In an effort to advance global excellence in nursing education, Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI)/Chamberlain College of Nursing Center for Excellence in Nursing Education (CENE) launched a 12-month Experienced Nurse Faculty Leadership Academy (ENFLA) in October 2014. The ENFLA was designed for experienced faculty (Leadership Scholars) with at least seven years of full-time employment in a faculty role, who wished to increase their leadership acumen and develop or increase the skill sets essential for success in a faculty leadership role. Program goals included to: Further academic career development and success. Promote personal and professional leadership development. Develop and begin to implement a personal leadership progression plan. Expand the influence of the Leadership Scholar within his or her sponsoring academic institution, the community, and the profession in the context of teaching, scholarship, or service. Advance nursing education through leadership development projects implemented by Leadership Scholars during the program. Promote experienced nurse faculty retention in academe. Using a triad model, nine Leadership Scholars, nine Mentors, and eight Faculty worked collaboratively in this pilot cohort to assist the Scholars in planning and implementing comprehensive leadership projects, as well as identifying and implementing an individualized leadership development plan. Strategies for program and personal goal achievement included online learning activities, online discussion forums, personal reflection assessments, and face-to-face workshops. For this session, each of the nine pilot cohort Scholars will present their individualized leadership development plan and share their experiences they, as well as insights gained in achieving these leadership goals. In particular, Scholars will address how this program and the leadership goals, will allow them an expanded scope of influence as a nursing leader and change agent in the future (Leadership project outcomes are demonstrated by poster presentation at another session at the Convention). Additional information about applying for the 2016/2017 ENFLA cohort will be made available to attendees.

Syftet med denna studie är att öka förståelsen för vilka strategier vägledarna på grundskolorna anser är centrala för att förbereda eleverna inför det individuella vägledningssamtalet samt belysa hur vägledarna uttrycker betydelsen av dessa förberedelser. En kvalitativ intervjustudie används som metod för att besvara studiens syfte samt forskningsfrågor och studien är baserad på intervjuer med åtta yrkesverksamma vägledare på grundskolor. Tidigare relevant forskning i kombination med valda teoretiska ramverk, karriärteorin Cognitive Information Process (CIP) samt Goffmans Inramningsteori, används som analysverktyg, vilka står i enlighet med studiens syfte och forskningsfrågor. Sammanfattningsvis indikerar resultatanalysen att de förberedelsestrategier som vägledarna anser är centrala för att förbereda eleverna inför det individuella vägledningssamtalet kan delas upp i åtta kategorier, vilka fördelas under tre teman; Strategier för att öka elevernas kunskap om alternativen, Strategier för att öka elevernas självkännedom samt Strategier för ett djupare vägledningssamtal. Betydelsen av att i vägledningens praktik kombinera samtliga förberedelsestrategier för att förbereda eleverna inför det individuella vägledningssamtalet är att den individuella samtalstiden i vägledningssamtalet ges goda förutsättningar för att bli av en mer kvalitativ och produktiv karaktär.

The need for security is crucial in Telephony over IP (ToIP). Secure protocols have been designed as well as specific devices to fulfill that need. This master thesis examines one of such devices called Session Border Controller (SBC), which can be compared to reverse proxies for ToIP. The idea is to apply message filters to increase security. This thesis presents the reasons of SBC existence, based on the security weaknesse sa ToIP network can show. These reasons are then used to establish a list of features which can be expected from a SBC and discuss its ideal placement in a ToIP network architecture. A test methodology for SBCs is established and used on the free software Kamailio as an illustration. Following this test, improvements of this software, regarding threats prevention and attacks detection, are presented and implemented. / Behovet av säkerhet är av avgörande betydelse i telefoni över IP (ToIP). Säkerhetsprotokoll har utformats samt särskilda enheter för att uppfylla detta behov. Detta examensarbete undersöker en av sådana enheter som kallas Session Border Controller (SBC), vilket kan jämföras med omvända proxyservrar för ToIP. Tanken är att tillämpa meddelandefilter för att öka säkerheten. Denna avhandling presenterar orsakerna till SBC existens, baserat på de säkerhets svagheter en ToIP nätverk kan visa. Dessa skäl används sedan för att upprätta en förteckning över egenskaper som kan förväntas av en SBC och diskutera dess ideal placering i en ToIP nätverksarkitektur . En testmetodik för SBC är etablerad och används på fri programvara Kamailio som en illustration. Efter detta test, förbättringar av denna programvara, om hot förebyggande och attacker upptäcka, presenteras och genomförs.

In the current mobile network architecture, network traffic between user equipment (UE) and services deployed on the public cloud is tromboned towards the anchor point which could lead to network congestion. Deploying services closer to the UE, for example near the eNodeB, is a potential solution. The services are deployed on small scale data centers connected to, or collocated with the eNodeB, called ’eNodeB-Cloud’ (eNBC). Mobility of UEs presents a challenge for deploying services in an eNBC. When the UE is handed over from one eNodeB to another, seamless migration of UE context between the service instances running in different eNBCs needs to be ensured. In this thesis, we propose a Platform as a Service framework to enable UE context migration between eNBCs. The architecture consists of handover signaling mechanism, network session migration technology, context transfer protocol and a set of APIs towards the service. The evaluation of the prototype implementation shows that virtualization causes some extra delays to the UE context migration time. Whereas when virtualization is omitted, the time taken to migrate a UE context between two eNBCs is in the order of 12 ms on average, which is within the limit of handover interruption time between two LTE-eNodeBs.

This document is the final report of the master's thesis "Implementation and Evuation of the Service Peer Discovery Protocol", carried out at the Center for Wireess Systems, KTH, Stockholm. This thesis addresses the problem of service discovery in peer-to-peer mobile networks by implementing and evaluating a previously designed protocl (the Service Peer Discovery Protocol). The main feature of peer-to-peer networks is that users connected to them can communicate directly with each other, without the necessity of interaction via a central point. However, in order for two networks users (ir peers) to communicate, they must have a means to locate and address each other, which is in gernal called a discovery protocol. There are many different solutions for discoverying protocols that work efficiently in fixed or slow-moving networks, but full mobility introduces a set of new difficulties for the discovery of peers and their services. The potential changes in location, which can occur very ofter, the changes in IP address that these changes cuase, and roaming between networks of different kinds are good examples of these difficulties. To solve these problems, a new Service Peer Discovery Protocol was designed and a test application built. The next step towards the introduction of this protocol was creating a working implementation, setting up a suitable test environment, performing experiments, and evaluating its performance. This evaluation could lead to improvments in the protoocl. The aim of this thesis is to implement and document the Service Peer Discovery Protocol, to carry out measurements of it, to evaluate the efficiency of the protocol, and to suggest ways in which it could be improved. The Service Peer Discovery Protocol was found to be well targeted to wireless, peer-to-peer networks, althgouh improvements in the protocol could make it more time and traffic-efficient while maintaining the same level of performance. / Detta är den slutliga rapporten för examensarbetet "Implementation och utvädering av Service Peer Discovery Protocol", utfört på Center for Wireless Systems, KTH, Stockholm.  Uppsatsen behandlar problemet med sökning efter tjänster i icke-hierarkiska (peer-to-peer) mobila nätverk genom att implementera och utvädera ett redan konstruerat protokoll (Service Peer Discovery Protocol). Den huvudsakliga fördelen med icke-hierarkiska nätverk är att anslutna anvndare (parter) kan kommunicera direkt med varandra, utan att behöva interagera med en central punkt.  Dock måste metoder för att lokalisera och adressera andra parter vara tillgängliga för att parterna skall kunna kommunicera, metoder som kalla sökprotokoll (discovery protocol). Det finns många olika sökprotokollösningar som fungerar effektivt i fasta eller långsamma mobila nätverk, men med full mobilitet introduceras ett antal nya svårigheter vid s kande efter parter och tjänster. Den potentiella förändringen av position (vilken kan inträffa ofta), byte av IP-address som dessa förändringar medför, och förflyttning mellan olika typer av nätverk, är exempel på sådana svårigheter. För att lösa dessa problem, konstruerades protokollet Service Peer Discovery Protocol och en testapplikation byggdes.  Nästa steg mot en introducering av detta protokoll var en fungerande implementation, en lämplig testmilö, utförandet av tester och en utvädering av prestandan.  Utväderingen syftade till att förbättra protokollet.  Syftet med detta examensar1ete är att implementera och dokumentera protokollet Service Peer Discovery Protocol, att göra mätningar, att utvädera effektiviteten samt att föreslå förbättringar av protokollet. Service Peer Discovery Protocol, fanns vara väl anpassat till icke-hierarkiska trådlösa nätverk.  Dock torde förbättringar av protokollet innebära tidseffektivare och trafikeffektivare beteende utan att kompromissa prestandanivån.

This Master thesis work was carried out at theWireless Center at KTH and it is part of a pilot project. This thesis is conducted for the Institute for Microelectronics and Information Technology (IMIT) at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm (Sweden) and for the Department of Telecommunications at Politecnico di Torino in Turin (Italy). This thesis addresses an area with significant potential for offering services to mobile users. In such a scenario users should have minimal interaction with applications which, by taking into account available context information, should be able to make decisions, such as setting up delivery paths between peers without requiring a third party for the negotiation. In wireless reconfigurable networks, the mobile users are on the move and must deal with dynamic changes of network resources. In such a network, mobile users should be able to contact other peers or resources by using the current route. Thus although manual configuration of the network is a possible solution, it is not easily used because of the dynamic properties of the system which would demand too much user interaction. However, existing discovery protocols fall short of accomodating the complexity of reconfigurable and heterogeneous networks. The primary objective of this thesis work was to investigate a new approach at the application level for signaling by taking advantage of SIP’s features. The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is used to provide naming and localization of the user, and to provide functionality to invite users to establish sessions and to agree on communication parameters. The Specific Event Notification of the SIP protocol provides a framework for the notification of specific events and I believed that it could be instantiated as solution to the problem for reconfigurable application networks. This thesis proposes a method for providing localization information to SIP User Agents in order to establish sessions for service discovery. Furthermore, this method should consider context meta-data to design strategies effective in heterogeneous networks. A viable solution must support (re)location of users at the application layer when they roam between different wireless networks, such as GPRS and WLAN. An analysis of the implications of the proposed model is presented; in this analysis emphasis has been placed on how this model interacts with existing services.

Single session therapy (SST) is a form of psychotherapy that has been researched and practiced internationally since the 1980s. More recently it has been widely employed from the therapeutic modality of narrative therapy - more commonly known as brief narrative single session therapy. Narrative therapy - an internationally practiced psychotherapy in its own right - operates from a blending of social constructionist and Foucauldian/poststructural theory where therapists support clients to co-construct preferred identities amidst powerful discourses which constrain this process. While the co-construction of client-preferred identity is multilayered, studies within this field have historically leaned on social constructionist explanations of how this process occurs at the expense of the Foucauldian/poststructural perspective. This study blends these two perspectives, both conceptually and methodologically, to understand how client-preferred identity co-construction occurs in brief narrative single session therapy. From the social constructionist perspective, the preferred identity that narrative therapy seeks to foreground is viewed as something that is constructed within the session between the client and therapist rather than something that is fully formed prior to the session’s start. Yet, from the Foucauldian/poststructural perspective this process also occurs within the culturally available discourses that are afforded to us. To highlight both perspectives I conducted a hybrid discourse analysis that included a macro-focused Foucauldian discourse analysis and a micro-focused element of discursive psychology, on five appointment-based sessions of brief narrative single session therapy. Immediately following the recording of each session clients and therapists filled out separate post-session questionnaires to share their impressions and experiences of these single sessions. The results of this study present rich examples of how working practitioners trained in brief narrative single session therapy support clients in the co-construction of preferred identities in the context of constraining cultural discourses. In addition, alternative discourses that supported the work of client-preferred identity co-construction based within these sessions, and found within the fields of narrative therapy and the brief therapy movement, were identified. Comments from participant post-session questionnaires offer supplementary perspectives that add greater context to the findings from my analysis of sessions. Implications for the training, practice, and study of brief narrative single session therapy are discussed.

The purpose of this study was to explore how counselling teams draw on narrative therapy during intersession break consultations in walk-in counselling. Walk-in counselling is a form of single-session therapy (SST) that allows an individual, couple, or family to meet with a counsellor on a drop-in basis. Walk-in counselling clinics are becoming increasingly popular in Canada and globally, with a particularly high number operating in Ontario. Sessions in walk-in counselling typically involve a break partway through, during which the counsellor meets with a team of colleagues for a brief consultation; this is referred to as the “intersession break”. Narrative therapy is a postmodern therapeutic approach commonly used in walk-in counselling. Data collection occurred at two Ontarian walk-in counselling clinics and involved recording and transcribing a total of six intersession break consultations. Transcripts were examined using discourse analysis as a methodological approach. My analysis process identified four conversational practices counselling teams engaged in that drew on various aspects of narrative therapy theory. These practices are as follows: (a) counsellors engaging in externalization, (b) counsellors orienting to possible alternative narratives, (c) counsellors centring the person visiting the clinic, and (d) counsellors demonstrating tentativeness. This research is most directly relevant to counsellors working in walk-in counselling clinics and agencies offering SST involving intersession breaks. For mental health practitioners interested in postmodern therapeutic approaches, it provides a detailed account of how narrative therapy is being applied within a particular context. Finally, it may be of interest to people accessing walk-in counselling services who are curious about intersession break processes.

Opioid abuse costs affect the majority of the adult population in our society directly or indirectly. The current prevailing medical treatment for opioid addiction is methadone maintenance treatment (MMT). MMT reduces infectious disease spread, illicit drug use, criminal activity, and overdose potential. MMT is only as effective as the length of time a client remains active and compliant with the program. In previous studies, therapeutic alliance (TA) has been shown to positively influence the effectiveness of substance abuse treatment. However, a gap exists in research in regards to the impact of TA on the effectiveness of MMT outcomes. The theoretical framework of this study is based on therapeutic alliance, which guided an examination on whether therapeutic alliance (as measured by the Session Rating Scale) influenced MMT retention and compliance (drug screens and session attendance). Archival data from 264 clients receiving MMT for opioid dependence were reviewed from a nonprofit community-based agency in Arizona. Logistic regression results revealed that TA did not significantly affect retention or compliance. However, issues were noted such as how the SRS was administered, a lack of understanding by clients regarding scoring the SRS, and unique social desirability demands when clients are in MMT. The finding that TA alone did not significantly affect retention and compliance does not decrease the need to find effective means to improve MMT outcomes. Rather, the findings suggest a critical need to identify and utilize measures more appropriate for clients receiving MMT. In doing so, positive social change may be achieved by assisting clinical staff in developing a strong therapeutic alliance with MMT clients as they focus on problem solving as a joint venture when challenges in the recovery process arise.

The goal of this master's dissertation concerned with working with poetry in ČJL (Czech Language and Literature) classes in high school is to create educational classes, which aim to improve high school students' relationship towards poetry. This goal is reached through diverse class activities, which are used in ČJL classes, and which are described in detail in this thesis. In the theoretical part, students' relationship towards poetry is studied and the way poetry as an art form is still attractive even for current high school students is explained. In the practical part, entire complex classes and separate activities are described, both of which are supplemented by excerpts of students' work, which was created during the aforementioned classes and activities. Each class is complemented by both the teacher's and students' reflection of it.