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The author would like to express her gratitude to the Wolfson Foundation for supporting the resea... more The author would like to express her gratitude to the Wolfson Foundation for supporting the research which made this essay possible.Publisher PDFPeer reviewe
Libraries in Literature
Scholars of library culture have emphasized the importance of organizational systems and lending ... more Scholars of library culture have emphasized the importance of organizational systems and lending practices to the history of United States libraries, and to their emergence as practical and rhetorical sites of democratic significance in the US. This chapter examines literary representations of US library patrons and their acts of borrowing to complicate the idea of the North American library as a democratic institution. Drawing on a range of nineteenth- and twentieth-century literary engagements with the reading rooms and varied holdings of US libraries—social, domestic, reference, and free—it argues that writers of all stripes critiqued the limits of America’s changing democratic practices by reimagining the borrower’s roles and capabilities. For writers including Benjamin Franklin, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Washington Irving, Louisa May Alcott, Frederick Douglass, and Henry James, the borrower’s imaginative uses, manipulations, and circumventions of the library’s rules and regulations ...
The Journal of the Civil War Era
Patient safety in healthcare has become a national objective. Hospital safety concerns are not is... more Patient safety in healthcare has become a national objective. Hospital safety concerns are not isolated to patient safety, occupational safety is also important. One initiative adopted by healthcare is improving patient safety climateshifting from one of a "no harm, no foul" approach to a culture of learning that encourages the reporting of errors, even those in which patient harm does not occur. Lacking from the literature, however, is an understanding of how to encourage reporting and how safety perceptions are formed among hospital employees. In addition, although safety-related reporting and safety perceptions are deemed important, the majority of research has been conducted in nursing populations. In order to create a safer hospital, it is crucial to investigate safetyrelated reporting and safety perceptions among all hospital employees. The purpose of this cross-sectional study is to test and refine a model that explains the influence of perceived procedural justice, interpersonal justice, informational justice, and distributive justice on comfort with safety-related reporting and, ultimately, hospital safety perceptions among hospital employees. The proposed model was tested on a sample of 652 hospital employees from a regional children's hospital with a 76% return rate. Consistent with the hypothesized model, perceptions of higher interpersonal justice predicted higher comfort with safety reporting, which in turn predicted perceptions of hospital safety. In addition, comfort with safety reporting, interpersonal justice, and informational justice contributed directly to the prediction of hospital safety perceptions. This study illustrates why different dimensions of organizational justice, specifically interpersonal justice and informational justice, should be considered above and beyond safety-specific climate when individuals are intent on improving hospital safety. Thus, hospital managers and administrators should enhance interpersonal justice along with comfort with safety-related reporting and informational justice to create a safer hospital. Study limitations and recommendations for new research methods and areas are discussed. Master Thesis-Y. Chen McMaster-Health Research Methodology v Dedication I lovingly dedicate this thesis to my parents, who supported me each step of the way. Master Thesis-Y. Chen McMaster-Health Research Methodology vi Acknowledgements Completing my Master degree is probably one of the most challenging tasks of the first 26 years of my life. The best and worst moments of this journey have been shared with many people. It has been a great privilege to spend several years in the Health Research Methodology program in the Department of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics at McMaster University, and its members will always remain dear to me. My first debt of gratitude must go to my advisor, Dr. Charles E. Cunningham. He patiently provided the vision, encouragement and advice necessary for me to proceed through the master program and complete my thesis. I want to thank Chuck for his unflagging encouragement and serving as a role model to me as a member of academia.
The Journal of the Civil War Era, 2020
Encyclopedia of the Bible Online, 2018
These books cover a wide range of grade levels, but they can all be useful as students explore wh... more These books cover a wide range of grade levels, but they can all be useful as students explore what has been reported as "truth" and how myths are perpetuated.
Studies in the Novel, 2015
The Journal of the Civil War Era, 2014
The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 2014
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American Civil War and Reconstruction
The author would like to express her gratitude to the Wolfson Foundation for supporting the resea... more The author would like to express her gratitude to the Wolfson Foundation for supporting the research which made this essay possible.Publisher PDFPeer reviewe
Libraries in Literature
Scholars of library culture have emphasized the importance of organizational systems and lending ... more Scholars of library culture have emphasized the importance of organizational systems and lending practices to the history of United States libraries, and to their emergence as practical and rhetorical sites of democratic significance in the US. This chapter examines literary representations of US library patrons and their acts of borrowing to complicate the idea of the North American library as a democratic institution. Drawing on a range of nineteenth- and twentieth-century literary engagements with the reading rooms and varied holdings of US libraries—social, domestic, reference, and free—it argues that writers of all stripes critiqued the limits of America’s changing democratic practices by reimagining the borrower’s roles and capabilities. For writers including Benjamin Franklin, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Washington Irving, Louisa May Alcott, Frederick Douglass, and Henry James, the borrower’s imaginative uses, manipulations, and circumventions of the library’s rules and regulations ...
The Journal of the Civil War Era
Patient safety in healthcare has become a national objective. Hospital safety concerns are not is... more Patient safety in healthcare has become a national objective. Hospital safety concerns are not isolated to patient safety, occupational safety is also important. One initiative adopted by healthcare is improving patient safety climateshifting from one of a "no harm, no foul" approach to a culture of learning that encourages the reporting of errors, even those in which patient harm does not occur. Lacking from the literature, however, is an understanding of how to encourage reporting and how safety perceptions are formed among hospital employees. In addition, although safety-related reporting and safety perceptions are deemed important, the majority of research has been conducted in nursing populations. In order to create a safer hospital, it is crucial to investigate safetyrelated reporting and safety perceptions among all hospital employees. The purpose of this cross-sectional study is to test and refine a model that explains the influence of perceived procedural justice, interpersonal justice, informational justice, and distributive justice on comfort with safety-related reporting and, ultimately, hospital safety perceptions among hospital employees. The proposed model was tested on a sample of 652 hospital employees from a regional children's hospital with a 76% return rate. Consistent with the hypothesized model, perceptions of higher interpersonal justice predicted higher comfort with safety reporting, which in turn predicted perceptions of hospital safety. In addition, comfort with safety reporting, interpersonal justice, and informational justice contributed directly to the prediction of hospital safety perceptions. This study illustrates why different dimensions of organizational justice, specifically interpersonal justice and informational justice, should be considered above and beyond safety-specific climate when individuals are intent on improving hospital safety. Thus, hospital managers and administrators should enhance interpersonal justice along with comfort with safety-related reporting and informational justice to create a safer hospital. Study limitations and recommendations for new research methods and areas are discussed. Master Thesis-Y. Chen McMaster-Health Research Methodology v Dedication I lovingly dedicate this thesis to my parents, who supported me each step of the way. Master Thesis-Y. Chen McMaster-Health Research Methodology vi Acknowledgements Completing my Master degree is probably one of the most challenging tasks of the first 26 years of my life. The best and worst moments of this journey have been shared with many people. It has been a great privilege to spend several years in the Health Research Methodology program in the Department of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics at McMaster University, and its members will always remain dear to me. My first debt of gratitude must go to my advisor, Dr. Charles E. Cunningham. He patiently provided the vision, encouragement and advice necessary for me to proceed through the master program and complete my thesis. I want to thank Chuck for his unflagging encouragement and serving as a role model to me as a member of academia.
The Journal of the Civil War Era, 2020
Encyclopedia of the Bible Online, 2018
These books cover a wide range of grade levels, but they can all be useful as students explore wh... more These books cover a wide range of grade levels, but they can all be useful as students explore what has been reported as "truth" and how myths are perpetuated.
Studies in the Novel, 2015
The Journal of the Civil War Era, 2014
The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 2014
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American Civil War and Reconstruction