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Cultural Norms of Clinical Simulation in Undergraduate Nursing Education
Simulated practice of clinical skills has occurred in skills laboratories for generations, and there is strong evidence to support high-fidelity clinical simulation as an effective tool for learning performance-based skills. What are less known are the processes within clinical simulation environments that facilitate the learning of socially bound and integrated components of nursing practice. Our purpose in this study was to ethnographically describe the situated learning within a simulation laboratory for baccalaureate nursing students within the western United States. We gathered and analyzed data from observations of simulation sessions as well as interviews with students and faculty to produce a rich contextualization of the relationships, beliefs, practices, environmental factors, and theoretical underpinnings encoded in cultural norms of the students’ situated practice within simulation. Our findings add to the evidence linking learning in simulation to the development of broad practice-based skills and clinical reasoning for undergraduate nursing students
TEDDY (The Task Force for Emotionally Disturbed and Potentially Delinquent Youth)
The Council on Correction of the National Council of Social Workers invited other Virginia organizations dealing with children to attend a meeting in December, 1969, to form a Task Force for Emotionally Disturbed and Potentially Delinquent Youth. Someone came up with the inspired acronym of TEDDY to avoid the long title while reminding people that this task force spoke for a group of children who need help
Twisted Alexander Invariants of Twisted Links
Let L be an oriented (d+1)-component link in the 3-sphere, and let L(q) be
the d-component link in a homology 3-sphere that results from performing
1/q-surgery on the last component. Results about the Alexander polynomial and
twisted Alexander polynomials of L(q) corresponding to finite-image
representations are obtained. The behavior of the invariants as q increases
without bound is described.Comment: 21 pages, 6 figure
Analogical Reasoning
This chapter from our book Legal Writing in Context aims to demystify analogical reasoning for law students
Twisted Alexander Polynomials and Representation Shifts
For any knot, the following are equivalent. (1) The infinite cyclic cover has
uncountably many finite covers; (2) there exists a finite-image representation
of the knot group for which the twisted Alexander polynomial vanishes; (3) the
knot group admits a finite-image representation such that the image of the
fundamental group of an incompressible Seifert surface is a proper subgroup of
the image of the commutator subgroup of the knot group.Comment: 7 pages, no figure
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