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The accessibility of research-based knowledge for nurses in United Kingdom acute care settings
Background. The successful dissemination of the results of the National Health Service (NHS) research and development strategy and the development of evidence based approaches to health care rely on clinicians having access to the best available evidence; evidence fit for the purpose of reducing the uncertainties associated with clinical decisions. Aim. To reveal the accessibility of those sources of information actually used by nurses, as well as those which they say they use. Design. Mixed method case site, using interview, observational, Q sort and documentary audit data in medical, surgical and coronary care units (CCUs) in three acute hospitals. Results. Three perspectives on accessibility were identified: (a) the humanist-in which human sources of information were the most accessible; (b) local information for local needs-in which locally produced resources were seen as the most accessible and (c) moving towards technology-in which information technology begins to be seen as accessible. Nurses' experience in a clinical specialty is positively associated with a perception that human sources such clinical nurse specialists, link nurses, doctors and experienced clinical colleagues are more accessible than text based sources. Clinical specialization is associated with different approaches to accessing research knowledge. Coronary care unit nurses were more likely perceive local guidelines, protocols and on-line databases as more accessible than their counterparts in general medical and surgical wards. Only a third of text-based resources available to nurses oil the wards had any explicit research base. These, and the remainder were Out of date (mean age of textbooks 11 years), and authorship hard to ascertain. Conclusion. A strategy to increase the use of research evidence by nurses should harness the influence of clinical nurse specialists, link nurses and those engaged in practice development. These roles Could act as 'conduits' through which research-based messages for practice, and information for clinical decision making, could flow. This role should be explored and enhanced
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Angular momentum I ground state probabilities of boson systems interacting by random interactions
In this paper we report our systematic calculations of angular momentum
ground state probabilities () of boson systems with spin in the
presence of random two-body interactions. It is found that the P(0) dominance
is usually not true for a system with an odd number of bosons, while it is
valid for an even number of bosons, which indicates that the P(0) dominance is
partly connected to the even number of identical particles. It is also noticed
that the 's of bosons with spin do not follow the 1/N (,
referring to the number of independent two-body matrix elements) relation. The
properties of the 's obtained in boson systems with spin are
discussed.Comment: 8 pages and 3 figure
Number of states with fixed angular momentum for identical fermions and bosons
We present in this paper empirical formulas for the number of angular
momentum I states for three and four identical fermions or bosons. In the cases
with large I we prove that the number of states with the same and n
but different J is identical if for fermions
and for bosons, and that the number of states is also identical
for the same but different n and J if min(n, 2J+1 -
n) for fermions and for min(n, 2J) for bosons. Here , n is the particle number, and J refers to the angular momentum of
a single-particle orbit for fermions, or the spin L carried by bosons.Comment: 9 pages, no figure
General pairing interactions and pair truncation approximations for fermions in a single-j shell
We investigate Hamiltonians with attractive interactions between pairs of
fermions coupled to angular momentum J. We show that pairs with spin J are
reasonable building blocks for the low-lying states. For systems with only a J
= Jmax pairing interaction, eigenvalues are found to be approximately integers
for a large array of states, in particular for those with total angular momenta
I le 2j. For I=0 eigenstates of four fermions in a single-j shell we show that
there is only one non-zero eigenvalue. We address these observations using the
nucleon pair approximation of the shell model and relate our results with a
number of currently interesting problems.Comment: a latex text file and 2 figures, to be publishe
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Ground state spin 0 dominance of many-body systems with random interactions and related topics
In this talk we shall show our recent results in understanding the spin 0 ground state (0 g.s.) dominance of many-body systems. We propose
a simple approach to predict the spin g.s. probabilities which does not
require the diagonalization of a Hamiltonian with random interactions. Some
findings related to the 0 g.s. dominance will also be discussed.Comment: 11 pages and 4 figure
Geometry of random interactions
It is argued that spectral features of quantal systems with random
interactions can be given a geometric interpretation. This conjecture is
investigated in the context of two simple models: a system of randomly
interacting d bosons and one of randomly interacting fermions in a j=7/2 shell.
In both examples the probability for a given state to become the ground state
is shown to be related to a geometric property of a polygon or polyhedron which
is entirely determined by particle number, shell size, and symmetry character
of the states. Extensions to more general situations are discussed
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