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Objectifs: Ce projet vise à déterminer les effets qu'un cours éducatif en ligne au sujet de l'approvisionnement en organes en salle d'opération (SOP) a eu sur le niveau de confiance et la compréhension des infirmières et des techniciens en chirurgie (surgical tech.) (surgical tech.) en salle d'opération. Échantillonnage et contexte: Les données ont été recueillies des infirmières et techniciens en chirurgie (surgical tech.) (surgical tech.) en SOP aux États-Unis dans un centre de traumatologie de niveau II, doté de 19 salles d'opération effectuant de huit à dix processus d'approvisionnement en organes par année. Dans le cadre de son projet intégrateur, une étudiante diplômée en leadership infirmier de cet hôpital a créé un cours éducatif en format Microsoft PowerPoint au sujet des processus d'approvisionnement en organes. Méthodologies et variables: Le cours a été conçu et offert par le biais du système de gestion de l'apprentissage en ligne qu'utilise l'hôpital. Une enquête rétrospective prétest et posttest a été développée et évaluait les effets du cours sur le niveau de confiance et la compréhension des participants. Conclusions: Dans l'ensemble, le niveau de compréhension et de confiance au sujet des processus d'approvisionnement en organes s'est amélioré chez les infirmières et les techniciens en chirurgie (surgical tech.) (surgical tech.) comparativement aux résultats globaux. Conséquences pour les soins périopératoires: Un cours éducatif peut améliorer la compréhension et la confiance des infirmières et des techniciens en chirurgie (surgical tech.) (surgical tech.) par rapport aux processus d'approvisionnement en organes. Une plus grande confiance et une meilleure compréhension peuvent favoriser des résultats positifs pour les processus d'approvisionnement en organes. Afin d'améliorer la confiance et la compréhension, l'éducation continue est nécessaire pour les interventions chirurgicales rarement effectuées comme les processus d'approvisionnement en organes. Mots-clés: Processus d'approvisionnement en organes, rôles en soins infirmiers périopératoires, éducation autodirigée en ligne., INTRODUCTION La pénurie d'organes destinés aux dons et à la transplantation est un problème mondial. Par exemple, en 2018, plus de 113 000 personnes aux États-Unis étaient en attente pour [...]

Objectives: This project aimed to determine the effects an online educational course about organ procurement procedures (OPPs) in the operating room (OR) had on the levels of confidence and understanding among OR registered nurses (RNs) and surgical technologists (STs). Sample and setting: Data was collected from OR RNs and STs in the United States (US) at a Level II trauma centre with 19 operating rooms that completes eight to ten OPPs per year. A graduate nursing leadership student in this hospital created a Microsoft PowerPoint educational course about OPPs as her capstone project. Methods and variables: The course was developed and offered through the online learning management system the hospital uses. A retrospective pretest- posttest survey was designed and evaluated the effects of the course on participants' levels of confidence and understanding. Results: The overall levels of understanding and confidence about OPPs improved in the RNs and STs, comparing aggregate scores. Implications for perioperative nursing: An educational course can enhance understanding of and confidence in OPPs for OR RNs and STs. Increased confidence and understanding can advance the successful outcomes of the OPPs. Ongoing education is needed to reinforce confidence and understanding in rarely done surgical procedures like OPPs. Keywords: Organ procurement processes, Perioperative nursing roles, Self-directed online education., INTRODUCTION Lack of organs for donation and transplantation is a global issue. For example, in 2018, over 113 000 people in the United States (US) awaited organ transplantation, with 20 [...]

This study focused on the Level of Speaking Fluency and Accuracy of Senior High School Students: Basis for a Task-Based Language Teaching. It was conducted in a National High School in the province of Rizal with three (3) sections of Humanities and Social Sciences specifically one hundred and two (102) participants taken purposively through total enumeration technique and ten (10) Experts in teaching English served as respondents to evaluate the Questionnaire Checklist used in the study. The study used the descriptive-evaluative and experimental methods of research utilizing one shot design. The findings of the study revealed that the obtained grand mean of the developed task-based learning material in teaching Oral Communication among Senior High School learners in terms of Objectives, Contents, Organization, and Language and Style as evaluated by the Language Teachers and Instructors was interpreted as Very Highly Acceptable. Meanwhile, some learners who were exposed to the developed task-based learning material were found to be Limited User while significant number of them were categorized as Expert User. The band scores of the students from one activity to another got almost the same rating and showed quite same rating all throughout the activities and interpreted as Very Highly Acceptable. In the end, the study concluded that the developed task-based learning material contributed to facilitate the acquisition of the oral communication skills of the learners. It also helped to improve the level of speaking fluency and accuracy of the Senior High School Learners. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We present a new comparator design featuring wide-range and high-speed operation using only conventional digital CMOS cells. Our comparator exploits a novel scalable parallel prefix structure that leverages the comparison outcome of the most significant bit, proceeding bitwise toward the least significant bit only when the compared bits are equal. This method reduces dynamic power dissipation by eliminating unnecessary transitions in a parallel prefix structure that generates the N-bit comparison result after [log 4N]+[log16N]4 CMOS gate delays. Our comparator is composed of locally interconnected CMOS gates with a maximum fan-in and fan-out of five and four, respectively, independent of the comparator bitwidth. The main advantages of our design are high speed and power efficiency, maintained over a wide range. Additionally, our design uses a regular reconfigurable VLSI topology, which allows analytical derivation of the input-output delay as a function of bitwidth. HSPICE simulation for a 64-b comparator shows a worst case input-output delay of 0.86 ns and a maximum power dissipation of 7.7 mW using 0.15-μ TSMC technology at 1 GHz. © 2012 IEEE.