Appendix: New challenges and good practice

2022 ◽  
pp. 167-170
Keyword(s):  
Good Practice ◽  
New Challenges

scholarly journals Tackling Irregularities in Sport through Education on Whistleblowing

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 01 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vassilis Barkoukis ◽  
Monica Stanescu ◽  
Marius Stoicescu ◽  
Haralambos Tsorbatzoudis
Keyword(s):  
Good Practice ◽  
Educational Material ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Societal Welfare ◽  
Psychological Pressure ◽  
Good Reputation ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Training Methodologies ◽  
New Education ◽  
And Training

Recent years have brought to the attention of sport specialists new challenges in education, aiming to defend ethics and integrity in sport. Doping, match fixing and corrupted sport governance represent ongoing threats to the integrity, good reputation, and societal welfare dimension of sport. At the same time, from the athletes’ perspective, abuse, sexual harassment, bullying, violence and psychological pressure are other types of threats to the ethics in all sport domains. Different educational approaches that aim to achieve a culture of ethics and integrity in sport have been designed and implemented. Recently, whistleblowing has been promoted as a useful means in the fight against corruption in sport. This trend called for more educational efforts designed to encourage the participation of those involved in the sport phenomenon (i.e. athletes, coaches, managers, spectators) in whistleblowing in order to prevent the violation of ethics.The paper is an analysis of the usefulness of an educational material on whistleblowing implemented in Romania. In order to promote models of good practice, information is directly related to the educational rationale through an explanation of not only what knowledge and skills can be expected to be gained, but also what professional capabilities will be achieved. The conclusions of the paper emphasize the need to develop and test new education and training methodologies, promoting whistleblowing in sport, which will be adapted to the needs of the target sport population aiming to induce positive beliefs and behaviours about whistleblowing. 

ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF A NEWLY INTRODUCED ELECTRONIC PRESCRIBING SYSTEM ACROSS A PAEDIATRIC DEPARTMENT – LESSONS LEARNED

2016 ◽  
Vol 101 (9) ◽  
pp. e2.13-e2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anastasia Tsyben ◽  
Nigel Gooding ◽  
Wilf Kelsall
Keyword(s):  
Good Practice ◽  
Electronic System ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Error Rates ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Electronic Prescribing ◽  
Prescribing Errors ◽  
Prescribing Error ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
The Impact

AimPrescribing audits have shown that the Women's and Children's Directorate reported higher number of prescription errors on the paediatric and neonatal wards compared to other areas in the Trust. Over the last three years a multidisciplinary prescribing team (PT), which included senior clinicians, pharmacists and trainees introduced a number of initiatives to improve the quality of prescribing. Strategies included structured departmental inductions, setting up of designated prescribing areas and reviewing errors with the prescriber. Year on year there were fewer prescribing errors.1 With the introduction of a new electronic prescribing system in October 2014 prescribing error rates were expected to decrease further, eradicating omissions around allergy recording, ward location and drug names. The aim of this abstract is to highlight the impact of the new system and describe lessons learned.MethodIn the summer of 2014, all inpatient drug charts across the department were reviewed on three non-consecutive days over a period of three weeks. Prescribing errors were identified by the ward pharmacist. Errors were grouped according to type and further analyzed by the PT. Errors deemed to have no clinical significance were excluded. Error rates were compared to the previous audits performed with identical methodology. Following the introduction of the electronic prescribing system, the ward pharmacists continued to review prescription charts on daily basis and generate regular error reports to notify the staff of new challenges.ResultsThere were 174 (14%) errors out of 1225 prescriptions on 181 drug charts. The most commonly made mistakes included drug name errors, strength of preparation, allergies and ward documentation, prescriber's signature omissions, and antibiotic review and end dates. The introduction of an electronic system has eliminated drug name, strength of preparation, allergy recording and ward errors. However, serious challenges have been identified: entering of an incorrect weight resulted in all drug dosages being inaccurate; the timing of drug levels for Vancomycin and Gentamicin and the administration of subsequent doses have been problematic. Communication difficulties between all staff groups has led to dosage omission, duplicate administration and confusion around start and stop dates. The ability to prescribe away from the bedside and indeed the ward has compounded some of these problems.ConclusionThe implementation of a new electronic system has reduced prescribing errors but has also resulted in new challenges, some with significant patient safety implications. The lessons learned and good practice introduced following previous audits of “traditional paper based” prescribing are equally important with electronic prescribing. Communication between staff groups is crucial. It is likely that the full benefits of the system will be realized a year after its introduction. On-going audit is required to assess the impact and safety of the electronic prescribing and lessons learned.

New challenges to image processing posed by cryo-Electron microscopy of single particles

1991 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
pp. 422-423
Author(s):  
Joachim Frank
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Phase Contrast ◽  
Particle Orientation ◽  
Single Particles ◽  
Contrast Transfer Function ◽  
Virtual Absence ◽  
Cryo Electron Microscopy ◽  
Spatial Frequencies ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Particle Images

Compared with images of negatively stained single particle specimens, those obtained by cryo-electron microscopy have the following new features: (a) higher “signal” variability due to a higher variability of particle orientation; (b) reduced signal/noise ratio (S/N); (c) virtual absence of low-spatial-frequency information related to elastic scattering, due to the properties of the phase contrast transfer function (PCTF); and (d) reduced resolution due to the efforts of the microscopist to boost the PCTF at low spatial frequencies, in his attempt to obtain recognizable particle images.

Redesigning Introduction to Communication Disorders

2010 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 40-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Wm. Folkins
Keyword(s):  
Student Learning ◽  
Student Evaluation ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Communication Disorders ◽  
Team Experience ◽  
Team Activity ◽  
Class Period ◽  
Written Assignments ◽  
Principles Of Good Practice ◽  
Overall Effectiveness

A class of 58 students in Introduction to Communication Disorders was divided into eight teams of approximately seven students each. The teams sat together all semester and participated in at least one team activity (team discussions, in-class written assignments, and team quizzes) in every class period. Teams also were used for taking roll and reviewing for examinations. There was no decline in student evaluation of the overall effectiveness of the course or in examination scores when compared to when this course was taught with half the number of students and no teams. Students evaluated the team experience highly and appeared to enjoy competition among teams. Using teams was successful in creating experiences that foster student learning as embodied in Chickering and Gameson’s principles of good practice.

Patient Safety Law Presents New Challenges

2005 ◽  
Vol 38 (17) ◽  
pp. 80
Author(s):  
NELLIE BRISTOL
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
New Challenges
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