Professional Development for Nurse Educators

At a large university on the outskirts of Toronto, Canada, there was an influx of students entering the nursing program. Therefore, the need arose for an updated, restructured, and professional development training guideline with current knowledge for nurse educators to achieve high quality learning and critical thinking. The purpose of this study was to explore professional development leaders’ perceptions of quality training guidelines for nurse educators. The conceptual framework of this study was Knowles’s adult learning theory. The research questions were centered on what professional leaders perceive to be quality professional development. A qualitative case study design was used in which interview data were collected from 5 volunteer participants. NVivo was used to transcribe and code the data. The interview passages were analyzed and categorized for common themes related to professional development. The study findings indicated quality professional development should encompass relevant learner-centered instruction on best practices and collaboration among learners and between learners and facilitators, and it should be supported by administration. The study project resulted in a 3-day, 8 hours a day train-the-trainer workshop for professional leaders. This research may contribute to positive social change and local application by providing the study setting with the knowledge needed to develop quality teaching and learning strategies for nurse educators, enhance best practices, create networking, and prepare educators for future career pursuit

An Exploration Of The Impact Of Instructional Coaching

Florida public school teachers, in compliance with No Child Left Behind Act (2001), seek to teach through mastery of Florida State Standards. Literacy coaches support teachers to ensure students master these standards. Research about the impact of instructional coaches at the elementary and middle school levels exists, but research is limited about the impact of coaching at the high school level. This mixed-methods study was influenced by the idea of scaffolding connected to the zone of proximal development (Vygotsky,1978), tracking progress during mastery learning (Slavin, 1987), and the teaching map of instructional strategies (Marzano, 2017). Participants in this study included a Florida literacy coach and three Intensive Reading and three English Arts teachers. The research question is: How might instructional coaching impact the instruction of teachers as they seek to improve instruction? Data was collected through initial and exit surveys, interviews, and observations which tracked responses about the three coached interventions of small-groups, professional development, and tracking student progress. The results of this study indicate that the coach supporting teachers with the implementation of small-groups or rotations is not closely related to the impact of the coach during the mastery learning process. Coaching for small-groups or rotations was not confirmed as interventions that all participants felt helped improve their instruction. Support from a literacy coach can have a positive impact on instruction during the mastery learning process in other areas. School-based professional development has a positive impact on instruction. Findings suggest that the coach can improve instruction by assisting with tracking student progress. Recommendations include: literacy coaches should continue to be trained on high-yield strategies to continue to impact instruction of English Language Arts and Intensive Reading teachers, administration should offer enough time for a literacy coach to support teachers in the classroom and support of coaching initiatives, and schools should increase the availability of tools to track student progress. School staffs and students can benefit from having a literacy coach who, following a plan, can positively impact instruction

Microbial oxidation of arsenite in gold mine effluent.

Thesis (M.Sc.Eng.)-University of Durban-Westville, 2000.No abstract available

A minimum core content to the right to health for HIV-positive persons under South Africa's transformative constitution.

Thesis (LL.M.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2014.This dissertation is an evaluation of the concept of a minimum core content to the constitutional right to health, with particular reference to HIV-positive persons in South Africa. The analysis involves an assessment of what the minimum core entails; whether such a formulation is necessary in the South African health context; the application of the concept in national and international law; as well as enforcement and implementation in the South African context. An appraisal of the South African social reality reveals the extent of the suffering of HIV-positive individuals and the difficulties experienced in accessing health care, especially for the vulnerable and disempowered. The problem is exacerbated by a critical inadequacy in national jurisprudence which fails to generate certainty in respect of the minimum, basic entitlements of affected people. Such a shortcoming maligns transformative constitutionalism, which requires the judiciary to develop a construction of human rights that accords with the canons of the Constitution. It is argued that one such course of action is the adoption of the minimum core, which prescribes a basic level of human rights that is guaranteed to all people – and which may withstand legislative challenge on the basis of resource constraints or progressive realisation. Reference to international law, in terms of Section 39(1) of the Constitution, assists us to overcome the shortcoming in domestic legislation in this regard. Of particular relevance is covenantal guidance offered by the ICESCR, and its guidelines of interpretation, which include the CESCR General Comments and the WHO recommendations. It is postulated that a minimum obligation to HIV-positive individuals under the right to health encompasses the duty of treatment and prevention and control in respect of the epidemic, on a non-discriminatory basis. Enforcement and implementation of such core obligations must be strictly and timeously effected. Of crucial importance in such a process is a competent judiciary that is able to resist an undue deference to the legislature. A review of court judgments, however, reveals an inadequate judicial approach to the implementation of socioeconomic rights and an appeal is made to the Constitutional Court to re-commit itself to an interpretation of the Bill of Rights that accords with Constitutional values, such as uBuntu

Malignant myopericytoma: report of a new case and review of the literature

Malignant myopericytoma is a rare entity with only 8 cases reported in the English literature. The authors report a case of a 65-year-old man with a slow-growing 8-cm nodule on the right arm. Marginal excision was performed, and a diagnosis of malignant myopericytoma was made based on histopathologic and immunohistochemical aspects. These tumors are characterized by a proliferation of round-to-spindle cells of myoid appearance in a concentric perivascular arrangement, along with malignant cytological findings. By immunochemistry, the cells were positive for smooth muscle actin and negative for desmin, cytokeratin AE1/AE3, S100 protein, Melan-A, p63, CD99, bcl-2, CD10, and STAT-6. No membranous expression of type IV collagen was observed. These tumors are associated with aggressive biological behavior and most develops metastases.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Malignant and pre-malignant oesophageal pathology in a South African teaching hospital

BACKGROUND: South Africa (SA) has one of the highest global incidences of squamous cell carcinoma of the oesophagus (SCC). A decreasing incidence of oesophageal SCC in SA has been suggested. The study aimed to assess whether the incidence of these malignant histopathological subtypes has changed in this setting. METHOD: A retrospective review of histopathological reports on pre-malignant and malignant oesophageal lesions over three time periods (TP), namely: 2003-4 (TP1), 2008-9 (TP2) and 2013-14 (TP3) was carried out at Inkosi Albert Luthuli Central Hospital, Durban, South Africa. RESULTS: A total of 1341 specimen reports were retrieved. TP1-3 consisted of 514 (39.3%), 320 (24.5%) and 474 (36.2%) patients respectively. Six hundred and forty-nine patients were male (48.3%), 642 were female (47.8%) and 50 were not specified. i.e. a sex ratio of 1.01:1. The mean age was 60.8 (± 11.8). There were 1197 Black patients (91.5%), 66 Asian (5.1%), 25 White (1.9%), 9 mixed ancestry (0.7%), and 11 of unknown race (0.8%). SCC was the most common cancer 1098 (89.1%) followed by adenocarcinoma (AC) 69 (5.6%). The ratio of SCC to AC remained fairly consistent over the total time period. Seventy-four oesophageal resections were performed with a yearly average resection rate of only 5.6%. CONCLUSION: SCC is still the most prevalent oesophageal cancer (OC) without an increase in the ratio of AC to SCC. The diagnosis of squamous cell dysplasia is concordant with previously cited rates. Barrett's oesophagitis remains uncommon. Resection rates for OC are low but similar to other South African referring centers

Long-term outcomes after haploidentical stem cell transplantation (haplo-SCT) for hematologic malignancies

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