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Efficacy Of Nutrition As Medication In Malnourished Hospitalised Patients Is Strongly Influenced By Environmental Factors, Kelly Lambert, Jan Potter, Maureen Lonergan, Linda Tapsell, Karen Charlton
Efficacy Of Nutrition As Medication In Malnourished Hospitalised Patients Is Strongly Influenced By Environmental Factors, Kelly Lambert, Jan Potter, Maureen Lonergan, Linda Tapsell, Karen Charlton
Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)
Aim To evaluate the use of Nutrition as Medication (NAM) as a dietary intervention strategy in a sample of malnourished renal and geriatric hospital inpatients. Methods In the study period of 1 July to 30 August 2009, patients admitted to the acute renal or geriatric wards of a large general hospital and assessed as malnourished or at risk of malnutrition and suitable to commence NAM were eligible for inclusion in this pilot clinical cohort study. Medication charts of the study patients were audited and opportunistic observations of patients receiving NAM were conducted. Comparisons of receival and refusal rates of NAM …
Intentional Learning With Technological Proxies: Goal Orientations And Efficacy Beliefs, Jose Hanham, Jacqueline Ullman, Joanne Orlando, John Mccormick
Intentional Learning With Technological Proxies: Goal Orientations And Efficacy Beliefs, Jose Hanham, Jacqueline Ullman, Joanne Orlando, John Mccormick
Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)
Digital technologies serve as an important educational resource for tertiary students. A key feature of many current digital technologies available to students is that they can function as proxies in the learning process; that is, technology can be used to carry out some academic-related tasks on behalf of the user. For tertiary educators, the widespread availability of technological proxies raises a number of important pedagogical issues. In this article, we discuss technological proxy in the context of intentional learning. Drawing from the literature on learner motivation, we identify three key variables - learners' achievement goal orientations, self-efficacy beliefs, and proxy …