A nationwide survey of patient problem occurrence across different nursing healthcare sectors

Aim: The aim of this study was to determine the patient problems that nurses encounter in different clinical settings and the extent to which they report being able to influence those patient problems. Design: Exploratory online survey research. Method Data were collected through an online questionnaire. We prepared a 2 × 2 matrix to compare the rate of occurrence against the average level of reported influence. Descriptive statistics were used for the data analysis. Results: A total of 440 nurses working in different settings completed the questionnaire. Nurses report having the most influence on patient problems related to self-care, mobility and functions of the skin. Nurses experience less influence on problems with voice/speech and the tasks required for participation in work/employment

Organizational Probes:Exploring Playful Interactions in Work Environment

Playfulness, with non-intrusive elements, can be considered a useful resource for enhancing social awareness and community building within work organizations. Taking inspirations from the cultural probes approach, we developed organizational probes as a set of investigation tools that could provide useful information about employees’ everyday playful experiences within their work organizations. In an academic work environment, we applied our organizational probes over a period of three weeks. Based on the collected data we developed two design concepts for playful technologies in work environments

Інноваційний розвиток у моделі становлення підприємницького середовища України

В статті пропонується розглядати та оцінювати інноваційну модель діяльності підприємства через так звану бінарну природу створюваного ним продукту (послуги), що з одного боку має конкурентний зміст, тобто напряму пов’язаний з певними показниками, реально втіленими в товарі перевагами над іншим товаром-аналогом, а з іншого – підвищує науково-технологічний рівень підприємства, зумовлюючи інноваційні переваги інституціонального характеру, що і надалі стимулюють його розвиток до самовдосконалення. Ці переваги ми відносимо до структурно-інноваційних, тобто таких, що мають вплив на подальшу модель розвитку підприємства з огляду інноваційності його функціонування

Microarray technology and its effect on breast cancer (re)classification and prediction of outcome

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Informing, simulating experience, or both: A field experiment on phishing risks

Cybersecurity cannot be ensured with mere technical solutions. Hackers often use fraudulent emails to simply ask people for their password to breach into organizations. This technique, called phishing, is a major threat for many organizations. A typical prevention measure is to inform employees but is there a better way to reduce phishing risks? Experience and feedback have often been claimed to be effective in helping people make better decisions. In a large field experiment involving more than 10,000 employees of a Dutch ministry, we tested the effect of information provision, simulated experience, and their combination to reduce the risks of falling into a phishing attack. Both approaches substantially reduced the proportion of employees giving away their password. Combining both interventions did not have a larger impact

First experiences with Personal Networks as an enabling platform for service providers

By developing demonstrators and performing small-scale user trials, we found various opportunities and pitfalls for deploying personal networks (PNs) on a commercial basis. The demonstrators were created using as many as possible legacy devices and proven technologies. They deal with applications in the health sector, home services, tourism, and the transportation sector. This paper describes the various architectures and our experiences with the end users and the technology. We conclude that context awareness, service discovery, and content management are very important in PNs and that a personal network provider role is necessary to realize these functions under the assumptions we made. The PNPay Travel demonstrator suggests that PN service platforms provide an opportunity to develop true trans-sector services