Nursing research isn't only found in journals-you can do it too! If the word “research” makes your staff feel overwhelmed or queasy, Nursing Research Program Builder: Strategies to Translate Findings into Practice is your solution. Many nurses want to use research to find their own answers to clinical questions, but they don’t know where to begin. After mastering evidence-based practice (EBP), conducting your own research is an important step in embracing nursing excellence and building a culture of quality. And nursing research can be an integral part of working toward ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®* designation. Nursing Research Program Builder: Strategies to Translate Findings into Practice will give you or your nurses the strategies and tools you need to conduct your own research. This resource gives you: Practical guidance and advice on getting started Key strategies that walk you through the research process Sample templates for all the documentation required by Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) Tips to motivate, inspire, and help get everyone involved A CD-ROM loaded with customizable tools and checklists Whether you have already implemented EBP and are ready to take the next step, or you are working toward ANCC Magnet Recognition Program® designation, Nursing Research Program Builder: Strategies to Translate Findings into Practice gives you the simple strategies you need to get your research initiative up and running. This how-to guide will save you time and stress by breaking the research process down into easily understandable steps that walk you through what to do, why, and when. This resource will: Give you the knowledge and confidence to begin a successful research project Show you how to structure your own process through a case example used throughout the text Offer practical strategies to encourage everyone to participate in the research process Allow you to integrate research into efforts to obtain ANCC Magnet Recognition Program® designation Save you time through the customizable forms on the accompanying CD-ROM Increase nurse satisfaction by guiding them as they conduct research they can use to change practices and improve patient care Take a look at the table of contents Chapter 1: Why Nursing Research Is Important Chapter 2: Energizing and Motivating Nurses Chapter 3: Choosing a Topic Chapter 4: Research Design Chapter 5: Sample Selection Chapter 6: Institutional Review Boards and Research and Development Chapter 7: Methodology and Measurement Instruments Chapter 8: Statistical Analysis Chapter 9: Critiquing the Research Chapter 10: Communicating the Results Chapter 11: Poster and Abstract Presentations Chapter 12: Seeking Funding for Research Chapter 13: ANCC Magnet Recognition Program® and the Importance of Nursing Research Chapter 14: Translating Findings into Practice
The Value of Learning is a hands-on guide for the implementation of learning and development programs that can be applied across all types of programs, ranging from leadership development to basic skills training for new employees. In this book, Patti Phillips and Jack J. Phillips offer a proven approach to measurement and evaluation for learning and development that can be replicated throughout an organization, enable comparisons of results from one program to another, and ultimately improve ROI.
In this book the authors show how young children come to love playing with language as they create poems and how poetry is part of the entire curriculum.
To successfully compete in today’s global marketplace, organizations can and must do more to improve their internal operational efficiencies. Operational Excellence: Using Lean Six Sigma to Translate Customer Value through Global Supply Chains consolidates hundreds of tools and methods into 110 key concepts designed to translate the “voice of the customer” throughout global supply chains, dramatically improving productivity and shareholder economic value added (EVA). Recognizing failure is often self-induced through poor leadership coupled with an inability to form and effectively execute a strategic vision, this book operates from three premises— Organizations have the power to increase organizational competitiveness in an era of globalization through the application of Lean Six Sigma Operational performance directly correlates with an organization’s financial, operational and resultant productivity, as well as with shareholder EVA metrics, and geographical, cultural, technological and economic isolation Value-adding activities and disciplines such as Lean Six Sigma are not exclusive to any one country or region and do not always depend upon cost considerations A Practical Tool for Real World Application For organizations seeking a source for improving manufacturing and service operations, this bookeffectively delivers. Divided into 5 successive sections, it begins with adaptation strategies for global competitiveness, then delves into implementations to enhance productivity while targeting customer needs and value expectations. Finally, the author explains how to establish information-sharing throughout global supply chains, along with the role of IT. A useful tool for real world application, the volume’s 20 chapters also contain more than 450 figures and roadmaps. As organizations understand the interrelationships of the supply chains, their operational systems will excel at meeting or exceeding customer expectations in this age of globalization.
Offers postrationalist perspectives on translation, based not on the rational control of words and meanings but on the translator's own subjective experience and interpretation.
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Christiana Morgan was an erotic muse who influenced twentieth-century psychology and inspired its male creators, including C. G. Jung, who saw in her the quintessential "anima woman." Here Claire Douglas offers the first biography of this remarkable woman, exploring how Morgan yearned to express her genius yet sublimated it to spark not only Jung but also her own lover Henry A. Murray, a psychologist who with her help invented the thematic apperception test (TAT). Douglas recounts Morgan's own contributions to the study of emotions and feelings at the Harvard Psychological Clinic and vividly describes the analyst's turbulent life: her girlhood in a prominent Boston family; her difficult marriage; her intellectual awakening in postwar New York; her impassioned analysis with Jung, including her "visions" of a woman's heroic quest, many of which furthered his work on archetypes; her love affairs and experiences with sexual experimentation; her alcoholism; and, finally, her tragic death.
Project managers are no longer judged by the technical success of their projects alone. They're also held accountable for their contributions to the company's financial goals. Yet most project managers don't have the business knowledge necessary to make project-based decisions that lead to bottom-line success. In this book, Dennis Cohen and Robert Graham, both former university professors and experienced project management consultants, provide the skills that, until now, could only be gained through a graduate degree and years of hands-on experience. Cohen and Graham walk project managers through basic business concepts such as value creation, accounting and finance, strategy, and marketing. They connect these concepts to the decisions project managers face every day. And they make it easy to apply the resulting solutions on the job through a unique business systems calculator. Readers can use the online calculator in conjunction with the book to understand how different project variables affect business outcomes, to determine the overall impact of proposed project changes, and to evaluate the economic results of many decisions they make. Cohen and Graham's principles apply equally to projects in business, non-profit, and government organizations. And each one is illustrated through case studies drawn from a range of industries, including pharmaceuticals, the technology sector, even the winemaking business. Whether the mandate is to get new products to market, improve the infrastructure, or better serve customers and clients, this book teaches project managers how to make day-to-day decisions from an upper-management perspective. And it provides a blueprint for planning and pitching potential projects that demonstrates a higher level of business savvy.
Published on the occasion of The Drawing Center's exhibition, Matt Mullican: A Drawing Translates the Way of Thinking presents a selection of the artist's work from throughout his career, emphasizing the role of drawing in his attempt to understand, organize, and categorize experience. For over three decades, Matt Mullican has created a complex body of work concerned with systems of knowledge, meaning, language, and signification. Since the end of the 1970s, he has also conducted performances and created drawings while under hypnosis as a means to explore the nature of behavior. Mullican s practice confronts the nature of subjective understanding, rationality, perception, and cognition; in essence, proposing a picture of the world through the medium of drawing. The book, number 82 in the Drawing Papers series, features a conversation between the artist and exhibition curator Joao Ribas, as well as writings by the artist, transcribed from his early notebooks.
