Proportionality and the Human Rights Act: a year in reflection

Article discussing the concept of proportionality and its role in the application of the UK Human Rights Act in achieving a balance between rights and responsibilities. The author sees that act as having had a revolutionary effect on ways of thinking which have proved to be the single most significant change to legal practice in recent centuries. Article based on the 4th annual lecture presented to the Society for Advanced Legal Studies at IALS given by Cherie Booth QC (Barrister-at-law and founding member of Matrix chambers) on 29th October 2001. Published in Amicus Curiae - Journal of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and its Society for Advanced Legal Studies. The Journal is produced by the Society for Advanced Legal Studies at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London

Nursing Students\u27 Self-Efficacy and Attitude: Examining the Influence ofthe Omaha System In Nurse Managed Centers

Self-efficacy, or confidence, as an outcome behavior has been identified as influencing nursing job satisfaction and retention. Clinical learning environments and teaching strategies that build and support perceived self-efficacy are critical aspects of preparing new nurses for their entry and continuing role as professional nurses in today\u27s information-intensive data-management healthcare environment. The purpose of this pre-test post-test study is to measure, using the C-scale (Grundy, 1992), nursing students\u27 self-efficacy to perform patient assessment in Nurse Managed Centers (NMC) after one semester of using the Omaha System documentation framework. Nursing students\u27 attitudes of preparation for using Standardized Nursing Languages (SNL) in the future was also examined. Bandura\u27s (1977, 19986) theoretical model of self-efficacy provided the conceptual framework. Students\u27 overall self-efficacy scores increased significantly over the 12 week study. Use of the Omaha System \u27prepared a little\u27 to \u27very prepared\u27 90% of student nurses for future use of SNL. Continued use of the Omaha System documentation framework in Nurse Managed Center clinicals as a tool for understanding SNL is recommended.

Calming the Tempest: The Benefits of Using Prospero for Electronic Document Delivery in a Large Academic Library

To effectively supplement a library???s collection, Interlibrary Loan departments must strive to produce materials quickly. As libraries acquire more online databases, ILL departments experience a reciprocal increase in article requests submitted. Facing increased demands, how can ILL departments improve and maintain timely and efficient service? The Information Resource and Retrieval Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign responded to this challenge by integrating Electronic Document Delivery to the benefit of library users. This article describes UIUC???s decision to use Prospero for EDD and the trials and triumphs of Prospero???s successful implementation.published or submitted for publicationis peer reviewe

Stop All the Clocks: Time in Postmodern Picture Books

Time, according to Ursula Heise (Heise 1997, p.48), is one of the most fundamental parameters through which narrative is organised and understood and the mode by which we mediate and negotiate human temporality. This human experience of time depends on cultural contexts that themselves are subject to change (p.48). The novelist Alain Robbe-Grillet (Robbe-Grillet 1962, p.133), claims that time no longer passes and that the question of chronology, of 'clocks and calendars', has become irrelevant. Time, as an aspect of the referential illusion created by conventional narratives, is being undermined, not only in postmodern novels, but also in postmodern picture books. In an effort, then, to understand these new temporal realities of the contemporary world and the ways in which they are represented in postmodern narrative, principally the postmodern picture book, I turned to Heise's text Chronoschisms: Time, Narrative, and Postmodernism (1997). It is Heise's contention that a fundamental change has taken place in the Western culture of time and it is my intention in this paper to examine these changes to our conceptualisation of time and briefly look at the causes of such changes. Following this I examine the ways in which these changes are reflected in narrative, with particular emphasis on the post-modern picture book

Intuitive Decision Making and Leadership Style Among Healthcare Executives in the United States

The purpose of this two-phased, sequential, exploratory, mixed-methods study was to survey a sample of Fellows in the American College of Healthcare Executives in the United States and then interview selected individuals who scored in the highly intuitive category on the intuition survey to explore how they made intuitive decisions. In the first phase, quantitative research questions addressed the relationship between leadership style and the potential to make intuitive decisions, as well as the relationship and interaction between the potential to make intuitive decisions and age, gender, and size of company. In the second phase, qualitative interviews were used to explore how highly intuitive executives used intuition to make their decisions. The Leadership Style Survey and Agor’s Intuitive Measurement Survey (AIM) were mailed to 498 Fellows in the American College of Healthcare Executives. The 113 valid surveys were analyzed using chi-square and ANOVA to evaluate the relationships noted above. Of the completed valid surveys, 8 of the 13 participants scored in the highly intuitive category on the AIM Survey with scores between 10 and 12 and were interviewed to further probe how they made intuitive decisions. The results of this research study showed that there was no relationship between leadership style and the potential to make intuitive decisions, between intuitive decision making and age, intuitive decision making and gender, or intuitive decision making and size of company the executive worked in. In addition there was no interaction found between intuitive decision making and age, gender, or size of company. The 8 interviews about how these highly intuitive executives make their intuitive decisions resulted in five emerging themes: (a) There is a sensing of one’s intuition, (b) Intuition comes from life experiences and knowledge, (c) The tensions of logic, intuition, and making the right decision usually exist, (d) Intuitive decision-making processes are often present, and (e) Mentoring and teaching intuition have an important role. From these interviews it was noted that the credibility intuitive decision making lacked in the past appears to be changing, and there is a need to encourage and mentor intuition in new managers and executives