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Background: South African law holds nurses accountable for their acts and omissions and all documentation pertaining to patient care may serve as evidence in a court of law or at South African Nursing Council (SANC) hearings. Documentation can confirm or refute negligence and therefore should be an accurate and current reflection of what happened to the patient, particularly as litigation often arises long after care was rendered. Objective: To describe the self-reported attitudes towards, knowledge of and practice behaviours of nurses, and the association between these factors and selected variables (category of nurse, gender, hospital sector, years of experience after registration/enrolment, day/night shift and practice discipline) relative to record keeping. Methods: A quantitative, non-experimental study design, using a cross-sectional survey method to describe attitudes, knowledge and practice behaviour against predetermined measurement scales. Stratified random sampling and a questionnaire was used, with a 52.54% (186/354) response rate. Logistic regression models were fitted to determine factors associated with attitudes, knowledge and practice behaviour, fitted as binary dependent variables, each in a separate model. Strength of association was expressed as an odds ratio (OR), and a p-value of 0.05% was considered significant. Setting: Three tertiary Government hospitals and three Private hospitals in the Cape Town Metropole, South Africa. Findings: Demographically, the sample consisted of 92 Registered Nurses (RNs), 42 Enrolled Nurses (ENs) and 50 Enrolled Nursing Auxiliaries (ENAs) of which 94.62% (n=176) were female and 4.30% (n=8) male. The mean age of all respondents were 42.26 years (range 23 to 64) while 48.92% (n=91) of the respondents had more than 15 years of experience after registration/enrolment. Of the 186 respondents, 54.85% (n=102) worked in Government Hospitals, comprising 53 (51.96%) RNs, 25 (24.51%) ENs and 22 (21.57%) ENAs. The 45.16% (n=84) Private Hospital respondents consisted of 39 (46.43%) RNs, 17 (20.24%) ENs and 28 (33.33%) ENAs. Most respondents (18.82%, n=35) worked in Surgical Units and on day duty (70.43%, n=131). A predominantly positive self-reported attitude towards record keeping was evident (71.74%, n=132/184). The negative attitude ratio in the Private sector (58.49%, n=31/53) was larger than in the Government sector (41.51%, n=22/53) (OR=2.049, 95% CI=1.043-4.025, p=0.037). A larger ratio of respondents working day duty reported a negative attitude (60.00%, n=30/50), compared to those working night duty (40.00%, n=20/50) (OR=2.171, 95% CI=1.066-4.423, p=0.033). Although adequate knowledge levels relative to record keeping were reported by the majority of respondents (74.86%, n=137/183), there were some knowledge deficits. Inadequate knowledge level ratios were more evident amongst ENAs (45.65%, n=21/46) when compared to RNs (30.43%, n=14/46) (OR=4.179, 95% CI=1.873- 9.321, p=0.000). Similarly, acceptable levels of self-reported record keeping practice behaviour were evident amongst the majority of respondents (68.31%, n=125/183). A higher ratio of unacceptable practice behaviour was reported by RNs (39.66%, n=23/58) when compared to ENs (34.48%, n=20/58) (OR=2.727, 95% CI=1.266-5.877, p=0.010). The most prominent practice behaviours reported by respondents included making use of a combination of record keeping approaches when keeping records, having regular record keeping audits, having sufficient supervision relative to record keeping, reading what other nurses have written and nurses writing in the progress notes themselves. The three top ranked barriers to effective record keeping were interruptions while keeping records, insufficient time to effectively keep records and a lack of confidence in the ability to keep accurate records. Conclusion: Although respondents, particularly RNs, reported predominantly positive attitudes towards, adequate knowledge of and acceptable practice behaviour relative to record keeping, there are concerns that the deficiencies amongst ENs and ENAs may have serious implications for patient safety for both the Government and Private Health sectors. Significance to clinical practice: Deficiencies relative to record keeping attitudes, knowledge and practice behaviours were identified. The identified deficiencies could be used to implement record keeping improvement strategies.

Intro -- Preface -- Organization -- SCAMS2017 General Chairs -- SCAMS2017 Local Chairs -- Workshop Chairs -- SLIED'17 Chairs -- SHEALTH'17 Chairs -- MSC'17 Chairs -- WI4SM'17 Chair -- Organizing Committee -- PhD Committee -- Program Committee Members -- Workshops' Program Committee Members -- SLIED'17 -- SHEALTH'17 -- MSC'17 -- WI4SM'17 -- SCAMS2017 Keynote Talks -- Smart Cities Promised Technological and Social Revolution -- Inclusive Smart City for Specially Abled People -- Cognitive IoT for Smart Urban Sensing -- Data for Smart Spaces -- New Modeling Approaches for Micro-Grids Enabling Frugal Social Solar Smart City -- Intelligent Transport Systems -- Contribution of IoT Applications to Enhance Authenticating Individual's Geo-location -- Big Data in the Smart City: The Big Bridge Example -- SDN for Smart City -- New Technology for Effective E-learning and Smart Campus -- Partial Differential Equation (PDE) Models for Ocean Modeling -- Toward Efficient Numerical Models for Assessment and Management of Sea-Pollution Risks -- Use of 3D Laser Scanning Technology in Plant Virtual Planning -- Contents -- The 2nd Mediterranean Symposium on Smart City Applications -- Logical Model of AS Implementing IPv6 Addressing -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Related Work -- 1.2 The Internet Structure and the Growth of Routing Tables -- 2 Definitions and Concepts -- 2.1 IPv6 Summary Routes -- 2.2 The Basic Address Plan Structure -- 2.3 Pythagorean Tree -- 3 Synthesis: Comparison, Inspiration and Assumption -- 3.1 The Representative Node -- 3.2 Pythagorean Tree versus Autonomous System (AS) Structure -- 4 The Proposed Method -- 5 Discussion -- 5.1 The Value of n -- 5.2 Flexibelity of the Proposed Logical Model -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- Model Driven Modernization and Cloud Migration Framework with Smart Use Case -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction.

This thesis explores the different modes and meanings of queer world making (QWM) of lesbians in Cape Town. Through an analysis of in depth interviews and focus groups it reveals lesbians' constructions of their intersectional and permeable QWM through a series of counter narratives enacted in three interconnected socialities. Generational narratives reveal psycho-social processes of recognition of lesbian desire and coming into a lesbian subjectivity in a range of modes of QWM. Lesbian erotic world making centres their entitlement to enact sexual autonomy and sexual pleasure. Their counter narratives reveal how they simultaneously inhabit and extend normative gender regimes. Their productions of desire reveal a lesbian centred frame of sexual pleasure that extends the erotogenic body beyond the genitalia, innovates and transforms hegemonic libidinal zones, and extends phallocentric culture. Lesbian motherhood as a site of QWM reveals the participants' negotiations, conflict, stress and agency in relation to the 'good mother' discourse that undergirds mothering practices in South Africa. Their counter narratives reveal how they simultaneously resist and re-inscribe heteronormativity in their motherhood practice. Ironically, it is through publicly assuming their sexuality that they are they able to perform 'good motherhood'. They perform private resistance and public complicity with good mother ideologies; and simultaneously centre and destabilize the role of the father. They manage their 'difference' to the heterosexual norm by providing their children with tools to navigate heteronormativity, while simultaneously claiming being an unexceptional family. Their queer place making strategies in everyday spaces in Cape Town demonstrate how they rework racialised notions of belonging to incorporate the queer body (at times ephemerally) to make Cape Town home. Their creation of lesbian social networks and communities, embodied in lesbian social scenes and within their private homes, reveals how Cape Town is experienced as a hybrid space, their contrasting and competing narratives of the city revealing narratives of fractured belonging. QWM reveals how lesbians resist and (re)shape hegemonic identities, discourses and practices, revealing 'a mode of being in the world that is also inventing the world' (Muñoz, 1999: 121). QWM is about borderlands (Anzaldúa, 1987), where one lives within the possibility of multiple plotlines (Clandinin & Rosiek, 2006). Their queer life worlds are permeable to racialised heteronormativities. But their agency reveals multi-vocal and multivalent queer life worlds, enmeshed in the web of racialised, gendered, sexualised, aged and class-based hierarchies in Cape Town. There is no singular way of doing a lesbian subjectivity, no singular utopian notion of a lesbian community. Their differences are located in their varying political perspectives and their social positionalities of privilege and penalty, in short, how they position themselves within the 'politics of belonging' (Yuval Davis, 2006).

Psychodrama has evolved significantly in Taiwan in the last forty years. At present, the method is being adapted to the needs of our culture. We are proceeding with research on culture-related theories. This may also have implications for the entrance of psychodrama in other countries in Asia.

Newborns with classic galactosemia present with life-threatening symptoms upon exposure to galactose-containing milk. These symptoms can be quickly resolved by early initiation of a galactose- restricted diet. However, the long-term outcome is disappointing, many patients develop complications affecting brain, gonads and, to a lesser extent, bone. Importantly, this occurs irrespective of the severity of the illness in the newborn period and despite the early initiation of the diet. The first objective of this research included describing the natural history of classic galactosemia based on a large cohort of patients. We aimed to provide more insights into the pathophysiology of classic galactosemia. In the past decades, a myriad of research has taken place to gain more insight in the complex pathophysiology of classic galactosemia. Nevertheless, the pathophysiology is still not fully understood. In this study several mechanisms that are involved have been studied. Furthermore, evaluating possible therapies that may prevent the occurrence of long-term complications, included the third aim of this research. With funding from Metakids, Stofwisselkracht, Galactosemie Vereniging Nederland, European Galactosemia Society, Erfelijke Stofwisselingsziekten in het Nederlandse taalgebied, The Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Development (ZonMW)/ Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), European Union's Horizon 2020 program.

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