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Captaining The Gb And Ireland Team To Victory In The 2011 Walker Cup: A Commentary, Grace Mccarthy
Captaining The Gb And Ireland Team To Victory In The 2011 Walker Cup: A Commentary, Grace Mccarthy
Grace McCarthy
Nigel Edwards highlights several positive leadership behaviours in his captaincy of the winning 2011 Walker Cup team. In this response article, I will focus on selfefficacy. Self-efficacy was defined by Bandura [1] as "the belief that a person has of being capable of accomplishing a given task", in this case the task being for the players to win their games and the team to win the cup. Self-efficacy is not only important in sport. In business, self-efficacy has been shown to lead to improved performance, enhanced creativity and increased productivity [2]. However what is sometimes missing in the academic literature …
'Part Of The Team': Professional Identity And Social Exclusivity In Medical Students, Roslyn Weaver, Kath Peters, Jane Koch, Ian Wilson
'Part Of The Team': Professional Identity And Social Exclusivity In Medical Students, Roslyn Weaver, Kath Peters, Jane Koch, Ian Wilson
Ian G Wilson
OBJECTIVES Medical students must develop not only their professional identity but also inclusive social attitudes for effective medical practice in the future. This study explores the elements that contribute to medical students’ sense of professional identity and investigates the concept of social exclusivity and how this might relate to students’ development of their identity as medical professionals. METHODS The study is based on qualitative data gathered in telephone interviews with 13 medical students enrolled in Years 1 or 3 at an undergraduate medical school at a university in Australia. The questions were open-ended and asked students about their experiences in …
An International Methodology To Describe Clinical Nursing Phenomena: A Team Approach, J. Clark, Martha Craft-Rosenberg, Connie Delaney
An International Methodology To Describe Clinical Nursing Phenomena: A Team Approach, J. Clark, Martha Craft-Rosenberg, Connie Delaney
Martha J. Craft-Rosenberg
The development of a structured and standardized clinical language for nursing is of major importance to the profession for both practice and science. This paper describes a methodological approach which has been developed for the refinement and extension of the NANDA taxonomy in the Nursing Diagnosis Extension and Classification (NDEC) project. The paper proposes that this method could be used by nurses in all countries to facilitate the identification, development and validation of terms and labels which can be incorporated into each country's own emerging data systems, translated and cross mapped between systems, and eventually incorporated into international data sets.
Consequence Of Competing And Complementary Evaluation Approaches: A Case Study., Brandon Youker, Chris Coryn, Daniela Schröter, Michelle Bakerson
Consequence Of Competing And Complementary Evaluation Approaches: A Case Study., Brandon Youker, Chris Coryn, Daniela Schröter, Michelle Bakerson
Brandon W. Youker Ph.D
A poster presentation demonstrating an evaluation of a summer school program for middle schoolers in which the evaluators divided into two teams and simultaneously evaluated the program. The first team examined the students' performance according to the program's ability to achieve stated goals while the second team intentionally avoided any knowledge of or reference to the stated goals and objectives throughout the entire evaluation. The two teams wrote separate reports and then a combined report.