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42. Applying Learning Principles Within Parent Education: Exploring Nurses’ Practice and Parents’ Experiences

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Thompson,Deryn L, May,Esther J, Leach,Matthew J, Smith,Colleen P, Fereday,Jennifer, Thompson,Deryn L, May,Esther J, Leach,Matthew J, Smith,Colleen P, and Fereday,Jennifer

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Deryn L Thompson,1 Esther J May,1 Matthew J Leach,2 Colleen P Smith,1 Jennifer A Fereday1 1Clinical and Health Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia; 2National Centre for Naturopathic Medicine, Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW, AustraliaCorrespondence: Deryn L Thompson, Clinical and Health Sciences, University of South Australia, 108 North Terrace, Adelaide, SA, 5000, Australia, Tel +61 8 83021166, Email Deryn.Thompson@unisa.edu.auPurpose: In parent-education practice nurses use Learning Principles (LPs) when helping parents to develop the knowledge and skills required to care for their children. LPs are basic precepts of learning, comprising people’s beliefs, behaviors and reasoning processes. LPs underpin parents’ active engagement, confidence building and decision-making, as information provided becomes usable knowledge. However, the ways nurses apply LPs in parent-education practice are poorly explained in healthcare. Likewise, descriptions of parents’ learning experiences, associated with the use of LPs in nurse/parent-education interactions, are lacking. This study aimed to explore and describe nurses’ perceptions and use of LPs, and parents’ learning experiences in one healthcare organization.&#x00A0Participants and Methods: Using an action research design, 25 nurses and 18 parent participants were purposively recruited across metropolitan Adelaide, Australia. Data were collected through observations and semi-structured interviews and thematically analyzed simultaneously June-December 2017.Results: The LPs nurses used, and those important to parents’ learning experiences created three overarching themes: 1) collaborative relationships, 2) deepening learning insights, 3) the learning environment. Despite their apparent use, nurses struggled to explicitly describe how they perceived LPs, believing their knowledge and use was sub-conscious − tacit. However, tacit knowledge hinders communication and explanation

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2023

48. Synthesis and multinuclear magnetic resonance studies of some nitrogen-containing ceramic phases

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Leach, Matthew J.

Subjects
541, Physical chemistry
Abstract

This Thesis describes the synthesis of a range of sialon ceramic phases, and their characterisation using multinuclear magnetic resonance and powder X-ray diffraction.Sihcon-29 and aluminium-27 MAS NMR spectroscopies have been used in the past on a range of inorganic systems, with considerable success. In this study, they were applied to phases in M-Si-Al-O-N systems, with M=La, Y, Li, Mg and Ca, leading to an improved understanding of the factors affecting chemical shifts and other NMR parameters. It was found that some structural information on, for example, 0/N ordering was not available from (^29)Si and (^27)Al NMR, but could be obtained from studies of other nuclei. Nitrogen-15 and oxygen-17 were selected for further study. The low natural abundances of these nuclei meant that isotopically enriched materials had to be prepared. The synthesis of a-Si(^15)(_3)N(_4), Mg(^17)O and Si(^17)O(_2), and of enriched sialon materials is described, and also (^15)N and (^17)0 MAS NMR studies of many sialon phases. In particular, the (^15)N and (^29)Si spectra of lanthanum new phase, a phase of previously unknown structure, were combined with a Patterson map from powder XRD data to allow the crystal structure of this phase to be determined. Finally, the feasibility of using other nuclei to study ceramic structures has been investigated, and (^9)Be, (^7)Li and (^139)La NMR spectra of several phases are reported.

Published
1990

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