BACKGROUND: An integrated clinical pathway (ICP) is a key method for structuring or planning processes of care, enabling the modernization of health-care delivery and coordination of multiple roles, ...forming a complete, patient-centered multidisciplinary health-care team and establishing the sequence of activities, promoting individual and team communication, collaboration, networking, and transparency, and reducing the cost of care.
AIM: As there is a research gap in the area of communication among members of a multidisciplinary team for the treatment of patients through an ICP, the aim of this study was to determine the impact of communication of a member of a multidisciplinary team on the active participation of an individual in this multidisciplinary team.
METHODS: A cross-sectional study of three ICPs, forchronic kidney disease, stroke, and total hip arthroplasty was conducted in a typical Slovenian general hospital.
RESULTS: The results show that in the analyzed hospital, two of the three clinical pathways are not yet fully integrated.
CONCLUSION: There is a weak influence of staff communication within a multidisciplinary team on an individual’s participation in this multidisciplinary team, indicating the need for various activities to actually implement clinical pathway “integration,” and promote better communication within teams to strengthen participation in multidisciplinary patient care pathways.
The aim of the study was to identify the most important macro-, meso-, and micro-level factors influencing work engagement and motivation for employment in long-term care (LTC) in Slovenia.
A ...correlational cross-sectional survey design with a self-reported standardized online questionnaire was used among Slovenian workers (N = 452LTC).
The results show that LTC workers generally enjoy going to work (68%), feel enthusiasm for their work (61%), and take great pride in their work (90%). Enjoyment increases with age, and is correlated with education and position. Joy is the lowest among those working in nursing homes. However, nursing and care teams show the greatest enthusiasm for and pride in the work done. Those who believe that their work is valued by society and their family enjoy going to work more. Although income is the most important factor in leaving the LTC sector, there are no differences in work engagement regarding the level of monthly income. Over 58% of the variance in work engagement was explained by the influence of sociodemographic characteristics, social recognition, and work environment..
To promote employee engagement, LTC leaders should provide a better work environment and social recognition.
Cooperation in an interdisciplinary team is an important aspect of ensuring the quality and safety of patient care, although the interaction of individuals from different disciplines in the clinical ...environment can also be hampered by inadequate communication.
This study attempts to fill the research gap and identify professionals’ perceptions of interdisciplinary collaboration and quality measures, the impact of interdisciplinary collaboration on the quality of care in a general hospital and clarify the perspective of patients and healthcare professionals.
The case study was conducted using a survey of healthcare professionals (N = 150) and a qualitative approach by interviewing healthcare professionals (N = 47) and patients (N = 20).
The results of the survey show that the nurses rated all the criteria of interdisciplinary cooperation and individual quality criteria the highest, and the quality of care in general the worst, as they were not satisfied with the implementation due to the lack of staff. The exchange of information did not affect the quality of care because organizational and national authorities did not sufficiently consider the views of staff. In in-depth interviews, patients rate teamwork as poor because they do not get enough explanation and do not feel treated as equal members of the medical team. In in-depth interviews, patients and healthcare professionals are aware of the lack of teamwork among themselves, as well as of the quality of care due to staff shortages in general and especially during the pandemic.
This article focuses on the local understandings, responses and interpretations of celebrity activist Angelina Jolie and the film she directed in 2011 about the war rapes in Bosnia and Herzegovina: ...In the land of Blood and Honey. We first provide a brief historical context of the production and promotion of the film. Next, we offer a theoretical approach to the phenomenon of celebrity activism. In the third part, we look at how Jolie’s film has been received and interpreted in the region itself, since Jolie’s stated goal was to ‘raise awareness about war rapes’. On the basis of in-depth interviews with Bosnian public intellectuals, we argue that the film’s story of war rapes and suffering did little to raise awareness about war rape victims generally and was interpreted primarily within two discursive frameworks: celebrity and ethno-nationalistic ones that tend to reinforce the status quo in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina and perpetuate misunderstandings about war crimes. Jolie’s activism, in other words, did not contribute to the reconciliation between different ethnicities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, but has, on the contrary, further fostered polarization that continues to plague the region.
•Farmers from Slovenia, Poland, Lithuania and the Netherlands used three strategies.•The main strategy was Expansion, Specialisation, and Wait and See.•In 2010, the main strategy for all countries ...together was that the Expansion.•In 2016, the main strategy for all countries together was the Wait and See.•Larger farms with somewhat younger farmers chose expansion and chain integration.
In recent years, the European Union (EU) dairy sector has experienced considerable changes, triggering heavily fluctuating milk prices and a crash in milk prices in 2015/2016. These changes were forcing dairy farmers to respond by reconsidering their strategy. Since there is a lack of insight into how farmers were adjusting their strategies to the new circumstances, this study aimed to fill the gap by conducting a survey on farmers’ development plans in three Central and Eastern European countries (Poland, Lithuania and Slovenia) with different farming systems and one Western European country with a well-developed dairy sector (the Netherlands) before (2010 and 2013) and one year after the EU milk quota was abolished (2016). Groups of farmers with similar strategies were identified using principle component analysis and cluster analysis. Differences in strategies between years and countries were studied. The results reveal three main strategies in the analysed years: expansion, specialisation, and wait and see. Six farmer clusters were then identified. The cluster of Growers was largest, corresponding to the strategies of expansion and specialisation in dairy production. The share of Growers was increasing in Poland and the Netherlands and falling in Lithuania and Slovenia, probably due to the strong market orientation and good dairy production conditions in the aforementioned countries. The share of farmers in the Wait and See cluster grew significantly from 2013 to 2016 in all countries. These farmers considered the economic environment as too uncertain for further development at the time. The share of Diversifiers was rather stable within each country over the years. The share of Chain integrators, namely those who look for cooperation with other parties in the chain, was larger in good years and the share of Co-operators, who prefer to cooperate with other farmers, was larger in difficult market times. The cluster of Movers had the largest farms. On average, larger farms with somewhat younger farmers opted for growth, chain integration or moving and somewhat older farmers with smaller farms for a (temporary) stand-still. But considerable differences in the number of farmers per cluster over the years were found. Less than half the farmers were consistent in their development direction after 3 years, due to fluctuating prices and changing policies. Wait and See farmers were the most consistent. Policymakers and advisory services should consider farm strategies according to national specificities. Most farmers follow a strategy of expansion, while a smaller group of them were more concerned and act cautiously in a difficult market or policy situation. However, many farmers appeared to change their opinion on the self-chosen direction from time to time due to the varying circumstances. This instability in strategy choice makes future decision-making a fluid matter and not really consistent with well-designed planning.
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate consumer preferences in the Slovenian context with regard to cheese, ham and honey labelled with the national and EU protected designation of ...origin (PDO) indication and the protected geographical indication (PGI) associated with price and origin. Design/methodology/approach An online survey with a representative sample of the Slovenian population of 650 consumers was conducted. Consumer preferences were estimated using choice-based conjoint analysis. Findings The findings show that price is the most powerful driver of consumer preferences for cheese and honey, whereas it is origin for ham, which proved to be the most strongly desired “Slovenian” food product of all items analysed. Label is the least preferable attribute for all three products considered. Cheese, ham and honey bearing the national PDO and PGI labels were more desired than products carrying the EU PDO and PGI labels. The study findings also show the main statistically significant differences in the age and gender of consumers. Research limitations/implications The biggest limitation is that the study focused on certain labels only, related to quality, and origin in particular. Practical implications This result highlights the need to extend and intensify promotional and communication activities to increase consumer preferences for the national and EU PDO- and PGI-labelled cheeses, ham and honey. Originality/value This study contributes to relevant literature by presenting the results regarding consumer preferences for the EU and national quality labels for different food categories in Slovenia, which has no tradition in using the EU quality labels.
ABSTRACT IN SLOVENE: Obstojece studije o digitalnem razkoraku trdijo, da je starost eden od kljucnih dejavnikov razkoraka, toda zanemarjajo poglobljeno analizo stalisc starih ljudi do interneta in ...situacij, v katerih se ti nahajajo. Zato skusa clanek zapolniti to raziskovalno vrzel. Izvedena je bila kvantitativna analiza o rabi interneta na reprezentativnem vzorcu starih prebivalcev Slovenije, starih med 65 in 85 let, in 33 poglobljenih intervjujev s starimi osebami na Primorskem o rabi in staliscih do interneta. Rezultati analize ankete so pokazali, da internet uporablja 33,2% starih prebivalcev Slovenije, vec moskih, bolj izobrazenih in premoznejsih. Raba interneta se razlikuje tudi glede na regijo. Kljucna vzroka neuporabe interneta sta pomanjkanje denarja in neznanje. Analiza poglobljenih intervjujev je pokazala kompleksno sliko rabe in stalisc do interneta. Glede na rabo in stalisca do interneta smo intervjuvance razvrstili na internetne kritike, nevtralce in navdusence. // ABSTRACT IN ENGLISH: Existing studies on the digital divide agree that age is one of the key factors regarding the divide, but they neglect an in-depth analysis of the attitudes of the old people towards the internet and the situations in which they live. This article tries to fill this research gap. We carried out a quantitative analysis of a representative sample of the old Slovenian population of ages between 65 and 85 years on internet use, and 33 in-depth interviews with the old people in Primorska on internet use and their attitudes towards it. The results of the survey analysis show that 33.2% of old people in Slovenia use the internet. Among these users are more men than women, and they tend to be better educated and wealthier than non-users. Internet use also differs by region - it is used least in Pomurje and most in central Slovenia. The key reasons for not using the internet are lack of money and knowledge. The analysis of in-depth interviews revealed a more complex picture of internet use. According to use and attitudes towards the internet, we classified the interviewees into internet critics, neutrals, and followers. The internet critics comprise two types. The largest group of critics does not use the internet because of lack of money, poor social support and negative attitudes towards it. Those interviewees believe that the internet encourages and allows an invasion of privacy. Another group of relatively well-networked, wealthier and socially active old interviewees who are able to afford access to the internet, but deliberately do not use it because they believe that digital communication threatens the quality of interpersonal communication. The neutrals, those who do not use the internet or use it very rarely, expressed neither positive nor negative attitudes towards the internet. The results show that they would use the internet if they had individual access and learnt how to use it. A special group comprises those who do not use the internet because of a disease or a disability. They want to use it because they wish to `live a life,' which they consider themselves now deprived of. The internet followers regularly use the internet and have a positive, though not naive, view; they point out many problems involved in using the internet. The study also show that greater social engagement is not correlated with greater internet use, rather with attitudes towards the internet.
Pupils are aware that they use Facebook for learning and they use it primarily as social support, which is seen as exchanging practical information, learning about technology, evaluation of their own ...and other people's work, emotional support, organising group work and communicating with teachers. Facebook, Internet, social network sites, informal learning, social capital, media education, pupils. 1. First Monday 13, (9) (www. uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2202/2024) (20-10-2012). A Description of Facebook Use in Academic Performance Among Undergraduate in Graduate Students, Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA, 5-10 May 2009.
Teniendo en cuenta que la investigación ha descuidado el estudio de cómo los alumnos de primaria hacen uso de Facebook para el aprendizaje informal y cómo potencia el capital social, el presente ...trabajo intenta llenar dicho vacío con sesenta entrevistas en profundidad y el protocolo de pensamientos en voz alta con alumnos de escuelas primarias eslovenas. Para analizar el perfil de Facebook también incluimos un análisis de contenido. Los resultados del estudio demuestran que los alumnos eslovenos con frecuencia utilizan Facebook para el aprendizaje informal. El estudio no solo muestra que los estudiantes son conscientes del uso de Facebook para el aprendizaje y lo utilizan en primer lugar como apoyo social, sino también ofrece muestras de intercambio práctico de información, aprendizaje de tecnología, (auto)evaluación, apoyo emocional, organización de grupo de trabajo y comunicación con los profesores. Con el uso de Facebook, los estudiantes adquieren competencias relacionales y vinculación de capital social, pues mantienen una amplia red de lazos débiles, capaz de generar relaciones más profundas con apoyo emocional y fuentes de unión. Las principales diferencias entre los participantes se refieren a la expresión del apoyo emocional. Las participantes femeninas prefieren Facebook para dichos fines y expresan con más habilidad sus emociones. El estudio muestra además que nuestros participantes perciben una conexión entre el uso de Facebook y el conocimiento y destrezas que ellos pensaban que sus profesores valoraban en la escuela. Since existing research has failed to consider how primary school pupils use Facebook for informal learning and to enhancing social capital, we attempted to fill this research gap by conducting 60 in-depth interviews and think-aloud sessions with Slovenian primary school pupils. Furthermore, we used content analysis to evaluate their Facebook profiles. The results of the study show that Slovenian pupils regularly use Facebook for informal learning. Pupils are aware that they use Facebook for learning and they use it primarily as social support, which is seen as exchanging practical information, learning about technology, evaluation of their own and other people's work, emotional support, organising group work and communicating with teachers. In using Facebook, pupils acquire bridging and bonding social capital; they maintain an extensive network of weak ties that are a source of bridging capital, and deeper relationships that provide them with emotional support and a source of bonding capital. Key differences between the participants were found in the expression of emotional support. Female participants are more likely to use Facebook for this purpose, and more explicitly express their emotions. This study also showed that our participants saw a connection between the use of Facebook and the knowledge and skills they believed their teachers valued in school. PALABRAS CLAVE/KEYWORDS Facebook, Internet, sitios de redes sociales, aprendizaje informal, capital social, educación mediática, estudiantes. Facebook, Internet, social network sites, informal learning, social capital, media education, pupils.
This paper is a combination of political economy and critical discourse analysis of public texts about the common agricultural policy (CAP) by concerned agents and the EU’s agricultural Commissioner ...in the period of November, 2004 until October, 2007. The analysis reveals how concerned agents articulated three competing discourses (neomercantilism, multifunctionality, and neoliberalism). It also shows that elements of the discourse of neoliberalism in the Commissioner’s speeches, despite her use of different discourses for different audiences, are becoming more and more important in order to facilitate further reforms and liberalisation of the CAP.
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