Invandrares väg till arbete genom Arbets- och Integrationscenter

ABSTRACT This research explores how the Work Integration Center (AIC) supports unemployed immigrants in acquiring jobs and how the practical work helps immigrants in entering the labour market. It employs qualitative research approach through semi-structured interviews staff members at AIC and municipal commissioners of education and labour market in the municipality of Malmö. Its aim is to examine how governmental setup guidelines were represented in the practical work. These guiding principles of the organization are presented at the top of municipality. The findings suggest that even if the staff has no knowledge of the official measures of the integration plans, they have implemented the aims and criteria in their work with the immigrants. Work Integration Center reaches its objective of getting 65 % of their participants to become self-sufficient through work, studies or other governmental efforts. The main conclusion is that Work Integration Center in Malmö follows the guiding principles by transforming the objectives in another way, one that does not prescribe to the official measure of integration plans. The practical work on AIC is based on both individual and socially-focused efforts, which concerns support, personal survey, motivation work and integration plans for the unemployed to take part in the regular labour market. The work method is based on optimal minds (solutions-focused) theory, which means that the person owns the problem and its solution. Work Integration Center is a communal analogue to employment service office (Arbetsförmedlingen), which supports the unemployed, refugees, and immigrants to increase their possibilities of becoming self-sufficient

Vård i livets slut : Faktorer som stödjer sjuksköterskor i omvårdnadsarbetet.

BAKGRUND: En av de mest krävande uppgifter sjuksköterskor har, är omvårdnad av personer som befinner sig i livets slut. Förr var döden en del av livet och fanns dagligen i människors närhet. Idag betonas ungdom, hälsa och en kultur som är dödsförnekande. Detta är ett problem som även speglar vården och en kärnkompetens i omvårdnad i livets slutskede bör efterfrågas hos alla sjuksköterskor. SYFTE: Syftet var att belysa vilka faktorer som kan vara stöd för sjuksköterskor i omvårdnadsarbetet vid livets slutskede. METOD: En allmän litteraturstudie är gjord. Analys har genomförts av 17 artiklar med hjälp av innehållsanalys. RESULTAT: Att vara mogen som människa kan innebära att ha erfarenhet, ha mod och ha förmåga till empati. Att få kraft i mötet kan vara att få lära känna, få ta sig tid, få uppskattning och få förtroende. Förutsättningar för att ge en god omvårdnad kan innebära lindring genom beröring, miljö, kommunikation och kunskap. SLUTSATS: Ömsesidig relation ger sjuksköterskor stöd i arbetet och patienterna stöd i sjukdomen. Är patienterna nöjda känner sig även sjuksköterskorna tillfreds. Utbildning inom palliativ vård är viktigt och flera studier visar att extra utbildning är nödvändigt för att ge en god omvårdnad vid livets slut

Parents and Course Leaders' Experiences of the ComAlong Augmentative and Alternative Communication Early Intervention Course

Keywordsearly intervention, parental education, communication development, augmentative and alternative communication (AAC), parents' experiencesAbstractThe aim of this study was to evaluate parents and course leaders' experiences of the ComAlong early intervention course; a parental course about communication, communication development, play, responsive communication strategies and augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). ComAlong targets parents of pre-school children with extensive communication difficulties and, at times, additional disabilities. Data consisted of course evaluation surveys filled out by 86 parents (57 mothers and 29 fathers) and one grandmother and interviews of four parents and four course leaders. Overall, parents were positive about the course. This was shown in ratings of 21 statements, in written answers to seven open questions and in the interviews. The total mean value for all statements was 4.4 (max 5) and the median was 4 or 5. The means for the 20 statements varied between 3.9 and 4.8 and half of all statements had mean values of 4.5 or higher. The mean value for the course (parents’ rating of the course on a 1 to 10 scale where 10 was the best) was 8.5 (Mdn and mode = 8, SD = 1.1). On the whole, parents and course leaders were satisfied. Parents learned about communication and AAC and experienced that communication with the child had changed to the better. In particular, parents appreciated meeting respectful and competent course leaders and other parents to children with varying disabilities. Information about the course before it started was a problematic issue. These and other findings are discussed with regard to early intervention for parents of children who use augmentative and alternative communication

Proviral integrations and expression of endogenous Avian leucosis virus during long term selection for high and low body weight in two chicken lines

BACKGROUND: Long-term selection (> 45 generations) for low or high juvenile body weight from a common founder population of White Plymouth Rock chickens has generated two extremely divergent lines, the LWS and HWS lines. In addition to a > 9-fold difference between lines for the selected trait, large behavioural and metabolic differences between the two lines evolved during the course of the selection. We recently compared gene expression in brain tissue from birds representing these lines using a global cDNA array analysis and the results showed multiple but small expression differences in protein coding genes. The main differentially expressed transcripts were endogenous retroviral sequences identified as avian leucosis virus subgroup-E (ALVE). RESULTS: In this work we confirm the differential ALVE expression and analysed expression and number of proviral integrations in the two parental lines as well as in F(9 )individuals from an advanced intercross of the lines. Correlation analysis between expression, proviral integrations and body weight showed that high ALVE levels in the LWS line were inherited and that more ALVE integrations were detected in LWS than HWS birds. CONCLUSION: We conclude that only a few of the integrations contribute to the high expression levels seen in the LWS line and that high ALVE expression was significantly correlated with lower body weights for the females but not males. The conserved correlation between high expression and low body weight in females after 9 generations of intercrosses, indicated that ALVE loci conferring high expression directly affects growth or are very closely linked to loci regulating growth

Henkilöstön vaihtuvuus ja siihen liittyvät tekijät telemarkkinointialalla : case: Gainer Oy

Tämä opinnäytetyö toteutettiin toimeksiantosopimuksena Gainer Oy:lle, joka on toiminut telemarkkinoinnin alalla jo vuodesta 1984. Opinnäytetyön tutkimusstrategiaksi valittiin case study eli tapaustutkimus. Käytimme tutkimusmenetelmänä kvalitatiivista eli laadullista tutkimusta. Tavoitteenamme oli tutkia ja selvittää henkilöstön vaihtuvuutta ja siihen liittyviä tekijöitä alalla, jossa henkilöstön vaihtuvuus koetaan ongelmaksi. Teoriaosuudessa käsittelemme teoreettisen viitekehyksen liittyen työnantajan keinoihin vaikuttaa työntekijän sitouttamiseen. Tämä on jaettu kahteen osa-alueeseen, jotka ovat rekrytointi sekä työhyvinvointi ja osaamisen kehittäminen. Empiirisessä osiossa päädyimme käyttämään puolistrukturoitua teemahaastattelua, joka toteutettiin suurimmaksi osaksi puhelimitse sekä muutama haastattelu tehtiin kasvotusten. Teemahaastattelu valikoitui parhaimmaksi menetelmäksi johtuen aiheen moniulotteisuudesta. Avoimella haastattelulla emme olisi välttämättä saaneet merkittävää tietoa samassa mittakaavassa kuin puolistrukturoidulla mallilla. Opinnäytetyön tuloksena päädyimme esittämään toimeksiantajalle muutamia kehitysehdotuksia. Haastatteluista johdetuilla päätelmillä saatettaisiin parantaa rekrytoinnin onnistumista, joka osaltaan parantaa kannattavuutta niin tuloksellisesti, kuin henkilöstön resurssejakin säästäen. Kehitysehdotuksia muodostui myös muihin osa-alueisiin liittyen. Näillä on myös vaikutusta henkilöstön yleiseen työhyvinvointiin ja työssä jaksamiseen.This thesis was carried out as a commission agreement for Gainer Oy, which has operated in the field of telemarketing since 1984. Our study was carried out as a case study using qualitative approach as our research method. Our objective was to study personnel turnover and matters relating to it in a field where personnel turnover is seen as a problem. In the theoretical section of the study we deal with the theoretical frame of reference related to the employer's means to influence employee engagement. This is divided into two sections that are recruiting, and occupational health and development of skills. In the empirical part of our study, we ended up using half-structured theme interviews, which were mainly carried out by telephone. A few interviews were carried out face-to-face. Theme interview was selected to be the best method because of the multidimensionality of the subject. By using open interviews, we would not necessarily have received as much significant information as by using the half-structured model. As a result of our study, we presented a few development proposals for our client/commissioner. The conclusions drawn from the interviews may lead to more successful recruiting, which in turn improves viability both in terms of productivity and by saving the resources of the personnel. There were also other development proposals concerning other areas. The results of the study may also help to improve the general well-being at work and coping with one’s workload