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Nurses interact with a variety of healthcare professionals, including fellow nurses, as part of day-to-day practice. Nurse-to-nurse relationships are an area of concern due to their impact on patient, nurse, and organizational outcomes. Though nursing connections and issues occur across the practice spectrum, there is a focus on newly licensed professionals. However, experienced nurses also struggle with nurse-to-nurse relationship issues as they transition from one clinical specialty to another. There is a lack of literature that addresses transitions for this population. Thus, nurses may be ill-prepared to recognize challenges and support healthy nursing relationships and beneficial work environments. This article discusses challenges faced by experienced nurses and offers strategies to support healthy nurse-to-nurse relationships during the transition to new clinical specialties. Nurses, including formal and informal leaders, peers, and individuals transitioning to new specialties, must assess and acknowledge, make individualized plans, and promote positive spaces to support nursing relationships, work environments, and outcomes.

This study investigates the interdependent relationships between the stock market and economic news in the U.S. context. 2,440 economic tweets from Reuters and Bloomberg published in September 2015 were analyzed within short-term intervals (5 minutes, 20 minutes, and 1 hour) as well as 50 influential Bloomberg market coverage stories distributed via their terminals for the same period of time. Using Vector Auto Regression analyses, it was found that news volume, news relevance, and expert opinion in tweets seem to influence the fluctuation of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) positively, while economic news appears to respond to market fluctuation with less coverage, including fewer retweets, favorites, updates, or expert opinions conveyed. Inspecting the influential market stories by Bloomberg, the results imply that while Bloomberg terminals provide firsthand information on the market to professionals, tweets rather seem to offer follow-up reporting to the public. Furthermore, given that the effect of economic tweets on the DJI fluctuations was found to be strongest within longer time intervals (i.e., 1 hour), the findings imply that public traders need more time to evaluate information and to make a trading decision than professional investors.

AbstractGPS watches and digital self‐tracking devices (DSTDs) have been characterized as 'self‐tracking' devices, assuming a dyadic relationship between individuals and technologies. Amongst Ethiopian professional runners, such devices have become increasingly sought after, and yet they are embedded in deeper relationships of collaborative work, submission, and authority. They circulate between people, tracking relationships as much as they track selves. I place their use in the context of the discourses and practices of two of the main corporations working with runners in Ethiopia to suggest that the logic of exponential acceleration upon which these corporations rely is contested by Ethiopian runners, who attempt to achieve a synthesis between external scientific knowledge and pre‐existing ideas about energy, risk, and collective work. Whilst DSTDs may offer a tantalizing opportunity to give in to individualistic urges, in fact they crystallize existing tensions in Amhara society between centrifugal desire and duties of care and reciprocity.

An inclusive conceptualization of "family" can enable family-serving systems and professionals to leverage high-quality family relationships, wherever they are found, to support the health and well-being of individuals. Stepfamilies are an especially common family form with distinct needs and experiences, and stepparent–child relationships can take on a variety of functions with implications for family stability and individual well-being. The purpose of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to synthesize empirical associations between stepparent–child relationships and child outcomes. General findings from 56 studies highlighted significant associations between several dimensions of stepparent–child relationships and children's psychological, behavioral, social, academic, and physical well-being. Meta-analytic findings from 68 effect-size estimates further substantiated significant and positive associations between stepparent–child relationship quality and child psychological well-being (mean r = .25) and academic well-being (mean r = .23), as well as significant and negative associations between stepparent–child relationship quality and child psychological problems (mean r = −.23) and behavioral problems (mean r = −.19).

This study examined emotion regulation skills in 22 sexually maltreated girls and 22 nonmaltreated girls between 6 and 12 years of age to determine how the experience of sexual maltreatment might interfere with normative emotional development. Findings indicated that sexually maltreated girls, compared to nonmaltreated peers, reported different goals (i.e., inhibiting emotion to avoid conflict vs. displaying emotion to rectify a situation) for managing their emotional expressivity with their parents. They also reported expecting less support and more conflict from parents in response to emotional displays. Finally, maltreated girls expected less practical assistance from all social partners (i.e., mother, father, best friend) following their emotional displays. Surprisingly, however, there were no group differences in girls' ability to generate effective strategies for coping with emotionally arousing situations. Findings are discussed from the functionalist approach to emotional development, emphasizing the importance of social context (i.e., maltreating, nonmaltreating) in the development of children's emotion regulation skills.

English This article compares and contrasts two main areas of the Australian and US codes of ethics for social workers. These have been selected for comparison because recent revisions in their provisions about dual relationships and confidentiality raise challenging questions about acceptable practice standards. French Cet article compare et contraste deux grands domaines des codes d'éthique pour les travailleurs sociaux d'Australie et des Etats-Unis. Ces deux codes d'éthique ont été sélectionnés pour comparaison en raison de leurs récentes révisions aux niveaux des 'relations doubles' et de la confidentialité. Ces questions posent des défis de taille quant aux normes de pratiques acceptables. Spanish Se comparan dos áreas principales de los códigos de trabajo social de Australia y de los Estados Unidos. Se eligieron estos dos códigos para comparación porque sus revisiones recientes acerca de relaciones duales y de secreto profesional suscitan cuestiones difíciles acerca de estándares aceptables.

Public administration is carried out through the public service. Public administration is an instrument of the State which is expected to implement the policy decisions made from the political and legislative processes. The rationale of this article is to assess the working relationships between ministers and permanent secretaries in the Government of National Unity in Zimbabwe. The success of the Minister depends to a large degree on the ability and goodwill of a permanent secretary who often has a very different personal or professional background and whom the minster did not appoint. Here lies the vitality of the permanent secretary institution. If a Minister decides to ignore the advice of the permanent secretary, he/she may risk of making serious errors. The permanent secretary is the key link between the democratic process and the public service. This article observed that the mere fact that the permanent secretary carries out the political, economic and social interests and functions of the state from which he/she derives his/her authority and power; and to which he/she is accountable, no permanent secretary is apolitical and neutral to the ideological predisposition of the elected Ministers. The interaction between the two is a political process. Contemporary administrator requires complex team-work and the synthesis of diverse contributions and view-points.

Interdisciplinary social sciences literature on the value and significance of engaged fatherhood and father-inclusive approaches to practice for enhanced family outcomes have begun to reach a consensus. Yet there has been less attention to how research knowledge about fatherhood, including that which is co-produced with and for fathers, can be more effectively translated and embedded in practice and policy contexts. This article elaborates on a cumulative, empirically driven process that has established new relational ecologies between young fathers, multi-agency professionals and researchers. It illustrates how these ecologies, supported by longitudinal and co-creative research combined, are driving societal transformations through knowledge exchange and the instigation of new father-inclusive practice interventions that address the marginalisation of young fathers. The methodologies, including the co-creation of the Young Dads Collective and its impacts on young fathers and multi-agency professionals, are evaluated, confirming them as powerful and productive mechanisms for embedding father-inclusive practices within existing support and policy systems.

Abstract
Purpose
Youth intimate partner violence (YIPV) is an under-researched topic within the field of domestic violence. This is particularly true of same-sex YIPV. In this article, the words of one young man, Philip, are analyzed to explore how he narrates his process of defining his sexual experiences as abuse and, consequently, himself as a possible victim of IPV.

Methods
The qualitative in-depth interview with Philip was conducted as part of a larger study on YIPV in Norway, with a specific focus on sexual YIPV. The article is framed both theoretically and methodologically by the assumption that narratives give meaning to our experiences. Meta-narratives and turning points are used as tools for narrative analysis.

Results
Important contextual issues in Philip's storyline include his prior exposure to severe homophobic bullying, being forced to return to the closet as his partner had not yet come out, and no prior experience of serious romantic relationship. Influential cultural meta-narratives regarding IPV and gender that complicate his process of identifying his experiences as abuse include the violence of adult men towards adult women, the ever-present male sex drive, and the importance of physical violence and bodily size and strength. The findings are discussed in light of the theory of the ideal victim.

Conclusion
Schools need to include sexual minority youth when teaching about sex and relationships, and professionals working with youth need to actively ask them about experiences of violence and abuse in their relationships, regardless of their sexuality.

Autistic and transgender -- Recognizing an autistic transgender person -- The inside experience of being trans and autistic -- Working with trauma and minority stress -- Working with connection, attachment and relationships -- Working with families -- Health care issues -- Navigating the cisgender neurotypical world -- Crisis interventions and preparing for crises -- Looking forward.

Background: In 2010 new legislation in Australia led to the establishment of the Australian Health Practitioner Regulatory Authority standards, now used to manage nursing and midwifery registration and the annual re-registration requirements for midwives and nurses. These clearly articulate the continuing professional development (CPD) requirements together with a guiding framework. Individuals need to engage in adult pedagogy which makes explicit the need for self-examination to identify and prioritise their learning needs. Objectives: This study aimed to investigate how existing registered midwives approach and are challenged by these changed statuatory requirementsin Australia, particularly completion of CPD activity. Design: This paper reports findings from phase one of a two phase, longitudinal, case study in which midwives describe their experience during in-depth qualitative interviews. Setting: Australia Participants: A sample of 20 female participants was recruited nationally from four states using a purposive sampling approach to provide maximum variation to explore the issue. Methods: Each participant took part in an in-depth interview. In order to facilitate reflection on experiences each participant was asked to discuss an object that held professional value or meaning to them. Results: A key theme in the findings is the relationship between motivation which influences the decisions that midwives are making about CPD, their ongoing registration and practice context. The findings reveal implicit values and beliefs about practice relationships and how these function as motivational factors that influence midwives decisions about CPD and practice options. Conclusions: The findings provide insight into the need for system wide dialogue to devise ways to support midwives to maintain as well as to continue to develop their practice, through CPD and to acknowledge the challenges faced by those midwives who currently hold dual registration as a registered nurse in the context of the changed requirements.

In this paper we argue that austerity creates working conditions that can undermine professionalism in healthcare. We characterise austerity in terms of overlapping economic, social and ethical dimensions and explain how these can pose significant challenges for healthcare professionals. Amongst other things, austerity is detrimental to healthcare practice because it creates shortages of material and staff resources, negatively affects relationships and institutional cultures, and creates increased burdens and pressures for staff, not least as a result of deteriorating public health conditions. After discussing the multiple dimensions of austerity, we consider the challenges it creates for professional ethics in healthcare. We highlight three mechanisms-intensification of work, practitioner isolation, and organisational alienation-which pose acute problems for healthcare professionals working under conditions of austerity. These mechanisms can turn 'routine moral stress' into moral distress and, at the same time, make poor care much more likely. While professionalism clearly depends on individual capabilities and behaviours, it also depends upon a complex sets of social conditions being established and maintained. The problems caused by austerity reveal a need to broaden the scope of professional ethics so that it includes the responsibilities of 'role constructors' and not just 'role occupiers'. Austerity therefore presents opportunities for health professionals and associated 'role constructors' to contribute to a reimagining of future models of healthcare professionalism.

Hospital social workers advocate, facilitate and communicate with patients, families, healthcare professionals, and communities. These activities, in which hospital social workers relate to different parties and aim to strengthen relationships between them, have been referred to in the literature as boundary spanning. This study explores hospital social workers' boundary-spanning competencies associated with their boundary-spanning activities. The data were from in-depth interviews with 19 hospital social workers in Norway. A hybrid analysis was performed, combining initial inductive coding of themes with subsequent deductive coding based upon a conceptual framework. Four themes emerged: (1) Being informed, (2) Content knowledge, (3) Tailoring and (4) Self-knowledge. The findings contribute to specifying central boundary-spanning competencies. Implications of the study for social work practice and education are provided, along with recommendations for further research.

PurposeThis article seeks to provide a fresh perspective on the methodological approach to studying caregiving in a transnational context by analysing, local caregiver's lifeworld, informal interpreting/translation and professional communication with foreign retirees.Design/methodology/approachThis project explores the complex and multifaceted meanings of everyday objects through diffractive vignettes to illuminate the communicative entanglements that arise between caregivers and foreign retirees receiving care in Thailand. To identify intra-actions in caregiving, we collected data through informal interviews, observations and various artefacts before combining them in a group of potential communicative relationships by creating a narrative summary of situations.FindingsCommunicative relationships in the vignettes are multidimensional, with diverse logics underlying choices, rapport formation and communication effectiveness. This premise also illuminates how caregivers perceive and intra-act with their accommodation strategies, considering trust, comfort and comprehension. Our findings were also discussed with the concept of communication accommodation theory.Originality/valueAs an extension of the post-humanist approach to the diffractive reading of vignettes, this study sees its value in studying agent-related informal translation/interpreting and human-to-human relationships.