The Preservation of Intellectual Capital of Nurses Working in the Community Hospital

The purpose of this study was to examine nurse mentoring, succession planning, and perceived professional responsibility as a means of sustaining intellectual capital in a community hospital. Nurses completed the Alleman Mentoring Activities Questionnaire and the Nursing Intellectual Capital Inventory, and they participated in focus groups. This study has created opportunity for dialogue around mentoring and succession planning activities. Findings from this study were restricted to the state of mentoring at the time of the study as perceived by those who returned surveys or participated in focus groups. Further research is needed to gain a better understanding of the needs and expectations for mentoring activities within the organization and for nurses in general as a means to support succession planning

The Preservation of Intellectual Capital of Nurses Working in the Community Hospital

The purpose of this study was to examine nurse mentoring, succession planning, and perceived professional responsibility as a means of sustaining intellectual capital in a community hospital. Nurses completed the Alleman Mentoring Activities Questionnaire and the Nursing Intellectual Capital Inventory, and they participated in focus groups. This study has created opportunity for dialogue around mentoring and succession planning activities. Findings from this study were restricted to the state of mentoring at the time of the study as perceived by those who returned surveys or participated in focus groups. Further research is needed to gain a better understanding of the needs and expectations for mentoring activities within the organization and for nurses in general as a means to support succession planning

KNOWLEDGEBASE

Powerpoint project providing background and research for video project, KNOWLEDGEBASE

Socs and Mrs. Wilson Reidinger to James H. Meredith (Undated)

Signed by Socs and Mrs. Wilson Reidingerhttps://egrove.olemiss.edu/mercorr_pro/1870/thumbnail.jp

KEYNOTE ADDRESS--THOUGHTS ON THE FUTURE OF VERTEBRATE PEST MANAGEMENT

I greatly appreciated the invitation to attend this Conference, and to share some thoughts on the future of vertebrate pest management in the form of a Keynote Address. In making the presentation, I will dwell mostly on a single document. This document is entitled “Strategic Plan for Animal Damage Control,” and became available in December 1989, from the U.S. Department of Agriculture\u27s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS). The document is one of the products from a strategic planning process that began in APHIS about 2 years ago, and continues today. The process began at the highest level of organization of APHIS itself, and that effort resulted in its own document. The process then continued with each of the eleven organizational units of APHIS. The federal operational Animal Damage Control (ADC) program is one of those units, and the referenced document is the product of their strategic planning effort. The Denver Wildlife Research Center (DWRC), familiar to many of you as the major federal research program in animal damage control, is part of the Science and Technology (S&T) unit of APHIS, and not organizationally part of ADC. Just like ADC, S&T also completed strategic planning, the product of which was a similar-looking document. In my opinion, the document is a good one and will serve a useful function for the S&T unit. However, it is also more broadly oriented than vertebrate pest management alone, and, because the ADC document is more tightly focused and can serve as well as a basis for discussion of the federal research program in vertebrate pest management, I have chosen to highlight the ADC document. I will digress from its contents slightly only in discussing the research aspects of vertebrate pest management

Arthur Schnitzlers Traumnovelle in der Verfilmung von Wolfgang Glück

Diese Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Verfilmung von Arthur Schnitzlers „Traumnovelle“ durch den österreichischen Regisseur Wolfgang Glück. Zunächst führen die Untersuchungen an das Verhältnis des Schriftstellers Schnitzler zum Medium Film heran. Die Beziehungen des Dichters zur Filmindustrie werden auf zwei Ebenen untersucht: Zunächst wird seine Rolle als Rezipient analysiert, danach liegt der Fokus auf seinen professionellen Verbindungen zur Branche. Inwiefern diese Beziehungen zum Medium Film auf die Arbeiten Schnitzlers Einfluss hatten und wie stark filmisches Erzählen in der „Traumnovelle“ ausgeprägt ist, beantwortet der nächste Abschnitt. Es folgt die genaue Analyse von Schnitzlers eigenem Drehbuchentwurf für eine Verfilmung der Traumnovelle. Das Dokument, das im Schnitzler-Archiv in Freiburg aufliegt, wird hinsichtlich filmischer Stilmittel wie Montage oder Tonanweisungen durchleuchtet. Im Hauptteil der Arbeit, der Untersuchung von Wolfgang Glücks Verfilmung, steht folgende Frage im Mittelpunkt: Mit welchen Mitteln und in welcher Form gelang es dem Regisseur, die Motive, Themen und Botschaften in Schnitzlers Novelle auf die Leinwand zu bringen? Eine genaue Analyse des Filmrhythmus bringt zunächst höchst interessante Strukturen zum Vorschein. Schritt für Schritt werden alle relevanten filmtechnischen Analysewerkzeuge in kurzen Theorieteilen umrissen und dann zur Anwendung gebracht. Besonderes Augenmerk wird dabei auf die verwendeten Mittel zur Erzeugung von Traumwelten gelegt. Die Arbeit erläutert, wie Glück das Ineinanderfließen von Realität und Traum darstellt. Der Regisseur kommt dabei immer wieder selbst zu Wort und gibt einen unmittelbaren Einblick in seine Intentionen. Den Abschluss bildet ein Kapitel zur Erzeugung der zuvor besprochenen Traumwelten in Schnitzlers Novelle selbst, womit sich der Kreis wieder schließt

INFLUENCE OF TASTE AND COLOR CUES ON BATHING BY STARLINGS IN APPETITIVE AND ADVERSIVE CONTEXTS: IMPLICATIONS FOR ANIMAL DAMAGE CONTROL

The importance of color and taste in feeding and drinking by omnivorous birds is context·dependent and influenced by learning. Here, we report three experiments designed to assess the influence of such characteristics on starlings. In Experiment 1, eight starlings were given a choice between bathing in red or plain water and 0.15 M NaCI solution or plain water. The frequencies of bathing, drinking, and preening were recorded. Red water was avoided (p \u3c 0.05), but no preferences were observed between NaCI solution and plain water (p \u3e 0.25). That 0.15 M NaCI was not avoided is surprising, because it is rejected by starlings when drinking. Perhaps starlings do not taste substances while bathing but continue to ingest substances that they would otherwise reject. In Experiment 2, we assessed these alternative explanations and also tested (a) whether starlings would bathe in colored water if plain water was unavailable, (b) whether starlings would show preferences among such colors, and (c) whether preferences courd be altered by learning. Twenty-four starlings were assigned to three conditions. Birds in the first condition were presented with red and blue baths and relative preferences for bathing in these colors were assessed. Birds in the second condition were presented with a blue bath and intubated with methiocarb or propylene glycol. Birds in the third condition were presented with a saccharin bath and intubated with methiocarb or propylene glycol. On the four days following treatment, birds in the second condition were given two-choice tests between red and blue baths. Those in the third condition were given two-choice tests between bathing in saccharin solution and plain water. Birds readily bathed in red and blue water when plain water was unavailable. After treatment, however, birds avoided blue water (p \u3c 0.05), but aversions dissipated rapidly. Learned aversions for saccharin were also obtained (p \u3c 0.05); these remained strong over all tests. Experiment 3 was designed to assess the differential importance of taste and color. Sixteen starlings were aSSigned to four groups. Two groups were food-deprived and then given dogfood in a red cup followed by a bath of 0.15 M NaCI or LiCI. The other two groups were presented with a bath of 0.15 M NaCI or LiCI only, as a control. On the four days immediately following treatment, all groups were given two-choice feeding (red vs. blue food cups) and bathing (NaCI vs. plain water) tests. Aversions were expressed towards color in the feeding context (p \u3c 0.05) but not taste in the bathing context (p \u3e 0.25). We inferred that color cues in the feeding context overshadowed taste cues in the bathing context. The present results may have implications for control. Starlings will bathe even under harsh environmental conditions, and one control strategy might be to pair livestock feed with distinctive colors and provide lithium·adulterated bathing stations nearby. Starlings eating feed and bathing in the solution might form color aversions and subsequently avoid the food. Also, the use of such techniques might enhance already existing control, such as the use of starlicide baits. Depredating starlings would be directed toward such baits as birds feeding in the laboratory are directed towards food color combinations not explicitly paired with lithium-induced malaise