Conceptual Framework. The faculty of De Anza College Department of Nursing has chosen to base the curriculum on an eclectic model of nursing that embodies our philosophy and our values. This model is based on the premise that nurses must use clinical reasoning and the best evidence available in collaboration with patients and interdisciplinary teams to provide optimum safe and patient-centered care in multiple settings and environments. The nursing process will be used to assess patient problems, analyze data and data trends, identify issues and develop and evaluate individualized plans of care. It is a systematic method of problem-solving based on the scientific method employing nursing judgment and clinical reasoning skills. Safe decision-making and provision of care will also incorporate principles of evidence- based practice and nursing informatics/ technology. Students will function as members of the healthcare team, sharing in decision-making, communicating effectively and contributing to optimum patient outcomes and satisfaction. The conceptual framework does not exist in theory only, but functions within our unique environment that includes our college, the community we serve, and the unique characteristics of our student population. This framework provides a comprehensive, cogent guide for total program development, implementation, and evaluation. The faculty recognizes its responsibilities in the educational process as well as its responsibility to society. The faculty function as facilitators and provide experiences based upon the student learning objectives and the learning needs of students. A variety of teaching-learning techniques are employed by the faculty to enable a student to acquire the clinical reasoning necessary to become a Registered Nurse. The Registered Nurse program has been developed to: • Recognize commonalities and uniqueness in individual contribution to teaching- learning process. • Promote development of individual potential and individual contribution to society. • Use an eclectic model for nursing practice. • Provide the community with nurses capable of providing safe, high-quality effective nursing care. • Promote development of clinical reasoning and clinical judgment in the professional nurse. • Embrace technology, research, evidence-based practice and industry standards to promote the highest level of patient care. • Support a just culture and reflective practice while upholding high professional standards for ethical practice. • Effectiv...
Conceptual Framework. Independent Variables Dependent Variable Figure 1: Researchers’ Conceptual Framework depicting the relationship among the variables of interest
Conceptual Framework. The aim of this thesis is to develop a model relating to the relationship between franchisor and franchisee in order to ensure success of hotel franchising relationship. Such a relationship includes tangible and intangible issues which may positively or negatively affect both parties. A conceptual framework (Figure 2.5) has been created to illustrate factors influencing the success of hotel franchising relationship to achieve a constant level of satisfaction between franchise partners. This framework consists of two major parts; tangible and intangible relationship issues. This framework suggests that tangible and intangible relationship issues are considered as motivators for building success between franchise partners.
Conceptual Framework. To guide our understanding of acculturation as a multi-dimensional construct and allow us to operationalize and assess the potential mechanisms through which acculturation may impact mammography use, we developed a framework defining domains of acculturation based on a review of textbooks and peer-reviewed articles on acculturation, as well as a literature review of measures of acculturation (Zane & Mack, 2005; Sam, 2006; Abriado-Lanza et al., 2006; Abriado-Lanza et al., 2016; Schwartz et al., 2010; Acevedo-Garcia, 2012; Fox et al., 2017). Based on our review and synthesis, we identified eight distinct domains for the construct of acculturation (Table 2.1). These domains were then classified as being either at the person- level, cultural practice or belief based, or place-based. Three person-level domains were identified: 1) immigration and nativity, 2) identity and heritage, and 3) acculturation stress and discrimination. These domains focus on characteristics or attributes of the individual or psychosocial processes. Four domains were classified as being based on cultural practices or beliefs: 1) language utilization, 2) cultural beliefs and norms, 3) interactions and social networks, and 4) participation and maintenance of cultural traditions. One domain, migration and settlement, was classified as being place-based. Our framework, presented in Figure 2.1, posits that person-level and practice/belief-based domains occur in the context of place-based acculturation factors. Previous writing on acculturation has stressed the importance of considering place, or local context, in order to understand the reference culture immigrants are acculturating to (Abraido-Lanza, et al, 2006; Schwartz, et al 2010). Double-headed arrows between person and practice/belief domains demonstrate that these domains may have a reciprocal influence on each other, as well as on the place (Abraido-Lanza, et al, 2006; Schwartz, et al 2010; Lopez-Class, et al. 2011; Acevedo- Garcia, 2012). The confluence of these domains may in turn impact access to health services, such as mammography, and then lead to health outcomes, namely breast cancer and components of that diagnosis. A systematic literature review was conducted using the following databases: Medline/PubMed, PsychInfo, CINHAL, SCOPUS, and EMBASE. Inclusion criteria included quantitative studies or analyses: 1) from English language peer-reviewed journals, 2) involving human subjects conducted in the United States, and 3) publi...
Conceptual Framework. To justify the purpose to study the assessment practices of newly hired teachers, the framework for theorizing development outlines of newly hired teachers’ assessment practices was applied. In compliance with the review of literature, newly hired teachers reconstruct their assessment practice due to the pressure and challenges of change of the work place, in particular their new school (Xxxxxxx, 2004). Moreover, the changes in teaching assessment practice over time is the evidence of interaction between assessment forms and assessment functions. Because of the pressure made by the change in assessment practice newly hired teachers alongside with the more experienced teachers have to implement assessment forms to correspond the functions of assessment. Thus, newly hired teachers may assume new assessment forms to perform prior assessment functions (Xxxxxxx, 2004). As a result, prior experience influenced newly hired present assessment practices.
Conceptual Framework. Figure 1 illustrates the theoretical model that underlies this study. The blue box represents the main independent variable, Insurance Type: HMO or other plan (non-HMO). The orange box at the bottom of the page depicts the dependent variable in our model, ER expenditures. The lighter orange box, representing health care utilization is related to total ER expenditures; it has either a decreasing or an increasing effect on ER expenditures. The green boxes represent the covariates in the model. The dotted green box stands for the health care system, which we cannot measure directly. Other variables we could not measure directly are represented by the xxxx boxes: plan benefits, preventive care options and utilization, physician behavior, adherence to therapy/treatment and effects such as adverse selection (insurance company level) and moral hazard (enrollee level). Some of these variables, like plan benefits, can be measured directly but we did not have access to those specific data in the publicly available Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) files that we used. The blue arrows indicate the course of one-directional change; the black arrows represent variables that may have an effect on another and vice versa. For example, patient characteristics, represented by the variables age, gender, smoking status, marital status, health status, level of education, income as a % of the Federal Poverty Level (FPL) and region are theorized to influence insurance status (two-way) as well as have an effect on healthcare utilization (one-way). EMPLOYER • HMO • Other (PPO, POS, FFS, HAS)
Conceptual Framework. This section aims to capture this research’s understanding of three fundamental and systematically recurring concepts, i.
Conceptual Framework. The conceptual framework guiding this research is an adaptation from Xxxxxxxxx Xxx’x Theory of Impaired Sleep. In its most simplistic definition, Xxx’x theory postulates that the main concept of impaired sleep (or sleep loss) is a result of two distinct pathways, sleep deprivation (inadequate amounts of sleep) or sleep disruption (fragmentation of sleep), indicating that a directional relationship exists (Xxx, 2003). These two distinct pathways can affect impaired sleep individually (e.g. independent of each other) or concomitantly. Impaired sleep in turn can affect a myriad of adverse health outcomes that have consequences affecting physiologic, cognitive, behavioral, emotional or social functioning domains (again representing a directional relationship). Risk factors for sleep deprivation and sleep disruption can be environmental, personal or developmental, with some risk factors being multifactorial. According to Xxx, sleep deprivation is a direct result of ‘self-imposed sleep restriction, lifestyle or work demands, or disruptions in circadian rhythms’ (Xxx, et al 2004). Given this definition, sleep deprivation can be viewed cumulatively as sleep deficit. For this line of inquiry, the specific question to be answered whether shortened sleep duration (or sleep deficit) is independently associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes, while controlling for risk factors for sleep disruption. In the proposed model (Appendix G), shortened sleep duration (represented by the darkened black arrow) can contribute directly to the pathogenesis several adverse infant outcomes (preterm birth, low birth weight, small for gestational age, and low XXXXX) and several maternal outcomes (gestational hypertension, preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, postpartum depression, prolonged labor and cesarean section.) This model also represents the certain risk factors for sleep disruption (fragmentation) that might confound the relationship between shortened sleep duration and adverse infant and maternal outcomes. On the right side of the model are the preexisting conditions and behaviors that will be controlled for as moderating risk factors for our outcomes of interest. This framework is considered appropriate for several reasons. One, it is adaptable to pregnancy, and can account for physiologic changes specific to the pregnant state that might affect sleep. Two, because the pathways by which impaired sleep affects adverse infant and pregnancy outcomes are poorly defined at this ti...
Conceptual Framework. Is a body of knowledge and tool that is developed to make full patterns clearer and enable us uncover information, structure and behavior about systems. The basic system theory model incudes; input, processes and output of a system as well as a feedback loop (Xxxxxxx X. & Xxxxxx F, 2001).
Conceptual Framework. The intent of the study was to provide an assessment of cooperative legal framework in a system of devolved governance in provision of ECDE between Nairobi City County, city education department and National government in accordance with the fourth schedule part 1 and 2 of CoK 2010. The conceptual framework developed shows clearly the linkage between various variables that underpin inter-government links in ECDE provision. The independent variables entail legal framework and resources allocation framework. The intervening variables are two levels of governments, while the dependent variable is the various ECDE provision outcomes. These variables are related to the research questions and objectives of the study and they provide guideline in the development of the conceptual framework.
