39 research outputs found
Micro-Ethical Decision Making Among Baccalaureate Nursing Students: A Qualitative Investigation
Nursing students frequently encounter micro-ethical nursing practice problems during their clinical experience. The purpose of this study was to understand the lived experiences of senior-level baccalaureate students faced with making micro-ethical clinical decisions in practice settings. A descriptive qualitative design was used, and five central themes emerged. A dominant finding was the experience of unapplied and forgotten ethics education revealing a mismatch between what faculty perceived was taught and students’ experiences of that education. When faced with micro-ethical decisions, participants trusted and deferred to staff nurse recommendations, even if the advice contradicted best-practice standards. Contextual naivete was brought out of concealment, contributing to the experience of moral disequilibrium (i.e., students felt conflicted about what they learned in school as best practice and what they observed being role modeled in the clinical environment). This study resulted in theory-guided implications for nursing education and recommendations for future study
Software process in practice: a grounded theory of the Irish software industry
This paper presents the results of a Grounded Theory study of how
software process and software process improvement (SPI) is applied in the
practice of software development. This study described in this paper focused on
what is actually happening in practice in the software industry. Using the indigenous
Irish software product industry as a test-bed, we examine the approaches
used to develop software by companies at various stages of growth. The study
used the grounded theory methodology and the results produce a picture of
software process usage, with the outcome being a theory, grounded in the field
data, that explains how software processes are formed and evolve, and when
and why SPI is undertaken. The grounded theory is based on two conceptual
themes, Process Formation and Process Evolution, and one core theoretical category,
Cost of Process. Our research found that SPI programmes are implemented
reactively and that many software managers reject SPI because of the
associated implementation and maintenance costs and are reluctant to implement
SPI models such as ISO 9000 and CMMI