The interview is the ideal opportunity for the job candidate to assess his/her fit with a potential employer. While much research from the recruiting literature shows that candidates' perceptions of PO Fit lead to important outcomes such as intentions to pursue a position and acceptance of job offers, fewer studies explore how such fit perceptions are formed. The current study utilized a policy capturing approach to model how individuals interpret and combine cues from the interview experience as they formulate their perceptions of PO Fit. The cues tested included interview question content and the contextual variables of interviewer behavior and interview process factors. College students read a series of interview scenarios where these cues were manipulated, and provided their reactions about PO Fit, as well as about fairness and the ultimate decision to pursue an employment relationship. Although values-related question content was predicted to be most influential in the determination of PO Fit, the contextual factors more strongly affected all outcomes. Furthermore, for many participants, the relationships between these contextual effects and the outcome variable (intention to continue in the selection process) were mediated by perceptions of PO Fit and fairness. Considerable intercorrelation among the three dependent variables was found, and could be attributed to limitations of the method employed or job seekers' generalized and non-focused reactions following interviews. Additional research is needed to further investigate PO Fit perceptions from interview stimuli; suggestions and implications are discussed. / Ph. D.

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No / People with dementia need increasingly specialised support as they approach the end of life, and so too do their families and the professionals working with them. This book describes not only what can be done to ensure maximum quality of life for those in the final stages of the illness, but also how best to support those involved in caring for them. Emphasising the importance of being attuned to the experiences and needs of the person with dementia, the authors explain why and how they should be included in decisions relating to their end of life care. Practical strategies for ensuring physical and emotional wellbeing are provided, drawing on useful examples from practice and providing solutions to potential challenges that carers and family members will face. Dilemmas surrounding end of life care are explored in detail, including the moral dilemma of medical intervention, and the authors suggest ways of supporting family members through the process in terms of providing information, helping them adjust to change and loss, and involving them in their relative's care, and at how care staff can be supported through appropriate education and training, team building and information-giving.

Yes / (1) Present deprescribing experiences of patients living with frailty, their informal carers and healthcare professionals; (2) interpret whether their experiences are reflective of person-centred/collaborative care; (3) complement our findings with existing evidence to present a model for person-centred deprescribing for patients living with frailty, based on a previous collaborative care model. Qualitative design in English primary care (general practice). Semi-structured interviews were undertaken immediately post-deprescribing and 5/6 weeks later with nine patients aged 65+ living with frailty and three informal carers of patients living with frailty. Fourteen primary care professionals with experience in deprescribing were also interviewed. In total, 38 interviews were conducted. A two-staged approach to data analysis was undertaken. Three themes were developed: attitudes, beliefs and understanding of medicines management and responsibility; attributes of a collaborative, person-centred deprescribing consultation; organisational factors to support person-centred deprescribing. Based on these findings and complementary to existing evidence, we offer a model for person-centred deprescribing for patients living with frailty. Previous models of deprescribing for patients living with frailty while, of value, do not consider the contextual factors that govern the implementation and success of models in practice. In this paper, we propose a novel person-centred model for deprescribing for people living with frailty, based on our own empirical findings, and the wider evidence base. / This research was funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Yorkshire and Humber Patient Safety Translational Research Centre (NIHR Yorkshire and Humber PSTRC).

As the U.S. population ages, there is a significant increase in functional impairment, chronic conditions and other age related health concerns. In later life, functional limitations and poor quality of health often lead to the utilization of skilled nursing care in institutional settings. However, older adults often report the desire to age in place even when experiencing health challenges. Therefore, identifying ways to promote aging in place at home as a long-term care option could enhance quality of life. The objective of the study is to examine the impact of home modification and other home and community-based services on the ability of Black older adults to age in place in comparison to Whites. The study utilizes administrative data from the Georgia Money Follows the Person program. The results indicate that race, the use of financial support and the utilization of many services were significant in attaining success in the MFP program.

Sambandet mellan patienters förväntningar inför axeloperation och i vilken utsträckning dessa påverkar den upplevda nöjdheten är inte entydigt. Positiva förväntningar är viktiga samtidigt som orealistiskt höga förväntningar kan ge lägre patientnöjdhet. Uppföljning utifrån individens upplevelse är viktig för att följa resultat och öka patientnöjdheten i en personcentrerad vård. Syftet med denna studie var att redogöra för en grupp axelopererade patienters mål inför operation, måluppfyllelse efter ett år och undersöka eventuella samband mellan olika förväntningar och grad av måluppfyllelse. Syftet var också att beskriva upplevd livskvalitet före och ett år efter operation, korrelera skattad livskvalitet och måluppfyllelse efter ett år samt undersöka eventuella skillnader i skattade värden beroende på bakgrundsfaktorer. Metoden var en  korrelerande prospektiv registerbaserad studie. Huvudresultatet visade hög grad av patientnöjdhet både för skattad livskvalitet och uppfyllelse av personligt mål, sambandet mellan dessa värden var starkt. Smärtfrihet var den vanligaste förhoppningen. Signifikant samband mellan olika förväntningar och uppnått mål sågs i grupperna ¨återgå till arbete¨ och ¨smärtfri nattetid¨. Kvinnor skattade signifikant lägre värden än män före operation men ingen signifikant skillnad kan ses vid ettårsuppföljningen. Slutsatsen var att undersökningsgruppen inför operation hade höga förväntningar och att dessa i stor utsträckning uppnåtts. Likaså sågs tydlig ökning i skattad livskvalitet. Minskad smärta/smärtfrihet var tydligt den viktigaste förväntan inför operation. Denna utvärdering av patientens upplevelse av måluppfyllelse och livskvalitet kan ge återkoppling i arbetet för att stärka och utveckla en personcentrerad vård. / The correlation between the expectations before shoulder surgery and to which extent they affect patient satisfaction is not unambiguous. Positive expectations are important whilst unrealistic expectations could lead to reduced patient satisfaction. Follow up based on the experiences of the individual is important to follow results and increase patient satisfaction in a person centred care. The aim of this study was to narrate the preoperative goals and the fulfilment of these goals after one year for a group of patients who had undergone shoulder surgery and to investigate the eventual relationship between different expectations and degree of goal fulfilment. The aim was also to describe the perceived life quality before and one year after surgery, to correlate perceived life quality and goal fulfilment after one year and to examine eventual differences in assessed values due to demographic factors. The method was a correlative prospective register based study. The main result showed high degree of patient satisfaction for both assessed life quality and fulfilment of personal expectations, the correlation between these values where strong. Relief of pain was the most common expectation. Significant correlation between expectations and goal assessment where seen in the groups ¨return to work¨ and ¨relief of nocturnal pain¨. Women assessed significant lower values than men before operation but no significant differences where seen at the follow-up after one year. The conclusion was that the study population had high preoperative expectations and that these where fulfilled to a great extent. An explicit increase in perceived life quality was also seen. Relief or reduction of pain was clearly the most important expectation before surgery. This evaluation of patients’ sense of goal fulfilment and perceived life quality might give feed back in the work to strengthen and generate a person centred approach.

Bakgrund: Amyotrofisk lateralskleros (ALS) är en obotlig sjukdom som drabbar de övre och nedre motorneuronen. Den förväntade livslängden är tre till fem år efter symptomdebut och personen drabbas av succesiva funktionsnedsättningar. Behoven hos personer med ALS förändras hela tiden och därför är det viktigt att omvårdnadsinsatserna anpassas till individen. Syfte: Att belysa personers upplevelser av att leva med amyotrofisk lateralskleros och hur de hanterar sjukdomen. Metod: Allmän litteraturstudie av tio kvalitativa vetenskapliga artiklar. Resultat: Den fysiska förlusten upplevdes skrämmande och det var frustrerande att inte kunna påverka sin situation. Det ledde också till att personerna kände sig som en börda. Det var dock betydelsefullt att trots sjukdomen fortsätta leva ett så vanligt liv som möjligt. Osäkerheten kring framtiden skapade ett behov av att leva i nuet. Resultatet visade även att närstående inverkade positivt på hanteringen av sjukdomen, likaså att acceptera sin situation. Att ha en känsla av kontroll främjade hoppet. Stödet från sjukvården och även att känna sig värdefull ansågs också ha betydelse för hanteringen. Slutsats: Trots att personer med ALS påverkas psykiskt och fysiskt av sjukdom kan de bevara ett vanligt och aktivt vardagsliv genom användning av olika copingstrategier. Klinisk betydelse: Vårdpersonal behöver ha kunskap om hur denna patientgrupp upplever och hanterar sin sjukdom för att kunna förstå, bemöta och vårda dem på rätt sätt. / Background: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is an incurable disease which affects upper and lower motor neurones. Life expectancy is between three to five years after symptom onset and the person is affected by progressive impairments. The needs of people with ALS are constantly changing and therefore it’s important that the nursing care is adapted to each individual. Aim: To illuminate people’s experiences of living with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and how they manage the disease. Method: A literature review of ten qualitative research articles. Result: The physical loss felt scary and it was frustrating not to be able to influence the situation. It also led to the feeling of being a burden. It was important though to be able to continue living as ordinary as possible despite the disease. Insecurity concerning the future led to a need of living in the present. The results showed that relatives had a positive impact on the management of the disease, as well as acceptance of the situation. To have a feeling of control promoted hope. Support from health care and the feeling of being valuable was also considered to be important for the management. Conclusion: Even though people with ALS are affected mentally and physically they are able to preserve an ordinary and active everyday life with the help of different coping strategies. Clinical implications: Health care professionals need to have knowledge of how these patients experience and manage their disease in order to understand, respond and care for them in the right way.

Error in criminal law The aim of this thesis is a comprehensive analysis of the problems of error in criminal law, finding weaknesses in the current legislation and outline appropriate solution. By error any inconsistency of someone's imagination with reality is meant. Knowing the offender's error is a very significant for legal theory, in case of relevant criminal errors it is a very serious consequence for the subjective aspect of the crime. In the Czech criminal law, which is based on the principle of liability for fault, it is an issue, without which this concept was not complete and whose meaning would be fading away. This thesis classifies the problems of error in terms of current legislation, legal doctrine and relevant case law . The first chapter of this thesis is devoted to an explanation of the term error itself, its theoretical inclusion in the context of criminal law and explains its implications. It focuses on the concept of fault, especially its importance and its components, the two faces of it, which are intent and negligence, or on the concept of guilt. Knowing these two concepts is essential for the next orientation in the issue of errors, and indeed in criminal law at all. In the second chapter the work focuses on the historical evolution of criminal law concept of error of the...

It is a topos of postmodern law and political philosophy to speak about the "change" of the concept of sovereignty, and to put the current forms of state existence in opposition to the "classical" theory of sovereignty. The theoretical content of this "classical" doctrine is too easy identified with the empirical reality of the Westphalian state system and understood as an apotheosis of the autonomous, independent states and legal systems. In this thesis I have therefore tried to investigate the logical core of the doctrine of sovereignty of two important political philosophers of the 17th century, Thomas Hobbes and Samuel Pufendorf. Based on the analysis of the central works of both authors, in the light of the latest research, the work shows that their understanding of sovereignty can only be understood with the help of the analysis of the concept of fictitious (or fictitiously) created artificial (moral) person. Sovereignty is no term for an empiricial force or violence, but the name for an imaginative absolute power that is connected to the artificial sphere of fictitious legal reality which is radically separated from the empirical world. The "sovereign power of the Commonwealth" is related to the fictional character of the state, which is identical to the concept of people (populus). The...

Syftet med studien var att undersöka hur gode män för huvudmän med insatser enligt LSS tolkar sitt uppdrag sörja för person och ser på möjligheterna att utföra det. Vi utgick från följande frågeställningar: Hur definierar de intervjuade gode männen sitt uppdrag sörja för person? Hur beskriver de intervjuade gode männen det handlingsutrymme de upplever sig ha i uppdraget? Vilka utmaningar upplever de intervjuade gode männen i sitt uppdrag? Studien baseras på kvalitativa intervjuer som utgått från en halvstrukturerad, temaindelad intervjuguide. Vi intervjuade fem gode män i en mellanstor stad i Sverige. Resultaten visar att gode männen hade svårt att definiera och avgränsa uppdraget sörja för person. Detta i samband med huvudmannens funktionsnedsättning innebär utmaningar för den som åtar sig uppdraget, exempelvis då huvudmannen lider av psykisk ohälsa. Vi fann att gode männen hade olika strategier för att använda sitt handlingsutrymme utifrån tidigare kunskaper och erfarenheter. Vidare beskrev de gode männen att den största utmaningen fanns i att bygga en god relation med huvudmannen. Slutligen diskuteras vikten av gode mäns personliga och professionella kompetens, för att kunna möta huvudmannens behov. / The purpose of this study was to examine how curators for persons with services under LSS interprets the mission, ensuring the person, and how they feel about their possibilities to execute the mission. The study started from the following questions: How does the interviewed curators define the mission, ensuring the person? How does the interviewed curators describe the discretion they experience in the mission? What challenges do the interviewed curators meet in their mission? The study is based on qualitative interviews that started from a half structured theme divided interview guide. We interviewed five curators in a medium sized city in Sweden. The results show that the curators found it difficult to define and delimit the assignment ensure the person. This, in conjunction with a persons disability poses challenges for those who undertake the mission. We found that the interviewed curators had different strategies to use their discretion based on previous knowledge and experiences. Further described the curators that the biggest challenge was to build a good relationship with the person with disability. Finally, we discuss the importance of curators personal and professional skills, in order to meet the needs of a person with disability. / <p>85</p>