Com Ciência e Com Respeito: episódio 21

Neste segundo episódio especial sobre o Projeto de Qualificação de CEPs, vamos falar sobre a leitura que o Q-CEP fez dos aspectos administrativos das atividades dos CEPs visitados. Confira!

A bibliometric analysis of quality assurance in higher education institutions: Implications for assessing university's societal impact.

This study aims to provide a bibliometric overview of quality assurance (QA) research in higher education institutions (HEIs) from 1993 to 2022 and to identify significant trends. Scopus was utilised to retrieve data from 321 selected articles from 191 different sources. The methodology included science mapping with bibliometric indicators such as citations, co-citation analysis, and bibliometric coupling. Analysis of the data was done using VOSviewer and R-package using Biblioshiny. The findings indicate an increase in the number of articles and authors per paper that highlight QA key issues, the most promising QA practices, and the topics for future research. This study has significant importance to orient HEI's QA process towards the assessment of the university's societal impact.

Perspectvas y avances del Movimiento global e Iberoamericano de Universidades Promotoras de la Salud: periodo de 2003-2018.

Universidades y entdades de Educación Superior que han desarrollado una cultura organizacional orientada por los valores y los principios asociados al movimiento global de la Promoción de la Salud con apoyo constatado a través de una polítca insttucional propia para el fomento y la permanencia de las acciones de Promoción de la Salud (PS).

Impact of organizational culture, occupational commitment and industry-academy cooperation on vocational education in China: Cross-sectional Hierarchical Linear Modeling analysis.

At a time when vocational education is seen as critical for national development, concern grows regarding how weak organizational culture and occupational commitment may threaten the production of quality graduates and teachers within the field. The failure of vocational institutions to effectively create human capital likely threatens the connections between Chinese industry and its educational institutions. This study thus explores how these connections are influenced by organizational and occupational factors. A multi-layer linear model is employed on data collected from 406 teachers from 69 Chinese vocational colleges and universities. Results suggest that organizational cultural positively influences industry-university cooperative behavior through the construction of strong occupational commitment and job involvement. This study not only enriches and expands new knowledge and academic perspectives, but also provides feasible policy suggestions to help guide educational administrators toward the improvement of vocational education.

Atenção primária à saúde e covid-19: desafios para universidades, trabalhadores e gestores em saúde / Atención primaria de salud y covid-19: desafíos para las universidades, los trabajadores de la salud y los gerentes / Primary health care and covid-19: challenges for universities, health workers and managers

Objetivo: descrever experiência do grupo de apoio à Atenção Primária à Saúde, do Comitê de Enfermagem para Enfrentamento da COVID-19 em uma capital do Nordeste do Brasil. Método: coleta de informações nas unidades de saúde sobre estrutura física, planos de ação, fluxos de atendimentos e força de trabalho, entre março e maio de 2020. Resultados: problemas identificados em 46 unidades, tais como: fragilidades na vigilância em saúde; estrutura física para atender usuários com e sem sintomas respiratórios; inadequação de equipamentos de proteção individual; afastamento de profissionais infectados pelo SARS-CoV-2; capacitação insuficiente para as demandas. Foram disponibilizados às unidades: materiais de apoio técnico-científico, espaços virtuais de debates, encaminhamento de demandas trabalhistas, materiais para adequar rotinas dos serviços e recomendações para instância superior da gestão municipal de saúde. Considerações finais: condições precárias da Atenção Primária à Saúde implicam em desestruturação de resposta adequada em momentos de emergências sanitárias.

Objetivo: describir la experiencia del grupo de apoyo a la atención primaria de salud del Comité de Enfermería para combatir el COVID-19 en una capital del noreste de Brasil. Método: recopilación de información en las unidades de salud sobre estructura física, planes de acción, flujos de atención y fuerza laboral, entre marzo y mayo de 2020. Resultados: problemas identificados en 46 unidades, tales como: debilidades en la vigilancia de la salud; estructura física para ayudar a los usuarios con y sin síntomas respiratorios; insuficiencia de equipos de protección individual; eliminación de profesionales infectados con SARS-CoV-2; insuficiente creación de capacidad para las demandas. Se pusieron a disposición de las unidades: materiales de apoyo técnico-científico, espacios virtuales de debates, derivación de demandas laborales, materiales para adaptar rutinas de servicios y recomendaciones para la superior instancia de la gestión sanitaria municipal. Consideraciones finales: las condiciones precarias de atención primaria de salud implican la desorganización de la respuesta adecuada en tiempos de emergencias sanitarias.

Objective: to describe the experience of the primary health care support group of the Nursing Committee to Combat COVID-19 in a capital of northeastern Brazil. Method: collection of information in health units about physical structure, action plans, care flows and workforce, between March and May 2020. Results: problems identified in 46 units, such as: weaknesses in health surveillance; physical structure to assist users with and without respiratory symptoms; inadequacy of personal protective equipment; removal of professionals infected with SARS-CoV-2; insufficient capacity building for the demands. The following were made available to the units: technical-scientific support materials, virtual spaces of debates, referral of labor demands, materials to adapt routines of services and recommendations for higher instance of municipal health management. Final considerations: precarious conditions of Primary Health Care imply the disorganization of adequate response in times of health emergencies.

The influence of personality traits on university performance: Evidence from Italian freshmen students.

Despite several attempts to provide a definite pattern regarding the effects of personality traits on performance in higher education, the debate over the nature of the relationship is far from being conclusive. The use of different subject pools and sample sizes, as well as the use of identification strategies that either do not adequately account for selection bias or are unable to establish causality between measures of academic performance and noncognitive skills, are possible sources of heterogeneity. This paper investigates the impact of the Big Five traits, as measured before the beginning of the academic year, on the grade point average achieved in the first year after the enrolment, taking advantage of a unique and large dataset from a cohort of Italian students in all undergraduate programs containing detailed information on student and parental characteristics. Relying on a robust strategy to credibly satisfy the conditional independence assumption, we find that higher levels of conscientiousness and openness to experience positively affect student score.

A national survey of the impact of COVID-19 on personal, academic, and work environments of nursing students.

BACKGROUND: Nursing students are experiencing life changing events in their personal, academic, and work environments since the onset of the pandemic. PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to describe and explore the effects of COVID-19 on personal, workforce, and academic experiences of nursing students (N = 620). METHOD: A 68-item survey with three areas of focus surrounding academic, workforce and personal experiences was distributed to multiple schools across the United States. The analysis compares student responses from the five regions of the US. FINDINGS: Significant differences were found in the pairwise comparisons. The analysis revealed the academic changes were generally viewed as negative. Fear/anxiety and political influences impacted the outcomes of the pandemic. DISCUSSION: Understanding the effects of the pandemic on the personal, work and academic experiences of nursing students will assist academia and healthcare in adapting existing policies to meet student needs in the various regions of the United States.

Plastic Surgery amidst the Pandemic: The New York University Experience at the Epicenter of the COVID-19 Crisis.

SUMMARY: The coronavirus disease of 2019 pandemic became a global threat in a matter of weeks, with its future implications yet to be defined. New York City was swiftly declared the epicenter of the pandemic in the United States as case numbers grew exponentially in a matter of days, quickly threatening to overwhelm the capacity of the health care system. This burgeoning crisis led practitioners across specialties to adapt and mobilize rapidly. Plastic surgeons and trainees within the New York University Langone Health system faced uncertainty in terms of future practice, in addition to immediate and long-term effects on undergraduate and graduate medical education. The administration remained vigilant and adaptive, enacting departmental policies prioritizing safety and productivity, with early deployment of faculty for clinical support at the front lines. The authors anticipate that this pandemic will have far-reaching effects on the future of plastic surgery education, trends in the pursuit of elective surgical procedures, and considerable consequences for certain research endeavors. Undoubtedly, there will be substantial impact on the physical and mental well-being of health care practitioners across specialties. Coordinated efforts and clear lines of communication between the Department of Plastic Surgery and its faculty and trainees allowed a concerted effort toward the immediate challenge of tempering the spread of coronavirus disease of 2019 and preserving structure and throughput for education and research. Adaptation and creativity have ultimately allowed for early rebooting of in-person clinical and surgical practice. The authors present their coordinated efforts and lessons gleaned from their experience to inform their community's preparedness as this formidable challenge evolves.

A philosophical analysis of anti-intellectualism in nursing: Newman's view of a university education.

Canadian and international nursing educators are increasingly concerned with the quality of university nursing education. Contemporary nursing education is fraught by a growing anti-intellectualism coupled with the dominance of neoliberalism and corporate university business culture. Amid these challenges, nursing schools must prepare nurses to provide care in an era compounded by social and health inequities. The purpose of this paper was to explore the philosophical and contextual factors influencing anti-intellectualism in nursing education. We use John Henry Newman's view of the purpose of a university education as a heuristic perspective to examine anti-intellectualism in nursing. We contend that the ideological worship of technological advances, a culture of consumerism, quality improvement and risk management, the primacy of doing over thinking, competency-based curricula and business models rooted in neoliberal financial policies reinforce anti-intellectualism in nursing. Anti-intellectualism is a complex issue to address within the corporate university culture. We propose multiple strategies at the disciplinary, university and sociopolitical levels to decrease anti-intellectualism. Counteracting anti-intellectualism requires critical thinking, praxis and emancipation. Nurses should critically examine this anti-intellectual trend as it limits the advancement of the discipline and marginalizes its contributions within the academy. If nurses do not address this challenge, the survival of nursing as an academic discipline may be jeopardized.

The Evolving Social Purpose of Academic Freedom.

In the face of the increasing substitution of free speech for academic freedom, I argue for the distinctiveness and irreplaceability of the latter. Academic freedom has evolved alongside universities in order to support the important social purpose universities serve. Having limned this evolution, I compare academic freedom and free speech. This comparison reveals freedom of expression to be an individual freedom, and academic freedom to be a group-differentiated freedom with a social purpose. I argue that the social purpose of academic freedom behooves an inclusive approach to group differentiation.

Assessing university guidance and tutoring in higher education: Validating a questionnaire on Ecuadorian students.

This study was intended to explore and confirm the factorial structure and to analyze the psychometric properties of an instrument for university guidance and tutoring, apply it, and detect differences between sociodemographic variables. A total of 1,048 students from five universities in the province of Manabi (Ecuador) participated. The study was divided into two phases with differentiated samples. An exploratory phase, made up of 200 subjects (19.1%), and another confirmatory phase, made up of 848 (80.9%), where the questionnaire was also applied. The results supported the three-factor structure of the instrument called "Questionnaire for the Assessment of Guidance and Tutoring in Higher Education" (Q-AGT), with of a total of 21 items. The indices of goodness of fit, reliability and internal consistency of the model were considered satisfactory. The application of the questionnaire did not show statistically significant differences in the assessment of university guidance and tutoring between men and women, with a high value given by both sexes to the importance of tutoring, the demands and the competences of the teaching staff in the university. The differences were mainly found between universities and branches of knowledge. Among the main conclusions, what stands out is the achievement of a valid and reliable instrument to measure the development of guidance and tutoring in Latin American universities. This contributes to the assessment of university guidance and tutoring as a strategy for the integral development of the student- personally, academically and professionally- and as a possible protective factor against academic dropout.

Nutrition education in medical schools (NEMS) project: Joining ESPEN and university point of view.

BACKGROUND & AIMS: Nutrition education is not well represented in the medical curriculum. The aim of this original paper was to describe the Nutrition Education in Medical Schools (NEMS) Project of the European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (ESPEN). METHODS: On 19 January 2020, a meeting was held on this topic that was attended by 51 delegates (27 council members) from 34 countries, and 13 European University representatives. RESULTS: This article includes the contents of the meeting that concluded with the signing of the Manifesto for the Implementation of Nutrition Education in the Undergraduate Medical Curriculum. CONCLUSION: The meeting represented a significant step forward, moved towards implementation of nutrition education in medical education in general and in clinical practice in particular, in compliance with the aims of the ESPEN Nutrition Education Study Group (NESG).

Mixed results from a multiple regression analysis of supplemental instruction courses in introductory physics.

Providing less prepared students with supplemental instruction (SI) in introductory STEM courses has long been used as a model in math, chemistry, and biology education to improve student performance, but this model has received little attention in physics education research. We analyzed the course performance of students enrolled in SI courses for introductory mechanics and electricity and magnetism (E&M) at Stanford University compared with those not enrolled in the SI courses over a two-year period. We calculated the benefit of the SI course using multiple linear regression to control for students' level of high school physics and math preparation. We found that the SI course had a significant positive effect on student performance in E&M, but that an SI course with a nearly identical format had no effect on student performance in mechanics. We explored several different potential explanations for why this might be the case and were unable to find any that could explain this difference. This suggests that there are complexities in the design of SI courses that are not fully understood or captured by existing theories as to how they work.