casey-Fink Graduate Nurse Experience Survey was administered prior to the orientation program and again at the completion. Content analysis was used for Section I of the survey, which pertains to the top 3 skills nurses are uncomfortable performing. In the presurvey, chest tube care, ECK/EKG/telemetry, and tracheostomy were listed. However, they were not listed on the post survey. The findings resulted in a correlation between skills that were taught during simulation and scenarios. Fisher's exact test was used for Sections II, III, and IV of the survey. There was no statistically significant difference in the pre and post survey as it pertained to questions regarding safe patient care, communication, and sense of institutional support. Results of this study are inconclusive and do not fully support the orientation program. Nurse leaders have a social mandate to ensure new graduate nurses are supported and have the resources needed to provide safe patient care. The program that was created and implemented was an attempt to assist new graduate nurses with their transition into practice.

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Grecchi, Elisabetta. "Multiresolution image analysis : innovative applications for Positron Emission Tomography in clinical practice." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2016. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/multiresolution-image-analysis(b7d71602-2274-426f-a81d-22327efd3402).html.

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Positron Emission Tomography is an excellent tool to image physiological processes in vivo and it is of great potential when it comes to disease staging for targeted therapies. However, the potential of PET imaging is somewhat limited by its low spatial resolution with resulting significant partial volume effect (PVE) that deteriorates the accuracy of the quantification of the physiological process under scrutiny. In this context, the use of multimodality imaging is very convenient to resolve this limitation. Using novel techniques based on a multiresolution approach, it is possible to recover PET resolution by a synergistic coupling of the PET images with the anatomical counterpart, either CT or MRI. The multiresolution analysis is performed through a wavelet decomposition of both functional and anatomical images which has been used already in the past with similar purposes. The aim of this thesis is to present novel multiresolution partial volume correction (PVC) techniques that target two different clinical applications. The first part of the project aims to correct for PVE in order to improve the clinical assessment of [18F]Fluoride PET/CT imaging in presence of bone metastasis from prostate and breast cancer. In the second part of the project we develop a different PVC multiresolution approach aiming to improve the quantification of [11C]PIB PET/MR brain myelin imaging in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) patients. The algorithms validation was performed using either phantom data or clinical images of human controls. The main result of this work is that application of the PVC methodology resulted in a very significant gain in image resolution without any detectable increase of image noise. Lesions sharpness and detectability improved as well with a resulting increase in quantification accuracy. The algorithms developed and presented in this thesis proved to be straightforward tools to improve PET quantification in routine clinical practice.

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Highsmith, McKenzie Calhoun, Jesse Gilreath, Peter Bockhorst, Kathleen White, and Beth Bailey. "Evaluation of an Innovative Transitional Care Clinic in an Interprofessional Teaching Practice." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2020. https://dc.etsu.edu/ijhse/vol7/iss1/5.

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During transitions of care, great opportunity exists for miscommunication, poor care coordination, adverse events, medication errors and unnecessary healthcare utilization costing billions of dollars annually. An Interprofessional Transitions of Care (IPTC) clinic was developed utilizing a Family Medicine team that included physicians, nurses, a clinical social worker, and a clinical pharmacist. The purpose of this study was to determine if utilization of an IPTC clinic prevented hospital readmission, and to identify factors that predict most benefit from an interprofessional approach to transitions of care. A retrospective chart review of 1,001 patients was completed. A treatment group (TG) of 501 patients were offered IPTC clinic appointments following hospital discharge. A control group (CG) of 500 patients were hospitalized and received traditional follow-up prior to development of the IPTC clinic. Traditional follow-up typically consisted of an automated appointment reminder and a physician office visit. Outcomes assessed included 30-day hospital readmission of TG versus CG, and whether patient characteristics predisposed specific patient groups to attend IPTC appointments or benefit more from IPTC participation. Compared with CG, patients who completed an IPTC appointment were 48% less likely to be readmitted to the hospital within 30 days. Patients with congestive heart failure and cellulitis particularly benefited from IPTC. Telephone contact within two business days of discharge was the greatest predictor of patients attending an IPTC appointment. These results demonstrate that an interprofessional approach to transitions in care effectively addresses this high risk for error and high cost time in the continuum of care.

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De, Angelis Gino. "The Dissemination of Clinical Practice Guidelines to Arthritis Health Professionals Using Innovative Strategies." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/37802.

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Problem: With an increasing aging Canadian population with chronic diseases such as arthritis, there is an urgent need for health professionals to promote evidence-based arthritis self-management support to their patients. Objective: The overall objective of this thesis was to determine the feasibility of using Facebook as a dissemination strategy for an online evidence-based arthritis self-management program, People Getting a Grip on Arthritis (PGrip), by arthritis health professionals with their patients. Methods: To identify the current evidence and knowledge gaps in regards to the use of innovative dissemination strategies for clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) and social media use for chronic disease self-management among health professionals, two systematic reviews of the literature were conducted. The first systematic review identified research on health professionals’ perceived usability and practice behaviour change of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for the dissemination of CPGs. The second identified research on the perceived usability of social media by health professionals to facilitate chronic disease self-management with their patients. To engage potential knowledge users in the research process, an advisory committee consisting of six arthritis health professional users (two registered nurses, two physiotherapists, and two occupational therapists) was convened to identify barriers and facilitators of using and accessing Facebook as a dissemination strategy for PGrip. The advisory committee was also convened to identify how the PGrip Facebook group page could be tailored to improve usability among arthritis health professionals. A feasibility study of 78 arthritis health professionals was then conducted to determine the feasibility of using Facebook as a dissemination strategy for PGrip among arthritis health professionals to their patients. To guide future research, a protocol for a pilot randomized controlled trial (RCT) was developed that will compare Facebook with an educational website and email to determine which strategy will demonstrate greater perceived usefulness among arthritis health professionals to disseminate the PGrip program with their patients. Results: The findings of the first systematic review revealed that health professionals’ perceived usability and practice behaviour change varies by type of ICT and the heterogeneity and paucity of properly conducted studies did not allow for a clear comparison between studies. The second systematic review revealed that health professionals perceived discussion forums and collaborative projects to be useful social media platforms to facilitate chronic disease self-management with patients. The feasibility study suggested that a Facebook group page can be used as a dissemination strategy for the PGrip program by arthritis health professionals. The Facebook group page was perceived to be usable with patients after two weeks and three months in regards its ease of use and high output quality. Conclusion: The overall research of this thesis provides advanced knowledge on how a Facebook group page as a dissemination strategy for an evidence-based self-management program for patients is perceived by arthritis health professionals. Facebook may provide arthritis health professionals with an additional option of how to best share evidence-based information to allow their patients to successfully self-manage their arthritis. A future pilot RCT is needed to determine whether Facebook is superior to other ICT intervention in regards its perceived usefulness among arthritis health professionals to disseminate the PGrip program with their patients.

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Short, Candice, Retha Gentry, and Lisa Ousley. "Instructional Dermatology Surface Models: An Innovative Paradigm in Educating Advanced Practice Nursing Students." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2020. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/7356.

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McGaughy, Melinda Kay. "Innovative Access to Integrative Health Education for Advanced Practice Nurses: A Pilot Project." Otterbein University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=otbn149269683868965.

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Tarbuck, Alice. "'Some particulars' : the poetry and practice of Thomas A. Clark." Thesis, University of Dundee, 2018. https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/f83543e1-2cf3-4988-a8c7-f802c7b6bae7.

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This thesis is a critical study of the poetry and practice of Thomas A. Clark. It constitutes the first extended critical study of Clark's work. This thesis orients Clark within a network of influence, both historic and contemporary. It does this in order to contextualise and investigate Clark's innovative use of form, theme, and materiality. In Clark's work, form is used to explore and engage with the natural world. These interactions reveal the primacy of close attention in Clark's work, and his understanding of the ethical relationship between form, content, and the natural world. This thesis isolates four geographic features in Clark's work as lenses through which to explore his practice: the Field, the Garden, Concrete, and the Mountain. Thus, the thesis follows the structure of a walk through Clark's work, designed to echo Clark's own walking poetry. These four chapters explore different facets of Clark's influence: The Field chapter investigates Clark's reputation as a pastoralist, and his links to Romanticism, as well as to Charles Olson's open field poetics. Chapter two, 'Composition is a forgotten art': The Garden, explores Clark's engagement with 'domestic nature', and the parallels he creates between the space of the text and the space of the garden, and how this parallel allows for intense formal experimentation in a small space. Additionally, the Garden chapter investigates spaces of rest and recuperation in Clark's work. Chapter three, Thomas A. Clark and Concrete Poetry investigates Clark's relationship with concrete poetry, and how his post-concrete poetics have developed in relation to the broader post-concrete and conceptual art scene in Britain. Finally, Mountain Tasting: Zen and the poetry of Thomas A. Clark examines Clark's relationship with Japanese Zen poetics, and the way in which the 1960s interest in Zen which influenced Objective poetry and minimalism has profoundly influenced Clark's understanding of the ethical function of a text.

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Tao, Junliang. "Fusion of Numerical Modeling and Innovative Sensing to Advance Bridge Scour Research and Practice." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1372710604.

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Beatty, Erin Leigh. "Poetic design : an exploration of the parallels between expert poetry composition and innovative design practice." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.663250.

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Poetic expertise represents a unique area of artistic creativity that can inform our theoretical understanding of the creative process. Studies of poetic expertise also shed new light on the similarities and differences that exist between innovative concept exploration and evaluation processes that arise in artistic pursuits and those that take place in more technology-oriented design practices. Most of the current knowledge in the area of poetry writing derives from autobiographical accounts from expert poets (Curtis, 1996) or from studies of novice poets (Groenendijk et al., 2008). Although such evidence is useful in identifying issues that may be associated with poetic expertise, it nevertheless remains critical to pursue in-depth empirical work focusing on the activities of expert poets themselves. To achieve such an empirical understanding I have conducted a programme of research to examine poetic expertise with a close eye on exploring the parallels between creative processes in the poetry domain and those in the design domain. My research methodology is threefold. First, I conducted interviews with poets to gather some reflective data on their creative processes and professional practice. Second, I conducted a laboratory-based study of expert poets undertaking writing tasks while verbally reporting their thoughts using a 'think aloud' technique. These data replicated and extended the findings from the interview study. Third, I conducted a final interview based study with highly-respected, award-winning UK poets who were considered to be exceptional within their field given their major international standing. The focus of the thesis was on reporting key elements of design thinking that may well be generic aspects of creative endeavour aimed at producing novel and valued outputs, rather than being restricted to core design disciplines. Finally, I developed a model of poetic composition that was informed by a theoretical understanding of design thinking.

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Youngman, Andrea. "The dynamics of learning, teaching and assessment : a study of innovative practice at undergraduate level." Thesis, Nottingham Trent University, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.285726.

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Park, Julian. "Towards a sustainable systems framework : the assessment of silvoarable agroforestry as an innovative cropping practice." Thesis, Cranfield University, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.385884.

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Steffen, Priscilla. "Clinical Practice Guideline Implementation for Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency Testing: Evaluation of an Innovative Method." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/194842.

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Purpose/Aims: The American Thoracic Society (ATS) published recommendations for alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (AATD) testing in 2003. This descriptive project evaluates the outcomes of ATS AATD guideline use in the setting of the pulmonary function testing (PFT) lab.The specific aims met by this descriptive project describe the prevalence of AATD cases and carriers in the sample, examine to what degree the established clinical guideline promoted accurate patient selection for the alpha-1 test in the sample, and aimed to determine whether alpha-1 antitrypsin blood levels are reduced in current smokers compared to former or never smokers.Background: Alpha-1 antitrypsin prevents lung tissue breakdown by attenuating excess elastase released from neutrophils during the inflammatory response. Smoking impairs alpha-1 antitrypsin protection at the site of lung inflammation promoting emphysema development. In the case of genetic mutation, protective alpha-1 antitrypsin levels are reduced, causing emphysema even in non-smokers. Significantly reduced protective levels of alpha-1 antitrypsin increase the odds for morbidity and early mortality from emphysema. The literature provides support for targeted testing in the population most affected.Sample/Methods: The sample population included adults 21 through 79 years completing pulmonary function testing over 18 months in a metropolitan pulmonary medicine practice and was retrospectively reviewed.Of the 521 in the sample, 190 were tested for AATD, and 24 were found to carry an abnormal genotype. However, using Table 11 from the ATS CPG failed to provide structured, consistent guidance in selecting patients for AATD testing. Still, the prevalence of the abnormal genotypes MS, MZ, SZ, and ZZ was increased in this pulmonary population compared to the published estimated prevalence for the general population.A structured decision-tree, developed from the original guideline for diagnostic testing, may provide superior guidance for AATD test patient selection in this setting. Increased case finding by targeted testing of patients in the setting of the pulmonary function lab can serve to integrate this clinical practice guideline in a consistent streamlined fashion.In this sample, no difference between AAT blood levels among ever, never, and current tobacco smokers was detected. A more powerful sample is needed.

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Diffenderfer, Sandy, Kathrine Hall, and Christine M. Mullins. "Application of Rapid Cycle Quality Improvement in a Dedicated Education Site: An Innovative Academic-Practice Exemplar." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/7134.

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Egbuta, Iheanyi Chuku. "The adoption of teleworking as an innovative work practice by small business enterprises in South Wales." Thesis, University of South Wales, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.702316.

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This thesis examines Teleworking as an innovative practice in small business enterprises in South Wales and how they have embraced and applied it as an innovation tool as arguably, innovation is at the heart of any successful organisation especially in the light of the nascent emerging pro-cost saving and "green" work environments that organisations have been embracing in an economy largely dominated by the conventional working pattern and style. In recent years there has been a shift in how organisations and businesses are run and a renaissance in the economic thinking of Welsh small business organisations perhaps due to the economic downturn and present government cuts and realities of the state of the economy which has resulted in a shift from the conventional ways work is carried out and the way innovation in the workplace is applied, to the open and flexible work pattern that still delivers great results and profits to organisations and a times at less cost. Organisations are more employee friendly and more compassionate to the needs of their staff because as any good employer knows, a key element for success, profitability, positive outcomes and business strength is based on employee fulfilment which in part comprises of providing the support and option for teleworking and flexible working as key recipes for organisational success. These developments have prompted this research into whether the study into the benefits and barriers of teleworking has a significant role in the evolution of teleworking in the workplace environment and if it is in line with organisational innovation plans. This research is undertaken to underpin the importance of innovation with emphasis on teleworking adoption in small business organisations. In order to accomplish these tasks, the research uses a qualitative research approach which employed an online focus groups and in-depth interviews through questionnaires and interviews with various organisations, employees and employers and key policy makers in Wales and construct a framework that will provide understanding. The research concludes that teleworking is regarded to be important for the advancement of small business organisations in Wales. It is the first study to investigate and evaluate the practice of teleworking and how its innovative application framework affects small business organisations directly in Wales to help businesses succeed.

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Wong, Ka-yuen, and 王家婉. "Innovative teaching practice to address the needs of students from Mainland China: a case study of primaryone." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2003. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B40040367.

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Curry, Tamika. "Adopting Innovative Approaches to Care: Facilitators & Barriers of School Nursing Practice in an Urban School District." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2019. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/551882.

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As new approaches to practice become available for school nurses, urban school districts must address the need to provide facilitators for the dissemination and adoption of new evidenced based practice models. With instructional capacity, curriculum challenges, and school climate at the center of the decision making of educational leaders, the needs of school health become neglected. As new innovations become available, school nurses working in urban school districts often rely on individual continuing education to access new ideas due to barriers that exist in urban schools with limited funding and resources. This dissertation research had two primary aims: (1) expand current research regarding specific barriers and facilitators to practice, and (2) to better understand the school nurses’ adoption of the Framework for the 21st Century School Practicing Nurse in an urban school district. This framework addresses the specific needs of the school nurse working in an evolving educational health setting. Using a descriptive and inferential quantitative design with a convenience sample of school nurses in the School District of Philadelphia (SDP), participants completed an online survey designed to examine awareness, agreement, and alignment with the framework, as well as barriers and facilitators of adoption. The results revealed differences in level of awareness of the framework across various demographic groups within the SDP. After presenting the framework to participants, school nurses agreed with the importance of fully aligning practice. Further, there were variations in level of importance regarding specific practice components of the framework. Participants identified facilitators and barriers that impacted their ability to fully align school nursing practice with the framework.
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May, Heather. "Aesthetic, creative and innovative uses for photosensitive glass in art-glass production: case studies in studio practice." Thesis, Curtin University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1840.

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This research is situated in a space between the broad fields of art-glass design, art, science and the technology of alternative photographic printing processes. It is an experimental project with a core research question. ‘Can photosensitive glass be made more accessible to artists working in art-glass, design or art practice’?The focus of this research is located in the almost forgotten niche of ‘photosensitive’ glass. ‘Photo-sensitive and photo-chromic glasses contain ultraviolet light-sensitive metals, gold, silver or copper. The selective development of color can be controlled by placing a mask or photographic film in contact with the glass. When exposed to ultraviolet radiation, then heated, the glass changes from clear to opal, reproducing the pattern on the glass. The image developed is permanent and will not fade as would a similar image in photo-chromic glass.’ (Kohler 1998, 23-24). Glass: An Artist’s Medium. Section 2. Properties of Glass. Iola, WI54990-001. USA: Krause Publications.Through systematic experimentation, the methods indicating how photosensitive glass can be incorporated into selected traditional glass-making techniques have been identified. Traditional glass making techniques include: o Pulling of molten glass from a glass furnace to make stringers, canes, rods, murrine and/or mosaics a hot glass technique. o Crushing and recycling, making chunk de verre and pate de verre, a warm glass technique. o Bead-making, button-making and core-forming, all hot glass techniques. o Kiln work in the form of kiln casting/slumping and simple open-face Pate de Verre, a warm glass technique. o The casting of molten glass from the glass furnace into sand for sandcasting and the forcing of hot molten glass into moulds are hot glass techniques. o Free-blowing and mould blowing, hot glass techniques. o Acid etching and acid embossing, particularly hazardous cold glass techniques are only discussed not attempted.These selected techniques are presented as case studies that have been analysed and the experiments documented to identify methods and processes that demonstrate the potential of photosensitive glass as an art medium. The details of successful experimentation are fully documented according to a laboratory processes, formulae and colour analysis. This extensive research material will hopefully enable designers and glass artists to extend their creative practices and when using the outcomes to develop hybrid and innovative processes in a wide range of contemporary studio based and commercial applications. The research outcomes of this enquiry into the use of photosensitive glass in creative glass processes represent an extensive and original contribution to knowledge that I hope will be shared by studio artists and commercial glass professionals in art and design.

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Storch, Jacob. "Systemic thinking, lived redescription, and ironic leadership : creating and sustaining a company of innovative organisational consulting practices." Thesis, University of Bedfordshire, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10547/235171.

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This thesis is about the growth and sustainability of a systemic consultancy that for more than ten years has experienced continuous growth and development. It sets out to describe the kind of distinctive dialogical relational practices (Shotter, 2006, 2008) that enables the conditions for a continuous creation of novel and innovative practices which has been expressed into an ever growing and mutating practice both within the community but also in relation to clients. It is argued that it is the distinctive systemic way of being irreverent towards one's own practice; that is privileging curiosity over certainty (Cecchin, 1987), imagination over inference (Rorty, 1989, 1991a), that is perhaps the most specific difference between systemic theory-practitioners and other ways of consulting. Through cases these ideas are described from within the experiences of those participating offering unique expressions of how this difference is lived in a day-to-day conduct. The treatment of these episodes leads to the hypothesis that innovative practices become a 'way of being' in the world rather than a special feature applied on practice which means that it is not only something we do it is also how we see ourselves grow and develop as individuals as well as a community. How this is expressed into client relationships is explored through two cases of innovative consultancy. The thesis is also a self-reflexive portrait described through neo-pragmatic ideas as found in Rorty's (1980, 1989, 1991a, 1991b, 1999) writing. This project is providing a tension within the project of developing the thesis re-viewing my previous systemic vocabulary through the use of new words and metaphors, through which the reader is invited into an extension of the idea of 'irreverence' with Rorty's writing on irony and redescription. During the course of this project a portrait of the kind of leadership practice that facilitates a relationally dialogical way of being in an organisation is described, which serves as a kind of self portrait. The research methods applied is best captured by the notion of participant research (Lindlof, 1995. Wadel, 1991), which entails using a series of data such as interviews, on the spot observations, written material, post episode reflections and participant dialogues in relation to the different meanings an episode can have. All the data used is discussed and related to the theoretical project within the thesis.

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Wong, Ka-yuen. "Innovative teaching practice to address the needs of students from Mainland China a case study of primary one /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2003. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B40040367.

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Miller, Daniel Jeffrey. "Design and Analysis of an Innovative Semi-Flexible Hybrid Personal-Body-Armor System." Scholar Commons, 2011. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3247.

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Current military-grade rifle body armor technology uses hard ballistic plates positioned on top of flexible materials, such as woven Kevlar® to stop projectiles and absorb the energy of the impact. However, absorbing the impact energy and stopping a rifle projectile comes at a cost to the wearer - mobility. In this thesis, a new concept for personal body armor is proposed - a semi-flexible hybrid body armor. This hybrid armor is comprised of two components that work as a system to effectively balance the flexibility offered by a soft fabric based armor with the protection level of hard plated armor. This work demonstrates techniques used to analyze and design the hybrid armor to be compliant with National Institute of Justice guidelines. In doing so, finite element analysis is used to simulate the effect of a projectile impacting the armor at various locations, angles, and velocities, while design of experiments is used to study the effect of these various impact combinations on the ability of the armor component(s) (including the wearer) to absorb energy. The flexibility and protection offered by the two component armor system is achieved by the use of proven technique and innovative geometry. For the analytical design, the material properties, contact area(s), dwell duration, and energy absorption are all carefully considered. This yields a lightweight but yet effective armor, which is estimated to weigh 36% less than the current military grade hard body armor. Using ANSYS, several simulations were conducted using finite element analysis, including a direct center impact, along with various other impacts to investigate possible weak points in the armor. In doing so, it is determined that only one of these impact locations is indeed a potential weak point. The finite element analysis continues to show that a rifle projectile impacting at an oblique angle reduces the energy transferred to the wearer by about 25% (compared to a direct impact). A design of experiments approach was used to determine the influence of various input parameters, such as projectile impact velocity and impact location. It is shown that the projectile impact velocity contributes 36% to the ability of the wearer to absorb energy, whereas impact velocity contributes only 13% to the energy absorbed by the top armor component. Furthermore, the analysis shows that the impact location is a highly influential factor (with a 69% contribution) in the energy absorption by the top armor component.

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Cunliffe, Harry. "James Bradley : educating in art; an investigation into the theory and practice of his innovative course at Sidcot School." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.307642.

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Antonczak, Laurent. "Creativity on the move : how can mobile technology enable collaborative and innovative practices ?" Thesis, Strasbourg, 2022. http://www.theses.fr/2022STRAB001.

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Cette thèse vise à mieux comprendre et définir certaines caractéristiques et conditions de la théorie et des pratiques de l'innovation en relation avec la technologie mobile. Cette dernière est considérée comme actrice potentielle et nouveau modèle pour transformer les idées en actions et pour gérer la créativité et le management organisationnel dans le domaine des industries créatives. Basée sur une approche qualitative, cette thèse met en évidence trois éléments saillants associés à la technologie mobile. Le premier est un enrichissement de la fluidité des processus d'innovation comblant un manque dans la littérature sur la technologie mobile, la gestion des organisations et des connaissances, et les pratiques collaboratives et innovatrices au sein des PME.Deuxièmement, cette thèse contribue à une nouvelle vision du concept de ba (Nonaka & Takeuchi, 1995) au delà des frontières organisationnelles, et la définition du ba mobile. Enfin, elle apporte aussi une perspective nouvelle sur les travaux de Cohendet et al. (2010) en ce qui concerne le "relâchement créatif" (‘creative slack’)et les notions associées de création et de capture de valeur pour les PME
This research aims to better understand and define some characteristics and conditions of innovation theoryand practice in relation to mobile technology. Mobile technology is seen as a potential actor and new model fortransforming ideas into action and for managing creativity and organisational management in the realm of theCreative Industries. Based on a qualitative approach, this research highlights three salient elements associatedwith mobile technology. The first is an enrichment of the fluidity of innovation processes filling a gap in theliterature on mobile technology, organisational and knowledge management, and collaborative and innovativepractices within SMEs. Secondly, this research contributes to a new vision of the concept of ba (Nonaka &Takeuchi, 1995) beyond organisational boundaries, and the definition of the ba mobile. Finally, it also providesa new perspective on the work of Cohendet et al. (2010) regarding 'creative slack' and associated notions of valuecreation and capture for SMEs

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Horsley, Jeffrey. "Embedding the personal : the construction of a 'fashion autobiography' as a museum exhibition, informed by innovative practice at ModeMuseum, Antwerp." Thesis, University of the Arts London, 2012. http://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/5688/.

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My intention is to contribute to the field of exhibition-making a repertoire of presentation modes, previously not analysed or documented, that can be applied to the display of fashion in the museum and which will extend those techniques currently available to the exhibition-maker to create meaningful and stimulating exhibition environments. Part 1 contextualises my investigation, through discussion of the exhibition as source material, the methods employed to execute the research and analysis of relevant literature. Part 1 concludes with an introduction to ModeMuseum, Antwerp, which is the primary location for my research. Part 2 details the identification, description and definition of a repertoire of presentation modes, classified and distinguished as innovative through comparative analysis of over 100 exhibitions visited for this research, alongside investigation of the exhibition formats and structures that support deployment of the modes. Part 3 relates the application of the presentation modes to the construction of a 'fashion autobiography‘ in the form of a proposal for a hypothetical exhibition, through examination of the processes utilised to develop the exhibition narrative and detailed account of the proposal in its final realisation. In conclusion, I will critically reflect on the research executed, underlining the interrelationship of the theoretical and practice-based activities. Finally, I will detail opportunities taken to disseminate this research, and indicate possible directions for continued investigation.

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Mutongwizo, Nyasha. "Innovative practice of Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) working with out-of-school, unemployed youth in Cape Town : an exploratory study." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19026.

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The following study is an exploration of the innovative practice of Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) that work with out-of-school, unemployed youth between the ages of 15 and 24 years in Cape Town. The current study meets three research objectives: describing the key characteristics of innovative practice; exploring the nature of NGO's engagement with out-of-school, unemployed youth (15-24 years) in Cape Town; and investigating the factors that promote or constrain innovative practice in these youth NGOs. The first objective of the current study is met through a literature review. Key characteristics of innovative practice are reviewed and the views of NGOs as innovators, as well as the voices of the skeptics of this view, are presented. Two key organisational conditions of 'learning' and 'organic' organisations are presented as being optimum for innovative practice. The literature review also explores the issue of youth unemployment from a global to a South African context; policies and strategies that the South African government has put in place to promote skills development, training and employment creation; the promotion of small business development as a viable employment strategy; and the role of NGOs in youth development. A survey among ten NGOs fulfils the second and third objectives of the current study. The survey's findings revealed that all the participating organisations considered their programmes to be innovative and to be providing both immediate and long-term benefits to their programme participants. It was one of the researcher's main findings that while these respondents claimed that their programmes were innovative and unique, some similarities could be found between them. The main obstacles to innovative practice were found to be funding constraints and the lack of human resource capacity. Despite these challenges, most respondents felt that the NGO sector was more innovative in comparison with both the government of South Africa and the private sector. Based on the findings, recommendations are offered to government, NGOs working with unemployed youth and research bodies. Recommendations for the networking of youth NGOs (for improved service delivery) and a recommendation on further research into the area of out-of-school, unemployed youth (to facilitate appropriate interventions) were found to be fitting. Includes bibliographical references (pages 89-95).

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Ramsbotham, Joanne. "The development and evaluation of an innovative nursing practice model to improve undergraduate nursing students' competence in paediatric physical assessment." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2009. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/31084/1/Joanne_Ramsbotham_Thesis.pdf.

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Introduction The purpose of this study was to develop, implement and evaluate the impact of an educational intervention, comprising an innovative model of clinical decisionmaking and educational delivery strategy for facilitating nursing students‘ learning and development of competence in paediatric physical assessment practices. Background of the study Nursing students have an undergraduate education that aims to produce graduates of a generalist nature who demonstrate entry level competence for providing nursing care in a variety of health settings. Consistent with population morbidity and health care roles, paediatric nursing concepts typically form a comparatively small part of undergraduate curricula and students‘ exposure to paediatric physical assessment concepts and principles are brief. However, the nursing shortage has changed traditional nursing employment patterns and new graduates form the majority of the recruitment pool for paediatric nursing speciality staff. Paediatric nursing is a popular career choice for graduates and anecdotal evidence suggests that nursing students who select a clinical placement in their final year intend to seek employment in paediatrics upon graduation. Although concepts of paediatric nursing are included within undergraduate curriculum, students‘ ability to develop the required habits of mind to practice in what is still regarded as a speciality area of practice is somewhat limited. One of the areas of practice where this particularly impacts is in paediatric nursing physical assessment. Physical assessment is a fundamental component of nursing practice and competence in this area of practice is central to nursing students‘ development of clinical capability for practice as a registered nurse. Timely recognition of physiologic deterioration of patients is a key outcome of nurses‘ competent use of physical assessment strategies, regardless of the practice context. In paediatric nursing contexts children‘s physical assessment practices must specifically accommodate the child‘s different physiological composition, function and pattern of clinical deterioration (Hockenberry & Barrera, 2007). Thus, to effectively manage physical assessment of patients within the paediatric practice setting nursing students need to integrate paediatric nursing theory into their practice. This requires significant information processing and it is in this process where students are frequently challenged. The provision of rules or models can guide practice and assist novice-level nurses to develop their capabilities (Benner, 1984; Benner, Hooper-Kyriakidis & Stannard, 1999). Nursing practice models are cognitive tools that represent simplified patterns of expert analysis employing concepts that suit the limited reasoning of the inexperienced, and can represent the =rules‘ referred to by Benner (1984). Without a practice model of physical assessment students are likely to be uncertain about how to proceed with data collection, the interpretation of paediatric clinical findings and the appraisal of findings. These circumstances can result in ad hoc and unreliable nursing physical assessment that forms a poor basis for nursing decisions. The educational intervention developed as part of this study sought to resolve this problem and support nursing students‘ development of competence in paediatric physical assessment. Methods This study utilised the Context Input Process Product (CIPP) Model by Stufflebeam (2004) as the theoretical framework that underpinned the research design and evaluation methodology. Each of the four elements in the CIPP model were utilised to guide discrete stages of this study. The Context element informed design of the clinical decision-making process, the Paediatric Nursing Physical Assessment model. The Input element was utilised in appraising relevant literature, identifying an appropriate instructional methodology to facilitate learning and educational intervention delivery to undergraduate nursing students, and development of program content (the CD-ROM kit). Study One employed the Process element and used expert panel approaches to review and refine instructional methods, identifying potential barriers to obtaining an effective evaluation outcome. The Product element guided design and implementation of Study Two, which was conducted in two phases. Phase One employed a quasiexperimental between-subjects methodology to evaluate the impact of the educational intervention on nursing students‘ clinical performance and selfappraisal of practices in paediatric physical assessment. Phase Two employed a thematic analysis and explored the experiences and perspectives of a sample subgroup of nursing students who used the PNPA CD-ROM kit as preparation for paediatric clinical placement. Results Results from the Process review in Study One indicated that the prototype CDROM kit containing the PNPA model met the predetermined benchmarks for face validity and the impact evaluation instrumentation had adequate content validity in comparison with predetermined benchmarks. In the first phase of Study Two the educational intervention did not result in statistically significant differences in measures of student performance or self-appraisal of practice. However, in Phase Two qualitative commentary from students, and from the expert panel who reviewed the prototype CD-ROM kit (Study One, Phase One), strongly endorsed the quality of the intervention and its potential for supporting learning. This raises questions regarding transfer of learning and it is likely that, within this study, several factors have influenced students‘ transfer of learning from the educational intervention to the clinical practice environment, where outcomes were measured. Conclusion In summary, the educational intervention employed in this study provides insights into the potential e-learning approaches offer for delivering authentic learning experiences to undergraduate nursing students. Findings in this study raise important questions regarding possible pedagogical influences on learning outcomes, issues within the transfer of theory to practice and factors that may have influenced findings within the context of this study. This study makes a unique contribution to nursing education, specifically with respect to progressing an understanding of the challenges faced in employing instructive methods to impact upon nursing students‘ development of competence. The important contribution transfer of learning processes make to students‘ transition into the professional practice context and to their development of competence within the context of speciality practice is also highlighted. This study contributes to a greater awareness of the complexity of translating theoretical learning at undergraduate level into clinical practice, particularly within speciality contexts.

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Willems, Christiaan H. "Music, Mime & Metamorphosis: Interdisciplinary intersections, interactions and influences between music, mime and corporate communication." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2009. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/37953/1/GraduationCitation090627.pdf.

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This doctoral thesis comprises three distinct yet related projects which investigate interdisciplinary practice across: music collaboration; mime performance; and corporate communication. Both the processes and underpinning research of these projects explore, expose and exploit areas where disparate and apparently conflicting fields of professional practice successfully and effectively; intersect, interact, and inform each other - rather than conflict - thereby enhancing each, both individually and collectively. Informed by three decades of professional practice across: music; stage performance; television; corporate communication; design; and tertiary education, the three projects have produced innovative, creative, and commercial viable outcomes, manifest in a variety of media including: music; written text; digital, audio/visual; and internet. In exploring new practice and creating new knowledge, these project outcomes clearly demonstrate the value and effectiveness of reconciling disparate fields of practice through the application of inter-disciplinary creativity and innovation to professional practice.

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García, Barbosa Tamara Jamileh. "Master class : exploring innovative practice in educational leadership; a study of change, complexity, culture and community in co-creating learning organizations /." The Ohio State University, 2000. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1488195154360475.

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Gil, Flores Hugo Cristóbal. "Formas de adopción generadas en los profesores ante la práctica educativa de un currículum innovador." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/399900.

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El propósito de esta investigación fue identificar por una parte, cuáles son las formas de adopción a innovaciones de los profesores de Artes Visuales de la Universidad de Guadalajara, que permiten caracterizar su disposición al cambio; por otra parte, cuáles son las características sociodemográficas y laborales que determinan su disposición al cambio y su relación con la práctica educativa del currículum innovador. Para esto se realizó una revisión bibliográfica que posibilitó conocer los principales descriptores de la innovación, la adopción y la práctica docente por competencias. Para su abordaje metodológico se utilizó el enfoque cuantitativo y como diseño el estudio no experimental transeccional, enmarcado en la investigación no experimental. La población la integraron 82 profesores y 820 estudiantes, a los primeros se les aplicó un cuestionario para identificar las formas de adopción a innovaciones y a los segundos para identificar las dimensiones de la práctica docente por competencias. Se realizó un análisis descriptivo e inferencial, para determinar el sentido de probabilidad y significancia, se tomó el valor de alpha de 0.05 de significancia estadística. Los resultados obtenidos alcanzaron un valor de alfa-Crombach de 0,943 logrando la consistencia adecuada, lo que indica una asociación significativa entre las dimensiones de la práctica educativa y las formas de adopción a innovadores, también, se detectó que las condiciones sociodemográficas de los profesores determinan tanto el que se adopte la nueva práctica, como el tránsito hacia nuevas formas de adopción a innovaciones. Por todo lo anterior, se pudo concluir que en la medida que se cuente con menos antigüedad en el ejercicio docente, mayor será la disposición al cambio; que los primeros profesores que aceptaron la práctica docente innovadora son los primeros en alejarse de ésta para buscar nuevas prácticas, y que el impulso que conduce al cambio viene dado por otras formas de adopción de los resistentes hacia los innovadores.
The purpose of this research was to identify the one hand, what forms of adoption innovations of teachers of Visual Arts at the University of Guadalajara, which can characterize their willingness to change are; on the other hand, what are the personal and occupational characteristics that determine their willingness to change and their relationship to educational practice innovative curriculum. For this a literature review allowed to know the main descriptors of innovation, adoption and teaching practice competency was performed. The quantitative approach as the non-experimental design study, framed in non-experimental research was used for its methodological approach. The population was composed 82 teachers and 820 students, the first were applied a questionnaire to identify ways of making innovations and the latter to identify the dimensions of teaching practice competency. a descriptive and inferential analysis was performed to determine the sense of probability and significance, the value of alpha of 0.05 statistical significance was taken. The results were valued alpha-Cronbach of 0.943 achieving the right consistency, indicating a significant association between dimensions of educational practice and ways of adopting innovative, too, it found that sociodemographic conditions of teachers determine both the new practice is adopted, as the transition to new forms of adoption innovations. Given the above, it was concluded that to the extent that has less seniority in the teaching practice, the greater the willingness to change; the first teachers who accepted the innovative teaching practices are the first to move away from this to find new practices and that the momentum that leads to change is given by other.

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Siraze, Garcia Deborah Esther. "The Twitter Diplomacy of Heads of States and Government : An Analysis." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/78227.

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International relations is constructed of ideas and concepts that have won legitimacy through the passage of time. Diplomacy is an ancient practices that has evolved and has become a practice that states have accepted as legitimate. The arrival of the digital world and the new Information Communications Technologies (ICTs) in the diplomatic world has made it possible to adopt trends like engaging in social media applications like Twitter to practice diplomacy. This creates the need to better understand the use of social media platforms as a tool of diplomacy. The growing engagement of Heads of States and Governments in communicating messages on Twitter, the so-called Twidiplomacy, is changing from what was considered a mere “trend” to a “common practice” in the conduct of diplomatic practice. As authorities share their culture through their behaviour and it is further shared and emulated through the use of Twitter by other authorities, these actions create new collective identities and shared knowledge in the diplomatic practice. These trends may lead to new patterns of diplomatic behaviour that may transform the diplomatic practice. Abdullakkutty (2018:11) contends that as an extension of innovative digital diplomacy “the use of social media is so extended that it can easily realise the diplomatic functions of negotiation, representation and communication”. Using a case study of tweets by a few Heads of States and Governments tweeting on similar major diplomatic incidents, this study researches these trends in innovative diplomacy leading to Twidiplomacy and how these are affecting the traditional roles of diplomacy, namely: negotiation, representation and communication.
Mini Dissertation (MDips)--University of Pretoria, 2020.
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Dennis, Peta. "Innovative architecture for living: Brisbane architect-designed houses of the 1960's." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1999. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/106980/1/__qut.edu.au_Documents_StaffHome_StaffGroupR%24_rogersjm_Desktop_Peta%20Dennis_Innovative%20architecture%20for%20living%20-%20Brisbane%20architect-designed%20houses%20of%20the%201960s.pdf.

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Brisbane architect-designed houses of the 1960s embodied a final manifestation of the Modern Movement in the twentieth century. The Modern architectural language of these houses was tempered by geographical and social factors,including the sub-tropical climate, Queensland's traditional architecture and the particular decade in which they were designed. Characteristics of the sixties era which influenced the architecture included the economic climate, materials and technology, and the lifestyle of the people for whom the houses were designed. Eleven architects who designed sixties houses were interviewed for this study. These interviews provided a first-hand account of each architect's design motivation and of the character of the period. Four houses were examined for the Case Study and this chapter includes drawings, photographs and a statement by the architect about each house. The legacy of the era is discussed, in relation to the surviving houses from the Case Study, and in general about the body of work that is left. The houses from the sixties make up a significant body of work that is important in the development of the distinctively Queensland house and in the history of architecture in this state.

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Rocha, Waldinéa Alves Farias. "O uso das tecnologias da informação e comunicação a serviço da aprendizagem: uma análise da gestão da Escola Acácia, Catuti (MG)." Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF), 2017. https://repositorio.ufjf.br/jspui/handle/ufjf/6732.

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A presente dissertação foi desenvolvida no âmbito do Mestrado Profissional em Gestão e Avaliação da Educação (PPGP) do Centro de Políticas Públicas e Avaliação da Educação da Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (CAEd/UFJF). Este estudo teve como principal objetivo a investigação dos elementos potencializadores de práticas pedagógicas inovadoras com o uso das Tecnologias da Informação e Comunicação (TIC) no que tange à gestão de escolas. O caso de gestão estudado discutiu os elementos promotores de práticas pedagógicas inovadoras com o uso das TIC em uma escola do interior do estado de Minas Gerais. Para tanto, mapeou-se e identificou-se, dentre 08 (oito) escolas da regional de Janaúba-MG, qual se destacou no uso das tecnologias, buscando compreender como a instituição conseguiu mobilizar os atores a se envolverem e a se interessarem pelo seu uso. Na pesquisa, de abordagem qualitativa, foram utilizados os seguintes instrumentos para produção de dados: questionários, entrevistas semiestruturadas, além de análise de documentos em sites oficiais do Ministério da Educação, da Secretaria de Educação do Estado de Minas Gerais e documentos escolares, bem como consulta a livros e textos de autores que tratavam do tema "uso das novas tecnologias a serviço da aprendizagem". A partir da identificação dos caminhos trilhados por essa escola na construção de suas práticas com o uso das tecnologias, foi proposto um plano de ação educacional que pode contribuir para que as demais escolas possam desenvolver e/ou potencializar práticas do uso das TIC em seus contextos.
The present dissertation was developed within the scope of the Mestrado Profissional em Gestão e Avaliação da Educação (PPGP) of the Centro de Políticas Públicas e Avaliação da Educação da Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (CAEd/UFJF). The main objective of this study was to investigate the enhancing elements of innovative pedagogical practices with the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the management of schools. The management case studied discussed the elements that promote innovative pedagogical practices with the use of ICT in a school in the interior of the state of Minas Gerais. In order to do so, eight (8) schools were identified and mapped in the region of Janaúba (MG), which one has standed out in the use of technologies, seeking understand how the institution has been able to mobilize actors to get involved and become interested in the use of these technologies. In this qualitative research, the following instruments were used to produce data: questionnaires, semi-structured interviews, besides analysis of documents on official websites of the Ministério da Educação (Ministry of Education), of the Secretaria de Educação do Estado de Minas Gerais (Secretary of Education of the state of Minas Gerais) and school documents, as well as consultation of books and texts of authors who dealt with the theme ―use of new technologies in the service of learning‖. From the identification of the paths taken by this school in the construction of its practices with the use of technologies an educational action plan was proposed which can help others schools to develop and/or enhance practices of the use of ICT in their contexts.

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Tsvetkova, O. V. "Taxation of interest income in the European Union." Thesis, Київський національний університет технологій та дизайну, 2019. https://er.knutd.edu.ua/handle/123456789/14067.

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Blengini, Gabrielle Dellela. "Trabalho docente e qualidade da educação : dificuldades encontradas por professores dos anos iniciais do ensino fundamental." Universidade Federal de São Carlos, 2015. https://repositorio.ufscar.br/handle/ufscar/8492.

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The aim of this study is to investigate the perception of elementary school teachers (initial grades) on the contributions of teaching practice to a quality education, aiming at comprehending the main difficulties they indentify in their work to build a quality education. This study was conducted in a city in the state of Sao Paulo with two municipal public elementary schools that scored highly in Prova Brasil (2011) regarding the city average. The methodology is characterized as qualitative. The data for this study was collected through socioeconomic survey questionnaires and semi-structured interviews conducted with eight teachers from both of the selected institutions. Critical approaches in education, innovation and quality education were adopted to address the research goal, contemplating the teacher as a fundamental agent in the transformation process of education. The results from the socioeconomic survey questionnaires and the interview with four teachers from each of the institutions selected for this study, named School A and School B, reveal the need for questioning the current processes of institutional assessment. This questioning is due to the fact that most of the pedagogues, participants of this study, highlight more negative aspects rather than contributions of the external evaluations for quality teaching practice. The teachers believe that the school in which they work promotes quality education, but the participants demonstrate different understanding about the quality of education that draws attention to the polysemy of the concept. They understand that changes in teaching practice (innovations) should be part of the monthly curriculum plan and of the teaching/learning processes. The participants point out that the difficulties of teaching practice are mainly found in pedagogical practice, in the lack of physical and material aspects in the schools, in the working conditions, with emphasis on low pay that teachers from basic education receive, in the lack of family support for students, in the devaluation of education and teaching staff, and student indiscipline. They noted that their training, obtained through the public high school teacher training, their undergraduate studies, their continuing education, and graduate course is what contributes to their pedagogical practice. It is also stated that most of them follow theoretical conceptions based on active teaching methodologies, although the data supports the multidimensional components of their conception of quality and theoretical principles. This survey may provide some elements that contribute to the reflection at the university about the educator’s professional performance, aiming at the quality of the teaching/learning process and it may contribute to the enhancement of public schools teachers’ efforts.
Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo geral analisar a percepção de professores do ensino fundamental (anos iniciais) sobre as contribuições do trabalho docente para uma educação de qualidade, buscando compreender as principais dificuldades que identificam em seu trabalho para a construção de uma educação de qualidade. A pesquisa ocorreu em um município do interior do estado de São Paulo, com duas escolas públicas municipais de ensino fundamental, que obtiveram as melhores notas na Prova Brasil (2011) em relação à média geral da cidade. A metodologia caracteriza-se como qualitativa. Os dados foram coletados por meio de questionários socioeconômicos e entrevistas semiestruturadas realizadas com oito professoras das duas instituições pesquisadas. Assumimos como base teórica abordagens críticas de educação, inovação e qualidade da educação, considerando o professor como agente fundamental no processo de transformação da educação. Os resultados obtidos com o questionário socioeconômico e as entrevistas realizadas com quatro professoras de cada instituição selecionada para a pesquisa, denominadas Escola A e Escola B, apontam para a necessidade de se questionar os atuais processos de avaliação institucional, pois as educadoras pesquisadas, em sua maioria, destacam mais aspectos negativos do que contribuições das avaliações externas para a prática docente de qualidade. As professoras acreditam que a escola em que trabalham promove uma educação de qualidade, mas demonstram diferentes compreensões sobre a qualidade da educação, evidenciando a polissemia do conceito. Elas entendem que as mudanças das práticas pedagógicas (inovações) devem estar presentes no planejamento mensal das atividades e nos processos de ensino/aprendizagem. Destacam que dificuldades do trabalho docente encontram-se principalmente na prática pedagógica, na falta de aspectos físicos e materiais das escolas, nas condições de trabalho, com ênfase na baixa remuneração recebida pelos professores da educação básica, na falta de apoio familiar dos alunos, na desvalorização da educação e dos docentes e na indisciplina dos alunos. Evidenciam que as formações obtidas com o Magistério do Ensino Médio, com a Graduação, com Cursos de Formação Continuada e com a Pós-graduação contribuem para suas práticas pedagógicas. E declaram que seguem, em sua maioria, concepções teóricas baseadas nas pedagogias ativas, porém na análise evidenciou-se o caráter multidimensional de suas concepções de qualidade e fundamentações teóricas. Considera-se que a pesquisa possa oferecer elementos que subsidiem a reflexão na universidade sobre a atuação profissional do educador, visando à qualidade do ensino/aprendizagem, e contribua para a valorização das ações dos (as) educadores (as) da rede pública de educação.

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Danan, Jeanne-Laure. "Santé, éthique et développement durable : place de la recherche en sciences infirmières." Thesis, Université de Lorraine, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015LORR0125.

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Les dispositifs de santé en France et dans le monde sont en tension. Les déterminants de ces pressions sont en lien avec la démographie des professions, l’économie et l’organisation des soins. Les pathologies chroniques non infectieuses sont en recrudescence. La maladie allergique est emblématique de ces pathologies. Elle concerne 25% d’individus en France (15 millions de personnes). En Europe, 100 millions de personnes souffrent de rhinites allergiques et 70 millions souffrent d’asthme. A l’horizon 2020, c’est 40% de la population mondiale qui sera atteinte d’une maladie allergique. La déclaration de RIO, texte fondateur du développement durable, place la santé comme une préoccupation majeure. Face à ce constat, il est nécessaire de repenser les modes de prise en charge, par des modèles innovants, de nouvelles formations et une répartition des compétences différente à partir de nouveaux périmètres de métier de la santé. L’objectif général de ce travail est d’identifier des modèles novateurs en santé dans une vision pluridisciplinaire systémique et éthique des soins. Les objectifs secondaires sont : définir le concept des pratiques innovantes en santé dans le système de santé français, préciser le cadre réglementaire des pratiques innovantes, déterminer les besoins de formation, la qualification, les nouveaux métiers et nouveaux outils, enfin, l’adéquation de la formation aux déterminants générationnels des étudiants des Sciences de la Santé. La méthode utilisée est une revue de la littérature portant sur le développement durable, la médecine environnementale, la formation des professions de santé. La confrontation au cadre réglementaire de la pratique infirmière à celui d’infirmier de pratiques avancées est réalisée. Le modèle d’étude est l’allergologie. Une enquête par questionnaire en ligne a évalué le niveau de compétences, de formation et de régulation des infirmières spécialisées en Europe. Cette étude a été réalisée en collaboration européenne avec le département de la Haute Ecole de Namur, l’Université de Nottingham, la Haute Ecole de Santé de Fribourg, l’Université de Porto, et l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Santé Publique de Rennes. Cette enquête a permis d’identifier 5 compétences de haut niveau d’expertise et de formation selon les descripteurs de Dublin pour les infirmiers de pratique avancée. Un programme de formation de niveau master de pratique avancée en allergologie est élaboré. Enfin, il a été identifié 4 phases constitutives de l’innovation : pilotage, appropriation, généralisation de la pratique et absorption par le système. L’innovation est un processus délibéré nécessitant la transformation des pratiques par l’introduction de nouveautés pédagogiques, organisationnelles et e-santé. L’évolution des outils d’aide à la décision thérapeutique infirmière appelée diagnostic infirmier est mis en lumière. Le diagnostic infirmier portant sur l’adaptation des individus à l’environnement est envisagé Les résultats soulignent la nécessité de développer des programmes de formation s’appuyant sur une pédagogie adaptée aux déterminants sociaux des étudiants en Sciences de la Santé ainsi qu’une révision du cadre réglementaire et juridique des professions de santé dites intermédiaires en France
Health systems in France and in the world are in tension. The determinants of those pressures are linked to demography, economy and care organization Chronic non-infectious diseases are on the rising. Allergic disease alone respect 25% of individuals in France (15 million people). In Europe, 100 million people suffer from allergic rhinitis and 70 million suffer from asthma. By 2020, it is 40% of the world population will be suffering from an allergic disease. The declaration of RIO, founding text of sustainable development, puts health as a major concern. It is necessary to think of new management models, new training and distribution of different skills from new business perimeters for health caregivers. The primary objective of this research is to identify: innovative models of health in a systematic multidisciplinary vision and ethics of care. .the Secondary objective is to define the concept of innovative practices in health in the French health system, clarify the regulatory framework for innovative practices, identify training needs, qualification of new businesses and new tools and finally review the adequacy of generational training for health science students. The method used is a review of the literature on sustainable development, environmental medicine, training of health professionals. The confrontation with the regulatory framework of practice nurse at the nursing of advanced nursing practices is made. The study design is the allergy disease. An online survey assessed the level of skills, training and policy of nurses in Europe. This study was conducted in collaboration with the European department of Haute Ecole de Namur, the University of Nottingham, and High School of Health of Freiburg, University of Porto, and School of Advanced Studies in Public Health in Rennes. This survey identifies five high levels of expertise that are 5 skills training according to Dublin descriptors for advanced practice nurses. A master level training program for APRN in allergy practice is developed Finally four steps of innovation were identified: management, ownership, widespread practice and absorption by the system.The results highlight that innovation is a deliberate process requiring practice by introducing new pedagogical, organizational and e-Health .Changing nurse’s diagnosis decision and support tools are highlighted. The nursing diagnosis on individual adaptation to environment is also considered. Eventually, two main recommendations are presented, firstly to develop training program according to the new French law in France, and secondly to considered the social determinants of the students in health science to make those training

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Olgac, Deniz, and Sara Selberg. "Practical Suggestions for Implementing Open Innovation Practices : Drawing from Open Innovation Practices at Nokia and Procter & Gamble." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för hållbar samhälls- och teknikutveckling, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-6347.

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The purpose of this thesis is to extract and provide practical knowledge and examples from both theory and practice in order to clarify some practices that can be used in the implementation of open innovation. It can be of interest for whomever willing to gain an insight into the practical features of open innovation and for companies considering, or struggling with the implementation of open innovation. The study was approached with a qualitative and interpretive method. Secondary sources were used exclusively to review the practical aspects of open innovation in theory and practice. Open innovation practice at Nokia Corp. and the Procter & Gamble Company were researched and reported using studies of other authors as well as the companies’ own publications. The classification of open innovation practices in contemporary literature is not sufficient to provide an understanding for the various types of open innovation practices that can be applied and used in practice. A classification based on types of activities is presented by the authors, and practical suggestions regarding design and implementation concludes the thesis.

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Wright, Julie, and j. wright@rmit edu au. "Implementation of project based learning in a training package context." RMIT University. Education, 2008. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20080729.165211.

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Training Packages form the basis upon which practitioners in the Vocational Education and Training (VET) sector in Australia develop their pedagogical processes. As workplaces adapt their practices to compete globally, demand for skilled and knowledgeable workers places pressure on institutional training providers such as TAFE to develop training programs that support the acquisition of higher order thinking skills in graduates. Using a competence based framework as a backdrop, the research centres on the notion of the place of Project Based Learning in a Training Package context. The research proposes that learning through projects is an effective means of integrating Training Package outcomes with an instructional model that engages learners in independent, flexible and reflective learning. The research was conducted retrospectively from a case study of an AQF Level 6 Textile, Clothing and Footwear Training Package Program at RMIT University TAFE. An Action Research approach underpins the investigation, resulting in the profiling of teaching, learning and assessment as areas in need of further examination. These defining themes are explored in the context of the Project Based Learning model developed at RMIT, with consideration given to the potential for broader application. The discussion concludes with a theoretical review of the new understandings of pedagogy. The study aims to establish that a constructive alignment exists between the behaviourist approach of Training Packages and the more constructivist theories behind Project Based Learning; rendering it a suitable instructional model that meets the needs of 21st century learners.

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CELUKANOVS, ANDREJS, and BJÖRK SEBASTIAN WATTLE. "Best Practices for Innovation Management. : A Study on Large Companies in Sweden." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-263178.

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The overall aim of this thesis was to identify and analyze good innovation management practices in Sweden’s most innovative large companies, excluding governmentally owned organizations. Out of 500 large organizations in Sweden, the top 25 most innovative companies have been ranked based upon over 7,000 printed press articles from 2018 available through Retriever Media. The companies are ranked by their innovations score which is calculated by the number of articles a company is mentioned in, adjusted to the company size, and multiplied with the mean sentiment score. The top 25 companies from the ranking was compared with 25 reference companies, active within the same industry based on the Swedish Standard Industrial Classification (SNI) number, that received a lower innovation score. Good innovation management practices were analyzed based on 14 qualitative interviews in 12 of the top 15 ranked companies and a quantitative survey responded by 20 top ranked and 17 reference companies. The interviews were semi structured with open ended questions to identify used practices, and the reasoning behind them. Spearman’s correlation method has been used to investigate if there was any correlation between the company’s innovation score, the mean performance score, and the mean importance score rated by respondents. The company case studies provide authentic examples on how and when different methods and concepts are used within industry. However, while theoretical frameworks often are strictly defined and described in solitary, the interviews have shown that when used within industry, it is rather the opposite. In many of the interviewed companies, frameworks and methods are modified, combined and constantly evolving. Aspects that the interviewees have expressed as important for an innovative company are: Innovation and change should be iterative, decentralized and started in small scale while receiving full support from top management. Examples of identified practices are: The innovation vision is used in the decision-making process for new ideas. Keywords connected to innovation are used for guiding new aspirations. There is an overall aim to become industry or/and digital leaders. Although the interviewed companies had similar innovation management practices, they were usually modified to fit within the company’s own organization and industry. The interviews contributed with interesting collection of practices within their authentic setting from which other companies could draw inspiration from. Lastly, a handbook was created describing how to conduct the innovation ranking annually, including a description of how to use the software as well as the required script of code.
Det övergripande syftet med denna uppsats har varit att identifiera och analysera hur ett antal stora och framgångsrika bolag bedriver innovationsledning. Av 500 svenska företag har de 25 mest innovativa rankats baserat på hur företagen framställts i över 7000 tryckta artiklar under 2018. I artiklarna som tagits fram via Retriever Media har företagen poängsatts efter antalet artiklar som de omnämnts i, korrigerat efter företagens storlek, multiplicerat med artiklarnas genomsnittliga sentimentvärde. De 25 högst rankade företagen jämfördes sedan med 25 referensföretag aktiva inom samma bransch enligt standarden för svensk näringsindelning (SNI). God innovationsledningspraxis identifierades och analyserades genom 14 intervjuer med 12 av de 15 högst rankade företagen, samt en enkätstudie som besvarades av 20 av de 25 högst rankade företagen och 17 av referensbolagen. Intervjuerna var semi strukturerade med öppna frågor för att identifiera den innovationsledningspraxis som företagen använder sig av samt bakomliggande resonemang. Spearmans rangkorrelation användes för att identifiera eventuella korrelationer mellan företagens innovationsrankning och hur företaget presterar med avseende på olika innovationsaspekter samt hur viktiga dessa aspekter anses. Analysen av innovationsledningspraxis resulterade i praktiska exempel på hur och när olika metoder, verktyg och strategier användes inom företagen. Managementteorier som kan uppfattas som strikta i litteraturen visade sig kombineras, modifieras och utvecklas i flera av de intervjuade företagen. Aspekter som företagen lyfte fram som viktiga var att innovation och förändring behöver ske iterativt, decentraliseras och startas småskaligt med full uppbackning av företagsledningen. Några av de olika sätt att framgångsrikt leda innovation som identifierats är att: Det finns en vision för hur för företaget ska jobba med innovation och denna vision ligger till grund för mycket av den beslutsfattande processen när det kommer till nya idéer. Nyckelord kopplade till olika innovationsmål används frekvent för att leda forskning och utveckling i rätt riktning. Det finns även ett övergripande mål om att bli det ledande företaget inom olika områden och näringsgrenar. Även om många av de intervjuade företagen hade liknande innovationsledningspraxis så var denna ofta modifierade för att passa det enskilda bolaget eller branschen. De intervjuade företagen bidrog med en stor mängd intressanta metoder och insikter som andra företag kan inspireras och dra nytta av för att förbättra sin innovationsledningsförmåga. Slutligen sammanställdes en handbok för att genomföra en innovationsrankning, inklusive hur man använder de programvaror som krävs samt all nödvändig kod för att möjliggöra en återkommande rankning av innovativa företag.

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Calhoun, McKenzie L., William Buselmeier, and Jesse Gilbreath. "Addressing Complex Patients: Innovation and Challenges in Practices." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/6884.

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Wolfsteller, Corinna, and Yu Jingyu. "HR Practices - Lessons of successful, innovative companies." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Sektionen för ekonomi och teknik (SET), 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-19111.

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Motivation: Through the increasing demand in new products, companies within international business context have to implement innovation efforts and so, they are searching for talents in an increasing amount of available employees. Problem statement: The problem of those firms is to employ the right people (talents) on one side and to ensure the innovative performance of the company on the other side. Research approach: For solving this issue, a qualitative research was chosen, while conducting a Swedish and a German case study of suitable companies and interviewing them about their practices of attracting, selecting, and integrating talents. Results: There is support found for the connection between the recruitment of talents and the innovative performance. Conclusions: The results contribute to talent management and provide lessons from successful cases as a guideline for other companies. For the reason that the case studies do not belong to a specific industry, the results are potentially generalizable.

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