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Whitefield, Despina, and Despina Whitefield@vu edu au. "Personal and interpersonal skills development in an accounting degree : a case study of accounting education." Swinburne University of Technology, 2003. http://adt.lib.swin.edu.au./public/adt-VSWT20050502.170936.
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This thesis examines the perceptions of lecturers, graduates and employers of personal and interpersonal skills development in an accounting degree at Victoria University. The development of personal and interpersonal skills in students in higher education has been the focus of discussion amongst accounting educators, accounting practitioners and the accounting profession for many years. There is a general consensus on what skills are necessarily sought to ensure success within the accountancy profession but very few previous studies on how those personal and interpersonal skills are being developed.
This research study presents a research framework which emphasises the complex interrelationships between an accounting curriculum, accounting lecturers, accounting graduates and employers of graduate accountants and their perceptions of how personal and interpersonal skills are developed. A case study approach, combining archival, qualitative and quantitative methods, is used to investigate how a Bachelor of Business Accounting degree in one Australian university facilitates personal and interpersonal skills development.
The case study results indicate that the curriculum, as the vector for skills development, has both explicit and implicit references to skills outcomes. Graduates� perceptions of many of the personal and interpersonal skills considered in this study are closely related to the curriculum findings. However, there appears to be a lack of convergence between lecturers� perceptions, the curriculum and graduates� perceptions. Employers generally agree that graduates display most of the personal and interpersonal skills, albeit at a low level, in the workplace.
There are curriculum implications arising from the results of this research for accounting academics who design and develop accounting programs where the value of graduates� personal and interpersonal skills are acknowledged. As a first step, academics need to improve accounting curricula by explicitly integrating personal and interpersonal skills in their subjects. Communicating to students the explicit nature of personal and interpersonal skills development and making them aware is the next step.
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Stein, Michael Ashley. "The development of employer/employee liability for personal injuries during the reign of Victoria." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.625023.
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Mamani, Condori Fermina Bacilia. "El autoconcepto y los valores en la formación de los estudiantes del 2do. curso de secundatria de la unidad educativa "Villa Victoria" de la ciudad de El Alto." Universidad Mayor de San Andrés. Programa Cybertesis BOLIVIA, 2011. http://www.cybertesis.umsa.bo:8080/umsa/2011/mamani_cfb/html/index-frames.html.
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El presente estudio aborda el tema del autoconcepto y los valores en la formación de los estudiantes del 2do curso de secundaria de la Unidad Educativa “Villa Victoria”, siendo que los estudiantes adolescentes de la ciudad de El Alto, viven una crisis existencial como consecuencia de sus cambios físicos y psicológicos propias de esa edad. De acuerdo algunos estudios los adolescentes viven un proceso de crisis existencial que atraviesan, e interviene de manera marcada en el desarrollo de los valores humanos en los adolescentes de ambos sexos, lo que constituyen la base del desarrollo de su autoconcepto. En la resolución de esta crisis existencial el autoconcepto cumple un papel muy importante en el desarrollo de la personalidad, y su rendimiento académico y esta marcado por la formación en los valores en su desarrollo personal. El que hacer educativo y su contenido pedagógico tiene poco avance en el estudio de la influencia del autoconcepto y los valores en la formación de los educandos, ya que los cambios del entorno socioeconómico intervienen en el proceso educativo. Los diversos motivos por lo que los estudiantes no reciben una adecuada formación en valores, incide en sus actitudes de solidaridad, respeto a sus padres, respeto a sus profesores, a sus compañeros y a la sociedad en general; los cuales son aspectos básicos para la convivencia humana en la sociedad, y en ella los valores se constituye como pilares formativas de la educación de los jóvenes.
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Figueroa, Nuñez Nidian Aide, and Guerrero Raquel Esperanza Monsalve. "El clima organizacional y su influencia en el desempeño laboral de los trabajadores de la ONG - CDSP 338 Luminares del Mundo - La Victoria." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Católica Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12423/2007.
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La apreciación de un buen clima organizacional por parte de los trabajadores de cualquier empresa ha tomado vital importancia pues se ha demostrado una buena relación con el desempeño laboral. Con base en estas percepciones es que se desarrolló la presente investigación en la ONG CDSP 338- Luminares del Mundo- La Victoria cuyo objetivo principal es determinar la influencia del clima organizacional en el desempeño laboral de los trabajadores de la ONG en mención. Para la realización de dicho estudio se utilizó como instrumento de medición un cuestionario para Clima Organizacional de 35 preguntas contestado íntegramente por los trabajadores de la ONG y otro de 7 preguntas para el desempeño laboral que fue evaluado por su supervisor que permitió medir cada variable en la escala de Likert basándonos en 8 dimensiones para Clima Organizacional propuestas por distintos autores como: Litwin y Stringer, Bowers y Taylor Newman, Tagiuri, Schnedider y Bartlett y Pritchard y Karasick y 2 del Desempeño Laboral explicadas por Chiavenato. Tal instrumento fue aplicado a los 21 trabajadores de la ONG CDSP 338 – Luminares del Mundo – La Victoria, utilizando el Alfa de Cronbach para la fiabilidad del instrumento obteniendo un resultado de 0.944 de apreciación elevada. La información recopilada fue procesada con el Programa SPSS para su análisis. Con los resultados se determina que existe un grado de correlación muy fuerte, ya que la significación es de 0,000 menor de 0,05 y la correlación de Pearson r = 0,741**, por cuanto a mejor Clima Organizacional en el CDSP 338 mayor es el Desempeño de los trabajadores. Por otro lado encontramos evidencia a favor de la hipótesis: Clima organizacional y su influencia en el desempeño laboral de los trabajadores de la ONG CDSP 338 – Luminares del Mundo – La Victoria. Al finalizar la investigación se hizo el análisis por dimensiones para encontrar las dimensiones del clima organizacional que tienen mayor influencia con el desempeño laboral.Tesis
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Ordoñez, Huaripata Melissa, and Erba Edgardo Javier Vasquez. "Factores que influyen en el nivel de servicio en la atención a los pacientes por el personal administrativo del Hospital de la Solidaridad de La Victoria." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/622922.
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Objetivo: Analizar el nivel de servicio óptimo y los estándares de calidad de atención del personal administrativo hacia los pacientes del Hospital de la Solidaridad de La Victoria.
Metodología: La investigación es de tipo cualitativo. En esta, se utilizó la teoría fundamentada, debido a que se parte de datos recopilados y analizados por medio de un proceso de investigación (entrevistas a profundidad). Asimismo, no se partió de una teoría preconcebida; por el contrario, se permite que la teoría emerja a partir de los datos. En precisión, se realizaron 17 entrevistas a profundidad, las cuales fueron semiestructuradas. Ello permitió que los entrevistadores profundicen sobre el tema. Conclusión principal: Según lo respondido en la entrevista por los pacientes que acuden al SISOL de La Victoria, se obtuvo que estos se encuentran satisfechos, debido a la rápida atención y al buen trato que reciben durante el proceso de atención por parte del personal administrativo. Con ello, se valida la hipótesis según la cual existe una relación directa entre el nivel de satisfacción y el proceso de atención del personal administrativo.Objective: To analyze the level of optimal service and standards of quality of care of the administrative staff toward the patients of the Hospital de la Solidaridad de La Victoria. Methodology: The research is the type qualitative. In this, we used the grounded theory, because it is part of data collected and analyzed by means of a research process (in- depth interviews). Also, it did not start from a preconceived theory; on the contrary, it allows the theory to emerge from the data. In accuracy, there were conducted 17 in- depth interviews, which were semi-structured interviews. This allowed the interviewers to deepen on the subject. Main Conclusion: As responded in the interview by the patients who come to the SISOL de la Victoria, it was found that they are satisfied, due to the quick attention and the good treatment they receive during the process of care on the part of the administrative staff. It validates the hypothesis according to which there is a direct relationship between the level of satisfaction and the process of attention of the administrative staff.
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Díaz, Ruiz Stephany Medalit. "Satisfacción laboral y síndrome de Burnout entre el personal de un policlínico y el de una comunidad local de administración de salud, distrito La Victoria, Chiclayo, 2012." Bachelor's thesis, Chiclayo, 2013. http://tesis.usat.edu.pe/jspui/handle/123456789/328.
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La presente investigación tuvo como finalidad determinar si existe diferencia en el nivel de satisfacción laboral y de síndrome de burnout entre el personal de un Policlínico y en el de una Comunidad Local de Administración de Salud, distrito La Victoria, Chiclayo – 2012, además, se complementó el estudio indicando el nivel en que se halló al personal, respecto a cada variable. Para ello, se aplicaron dos instrumentos a 92 trabajadores, la Escala de Satisfacción Laboral de Palma y el Inventario Burnout de Maslach, simultáneamente una encuesta y un consentimiento informado. La investigación arrojó que no existe diferencia entre el personal de ambas instituciones de salud en relación a ambas variables, hallándose niveles regulares de satisfacción laboral en las dos poblaciones y niveles bajos de síndrome de burnout.
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Díaz, Ruiz Stephany Medalit, and Ruiz Stephany Medalit Díaz. "Satisfacción laboral y síndrome de Burnout entre el personal de un policlínico y el de una comunidad local de administración de salud, distrito La Victoria, Chiclayo, 2012." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Católica Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo, 2013. http://tesis.usat.edu.pe/handle/usat/329.
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La presente investigación tuvo como finalidad determinar si existe diferencia en el nivel de satisfacción laboral y de síndrome de burnout entre el personal de un Policlínico y en el de una Comunidad Local de Administración de Salud, distrito La Victoria, Chiclayo – 2012, además, se complementó el estudio indicando el nivel en que se halló al personal, respecto a cada variable. Para ello, se aplicaron dos instrumentos a 92 trabajadores, la Escala de Satisfacción Laboral de Palma y el Inventario Burnout de Maslach, simultáneamente una encuesta y un consentimiento informado. La investigación arrojó que no existe diferencia entre el personal de ambas instituciones de salud en relación a ambas variables, hallándose niveles regulares de satisfacción laboral en las dos poblaciones y niveles bajos de síndrome de burnout.Tesis
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Schänzel, Heike Annette. "Family time and own time on holiday : generation, gender, and group dynamic perspectives from New Zealand : a thesis submitted to the Victoria University of Wellington in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Tourism Management /." ResearchArchive@Victoria e-thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/1194.
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Stuart, Rhonda Lee 1963. "Nosocomial tuberculous infection : assessing the risk among health care workers." Monash University, Dept. of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, 2000. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/9004.
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Yates, Valerie (Valerie Ida). "Unusual Victorians : the personal and political unorthodoxy of Lord and Lady Amberley." Thesis, McGill University, 1986. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=65530.
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Altmann, Janice M. "Transformational personae in the poetry of Victor Hugo and William Wordsworth." Thesis, Altmann, Janice M. (1987) Transformational personae in the poetry of Victor Hugo and William Wordsworth. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 1987. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/52861/.
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A poetic persona has a permanently potential existence which the poet himself does not. such a persona allows the poet to create within the semantic structures of his poetry a presence or an ego which can experience levels of reality beyond those of Thus, a poetic persona can be used to reveal levels of significance beyond even itself. The use of "normal" human existence.
To reveal a significance beyond itself a persona has to be transformational. It must transcend the surface structures of its text, integrating mimetic significance with symbolic significance. In crossing these semantic barriers such personae also infer the crossing of metaphysical barriers. They claim the right to enter worlds other than their own in order to attain higher knowledge or "absent conclusions".
Through these personae the Romantic poet frequently effects a transformation in consciousness which enables him both to construct and to explore symbolic significance or absent conclusions beyond "normal" human experience.
A comparison of the poetic personae of Wordsworth and Hugo reveals that both of these poets use personae for precisely this purpose. Through personae which are mobile, transformational and even anthropomorphic Hugo and Wordsworth create in their poetry levels of consciousness which are both consistent with human experience and yet extend far beyond it.
The Romantic poet as inspired bard explores the world beyond natural forms and events through language. Thus, he transforms the natural world into symbolic significance and higher consciousness. The solitary poetic soul establishes harmony between itself and its spiritual universe; and it also sees the possibility of not attaining such a reconciliation. The prophetic soul unites earthly and spiritual realities, while it too sees that such a unity is constantly threatened.
Mythological personae such as Orpheus, Pan and Prometheus participate simultaneously in human and divine levels of existence, and thereby effect transactions between the two. The child persona provides the poet with a means of re-constructing his own innate cognition into higher consciousness through memory. Finally, through the persona of the genius or sage the poet constructs for himself a role as supreme creative individual with his own spark of divinity within.
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Julca, Romero Joao Alberto. "Accesibilidad arquitectónica para personas con discapacidad motora en el Estadio Alejandro Villanueva del distrito de La Victoria – Lima, 2021." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, 2022. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12672/17893.
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El presente trabajo evalúa la accesibilidad arquitectónica para personas con discapacidad
motora en el Estadio Alejandro Villanueva del distrito de La Victoria – Lima. Se realizó una investigación de tipo descriptiva, cuantitativa e inductiva, no experimental y prospectiva. Por la naturaleza del estudio, se trabajó con una muestra no probabilística por conveniencia y se realizó en el Estadio Alejandro Villanueva
(EAV-AL), del distrito de La Victoria, Lima. Para obtener la información de campo,
se usó un Instrumento de Evaluación que fue diseñado por un equipo profesional
multidisciplinario. Se observó que en general la accesibilidad física al entorno para personas con
discapacidad (PcD) motora al entorno del EAV-AL, es adecuada por las cuatro zonas
estudiadas (occidente, oriente, norte y sur), porque está ubicado entre importantes vías
de acceso por donde transitan diferentes líneas de transporte público y privado. Pero
en las cuatro zonas evaluadas, no se cumple con la mayoría de criterios de accesibilidad
al edificio arquitectónico y tampoco con todos los criterios de accesibilidad de la
comunicación. En términos generales, se puede decir que el EAV-AL, no tiene
accesibilidad arquitectónica para personas con discapacidad motora puesto que se encontró que la accesibilidad física al entorno para PcD del EAVAL, es adecuada para las cuatro zonas estudiadas; pero ninguna cumple con la mayoría de criterios de accesibilidad al edificio arquitectónico.
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Bartone, Christopher M. "Royal Pains: Wilhelm II, Edward VII, and Anglo-German Relations, 1888-1910." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1341938971.
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Nieto, Ledesma Ma de Jesús Lilia. "Aproximación cualitativa a la experiencia vivida por cuidadores en el domicilio de personas adultas mayores con discapacidad en Cd. Victoria, Tamaulipas, México." Doctoral thesis, Universidad de Alicante, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10045/69487.
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Herwig, Birgit. "Der Mensch, das irrende Wesen die personalistische Therapie Viktor Emil von Gebsattels im Lichte einer personalistischen Pädagogik." Würzburg Ergon-Verl, 2008. http://d-nb.info/994757611/04.
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Sifferlen, Gwenaelle. "Édition critique de la correspondance de Juliette Drouet à Victor Hugo. Année 1841." Thesis, Paris 4, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA040004.
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Julienne Gauvain, dite Juliette Drouet, est principalement connue pour avoir été, pendant cinquante ans, la compagne de Victor Hugo. Mais elle fut aussi, et surtout, une prodigue épistolière qui écrivit, dès 1833 et jusqu’à sa mort en 1883, plus de 22 000 lettres ‒ qu’elle appelait « ses restitus ‒ à son cher poète. Précieusement conservées par l’amant qui les confia, à la mort de Juliette, au neveu de cette dernière, Louis Koch, elles sont aujourd’hui progressivement publiées dans une édition en ligne, afin de mettre à la disposition du public et des chercheurs l’intégralité de cette formidable correspondance. L'édition critique et scientifique ‒ comprenant transcriptions, annotations savantes et manuscriptologiques, notices explicatives, index, glossaire ‒ de 568 lettres de 1841, alors que le couple célèbre ses huit ans d’amour, en montre les intérêts biographique, documentaire et littéraire. En effet, ces restitus permettent d’étudier au jour le jour l’existence de Juliette Drouet, fraîchement retirée de la vie théâtrale et publique pour se consacrer pleinement à son amour, et de Victor Hugo qui, élu à l’Académie française le 7 janvier et en pleine rédaction du Rhin, fait face à des procès littéraires et familiaux, prend ses premières notes sur les temps présents et encadre les reprises d’Hernani, Ruy Blas et Angelo, tyran de Padoue. Ces lettres sont par ailleurs des témoignages précis sur la condition féminine, les liens sentimentaux, les mœurs, les petits détails de la vie quotidienne du XIXe siècle et elles fournissent des renseignements précieux sur le contexte historique, politique, médical, scientifique, social et artistique de la monarchie de Juillet et du règne de Louis-Philippe. Enfin, cette véritable masse textuelle, outre sa valeur stylistique et littéraire propre, suscite une réflexion générique de par son statut hybride de journal épistolaireJulienne Gauvain, alias Juliette Drouet, is mainly well-known for her fifty-year relationship with Victor Hugo. But first and foremost, she was a lavish letter writer who wrote more than 22,000 letters to her dear poet – calling them her ‘restitus’- from 1833 until she died in 1883. They were safely kept by her lover, who entrusted them to Louis Koch – Juliette Drouet’s nephew – after she died. Today, they are gradually published online so as to provide the general public, as well as researchers, with this complete astounding correspondence. The critical and scientific edition – including transcriptions, scholar and manuscript-related annotations, explanatory notes, index, glossary – of 568 letters dating from 1841 (8th anniversary of the couple’s love story) highlights their biographical, documentary and literary interests. Indeed these ‘restitus’ allow a day-to-day study of the life of Juliette Drouet, who had just withdrawn from theatrical and public life in order to fully devote herself to her love, and of Victor Hugo who, freshly elected to the Académie française on January 7th and in the process of writing Le Rhin, had to face literary and family trials, started taking his first notes on the present times and was supervising the revivals of Hernani, Ruy Blas and Angelo, tyran de Padoue. These letters also account for an accurate testimony on the status of women, the sentimental ties, the customs and all sorts of small details of the 19th century daily life. As well, they supply precious information concerning the historical, political, medical, scientific, social and artistic context of the July Monarchy and the reign of Louis-Philippe. Finally, apart from its own stylistic and literary value, this true mass of text arouses a generic reflection given its hybrid status of epistolary diary
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McIntyre, Megan. "'Adding wisdom to their natures': British colonial educational practices and the possibility of women's personal emancipation in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, Buchi Emecheta's Joys of motherhood and Tsitsi Dangrembga's Nervous conditions." Scholar Commons, 2009. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/2093.
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Popular opinion suggests that education is the 'silver bullet' to end poverty, famine, and all the worlds' ills. The reality of education for women, however, is not as easily classified as transformative. This paper seeks to illuminate, through historical research and literary analysis, the connections between the charity education of Victorian Britain, a system examined in Jane Eyre, and the missionary education which comprised the majority of the educational systems in the British colonies, including Nigeria and Zimbabwe, the settings of Emecheta and Dangarembga's works.
Beginning with Charlotte Brontë's Victorian classic, Jane Eyre, and moving through time, space and situation to the colonial experience novels of Buchi Emecheta and Tsitsi Dangarembga, we find instead that education, particularly British philanthropic education, from charity schools for children without means in the 18th and 19th century to the mission schools that comprised the basis for British colonial education in Africa, produces women who benefit only in very limited ways. For Charlotte Brontë's title protagonist, as for many of the characters in Jane Eyre, Nervous Conditions, and The Joys of Motherhood, education represents a new life. Brontë, Dangarembga, and Emecheta all offer education as a possible escape for characters within their novels, but the length of and price for that escape differs based on a character's role within a colonial set of identities, whether the character in question is part of the colonizing power or one of its colonial victims.
When taken together, Jane Eyre and these two African experience novels demonstrate that British education is largely ineffectual in granting female characters the kind of freedom that education is supposed to instill. The price of the hybridity necessary to survive in the colonial situation could very well be the complete loss of self, a disintegration of identity, as it is for Nyasha, who is, according to her own analysis of her situation, neither Shona nor British and therefore is no one at all.
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Griffiths, Debra. "Agreeing on a way forward management of patient refusal of treatment decisions in Victorian hospitals /." full-text, 2008. http://eprints.vu.edu.au/2036/1/griffiths_debra_thesis.pdf.
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The purpose of this study is to investigate and develop a substantive theory, of the processes adopted by nurses and medical practitioners when patients with serious illness refuse medical treatment. The study seeks to identify the main constraints confronting nurses and medical practitioners and to explain the key factors that moderate the processes of dealing with refusal decisions. Using a grounded theory method, a sample of 18 nurses and 6 medical practitioners from two public hospitals in Melbourne were interviewed. In addition, observations and documentary evidence were utilised. The basic social psychological problem shared by nurses and medical practitioners is conceptualized as Competing Perspectives: Encountering Refusal of Treatment, which reflects the diverse perceptions and beliefs that confront participants when patients decide to forgo therapy. In utilizing the grounded theory method of analysis, it is recognised that participants deal with this problem through a basic social psychological process conceptualized as Endeavouring to Understand Refusal: Agreeing on a Way Forward. This core variable represents the manner in which participants, to varying extents, deal with the situations they face and it incorporates the various influences which moderate their activities. Endeavouring to Understand Refusal: Agreeing on a Way Forward comprises a series of three transitions. The first involves a struggle for participants to come to terms with, or even recognize that patients are rejecting treatment. The second transition illustrates the varied responses of participants as they interact with patients, relatives and each other, in order to clarify and validate decisions made during episodes of care. The third transition reflects the degree to which patients and family members are incorporated into treatment decisions, and highlights a shift in emphasis, from a focus on the disease state, to the patient as a person with individualistic thoughts and wishes. The remaining social processes evident in the study consist of four categories. The first, Seeking Clarification, embodies exploration undertaken by participants and their recognition that treatment is actually being refused. The second category, Responding to Patients and Families, demonstrates the level of expertise of participants communicating, and their ability to encourage reciprocity in the professional-patient relationship. The third category, Advocating, highlights the extent and manner in which patient and family wishes are promoted to members of the treating team. The fourth category, Influencing, reveals the ability of participants to utilize a degree of authority or power in order to shape particular outcomes. The findings also indicate that over arching the core variable and categories are various contextual determinants that moderate the way nurses and medical practitioners deal with patient refusal of treatment. These determinants are categorized into three main influences: The Context of Work, describes the of the environment and organisational factors pertinent to public hospitals; Beliefs and Behaviours, illustrates the perceptions of, and values held, by four key groups involved in decisions, namely, nurses, medical practitioners, patients, and family members; and Legal and Ethical Frameworks, examines the existing principles that support or guide professional practice in situations where patients with serious illness refuse medical treatment.
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Davies, Lesley. "Vicarious traumatization : the impact of nursing upon nurses : a thesis submitted to the Victoria University of Wellington in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Nursing (Clinical) /." ResearchArchive@Victoria e-thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/1227.
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Cassón, Luis, and Marcela Rivero. "Conocimientos que posee el personal de enfermería en los cuidados de úlceras por presión." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Ciencias Médicas. Escuela de Enfermería, 2013. http://bdigital.uncu.edu.ar/10194.
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Las úlceras por presión (UPP) constituyen uno de los problemas más frecuentes en la práctica diaria de enfermería, siendo un gran reto y una gran responsabilidad tanto en prevención como en tratamiento. Estas aparecen a través de distintos factores, como por ejemplo el estado nutricional del paciente, el tiempo que este hospitalizado y principalmente con los cuidados que se deben se deben tener en cuenta (higiene, movimiento, etc.), prevenir es sin duda la mejor opción para evitar estos problemas. El éxito de la prevención está en función del conocimiento, las habilidades y las actitudes de las mismas, y, por tanto, se debe accionar para reducir la incidencia de estas lesiones. Las úlceras por presión son un proceso que aparece en la mayoría de los pacientes de edad adulta con movilidad reducida. La mayoría de las ulceras por presión pueden prevenirse, un 95% pueden evitarse; por lo que es importante disponer de estrategias de educación y prevención. En cuanto a la prevención de estas úlceras que debe realizar la enfermera, se encuentran variados protocolos para la actuación del personal, donde incluyen actividades a realizar como cuidados propios de enfermería. Este trabajo de investigación tiene como objetivo determinar qué conocimientos tiene el personal de enfermería, del hospital Dr. Victorino Tagarelli del departamento de San Carlos, sobre los cuidados en úlceras por presión, durante el año 2013.Fil: Cassón, Luis. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Ciencias Médicas. Escuela de Enfermería..
Fil: Rivero, Marcela. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Ciencias Médicas. Escuela de Enfermería..
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Griffiths, Debra. "Agreeing on a way forward: management of patient refusal of treatment decisions in Victorian hospitals." Thesis, full-text, 2008. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/2036/.
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The purpose of this study is to investigate and develop a substantive theory, of the processes adopted by nurses and medical practitioners when patients with serious illness refuse medical treatment. The study seeks to identify the main constraints confronting nurses and medical practitioners and to explain the key factors that moderate the processes of dealing with refusal decisions. Using a grounded theory method, a sample of 18 nurses and 6 medical practitioners from two public hospitals in Melbourne were interviewed. In addition, observations and documentary evidence were utilised.
The basic social psychological problem shared by nurses and medical practitioners is conceptualized as Competing Perspectives: Encountering Refusal of Treatment, which reflects the diverse perceptions and beliefs that confront participants when patients decide to forgo therapy. In utilizing the grounded theory method of analysis, it is recognised that participants deal with this problem through a basic social psychological process conceptualized as Endeavouring to Understand Refusal: Agreeing on a Way Forward. This core variable represents the manner in which
participants, to varying extents, deal with the situations they face and it incorporates the various influences which moderate their activities. Endeavouring to Understand
Refusal: Agreeing on a Way Forward comprises a series of three transitions. The first involves a struggle for participants to come to terms with, or even recognize that
patients are rejecting treatment. The second transition illustrates the varied responses of participants as they interact with patients, relatives and each other, in order to clarify and validate decisions made during episodes of care. The third transition reflects the degree to which patients and family members are incorporated into
treatment decisions, and highlights a shift in emphasis, from a focus on the disease state, to the patient as a person with individualistic thoughts and wishes.
The remaining social processes evident in the study consist of four categories. The first, Seeking Clarification, embodies exploration undertaken by participants and
their recognition that treatment is actually being refused. The second category, Responding to Patients and Families, demonstrates the level of expertise of participants communicating, and their ability to encourage reciprocity in the professional-patient relationship. The third category, Advocating, highlights the extent and manner in which patient and family wishes are promoted to members of
the treating team. The fourth category, Influencing, reveals the ability of participants to utilize a degree of authority or power in order to shape particular outcomes.
The findings also indicate that over arching the core variable and categories are various contextual determinants that moderate the way nurses and medical practitioners deal with patient refusal of treatment. These determinants are
categorized into three main influences: The Context of Work, describes the of the environment and organisational factors pertinent to public hospitals; Beliefs and
Behaviours, illustrates the perceptions of, and values held, by four key groups involved in decisions, namely, nurses, medical practitioners, patients, and family
members; and Legal and Ethical Frameworks, examines the existing principles that support or guide professional practice in situations where patients with serious
illness refuse medical treatment.
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Murtagh, Lynley. "The impacts of working with people experiencing suicidal ideation : mental health nurses describe their experience : a thesis submitted to the Victoria University of Wellington in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts (Applied) in Nursing /." Researcharchive @Victoria, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/881.
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RODRIGUES, Germana Barros. "Rotatividade de pessoal na Universidade Federal de Pernambuco." Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, 2015. https://repositorio.ufpe.br/handle/123456789/16426.
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Com a transição da Administração Pública Burocrática para a Administração Pública Gerencial, o setor público tem passado por mudanças que reforçaram a necessidade de estudos sobre seus servidores. O novo perfil destes servidores, constituído a partir da profissionalização da burocracia e da instituição da seleção meritocrática e universal, tem preocupado os gestores no que tange ao fenômeno da rotatividade de pessoal, principalmente em decorrência da motivação dos servidores em relação ao trabalho. Diante deste panorama, definiu-se como objetivo geral da pesquisa verificar os aspectos motivacionais que impactaram no desligamento voluntário dos servidores estatutários (docentes e técnicos administrativos) da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, no período de 2010 a 2013. E para o alcance deste objetivo foram estabelecidos quatro objetivos específicos: a) traçar o perfil dos servidores que se desligaram voluntariamente da UFPE no período de 2010 a 2013, realizado a partir de dados disponibilizados pela Pró-Reitoria de Gestão de Pessoas e Qualidade de Vida da UFPE; b) calcular a taxa de rotatividade de pessoal nos setores da UFPE, a partir do número de desligamentos voluntários, no período de 2010 a 2013; c) identificar os principais fatores que influenciaram os servidores da UFPE a solicitar desligamento, a partir da análise de sua motivação para o trabalho, à luz da Teoria de Victor Vroom, realizado a partir de questionários aplicados a servidores que se desligaram da UFPE no período do estudo, com base na revisão de literatura e na Teoria da Expectativa; e d) verificar a percepção de gestores de pessoal da UFPE acerca da rotatividade de servidores na instituição, realizado a partir de questionários aplicados a gestores de pessoal da PROGEPE/UFPE. Trata-se de uma pesquisa de natureza quantitativa e qualitativa, que utilizou a estatística descritiva e a análise de conteúdo, tendo a UFPE como estudo de caso. A partir de seus resultados, foi constatado o baixo nível de satisfação com o trabalho dos servidores que se desligaram da UFPE, endossando a relação inversa entre satisfação e probabilidade de desligamento voluntário. Foi observado também que as principais causas para o desligamento de pessoal da UFPE são referentes às questões financeiras, quais sejam: salário e benefícios e plano de cargos e carreiras; entretanto, foram apontados alguns fatores que podem ser melhorados em decorrência de ações desenvolvidas pela UFPE, tais como: condições do local de trabalho; ambiente de trabalho/ clima organizacional; melhoria na alocação de servidores ingressantes na instituição; criação de canais de comunicação com servidores e candidatos a concursos da UFPE, entre outros.
With the transition of Bureaucratic Public Administration to Managerial Public Administration, the public sector has undergone changes reinforcing the need for studies about their government employees. The new profile of these employees, built from the professionalization of the bureaucracy and the institute of universal and meritocratic selection, has worried managers with regard to staff turnover phenomenon, mainly due to the motivation of employee in relation to work. With this conjuncture, it was defined as a general objective of the research verify the motivational aspects that impacted on voluntary resignation of statutory employees (teachers and administrative technician) of the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, in the period 2010 to 2013. And to achieve this objective were established four specific objectives: a) to trace the profile of employees who left voluntarily the UFPE in the 2010 to 2013 period, held from data provided by the Pró-Reitoria de Gestão de Pessoas e Qualidade de Vida – UFPE; b) calculate the staff turnover rate in the sectors of UFPE, from the number of voluntary resignation in the 2010 to 2013 period; c) identify key factors influencing the UFPE servants to request resignation from the analysis of their motivation for the job, according to the Theory of Victor Vroom, held from questionnaires given to servants who left the UFPE in the period the study, based on literature review and Expectancy Theory; d) verify the perception of UFPE personnel managers about the turnover of servants in the institution, held from questionnaires given to personnel managers PROGEPE/UFPE. It is an exploratory research, quantitative and qualitative, which used descriptive statistics and content analysis, having UFPE as a case study. From their results, it was found the low level of satisfaction with the work of the servants who left the UFPE, endorsing the inverse relationship between satisfaction and likelihood of voluntary resignation. It was also observed that the main causes for personal shutdown of UFPE are related to financial matters, namely: wages and benefits and plan for jobs and careers; however, it was pointed out some factors that can be improved as a result of actions taken by UFPE, namely: workplace conditions; work environment / organizational climate; improvement in the allocation of incoming servers in the institution, creation of channels of communication with servers and candidates in competitions of UFPE , among others.
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Yarrington, Alison. "The commemoration of the hero, 1800-1864 monuments to the British victors of the Napoleonic wars /." New York : Garland, 1988. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/16925682.html.
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Acworth, Elaine Elizabeth. "Dan Kelly danced into the shadows : large-scale personas in small-scale stories." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2008. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/18342/1/Elaine_Acworth_Thesis.pdf.
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Using an analysis of the creation of the character Dan Kelly in my play, risk, I argue that fairytale characters work as more than personage representations. They function on a big canvas for the audience; they carry large chains of association. Given this, I then propose that the human response is to infer additional meaning, meaning beyond the scope of plot and immediate character interaction - the audience infers symbolic meaning, ‘amplifying’ what is there into more. They enter a ‘generative empty space’ within the play where they infer or ‘unfold’ more meaning. In creating this ‘greater tale’, they are engaged beyond their personal ‘horizon of understanding’, and so, ‘take in’ the work through a heightened perceptual acuity.
Therefore, I pursued the idea of making space for the operation of this process, of leveraging the creation of meaning around a character. My inquiry led me to believe that a powerful way to do this was through absence rather than presence and silence rather than sound; and this had a profound impact on my choice of form for Dan Kelly: he progressed, through a number of stages, from reportage to a digital representation.
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Acworth, Elaine Elizabeth. "Dan Kelly danced into the shadows : large-scale personas in small-scale stories." Queensland University of Technology, 2008. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/18342/.
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Using an analysis of the creation of the character Dan Kelly in my play, risk, I argue that fairytale characters work as more than personage representations. They function on a big canvas for the audience; they carry large chains of association. Given this, I then propose that the human response is to infer additional meaning, meaning beyond the scope of plot and immediate character interaction - the audience infers symbolic meaning, ‘amplifying’ what is there into more. They enter a ‘generative empty space’ within the play where they infer or ‘unfold’ more meaning. In creating this ‘greater tale’, they are engaged beyond their personal ‘horizon of understanding’, and so, ‘take in’ the work through a heightened perceptual acuity.
Therefore, I pursued the idea of making space for the operation of this process, of leveraging the creation of meaning around a character. My inquiry led me to believe that a powerful way to do this was through absence rather than presence and silence rather than sound; and this had a profound impact on my choice of form for Dan Kelly: he progressed, through a number of stages, from reportage to a digital representation.
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Baker, Ruth Lynette. "Relations between Jewish and non-Jewish Germans 1933-1945: A case study in the use of evidence by historians." Thesis, University of Canterbury. School of Humanities, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/2956.
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Of all fields of historical enquiry, Germany’s Third Reich is perhaps the richest in sources and historiography. Therefore, it is logical to assume that this is where we see history done at its best. The chief interest of this dissertation is how historians select their sources and how they use the evidence they find in their sources. I have taken relations between Jewish Germans and non-Jewish Germans as a case study because of the enormous quantity of primary source material and because so many historians have commented on the issue. I do not attempt to make any claims about what happened between Jewish Germans and their non-Jewish compatriots nor do I make a moral assessment of behaviours and attitudes among the ‘ordinary’ people of Germany under the Third Reich. Rather, this is a technical exercise to examine how well the historians have done history in this particular area.
My systematic review of the historians’ methodologies reveals that many either distort the evidence they cite or put forward arguments that go well beyond what the evidence warrants, perhaps because of pre-conceived theories which shape their approaches to the evidence. Moreover, they fail to make the best possible use of some types of source such as personal narratives. In order to ascertain whether these sources can be better used, I systematically analyse a selection of personal narratives which are sometimes quoted by historians, in particular the 1933-1945 diaries of Victor Klemperer. My question is: Do these testimonies really say what the historians claim they say about relations between Jewish and non-Jewish Germans? And if not, how can we analyse them to determine what they actually do say?
The two kinds of problems which emerge are how to select a balanced range of sources and how to use them properly. My argument is that there are six methodological principles that should underpin good historical practice. Because historians are not scrupulous to apply these common-sense rules, their arguments are methodologically flawed and they do not use some sources to the full extent of their value. This raises the question of whether these problems are confined to this particular field or whether they are endemic to the history profession as a whole.
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Graciela, Coronel, and Anahí Blanco. "Salud laboral." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Ciencias Médicas. Escuela de Enfermería, 2011. http://bdigital.uncu.edu.ar/9813.
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La Enfermería está orientada a ayudar a los individuos, familias y grupos a determinar y conseguir su potencial físico, mental y social, y a realizarlo dentro del contexto desafiante del medio en que viven y trabajan; para esto requiere enfermeras que desarrollen y realicen funciones que se relacionen con el fomento y mantenimiento de la salud, así como la prevención de la enfermedad. El objetivo de la enfermería está enfocado, esencialmente, al beneficio del paciente, por lo cual su trabajo debe estar centrado en él. La enfermera vela por el adecuado funcionamiento institucional para que la tarea de cuidar personas se realice con la mejor calidad posible; su deber administrativo es la gestión del cuidado al usuario; sin embargo, le asignan labores que sobrepasan sus funciones. El presente estudio tiene como objetivo conocer las posibles causas que llevan a desvirtuación de las funciones propias del personal de enfermería del hospital Victorino Tagarelli de Eugenio Bustos, departamento de San Carlos y determinar si estas pueden poner en riesgo la salud psicofísica de los enfermeros, en Mendoza 2011.Fil: Coronel. Graciela. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Ciencias Médicas. Escuela de Enfermería..
Fil: Blanco, Anahí. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Ciencias Médicas. Escuela de Enfermería..
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Kieffer, Anne. "La correspondance de Juliette Drouet à Victor Hugo sous la Seconde République : édition et étude des années 1848, 1849, 1850 et 1851." Thesis, Paris 4, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA040118.
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Juliette Drouet ne fut pas seulement la maîtresse de Victor Hugo durant cinquante ans. Elle fut aussi une inlassable et prodigue épistolière qui laisse à la postérité environ vingt-Deux mille lettres écrites quotidiennement à celui qu’elle appelle son « grand petit homme ». D’une incroyable importance numérique, ces lettres sont aujourd’hui au cœur d’un vaste projet, qui a pour but de les éditer intégralement. Inscrite dans ce projet, la présente thèse propose la lecture continue des lettres écrites par Juliette Drouet à Victor Hugo sous la Seconde République – du 1er janvier 1848 au 30 novembre 1851 –, transcrites et annotées. Écrites durant une période clef de l’Histoire de France et de la vie de Victor Hugo, ces lettres présentent un intérêt à la fois historique et biographique. Rédigées quotidiennement, elles sont aussi pour le tiers lecteur un témoignage inédit sur les conditions de la femme entretenue, sur la vie théâtrale à Paris, et sur l’hygiène et la médecine sous la Seconde République. D’une grande porosité générique entre lettre, journal et conversation, elles offrent un intérêt littéraire particulier. L’étude critique de ces lettres, qui précède le corpus édité, permet de révéler le triple intérêt biographique, historique, et littéraire de ce travail. Complétée de tous les outils que requiert la compréhension de ce corpus, cette thèse met aussi à disposition les notices biographiques des personnes citées par Juliette Drouet ainsi qu’un glossaire des mots et expressions employées par cette dernièreJuliette Drouet was not only Victor Hugo’s mistress for fifty years. She was also an indefatigable and generous letter writer who leaves for posterity about twenty two thousand letters written daily to Victor Hugo. This important amount of letters are today in the heart of a vast project, which aims to edit them entirely. Placing itself in this project, the present thesis proposes the continuous reading of the letters by Juliette Drouet to Victor Hugo under the Second Republic – from January 1st, 1848 until November 30th, 1851 –, transcribed and annotated. Written during a key period of the History of France and Victor Hugo's life, these letters present at the same time an historical and biographical interest. Drafted daily, they are also for the third reader a new record on the supported woman’s conditions, on the theatrical life in Paris, and on the hygiene and the medicine under the Second Republic. Letters offer a particular literary interest by their important generic porosity between letter, diary and conversation. These letters come along with a critical analysis, which allows highlighting the triple biographical, historical and literary interest of this corpus. Completed by all the tools which requires the understanding of these letters, this thesis provides the biographic summary of the persons quoted by Juliette Drouet as well as a glossary of the words and the expressions used by this last one
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Zgodinski, Brianna R. "I Hate It, But I Can't Stop: The Romanticization of Intimate Partner Abuse in Young Adult Retellings of Wuthering Heights." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1518101149052937.
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Yuksel, Harun. "Personal and professional experiences of turkish qualified teachers in Victorian schools." Thesis, 2013. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/21717/.
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The aim of this research was to identify the personal and professional experiences of Turkish primary and secondary teachers, who are currently teaching, or have previously taught in Victorian schools. This research drew upon these teachers’ experiences to make recommendations for future teacher education, training, professional development and/or induction programs. These recommendations if implemented will support future Turkish teachers in adapting to the Victorian education system. The induction programs and facilities are expected to encourage overseas graduate teachers, who are currently not in the teaching system, to re-enter the workforce as teachers in Victoria.
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Gelb, Karen. "Thirsting for access? Public access to water for personal use in urban centres: A case study of Victoria, British Columbia." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/265.
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The World Health Organization and the United Nations state that people normally access water through their place of residence. However, in North America people regularly need access to water services, such as toilets, fountains, or bathing facilities, when not in a private residence. The purpose of this thesis is to explore the current situation of access to water for personal uses for people outside a place of residence as an emergent research topic. To accomplish this, I conducted a literature review and a thematic analysis of nine key-informant interviews with stakeholders in Victoria. Findings from the research reveal that access to water for personal uses is limited in Victoria when outside a place of residence. Furthermore, the consequences and implications of this limitation directly and indirectly influence both individuals and the broader community. Finally, policy recommendations, action responses, and future research directions inform possible responses to address this issue.
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Polacsek, Meg. "Self-empowering to maintain and enhance personal identity as an older adult with depression." Thesis, 2018. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/37862/.
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Australians have one of the longest life expectancies in the world, but up to 15% of older Australians living at home experience depression. Increasing attention is being paid to understanding the clinical aspects of depression in older age. However, less is known about how older Australians living in the community experience and self-manage depression, and the factors that influence these processes. The purpose of this qualitative grounded theory study was to explicate the self-management strategies used by older adults diagnosed with depression to optimise their well-being. Data collection and analysis were informed by Corbin and Strauss’ (2015) approach to grounded theory. Data were collected through 32 individual interviews, observations and questionnaires. The key conceptual findings of the study comprise a core problem, a core category and three related categories. The basic social psychological problem was conceptualised as Struggling to maintain personal identity as an older adult with depression. The core category, Self-empowering to maintain and enhance personal identity as an older adult with depression, was abstracted through simultaneous data collection and analysis, and constant comparison. This goal was achieved through the three interlinked strategies of Taking Stock, Accessing Support and Reclaiming Self-identity. Participants’ efforts were influenced by three contextual determinants: Perspectives on age and depression influencing help-seeking, Ability to navigate and access the health care system, and Individual capacity for self-management. When drawn together, these elements comprise a substantive theory that reflects a shift from a narrow biomedical discourse of depression in older age to a broader experiential focus on individuals as experts for managing long-term conditions. The findings of this study have implications relating to policy, professional practice, the portrayal of age and depression, older adults and their significant others, and future research.
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Simone, Josephine. "A preliminary study of financial literacy opportunities at three Victorian universities." Thesis, 2004. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/33011/.
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The main purpose of this study is to examine the current status of financial Hteracy
information to which undergraduate university students from a sample of Victorian
Universities have access both as part of, and external to, the existing university
curricula.
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Fox, Michelle. "Psychosocial Adjustment Following Stroke." Thesis, 2014. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/25075/.
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Stroke is the third most common cause of death in Australia. To date, there has been extensive research conducted on the reactive consequences following the diagnosis of stroke. In contrast, there has been limited research effort directed at understanding how some stroke survivors manage to adjust to their adversity and altered circumstances. This study took a phenomenological approach and explored the experiences and strategies stroke survivors employed in their renegotiation of living.
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Whitty, Chantelle. "Drawn to art therapy: a qualitative study examining art therapists' personal healing experiences with art that led them to a career in art therapy." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/3174.
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This study investigates the healing experience that current practicing art therapists’ have had with art prior to their training, and how that experience influenced their decision to peruse a career in art therapy. Narrative inquiry was the primary methodology in the current study. Six current practicing art therapists, all females who currently reside in the area of Victoria BC, participated in the process of co-constructing their 1st person narratives with the primary researcher. The six stages of Braun & Clarke's (2006) Thematic Analysis was used as the guiding framework developing themes across the stories told. Themes and the implications that came out of these narratives with respect to future research and counseling practice are also discussed.
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Rampas, Jan. "Hanoversko mezi Británii a Pruskem." Master's thesis, 2019. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-393679.
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in English language: This thesis deals with the political and economic development of the Kingdom of Hanover as an example of a medium-sized state in the German Confederation. In addition to its relationship with Great Britain, with which was Hanover associated in personal union in the years 1714-1837, a new definition of relations between these states before 1866 and the annexation of Hanover by Prussia are also discussed, as well as the impact of the significant events in Europe in that time on the functioning of the Guelph domain. Closer to be discussed are the personalities of British Queen Victoria and Hanoverian King and Duke of Cumberland Ernest August, who were key actors at the end of the personal union in 1837, and in addressing the sensitive political issues that followed. Apart from the emphasis on political history, this thesis also deals with economic history, primarily in connection with Hanover's relationship with the German Customs Association (Zollverein). This institution, guarded by Prussia, represented to Hanover in certain stages of its development as an independent kingdom, first of all, competition and then a path to the short-term solution of its internal problems. Above all, however, this was one of the many situations where Hanoverian interests clashed with the interests...
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Daffern, Michael. "A functional analysis of psychiatric inpatient aggression." 2004. http://arrow.unisa.edu.au:8081/1959.8/24968.
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Aggression occurs frequently on many psychiatric wards; its assessment and management are crucial components of inpatient care. Consequences to inpatient aggression are profound, impacting on staff and patients, ward milieu and regime, and mental health services in general. Despite considerable research, which has primarily focussed on the assessment of demographic and clinical characteristics of aggressive patients, the nature of the relationship between mental illness, inpatient treatment and aggression remains unclear. Inconsistent risk assessment practices, management strategies and treatment plans, often derived from idiosyncratic beliefs about the causes of aggression, follow. Approaches to the assessment of inpatient aggression have been categorised as structural, which emphasise form, or functional, which emphasise purpose. Studies of inpatient aggression have primarily utilized a structural approach. These studies have resulted in the identification of demographic, clinical and situational characteristics of high-risk patients and environments. Resource allocation and actuarial assessments of risk have been assisted by this research. Conversely, functional assessment approaches seek to clarify the factors responsible for the development, expression and maintenance of inpatient aggression by examining predisposing characteristics, in addition to the proximal antecedents and consequences of aggressive behaviours. While functional analysis has demonstrated efficacy in assessing and prescribing interventions for other problem behaviours, and has been regarded a legitimate assessment approach for anger management problems, psychiatric inpatient aggression has been relatively neglected by functional analysis. Against this background, four studies focussing on the assessment of predisposing characteristics, precipitants and consequences, and purposes of aggressive behaviour, were undertaken to assist in the development of a functional analysis of psychiatric inpatient aggression. All four studies were conducted within the Thomas Embling Hospital (TEH), a secure forensic psychiatric hospital in Melbourne, Australia. The first of three initial studies involved a retrospective review of Incident Forms relating to aggressive behaviours that occurred within the first year of the hospital?s operation. The second involved a comparison of prospective assessment of aggressive behaviours with retrospective review of Incident Forms. The third involved a review of Incident Forms across two forensic psychiatric hospitals, the Rosanna Forensic Psychiatric Centre, and the TEH, to allow for the study of environmental contributors to aggression. The fourth, and main study, focussed on the assessment of patients and aggressive incidents, using a framework emphasising purpose, which was assessed using a classification system designed and validated as part of this study. Demographic and clinical information in addition to social behaviour, history of aggression and substance use were collected on the 204 patients admitted to the hospital during 2002. One hundred and ten of these patients completed an additional assessment of psychotic symptoms in addition to a battery of psychological tests measuring anger expression and control, assertiveness, and impulsivity. During 2002, the year under review, there were 502 incidents of verbal aggression, physical aggression, and property damage recorded. Staff members who observed these incidents were interviewed, and files were reviewed to record the severity, type, direction and purpose of aggression. Following 71 aggressive behaviours patients also participated in the assessment of purpose. Results from this, and the three initial studies, reinforced the contribution to aggression of a number of individual characteristics, including a recent history of substance use, an entrenched history of aggression, a recent history of antisocial behaviour, and symptoms of psychosis, including thought disturbance, auditory hallucinations and conceptual disorganisation. Somewhat surprisingly, a number of other characteristics shown through previous research to have a relationship with aggression, including anger arousal and control, impulsivity, and assertiveness did not show a relationship with aggression. Further, and perhaps a consequence of the peculiar characteristics of some patients admitted to the TEH, older patients and females were more likely to be repeatedly aggressive, yet neither age nor gender differentiated aggressive from non-aggressive inpatients. In this study acts of inpatient aggression were usually precipitated by discernible events, or motivated by rational purposes. Rarely was aggression the consequence of a spontaneous manifestation of underlying psychopathology occurring in isolation from environmental precipitants. A number of proximal environmental factors, most particularly staff-patient interactions associated with treatment or maintenance of ward regime, that were considered provocative or that threatened status, were evident in incidents of aggression perpetrated against staff. The perception of provocation and the need to enhance status were common precipitants of aggression between patients. There was little evidence to suggest that aggression was used instrumentally to obtain tangible items, to reduce social isolation, or to observe the suffering of others in the absence of provocation. Results of these four studies have implications for the prediction and prevention of inpatient aggression, and for the treatment of aggressive inpatients. These are discussed, as are the limitations of this research and suggestions for further research.thesis (BPsychology(Hons))--University of South Australia, 2004.
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Moses, Nalini. "Pauline thought on suffering : a historical-religious investigation." Diss., 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/17515.
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This research conducted according to the phenomenological method investigated the Pauline concept of suffering. It traces the historical development in Paul's thinking on suffering. The two lines of Paul's suffering are his personal
suffering - his struggle with the thorn in the flesh; and his suffering through persecution for Christ's sake. It is
through his personal suffering that Paul endears himself to his readers. 2 Cor.12:1-10 reveals the function of the thorn - it brings vindication. Paul's personal suffering merges with his suffering for Christ, and the note of joy, hope, glory and vindication is emphasized. Just as Paul shares in Christ's suffering, he will share in the victory and glory too. Paul sees his suffering in the light of Christ's suffering and the suffering of his readers in the light of
his suffering.Religious Studies and Arabic
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Mazumder, Parimal. "Performance appraisal with a view to employee motivation in the Australian public service : a case study of Western Melbourne Institute of TAFE, and Darebin City Council, Melbourne." Thesis, 1997. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/33009/.
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The purpose of this research was to investigate the motivation of the employees in the
Austrahan pubhc service with special attention to the Western Melbourne Institute Of
TAFE (TAFE), and Darebin City Council (DCC), located in Melbourne. The
dependent variables considered in this study were: age, education, decision making
process, employee development programs, measurement and feedback of actual
results, opportunities for advancement, group cohesion, and performance based pay
systems.