scholarly journals Dimensies van leierskapsbeoefening deur verpleegdiensbestuurders

Curationis ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Nel ◽  
M. Muller ◽  
M. Poggenpoel
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Development ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Nursing Service ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Leadership Behaviour ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
The Right ◽  
Service Managers

Leadership development is an important component of the nursing service manager’s personal and professional development. Competent leadership is required to lead the nursing service in the right direction within the context of dynamic political and social changes. Various internal and external environmental variables have a significant influence on leadership behaviour and practice. The purpose with this study is to explore and describe the characteristics or dimensions of leadership excellence by the nursing service manager. An exporatory and descriptive research design was followed and data collection was done by means of focus group interviews. The results do not show a significant difference between the knowledge already generated by research, or described in the literature, but is utilised as the basis of leadership development of nursing service managers. A leadership development programme for nursing service managers, based on the results of this study, is recommended.

scholarly journals “Just Be Strong, You Will Get through It” a Qualitative Study of Young Migrants’ Experiences of Settling in New Zealand

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 1292
Author(s):  
Enoka De Jacolyn ◽  
Karolina Stasiak ◽  
Judith McCool
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Inductive Method ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Acculturation Process ◽  
Migrant Youth ◽  
Support Seeking ◽  
New Beginnings ◽  
Group Interviews

Migration, when it occurs during adolescence, is particularly challenging as it coincides with a myriad of other developmental and social changes. The present study set out to explore recent young migrants’ experiences of settling in New Zealand. The qualitative study aimed to identify areas of particular challenge, examples of resilience and new insights into the acculturation process. Focus group interviews were conducted with migrant youth aged 16–19 from three urban secondary schools in Auckland The interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed and analyzed using a general inductive method. Key themes centered on new beginnings, confronting new realities, acceptance, support seeking and overcoming challenges. Young migrants in this study shared similar challenges during the early post-migration period. They were often faced with additional responsibility, being caught between two cultures while struggling with communication and language. However, they were able to draw on their own self-growth, gratitude, and social connections. This study provides an insight into experiences of young migrants in New Zealand, and offers suggestions for developing culturally relevant support to foster migrant youth wellbeing.

scholarly journals Leierskapontwikkeling in ‘n verplegingskollege

Curationis ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Harms ◽  
M. Muller
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Development ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Leadership Practice ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Nursing College ◽  
Educational Staff

This study is conducted within the context of nursing colleges and focuses on the empowerment of educational staff in a nursing college to facilitate excellence in leadership practice. A qualitative exploratory and descriptive study was conducted in different phases: the views and expectations of educational staff as leaders, as well as the views and expectations of the fourth year students as followers and potential professional leaders were explored and described by means of focus group interviews. A provisional conceptual framework for leadership development in a nursing college was compiled, exposed to a literature control and a final conceptual framework was refined, together with guidelines for leadership development in a nursing college. This article focuses on the final conceptual framework as well as the programme for leadership development in a nursing college. It is recommended that this programme be implemented and exposed to purposeful evaluation.

The effects of drama method on the academic achievement in ninth graders history course

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 218-226
Author(s):  
Cemile Kurt ◽  
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Implementation Process ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Group Interviews

This research aimed to present how using the drama method in high school history courses affected student achievement. The descriptive study utilized data collected with quasi-experimental design in quantitative method and made use of data based on content analysis in qualitative method. The study group of the research consisted of 59 students in 9/K (experimental) and 9/G (control) classes, selected through simple non-random sampling method from a state high school in Çankaya District of Ankara Province in the 2017-2018 academic year. The research was limited to the unit of “Eurasia in the First and Middle Ages” in the 9th grade History Course. The data obtained at the end of the eight-week implementation process were collected with pre and post academic achievement tests, focus group interviews and researcher observations. Quantitative data on academic achievement were analyzed with the SPSS 15.00 (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) Package Program, focus group interview data were analyzed with content analysis and researcher observations were analyzed with descriptive analysis. The study concluded that history lessons taught with the drama method were more effective and efficient compared to history lessons taught with direct instruction method and that there was a significant difference in favor of the experimental group students in regards to academic achievement. The findings of focus group interviews and researcher observations demonstrated that use of drama in education was effective on student learning, it developed positive affect and it informed students about drama.

Ledelse mellom sterke ideologier og lillebrorkomplekser – en eksplorerende studie i tverrfaglig spesialisert rusbehandling

2022 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Margrethe Aaen Erlandsen ◽  
◽  
Hilde Elise Lytomt Harwiss ◽  
Steinar Bjartveit ◽  
Espen Ajo Arnevik ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
Leadership Development ◽  
Leadership Role ◽  
Substance Use Treatment ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Health Leadership ◽  
Fertile Ground ◽  
Inferiority Complex ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Pragmatic Leadership

Background: Substance use treatment has long traditions in Norway, but it was not until 2004 that it became part of the specialist health service, leading to new leadership requirements. The aim of this study was to understand how the field is perceived from a leadership perspective and how leaders perceive their leadership role. Method: The study is based on three focus group interviews with the mentors of 28 network groups. Data were analysed through systematic text condensation. Results: The analysis resulted in a clustering of four aspects the informants reported to characterise their perceptions of their leadership role: the inferiority complex, values ​​in substance use treatment, pragmatic leadership, and subjective leadership. Implications: The analysis shows that informal hierarchies of power, ideology, and expectations of interdisciplinarity in all decisions provide fertile ground for a flat structure and ambiguity in management. The findings reveal the need for measures to strengthen recognition of the field and develop the leadership role. Keywords: Substance use treatment, leadership, drugs, addiction, health, leadership development

scholarly journals Care Robot Orientation: What, Who and How? Potential Users’ Perceptions

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 1103-1117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rose-Marie Johansson-Pajala ◽  
Kirsten Thommes ◽  
Julia A. Hoppe ◽  
Outi Tuisku ◽  
Lea Hennala ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Care Service ◽  
Ethical Challenge ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Care Robots ◽  
Implementation Planning ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
User Groups ◽  
Firm Basis ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Service Managers

Abstract Exploring the specific field of care robot orientation generates many questions regarding the meaning, content and how it should be conducted. The issue is important due to the general digitalisation and implementation of welfare technology and care robots. The aim of the study was to explore perceptions of care robot orientation from the potential users’ perspective. Data were collected by focus group interviews in Finland, Germany and Sweden. In all three countries, potential user groups were represented: older adults, relatives, professional caregivers and care service managers. A qualitative descriptive method was used for analysing data. The data revealed three aspects of care robot orientation: (1) What care robot orientation is, (2) Who needs it and by Whom it should be given and (3) How it should be performed. The need for care robot orientation is general in society. In the absence of knowledge about care robots, it is nearly impossible to know what to ask for or actually seek information about. Therefore, care robot orientation must be founded on agile implementation planning for care robots, with a firm basis in trustworthy knowledge and information and respecting individuals’ wishes. This also gives rise to an ethical challenge when care robots are offered to people having reduced decision-making ability (dementia, cognitive impairment), along with the issue of who then should make the decision. The mapping of the What, Who/Whom and How aspects of care robot orientation offers a foundation for the creation of orientation models, which might facilitate structured and goal-oriented care robot orientation strategies.

scholarly journals ‘Knowing me, knowing you’: an exploration of the views and experiences of nursing home residents and staff on their nursing home as ‘home’

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Assumpta A. Ryan ◽  
Kevin Moore
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Home ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Nursing Home Residents ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
The Core ◽  
Core Category ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
The Right ◽  
Feeling At Home ◽  
At Home

Abstract The overall aim of this grounded theory study was to explore the context of a nursing home as ‘home’ from the perspective of residents and staff. Sixteen focus group interviews were used to collect qualitative data from nursing home residents (N = 48) and staff (N = 44). Five distinct categories captured the views and experiences of participating residents and staff. These were: (a) Starting off on the right foot, ‘First impressions can be the lasting ones; (b) Making new and maintaining existing connections, ‘There is great unity between staff and residents’; (c) The nursing home as home, ‘It's a bit like home from home for me’; (d) Intuitive knowing, ‘I don't even have to speak, she just knows’; and (e) Feeling at home in a regulated environment, ‘It takes the home away from nursing home’. Together these five categories formed the basis of the core category ‘Knowing me, knowing you’, which captures the experiences of participants who repeatedly highlighted the importance of relationships and feelings of mutuality and respect between and among staff and residents as central to feeling at home in a nursing home. The reciprocity and mutuality associated with the core category, ‘Knowing me, knowing you’, was at times challenged by staff shortages, time constraints, and conflicting priorities associated with the co-existence of a regulated and homely environment.

Depression and Caregiver Mastery in Grandfathers Caring for Their Grandchildren

2005 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 283-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stacey R. Kolomer ◽  
Philip McCallion
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Grandparent Caregivers ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Formal Services ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Status Differences

Kin caregiving research tends to focus on the experiences of grandmothers. Often unnoticed and underserved are grandfathers who also take on this responsibility. Here, two groups of grandfathers participated in focus group interviews to discuss their experiences as caregivers to their grandchildren. Common themes for the grandfathers were the feeling of missing freedom, experiencing child rearing differently now than they had with their own children, and fear of what would happen to the children should their health fail. Thirty-three grandfathers also answered questions about themselves; their grandchild; need, use, and satisfaction with formal services; depression; and caregiving mastery. A sample of 33 grandmothers selected from a previous study was matched to the grandfathers on age, race, and marital status. Differences in depressive symptoms between the grandfathers and grandmothers were statistically significant. There was no statistically significant difference between the grandparent caregivers on caregiving mastery. These findings suggest that there may be differences in the impact of caregiving for grandmothers and grandfathers. These differences should be further investigated.

scholarly journals Hypertext versus Footnotes

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-115
Author(s):  
Miriam Eisenstein Ebsworth ◽  
Tommy McDonell ◽  
Anthony DeFazio ◽  
Chencen Cai
Keyword(s):  
English Language Learners ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
English Learners ◽  
English Language ◽  
The Other ◽  
Multiple Choice Questions ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Group Interviews

This study considers forty adolescent English Language Learners who read a passage online containing additional information available through either hypertext links or footnotes. Participants were attending a special high school for English learners at the time of the study. Two versions of the text were offered, one with hypertext and the other with footnotes, and participants were randomly assigned to the footnote or hypertext condition. Answers to multiple choice questions showed no significant difference between groups in recall of the reading under the two conditions, in contrast with an earlier study of learners in higher education settings whose recall of reading with hypertext was significantly lower than with footnotes. Learners’ ratings of perceived comprehensibility of the 2 texts was also not significantly different. Additional interpretive data came from focus group interviews involving all of the participants.

scholarly journals Using Simple Interactions to Improve Pedagogy in a Cross-Aged Leadership Program

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 126-130
Author(s):  
Michael A. Hemphill ◽  
Tom Martinek
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Development ◽  
Teaching Program ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Developmental Relationships ◽  
Innovative Strategy ◽  
Youth Leaders ◽  
Leadership Experiences ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Teaching Programs ◽  
The Impact

Cross-aged teaching programs provide leadership experiences to youth who aim to influence children to be responsible, caring, and compassionate. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of a leadership development protocol on relationship development in an established cross-aged teaching program. Method: Guided by the developmental relationships framework, “Simple Interactions” was implemented with a group of nine youth leaders. The intent was to help them improve their relationships with children in four categories (a) connection, (b) reciprocity, (c) participation, and (d) progression. Data were collected through reflection documents and focus group interviews. Results: Qualitative results explain how Simple Interactions impacted reflection and revealed strategies youth leaders used to build relationships with children. Discussion: The findings suggest that the Simple Interactions protocol may provide an innovative strategy to promote reflective practice and develop positive relationships in a cross-aged teaching program.

scholarly journals The experiences and perceptions of nursing service managers regarding transformation of health services in selected provincial academic health complexes

Curationis ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
R Buys ◽  
M Muller
Keyword(s):  
Health Services ◽  
Nursing Service ◽  
Academic Health ◽  
Negative Experiences ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Quality Of Patient Care ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Phenomenological Design ◽  
Service Managers

Nursing service managers are challenged with enormous transformations within the new political dispensation in South Africa. The objective of the study was to explore and describe the experiences and perceptions of the nursing service managers regarding transformation of health services in selected Provincial Academic Health Complexes. A qualitative, exploratory, descriptive and phenomenological design was employed utilising focus group interviews and narratives as methods of data collection. After content analysis was performed, results were grouped into management of health service transformation and quality of patient care in relation to the levels of the organisation. The levels in the organisation are individual level, group level, departmental level and organisational level. Positive and negative experiences and perceptions were identified.

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