Quality Improvement Project: Incivility In Nursing Education: Utilizing An Educational Module And Professionalism Guide To Address Incivility In A Nursing Students, Jennifer Schadler

Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects

Incivility is a well-documented issue in the nursing profession that begins in nursing education and follows graduates into nursing practice. Nursing academia has a responsibility to address incivility to prevent inappropriate behaviors from becoming embedded into the culture. The problem addressed in this quality improvement project is incivility among nursing students at a private college. The purpose of this project was to apply evidence-based incivility interventions to address uncivil behaviors of nursing students. The hypothesis was that the implementation of a civility mentor module and professionalism guide would impact perceived incivility among nursing students. The project was conducted using the …

Variables That Support Trauma-Informed Care Implementation By Registered Play Therapists™, Christopher Todd Correa

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Federal agencies, researchers, and professional associations have addressed concerns regarding the growing number of children who are exposed to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and trauma. In response, they have recommended adoption of trauma-informed care (TIC) that provides care to children. However, there were mixed results in terms of successfully implementing TIC at places of employment. The purpose of this quantitative survey study was to investigate whether Registered Play Therapist™ (RPTs™) experiences, perceptions, and knowledge predicted their attitudes regarding TIC. This study involved exploring perceptions of RPTs™ regarding effectiveness of implementing TIC. The trauma-informed systems model guided this study. Research questions …

Elementary Principals’ Instructional Support To Teach Science, Alfred Lewis

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Principals serve as the instructional leader of their schools and teaching staff, a critical role in leading science achievement. In a racially diverse K-8 public school district in New Jersey, elementary principals are challenged to provide instructional support to teachers who are struggling to teach science to elementary students performing below proficiency on the state’s standardized assessment for science. The research questions focused on principals’ perceived challenges to support elementary science teachers, as well as recommendations for improved training and resources to support teachers. A basic qualitative study consisted of semistructured interviews with 12 elementary principals and assistant principals. The …

Implementing Healthcare Administrative Leadership Strategies To Mitigate Turnover And Enhance Retention Among Medical-Surgical Unit Registered Nurses, Janay Miller

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

To mitigate registered nursing turnover, utilize strategies centered on the Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) Model, a theoretical framework that strikes a balance between the demands of the jobs and the resources and support available to nursing employees, which will lead to an increase in employee engagement, dedication, and psychological well-being at work while reducing Acute Care Hospital (ACH) turnover rates in the medical-surgical units (MSUs) in Pennsylvania. The research question examined healthcare administration leadership strategies that could be implemented by hospital administrators within ACHs in Pennsylvania MSUs. The purpose of this literature review was to evaluate the existing literature on registered …

The Relationship Between Strategic Awareness And Organizational Culture: An Analytical Study In The General Directorate Of Training And Qualification / Ministry Of Interior, Basim Muhammad Bahloul, Adel Abdul Al-Abbasi

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

The main purpose of this research is to test the relationship between strategic awareness and organizational culture in the General Directorate of Training and Qualification/ the Ministry of Interior. In view of the importance of the research topic and sample for the researched directorate, the researcher adopted the descriptive analytical approach using the questionnaire as a primary tool for data collection. The research sample is represented by the heads of departments division directors, and training officers in the directorate. The sample was limited to 119 officers out of a total of 181 officers. The questionnaire consists of 57 items, and …

The Role Of Core Capabilities In The Strategic Balance / An Analytical Research In The Central Bank Of Iraq, Noor Al-Hasan Hayder Mudhafar, Suheir Adel Hamed

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

This research aims to investigate the relationship between two variables, namely core capabilities and strategic balance, within the context of the Central Bank of Iraq. The research problem emphasizes the necessity of implementing mechanisms that improve core capabilities to enhance strategic balance within the bank. the study highlights the importance of proposing various strategies to address the research problem, to achieve this, the research was conducted using a sample of 106 administrative leaders out of a total of 109, employing a purposive sampling method according to their positions and the organizational structure. The researcher used a descriptive-analytical approach and employed …

Impact Of Re-Engineering Human Resources On High Performance: An Empirical Research In The Central Statistical Organization / Ministry Of Planning, Omar Nabeel Talib, Mohsin Rashed Musaheb

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

Two variables represent the research's central concept. Reengineering human resources is the first, and high performance is the second. By examining and elaborating on the offered factors, the research intends to diagnose the influence that the first variable (reengineering of human resources) and the second variable (high performance) have on each other. What is the status of the human resources re-engineering approach and its impact on high performance in the Central Statistical Organisation, and what is the extent of awareness and knowing the extent of contribution of the human resources re-engineering approach to upgrading work and achieving high performance? These …

The Efficiency Of Domestic Savings And Its Impact On The Average Per Capita Gdp In Iraq For The Period (2003-2022), Sabah Rabah Al-Harishawi, Saja Fadhil Jawad Al-Dahlaki

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

Local savings are an essential source for financing sustainable development. The research is based on careful analysis due to the importance of local savings in the Iraqi economy for the period (2003-2022) to provide the necessary local financing necessary for development investments in infrastructure and investments that enhance economic growth and productivity, generate job opportunities, and achieve The goals and indicators of sustainable development and the extent of the efficiency of those local savings and their impact on the average per capita share of GDP. The research aims to examine the effect of the efficiency of local savings on the …

Investigating The Diverse Factors Influencing Employee Motivation In The Fast-Food Sector In Zimbabwe: A Comprehensive Literature Review, Billiat Chigaga

Management Dynamics

This literature review provides a comprehensive exploration of the determinants shaping employee motivation within Zimbabwe's fast-food industry, recognizing its pivotal role in organizational success, especially in this highly competitive sector. Employing a systematic methodology, the study synthesizes diverse academic sources to investigate key motivators, including compensation, recognition, job security, training, and workplace culture. By analysing existing literature, including empirical studies and expert insights, this research not only enhances our understanding of employee motivation but also considers the unique dynamics of Zimbabwe's fast-food market. This holistic approach offers valuable insights for businesses, policymakers, and researchers looking to bolster workforce motivation and …

Using An Evidence-Based Practice Nurse Recognition Practice To Improve Job Satisfaction, Hali Bianchi

Student Scholarly Projects

Practice Problem: The project targeted low job satisfaction and high nurse turnover in a Central Florida bone marrow transplant unit, impacting patient care and costs.

PICOT: (P) For registered nurses (RNs) on the bone marrow transplant unit, (I) does implementing an evidence-based practice employee recognition program (C) compared to no employee recognition program, (O) lead to an increase in job satisfaction (T) over 10 weeks?

Evidence: The evidence supported the effectiveness of meaningful recognition programs, such as personalized verbal acknowledgment from leadership, in boosting job satisfaction among nurses.

Intervention: The intervention involved nurse managers using a weekly employee recognition …

Improving Hospital Performance Using Technological Performance Strategies To Reduce Misdiagnoses, Carlistus Nnabuife

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The burgeoning challenge of patient disease misdiagnosis presents a significant obstacle, important to hospital administrators because of their responsibility and concern for delivering quality health care. Grounded in the Kaizen continuous improvement model, the purpose of this qualitative pragmatic inquiry was to identify and explore effective technological strategies used by four hospital administrators to reduce the incidence of disease misdiagnosis and improve organizational performance. Data were collected from participant interviews and relevant public documents. Thematic analysis included transcription review, data coding, and theme identification. Four themes emerged: (a) prioritizing the acquisition of advanced technology tools, (b) proper fitting of technology …

Nurse Retention Amid Workplace Adversity: Examining Strategies And Outcomes, Horace Smith

Student Scholarly Projects

Practice Problem: This project aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of nurse retention strategies in enhancing job satisfaction, focusing primarily on Emergency Department (ED) Registered Nurses (RNs). A comprehensive approach was adopted within the ED of a veteran hospital in the Southeast, aimed at promoting staff retention.

PICOT: The PICOT question guiding this project is as follows: In a veteran hospital's Emergency Room (ER) located in the southeast (P), how does the implementation of nurse retention strategies (I) compared to current standards (C) increase their job satisfaction (O) over a period of ten weeks (T)?

Evidence: This project …

Transitions Of Care And The Prevention Of Readmissions, Beatriz Granado

Student Scholarly Projects

Unplanned hospital readmissions often result from poor discharge planning and challenges during the transition from hospital to home, including medication errors and weak communication with primary care providers. A well-organized and personalized discharge plan can significantly reduce hospital stays, lower readmission rates, minimize medication errors, and improve patient outcomes, all while decreasing healthcare costs. In post-discharge Medicare-eligible patients (P), how does transitional care coordination through organized, personalized, and patient-focused discharge planning (I), compared with standard or no transitional care coordination provided (C), affect readmissions (O) within the 30-day post-discharge phase monitored over a 10–12-week period (T)? A search was conducted …

Qualitative Study Of Stakeholder Influence On Environmental Practices: Evidence From The Malaysian Aviation Industry, Zarina Zakaria, Zamzulaila Zakaria

The Qualitative Report

In this study, we seek to explore the influence of stakeholders on environmental management practices in Malaysia's aviation industry. The data from this study was derived from interviewing 25 respondents in nine organisations within the aviation sector and was analysed using thematic analysis. We show that internal and external stakeholders significantly influence changes towards better environmental management practices. While internal stakeholders have contributed to better environmental management practices by changing their day-to-day practices within their functional role in the organisation, the external stakeholders have been the key actors that have significantly pushed the organisation to implement a proper environmental management …

The Influence Of System Optimization On Improving The Quality Of Administrative Services In The Ministry Of Education, Culture, Research And Technology, Mohammad Ridha, Dhini Novia Azaria

Jurnal Administrasi Bisnis Terapan

ABSTRACT

Correspondence and record management are crucial components of a company or institute. Although often considered as things that do not require primary attention, these two components can have a very important role in the occurrence of an event. Along with the development of technology, the management of correspondence and archives is also growing. Generally, the development of this management is in the form of the emergence of an application that can accommodate the needs of correspondence and archives of a company or institute. In Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology, the application is called "Sistem Naskah Dinas Elektronik" …

Stakeholders’ Influence Of Voluntary Sustainability Reporting On Corporate Financial Performance, Delores Adams

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

This study explores the relationship between voluntary sustainability reporting and corporate financial performance, focusing on the influence of stakeholders on sustainability initiatives. The research uses legitimacy and stakeholder theories, drawing from signaling and institutional theories, to examine the impact of sustainability initiatives on financial results. The analysis was conducted on United States aerospace and defense companies listed in the Fortune 500, and Bloomberg’s ESG database. The independent variables included GRI-2019 – GRI-2022, stakeholders influence “STAKE,” firm size, and growth. The dependent variables were return on assets and Tobin’s Q. Return on investment was used as the moderating and mediating variable. …

Servant Leader Choral Conductor: The Effect Of Servant Leadership In Community Choirs And Community Partnerships, Zachary Debois Cooke

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

Despite servant leadership primarily establishing itself as an appropriate leadership style, there is little research on how servant leadership affects community choirs in music education. Community choirs are prevalent in music education due to the number of individuals seeking choral experiences and community gatherings to sing and express their musicality. This hermeneutic qualitative phenomenological study explores the leadership styles of community choir choral conductors and their perspectives on servant leadership. By surveying current choral conductors of community choirs and community partnerships, this qualitative study identifies the overarching leadership styles and servant leadership qualities that are consciously considered or not implemented …

Missional Leadership: An Instructional Program To Cultivate Leaders Of A Missional Church, Conner Mathias Brew

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The purpose of this action research project is to design, execute, and evaluate a small group instructional framework that cultivates a missional culture focused on communal discipleship at MVMNT Church, a local church in the Association of Related Churches network, while also addressing a gap in scholarship surrounding the interrelation of discipleship and the missional church. Using a mixed-methods approach, this study leveraged inductive thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews with survey data to validate the lack of discipleship activity at MVMNT Church and moderate-to-low comprehension of topics related to mission, discipleship, and leadership in the church. This project recommended and …

How Organizational Factors Reinforce Or Deter Hostile Workplace Behaviors In The Military: A Grounded Theory Approach, Christina Staebell

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

Organizational culture is the main predictor of hostile workplace behaviors such as discrimination, harassment, and bullying. Psychological safety, inclusive workplace culture, and bystander intervention all show promising effects on deterring hostile workplace behaviors. No research exists that explores military members' perceptions of how the military organizational culture influences the presence of these constructs and how these constructs influence one another and hostile workplace behaviors. The following grounded theory study explored military members' perceptions of how the military organizational culture influences the occurrence of hostile workplace behaviors. The role of psychological safety, inclusive workplace culture, and bystander intervention on hostile workplace …

The Price We Pay: An Integrative Review Exploring The Effects Of Wellness Culture On Nurse Burnout Rates, Rebekah Lillian Vance

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The purpose of this integrative review is to identify cultural factors contributing to nurse burnout and to explore the strategies and effectiveness of wellness culture and cultural changes on nurse burnout rates. Nurse burnout has been attributed to a myriad of factors and has been identified in nursing since the 1970s. While other professions with similar burnout issues have investigated and implemented culture-wide changes to address burnout, nursing has remained stagnant in the field of burnout research, often applying single interventions that fall short of creating significant, lasting change. An integrative review of nursing, peer-reviewed literature was conducted in an …

Health Policy: Food Allergy Restaurant Education Law, Joanna Ko

Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects

Food allergies are a rising public health concern with no indication of deceleration. The purpose of this Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) project is to enact an Arkansas state law to protect the food allergy community in dining out at restaurants to increase quality of life and decrease adverse allergic reactions. The current Arkansas state legislation for restaurant food allergy employee training is absent and action needs to be taken to safeguard the food allergy community from life-threatening reactions. The methodology involved contacting the six states that have previously implemented similar food allergy legislation. It encompassed performing a thorough search …

Department Of Defense Project Management Team Leaders: Team Dynamics And Teamwork Strategies During Complex Construction Projects, Shane Frey

Dissertations

Purpose: This qualitative multi-case study explored the challenges, strategies, and recommendations that DOD project management team leaders experienced as they made complex decisions leading successful construction projects based on Parker’s (2008) model.

Methodology: A qualitative multi-case study research design described the challenges, strategies, and recommendations Department of Defense project management team leaders used as they made complex decisions leading successful construction projects.

Findings: Close examination of data collected from interviews and artifacts yielded 117 frequencies for DOD project management team leader's team characteristics, and six themes regarding the lived experiences, challenges, strategies, and recommendations. Five key findings and one unexpected …

Scaling Work-Based Learning: Quality Criteria For Continuous Improvement And Equity, Dania Ibrahim, Heather Penczak, Emily Won

Practitioner Toolkits and Resources

No abstract provided.

Quality Criteria For College And Career Pathways Implementation, Laura Monteagudo, Emily Rusca, Liam Lawson

Practitioner Toolkits and Resources

No abstract provided.

The Oneal Project - Eresources Fusion Friday, Courtney Fuson

Library Faculty Scholarship

An overview of the ONEAL Project, its mission, the curriculum and research so far. ONEAL stands for Open Negotiation Education for Academic Librarians and is a project generously funded by IMLS grant RE-252353-OLS-22.

School Counselors’ Perceptions And Descriptions Of Their Career Counseling Efforts For Non-Honor Roll Students In Career Management, Sherlette C. Burkhalter

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

High-quality career counseling is freely available at U.S. high schools. However, many students choose not to participate in career planning programs, despite being assigned to a school counselor for guidance. There is a projected increase in demand for school counselors; however, there needs to be more literature regarding whether high school students are taking advantage of career planning and how counselors cope with and manage their role in implementing career counseling programs. The purpose of this study was to explore school counselors’ perceptions and descriptions of their career counseling efforts for non-honor roll students in career management. The theoretical framework …

Employees Speak Up: Engaging Voices From The Human Services Field, Henry J. Davis, Janna C. Heyman, Linda White-Ryan, Dana Marlowe

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

This qualitative study aims to understand the perceptions and experiences of human services professionals working within urban communities with respect to their work experiences, compensation, and work-life balance. Focus groups were used to collect data from direct service staff and executive leadership from diverse agencies. This study examined the words and stories, generating the following overarching themes: (1) dedication to agency model and communities served; (2) compensation and responsibilities; (3) reality of work-life balance; and (4) desire for professional growth and personal growth. The results show that while employees expressed personal fulfillment with their work, the issues of compensation, workload, …

Leadershift Today: Balancing Ego And Altruism, Joan F. Marques

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

This article addresses a behavioral dichotomy that seems to be a prerequisite in proper leadership performance in today’s world, especially in organizational settings that cultivate a culture of wellness and reciprocal progress. While the involved concepts - ego and altruism - are generally familiar human traits, the need for a shift from one to the other once leadership has been attained, has not been discussed as such before. This article therefore aims to evoke within leaders the awareness of the need to shift their mindset, and therefore their behavior, from ego-driven to collective-focused once elevated into a leadership position. The …

Exploring Recognition, Rewards, And The Multi-Generational Workforce During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Sara J. Hollenbeck

Doctor of Education Program Dissertations

This study sheds light on the importance of rewards and recognition programs in improving employee engagement and highlights the need for organizations to rethink their rewards and recognition strategies to better meet the needs of multi-generational employees. One problem found in organizations was that many current multi-generational employees had low engagement due, in part, to outdated rewards and recognition programs (Agarwal et al., 2018; North, 2017; O.C. Tanner Institute, 2021). There was a gap in research regarding multi-generational employees in multiple professions and their perceptions of rewards and recognition and how those monetary and non-monetary rewards could affect their engagement …

Dimensions Of Mentoring Among Female Managers – An Explanatory Factor Analysis Based On The Global Measure Of Mentoring Practices, Klaudia Blachnicka

European Management Studies

Purpose: The objective of the article is to identify the dimensions of mentoring experienced by female managers. The recognition of the mentoring dimensions serves a significant role in enhancing the understanding of the support received by the mentee and facilitating an accurate evaluation of mentoring within the managerial context, especially in the Polish socio-economic conditions.

Design/methodology/approach:The paper presents the results of an exploratory factor analysis based on data, acquired through an online questionnaire, from 370 female managers at basic, middle and senior levels of management. 18 items Global Measure of Mentoring Practices were used to examine the extent of …