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Clinical supervision models used by supervising nurses in hospital admissions: scoping review
Objective: To map the clinical supervision models used by supervising nurses in a hospital setting.
Context: Clinical supervision in nursing is essential for professional development and quality of care. In Portugal, its implementation has been gradual, with the Proctor model standing out, with its formative, restorative and normative functions. In hospitalisation, supervision faces challenges such as lack of time and resistance to change, but it also provides learning opportunities in complex contexts. It requires technical, relational and reflective skills, promoting autonomous and safe decisions.
Materials and methods: A Scoping Review will be conducted, according to the methodology of The Joanna Briggs Institute (2020), using the PCC mnemonic (Population: supervising nurses; Concept: clinical supervision models; Context: hospitalisation). Studies in English, Spanish and Portuguese will be included from the PubMed, LILACS, CINAHL Complete, SciELO and WorldCat databases. The selection of articles will be presented in a PRISMA-ScR (2018) flowchart. The extracted data will be presented in a separate table.
Expected results: We expect to identify clinical supervision models used by nurses in the context of hospitalisation during supervisory processes.
Potential implications for practice: Studies indicate that supervision improves the safety, efficiency and satisfaction of care, and its implementation in a structured manner is crucial to strengthening nursing practice and management
Phenomenological control as a predictor for mystical experience and persisting effects
Altered states of consciousness can occur in various contexts, and may produce mystical experiences (Hitchcott et al., 2019; Vlisides et al., 2018). There is emerging evidence that such states can predict positive outcomes following psychedelic experiences (Griffiths et al., 2011), but the persisting effects of other altered states are unknown. Another underexplored area is the potential for individual difference characteristics to influence the ways people experience altered states. A new measure, the phenomenological control scale (Dienes et al., 2020), quantifies the capacity of individuals to shape their perceptual experience. As altered states are characterised by considerable changes in perception and cognition, understanding the role that phenomenological control might have in shaping these experience will help to understand the mechanisms that govern any lasting effects from these states. Therefore, this project will examine the influence of phenomenological control across a range of altered states of consciousness, and the potential of these states for mystical experience and persisting effect
Knowledge Domain and Research Evolution in Cognitive Reserve: A Bibliometric Perspective from 2002 to 2024
Introduction:The rapid pace of global aging has intensified the burden of cognitive impairments,chronic conditions,and multimorbidity on public health systems.Within this context,the concept of cognitive
reserve(CR)has emerged as a pivotal framework for elucidating interindividual differences in cognitive aging,disease progression,and responsiveness to interventions.
Objective:To delineate the knowledge structure of CR research from 2002 to 2024,identify major research themes,and map the field's conceptual and intellectual development.
Methods:We will retrieve publications related to CR from the Web of Science Core Collection spanning 2002 to 2024.Bibliometric and visualization analyses will be conducted using CiteSpace,the Bibliometrix R package,Tableau,and an online analytics platform
Public Support for Cross-Issue Compromises in the U.S.
Theoretically, cross-issue compromises can facilitate policy reforms, as multiple
groups can win on an issue they prioritize. Under what conditions do Americans sup-
port them? Prior research emphasizes one-dimensional compromises or abstract sup-
port. We provide a theoretical framework to understand how support for cross-issue
compromises differs from support from their components. We also generate hypotheses
about the conditions when such compromises are especially likely, highlighting ideo-
logical extremity, partisan asymmetries, and moral issues. To test them, we employ
four surveys (N = 5,250) fielded by NORC (2023) and YouGov (2021—2025). Overall,
cross-issue compromises win substantial public support, but less than expected based
on their components’ popularity. Partisan asymmetries when respondents are asked
about compromise abstractly decline or disappear when they face concrete trade-offs.
Donors show less support for compromises, as do those who lose on an issue they deem
important. There remain demand-side barriers to compromise among an influential
segment
Rapid Cultural Adaptions for Scalable Dissemination of a Single-Session Intervention Among Polish and Ukrainian Youth: An Open Pilot Trial
Adolescents across the globe experience increasing demands for care, and the mental health of Polish and Ukrainian youth is especially concerning, due to ongoing war and displacement. This study explores the acceptability, feasibility, and short-term effects of a digital, self-guided single-session intervention (SSI) for improving the mental health of Polish and Ukrainian youth, including Ukrainian refugees in Poland. A non-randomized, open pilot trial was conducted from March to June 2024, involving youth aged 10-18 years from Poland and Ukraine. Participants completed an SSI after cultural adaptations and translation into Polish and Ukrainian. Measures assessed hopelessness, self-hate, agency, perceived control, and acceptability. Statistical analyses included paired t-tests and effect size calculations to examine intervention effects. Among 176 Polish and 139 Ukrainian youth who began the intervention, completion rates were 80.7% and 62.6%, respectively. Polish participants exhibited significant improvements in hopelessness, self-hate, perceived control, and agency, while Ukrainian youth showed moderate improvements in perceived control but limited change in other mental health indicators. Acceptability ratings were high across all youth. Findings suggest SSIs hold potential as a scalable option for mental health care. However, the varied outcomes across the two groups highlight the need for further refinement, especially for displaced youth
The Relative Framework: A Philosophical Framework
The Relative Framework is my life's work. 20 years of philosophical questioning and understanding. It is a unified philosophical system that explores the structural limits of knowledge, the emergence of self-awareness, and the entangled nature of meaning and perception. Beginning with the Knowledge Acquisition Paradox and culminating in a theory of existential relativity. Together, they form a recursive model of epistemology, cognition, and ontology grounded in limitation, emergence, and systemic interaction. The framework does not seek to finalize answers, but to clarify the boundaries through which understanding unfolds.
This body of work reflects its own emergence. Apparent overlaps or recursions are not oversights, but structural manifestations of the very epistemic constraints the framework explores. No attempt has been made to disguise the process through post hoc polish. Each paper is a stage of compression, capturing the mind’s recursive refinement under cognitive and temporal limitation.
Zenodo:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15764392
Internet Archive:
https://archive.org/details/@dean_tyldesley/uploads
Google Scholar:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=dAK4zZgAAAAJ
OSF:
https://osf.io/nf243/
Philpapers:
https://philpeople.org/profiles/dean-tyldesley
Email: [email protected]
Each paper within the series is labelled as “Vol. 1” to reflect their shared grounding in a single conceptual architecture. These are not separate volumes, but distinct lines of inquiry within the same philosophical body. Where extensions are made (e.g., continuations), they are marked as “Paper 1,” “Paper 2,” etc., under the same unified volume.
"The illusion of freedom is not a lie we tell ourselves, It’s the cognitive condition that allows deterministic systems to orient, reflect, and endure"
“We are not the arbiters of truth, but the narrators of validity”
Dean Tyldesley
ORCID: 0009-0006-6041-352