National University of Samoa: Recent submissions

  • Assessing the CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS of Faculty: 
    Zygmont, Dolores M.; Schaefer, Karen Moore (Nursing Education Perspective, 2006)
    The purpose of this study was twofold: to determine the critical thinking skills of nurse faculty and to examine the relationship between epistemological position and critical thinking. Most participants reported having ...
  • Advanced Practice Nursing Education: Challenges and Strategies 
    Fitzgerald, Cynthia; Kantrowitz-Gordon, Ira; Katz, Janet (Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2012)
    Nursing education programs may face significant difficulty as they struggle to prepare sufficient numbers of advanced practice registered nurses to fulfill the vision of helping to design an improved US healthcare system ...
  • Adult Learning Theories in Context: 
    Mukhalalat, Banan Abdulrzaq; Taylor, Andrea (SAGE, 2019)
    Adult learning theories play a pivotal role in the design and implementation of education programs, including healthcare professional programs. There is a variation in the use of theories in healthcare professional education ...
  • Academic Nurse Leaders’ Role in Fostering a Culture of Civility in Nursing Education 
    Clark, Cynthia M; Springer, Pamela J. (2010-03)
    Academic incivility is disruptive behavior that substantially or repeatedly interferes with teaching and learning. Incivility on college campuses jeopardizes the welfare of all members of the academy. Academic nurse leaders ...
  • A multi-disciplinary approach to medication safety and the implication for nursing education and practice 
    Adhikar, Radha; Tocher, Jennifer; Smith, Pam (Elsevier, 2013)
    Medication management is a complex multi-stage and multi-disciplinary process, involving doctors, pharmacists, nurses and patients. Errors can occur at any stage from prescribing, dispensing and administering, to recording ...
  • A mentoring needs assessment : validating mentorship in Nursing education 
    Sawatzky, Jo-Ann V.; Enns, Carol L. (Elsevier, 2009)
    A shortage of nursing faculty is imminent. Factors contributing to this looming crisis include the aging professoriate, as well as a host of recruitment and retention issues. Mentoring programs enhance recruitment, promote ...
  • Examining How Proactive Management and Culturally Responsive Teaching Relate to Student Behavior 
    Larson, Kristine E.; Pas, Elise T.; Bradshaw, Catherine P. ...et.al. (National Association of School Psychologists, 2018)
    . The discipline gap between White students and African American students has increased demand for teacher training in culturally responsive and behavior management practices. Extant research, however, is inconclusive about ...
  • Herbal medicine research and global health: an ethical analysis 
    Tilburta, Jon C; Kaptchuk, Ted J (World Health Organization, 2008)
    Governments, international agencies and corporations are increasingly investing in traditional herbal medicine research. Yet little literature addresses ethical challenges in this research. In this paper, we apply concepts ...
  • Breast cancer as a global health concern 
    Coughlin, Steven S.; Ekwueme, Donatus U. (Elsevier, 2009)
    Public health data indicate that the global burden of breast cancer in women, measured by incidence, mortality, and economic costs, is substantial and on the increase. Worldwide, it is estimated that more than one million ...
  • The Challenges of Global Health Governance 
    Fidler, David P. (Council on Foreign Relations, 2010)
    Three crises in 2009 revealed the inadequacy of global health governance. The outbreak of pandemic influenza A (H1N1) found countries scrambling for access to vaccines, an unseemly process that led the World Health ...
  • The Importance of Listening Comprehension in Language Learning 
    Ahmadi, Seyedeh Masoumeh (International Journal of Research in English Education, 2016)
    Many studies in language learning have indicated that listening comprehension plays an important role in the learning process. In spite of its importance, listening has been ignored in second language learning, research, ...
  • Towards a Sociology of Information Technology 
    Sassen, Saskia (SAGE Publications, 2002)
    The technical attributes of the new information and communication technologies (ICTs) increasingly dominate explanations of contemporary change and development. As Judy Wajcman (this issue) points out, many sociologists ...
  • Why Quality Matters in Education 
    Hanushek, Eric A. (International Monetary Fund (IMF), 2005)
    Education can boost economic growth—but simply spending more money is seldom the answer. It is difficult these days to ignore the message that education matters. Governments everywhere in the world have assumed a substantial ...
  • The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s grant-making programme for global health 
    McCoy, David; Kembhavi, Gayatri; Patel, Jinesh (2009)
    The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is a major contributor to global health; its infl uence on international health policy and the design of global health programmes and initiatives is profound. Although the foundation’s ...
  • Telemedicine-based proactive patient management during positive airway pressure therapy 
    Woehrl, Holger; Ficker, Joachim; Gram, Andrea (Somnologie, 2017)
    Adherence to positive airwaypressure (PAP) therapy is essential for the benefits of therapy to be realised. Telemedicine-based strategies provide a new option for enhanced monitoring and intervention to promote adherence ...
  • Proactive management of software aging 
    Castelli, V.; Harper, R. E.; Heidelberger, P. ...et.al. (International Business Machines Corporation, 2001)
    Software failures are now known to be a dominant source of system outages. Several studies and much anecdotal evidence point to “software aging” as a common phenomenon, in which the state of a software system degrades with ...
  • Proactive Management Promotes Outcome in Extremely Preterm Infants: A Population-Based Comparison of Two Perinatal Management Strategies 
    Håkansson, Stellan; Farooqi, Aijaz; Holmgren, Per Åke...et. al. (American Academy of Pediatrics., 2004-08)
    There is a need for evidence based knowledge regarding perinatal management in extreme prematurity. The benefit of a proactive attitude versus a more selective one is controversial. The objective of the present study was ...
  • Proactive Socialization and Behavioral Self-Management 
    Saks, Alan M.; Ashforth, Blake E. (Academic Press, 1996)
    The purpose of this study was to examine behavioral self-management as a form of newcomer proactive socialization behavior. A longitudinal field study was conducted with a sample of 153 entry-level professionals who completed ...
  • FLR: an open-source framework for the evaluation and development of management strategies 
    Kell, L. T.; Mosqueira, I.; Grosjean, P. ...et.al. (2007-03)
    The FLR framework (Fisheries Library for R) is a development effort directed towards the evaluation of fisheries management strategies. The overall goal is to develop a common framework to facilitate collaboration within ...
  • Self-reported and actual use of proactive and reactive classroom management strategies and their relationship with teacher stress and student behaviour 
    Clunies-Ross, Penny; Little, Emma; Kienhuis, Mandy (Taylor & Francis, 2008)
    This study investigated the relationship between primary school teachers’ self-reported and actual use of classroom management strategies, and examined how the use of proactive and reactive strategies is related to teacher ...

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