scholarly journals Business as usual? Psychological support at a distance

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 672-686
Author(s):  
Lara Payne ◽  
Halina Flannery ◽  
Chandrika Kambakara Gedara ◽  
Xeni Daniilidi ◽  
Megan Hitchcock ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Technological Progress ◽  
Cost Savings ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Service Users ◽  
Wide Spread ◽  
Viable Option ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Business As Usual ◽  
The Impact ◽  
First Time

The impact of COVID-19 has challenged the long accepted ‘norm’ in delivery of psychological therapy. Public policies designed to reduce transmission have made it extremely difficult to meet with service-users safely in the traditional face-to-face context. E-therapies have existed in theory and practice since technological progress has made them possible. They can offer a host of advantages over face-to-face equivalents, including improved access, greater flexibility for service-users and professionals, and cost savings. However, despite the emerging evidence and anticipated positive value, implementation has been slower than anticipated. Concerns have been raised by service-users, clinicians, and public health organisations, identifying significant barriers to the wide spread use of e-therapies. In the current climate, many clinicians are offering e-therapies for the first time, without prior arrangement or training, as the only viable option to continue to support their clients. This paper offers a clinically relevant review of the e-therapies literature, including effectiveness and acceptability dilemmas and challenges that need to be addressed to support the safe use and growth of e-therapies in psychology services. Further research is needed to better understand what might be lost and what gained in comparison to face-to-face therapy, and for which client groups and settings it might be most effective.

scholarly journals Student nurses’ experiences of incivility and the impact on learning and emotional wellbeing

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie C. Vuolo
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Education ◽  
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Student Nurses ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Emotional Wellbeing ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Invisible

Background: Incivility is the display of intimidating, rude, disruptive or undesirable behaviours. Incivility in nursing has the potential to impact on the learning environment, student wellbeing and patient outcomes. Although it is a globally recognised phenomenon, relatively little is known about it in the context of nurse education in the United Kingdom, where the students’ time is divided equally between theory and practice and a nurse mentor is allocated to each student when on clinical placement.Methods: A phenomenological qualitative design was used to explore the experiences of ten student nurses studying on a three year degree level pre-registration (pre-licensure) nursing programme. Data was collected by in-depth, semi-structured, face-to-face interviews which were tape-recorded and transcribed verbatim. Thematic analysis was conducted using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis as a framework.Results: Student nurses can experience incivility in both classroom and clinical settings with negative consequences in terms of learning and personal wellbeing. Four superordinate (main) themes (Knowing-Not Knowing/Positioning/The Invisible Student/Distraction) were identified along with a further fifteen subordinate themes which included misuse, being nameless and feeling a burden.Conclusions: These findings add further to our understanding of incivility in nursing education and specifically the potential for incivility to impact on learning and students’ emotional wellbeing. Incivilities related to ‘the Invisible Student’ and ‘Knowing-Not Knowing’ are particularly worthy of further exploration as they reveal a hitherto unappreciated dimension of this complex, globally recognised phenomena. 

Meeting the Doctors

1997 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 148-151
Author(s):  
Michael Bolger
Keyword(s):  
Health Authority ◽  
Medical Negligence ◽  
High Court ◽  
Senior Consultant ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Local Contact ◽  
Hospital Doctors ◽  
The Impact ◽  
First Time

Michael Bolger is an AVMA Director and local contact. As a result of medical negligence, he is paraplegic and confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life. He won substantial damages in the High Court after suing the Health Authority and senior consultant concerned. Michael has written several articles and has been interviewed on radio and television about his experience as a victim of medical negligence and as a plaintiff and has views on the need for change. In this article, Michael describes the seminar at which he was the lead speaker at the AVMA Medical Negligence Conference, held on 4–5th July 1997, where he discussed the impact of medical negligence on victims and doctors with a group of senior hospital doctors and consultants, the first time that a face-to-face discussion of this kind has taken place.

ITANGIBLE REWARDS: FROM THEROTICAL MEHODS TO PRACTICE IN THE MODERN CONDITIONS IN ORGANIZATIONS

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 19-25
Author(s):  
I. Ivanova
Keyword(s):  
Technological Progress ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Electronic Resources ◽  
Internal Factors ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
Individual Approach ◽  
Intangible Benefits ◽  
Real Practice ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Stimulation Of

This article presents modern aspects of intangible motivation and labor stimulation in modern academic highlights and real practice in organizations. The extra attention is paid to the detecting of intangible benefits in organizations, which depends on the influence of external and internal factors that determine the need to use an individual approach when developing motivational programs. Due to implementing informational and communicational technologies in the process of digitalization, the need for social and psychological support of personnel is actualized, which, according to the author, should be taken into account in the system of motivation and stimulation of labor. Organizational and economic changes, generational shifts, change of values, the impact of globalization, scientific and technological progress, changing needs, and the active spread of electronic resources affect the relations between personnel and labor, increasing the importance of studying the motives of their labor behavior in new circumstances. The author considers motivation and stimulation as a direction in working with people, mainly focuses on finding reserves associated with optimal spending and obtaining effective results, which can ensure the use of intangible benefits. Furthermore, based on the existing theory and practice of motivation and stimulation, the author suggests integrating it into the modern environment, pointing to the need to preserve the already accumulated experience and increase it in the conditions of digitalization.

scholarly journals US HIGHER ENGINEERING EDUCATION: THE SPOTLIGHT ON CURRENT TRENDS

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olha Pavlenko
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Engineering Education ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
The Public ◽  
World University Rankings ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
The Impact

US higher engineering institutions have gained the public trust and are holding the leading positions in the world university rankings. Being among one the most popular fields, engineering for many years has received much attention in terms of rethinking the balance of theory and practice, the role of fundamental disciplines alongside with humanities and social sciences, the impact of the technological progress on the scope and learning outcomes of engineering education. The article aims to present research on US higher engineering education tendencies, briefly outline historical prerequisites of major changes in American engineering education, as well as to enhance the understanding of valuable international educational practices. The article discusses advances in engineering curricula design and provides suggestions for improving them in terms of learning outcomes and needs of modern engineers.

scholarly journals Personalisation and social care assessment – the Care Act 2014

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 176-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deb Barnes ◽  
Billy Boland ◽  
Kathryn Linhart ◽  
Katherine Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
International Comparisons ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
Service Users ◽  
Care Assessment ◽  
Management Plans ◽  
The Impact ◽  
First Time

SummaryThe Care Act 2014 represents a significant change in legislation in England. For the first time it brings together various aspects of adult social care into a single statute succeeding earlier acts and policy. Given its importance to the lives of service users and carers, clinicians need to have a clear understanding of its implications. We provide an overview of why it was developed, its underlying principles and international comparisons, as well as implications for assessments, interventions and outcomes. The impact on the lives of patients and carers is discussed, as well as dilemmas and challenges the Act presents. While it addresses other important aspects of social care, including safeguarding, Mental Health Act section 117 aftercare and duty of candour, we focus on personalisation because of the opportunities it provides to enhance management plans for people experiencing mental health problems.

The Effect of Auditing Standard No. 5 on Audit Fees

2011 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jagan Krishnan ◽  
Jayanthi Krishnan ◽  
Hakjoon Song
Keyword(s):  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Internal Control ◽  
Cost Savings ◽  
Audit Fees ◽  
Audit Efficiency ◽  
Material Weaknesses ◽  
Audit Fee ◽  
The Impact ◽  
First Time ◽  
General Reduction

SUMMARY In June 2007, the PCAOB issued Auditing Standard No. 5 (AS5), superseding Auditing Standard No. 2 (AS2). AS5 significantly changed the rules relating to audits of internal control over financial reporting (ICFR). Policymakers expected AS5 to lead to improvements in audit efficiency and thus a general reduction in audit costs, and specifically a reduction in fees for smaller and less complex companies that were disproportionately affected by AS2. We investigate the impact of the change from AS2 to AS5 on audit fees. We restrict our analysis to stable client-auditor combinations to ensure that auditors had prior AS2 experience with the client before the transition to AS5. We find that, after controlling for other factors, audit fees were lower in the first two years of implementation of AS5 relative to the last year of AS2. The decrease in fees was the highest for companies that had remediated material weaknesses in their internal control and thus moved from an adverse opinion under AS2 to a clean opinion under AS5. Further, firms that received first-time adverse opinions on their internal control in the AS5 period paid lower fee premiums (relative to firms with clean opinions) than did firms with adverse reports in the last AS2 year. Finally, in contrast to policymakers' expectations that AS5 would generate cost savings by allowing the ICFR audits to be “scaled” for small and less complex firms, there is no evidence that the smallest firms benefited. Specifically, audit fee savings were found only for relatively more complex firms (measured by multiple segments and international operations).

scholarly journals The effect of e-accounting and mediated by internal control system on the performance of SME in Iraq

2021 ◽  
pp. 05-38
Author(s):  
Ali Alfartoosi ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Control System ◽  
Internal Control ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Cost Savings ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Internal Control System ◽  
The Impact

E- accounting within the company add value to the company, such as high quality, fast decision making, cost reduction and easy to use so as to perform key activities in value chain effectively and efficiently, improve quality and improve efficiency (Suzan et al., 2020). Recently, the request to explore online financial transaction have been stipulated due to the soaring impact on the bureaucratic accomplishment (Al-Delawi and Ramo,2020). The existing literature indicates that various studies have been undertaken to examine how e-accounting influence the in-house control system and the concert, in the various theoretical frameworks. Nevertheless, researches which investigate the different magnitudes of e-accounting is relatively low. Only a few studies have examined the e-accounting characteristics on internal control system as well as its performance. Additionally, there seems to be a lack of research exploring how the above relationships are affected by the constructs. The current study, therefore, explores the link between the quality of information, cost savings, quick decision-making and easy to use by using e-accounting to tract the control system the inside the company and its performance. The relationship between the control system in the company and its output is explored by the current research. The research model comprises of a list presumption which is used to investigate the outcomes, and 345 accountants working at the commercial SME in Iraq are involved as the respondents. The analysis is conducted through Smart PLS to confirm that the e-accounting features impact the concert and the efficiency of internal control system positively. The results obtained is noteworthy in the theory and practice through a finer-grained in the understanding of the impact of SME in relation to the characteristics of e- accounting, the control system in the company and its presentation.

scholarly journals IoFarm in Field Test: Does a Cost-Optimal Choice of Fertilization Influence Yield, Protein Content and Market Performance in Crop Production?

Agriculture ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 571
Author(s):  
Michael Friedrich Tröster ◽  
Johannes Sauer
Keyword(s):  
Protein Content ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Market Performance ◽  
Cost Savings ◽  
Optimal Choice ◽  
Maize Crop ◽  
Financial Benefits ◽  
Post Hoc ◽  
The Impact ◽  
First Time

Decision-support system (DSS) IoFarm was developed to identify economically optimal fertilizer strategies on the farm level. The average cost savings are 66 EUR ha−1. This study aimed to determine whether this approach impacts yield, protein content, and market performance in crop production compared to usual farm-fertilization strategies. Few DSSs for fertilizer optimization consider multiple nutrients. DSSs with a clear focus on both fertilizer intensity and the least-cost combination of fertilizers are even rarer. To the best of our knowledge, there is no information in the literature on the impact of such DSSs on yield, protein content, and market performance for cereal–maize crop rotation. This study determines for the first time whether the financial benefits of using such an optimization tool are in conflict with important agronomic goals. In a three-year field trial, IoFarm was compared to standard farm-fertilization strategies. Results were evaluated with an analysis of variance followed by post hoc tests. No significant differences in yield, protein content, and market performance were found for comparable fertilization variants (with or without organic fertilization). However, differences exist in the selection of fertilizers and the timing of fertilization. Results show the agronomic comparability of IoFarm and usual farm-fertilizer strategies.

Transitioning to Blended Learning: Understanding Student and Faculty Perceptions

2011 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nanette P. Napier ◽  
Sonal Dekhane ◽  
Stella Smith
Keyword(s):  
Blended Learning ◽  
Student Performance ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Faculty Perceptions ◽  
Liberal Arts College ◽  
Final Exam ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Faculty Teaching ◽  
Face To Face Instruction ◽  
The Impact

This paper describes the conversion of an introductory computing course to the blended learning model at a small, public liberal arts college. Blended learning significantly reduces face-to-face instruction by incorporating rich, online learning experiences. To assess the impact of blended learning on students, survey data was collected at the midpoint and end of semester, and student performance on the final exam was compared in traditional and blended learning sections. To capture faculty perspectives on teaching blended learning courses, written reflections and discussions from faculty teaching blended learning sections were analyzed. Results indicate that student performance in the traditional and blended learning sections of the course were comparable and that students reported high levels of interaction with their instructor. Faculty teaching the course share insights on transitioning to the blended learning format.

The Role of Research and Innovation in the Transformation of Agri-Food Systems

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 60-63
Author(s):  
Mariana Sandu ◽  
Stefan Mantea
Keyword(s):  
Technological Progress ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Food System ◽  
Agricultural Research ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Determinant Factor ◽  
Rapid Transformation

Abstract Agri-food systems include branching ramifications, which connect in the upstream the input suppliers with farmers, and downstream farmers, processors, retailers and consumers. In the last decades, at the level of the regions, food systems have undergone rapid transformation as a result of technological progress. The paper analyzes the changes made to the structure, behavior and performance of the agri-food system and the impact on farmers and consumers. Also, the role of agricultural research as a determinant factor of transformation of agri-food system is analyzed. The research objective is to develop technologies that cover the entire food chain (from farm to fork) and meet the specific requirements of consumers (from fork to farm) through scientific solutions in line with the principles of sustainable agriculture and ensuring the safety and food safety of the population.

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