Mentoring has been suggested as a means to assist with role transition, career planning, and retention in the profession by providing opportunities for personal and professional growth lead to satisfaction. Satisfaction is especially crucial for the retention of Registered Nurses in a time when the profession has been experiencing a critical shortage. This quantitative study examined the influence of mentoring for RNs who have been employed in acute care facilities for the first time for less than 2 years. Using Bouquillon's mentoring instrument and based in the frameworks of King and Kram, the study suggests mentoring is occurring among new nurses (protégés). The protégés reported mentoring antecedents, and both the psychosocial and the career development functions that Kram states are important to be present if mentoring is to occur. These RNs clearly describe an individual as a "mentor". In this study, those nurses who achieved a higher level of goal attainment (mean ≥ 36) and were in a mentoring relationship had greater levels of role satisfaction.

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This collection of two short stories and one novella seeks to express and embody concepts of narrative form and technique developed over the course of this graduate program with regards to the formulation of believable, nonrealist fictional realities in an American idiom which can enter into the global critical conversation of similarly-purposed international literature.

Par le rôle qu’il a joué dans l’architecture privée en Île-de-France et dans l’architecture royale française, Louis Le Vau (1612-1670) est une figure difficilement contournable du siècle de Louis XIV et de nombreux travaux ont déjà abordé l’étude de sa vie et de son œuvre. Aucune entreprise monographique n’a toutefois été menée à bien à son sujet et des pans entiers de son activité demeurent aujourd’hui encore obscurs. La présente thèse constitue le premier volet d’une étude totale, dans laquelle les fruits de l’érudition et de l’analyse historique et artistique sont répartis suivant une trame chronologique resserrée. Elle couvre les vingt premières années de l’activité de Le Vau, depuis sa première œuvre connue, l’hôtel Bautru en 1634, jusqu’au début de son emploi à titre permanent au service du roi, en 1654. À travers l’étude successive de ses débuts professionnels jusqu’en 1639 (partie I), de son activité sur l’île Saint-Louis (partie II) et des progrès de sa carrière à la ville et à la cour (partie III), le propos est d’éclairer non seulement le portrait du jeune architecte, mais aussi le tableau des ambitions artistiques, sociales et politiques qui animent l’architecture française au milieu du XVIIe siècle. / Louis Le Vau (1612-1670) is one of the most famous artists of Seventeenth-Century France. His reputation is due both to his various town houses in Paris (hôtel Lambert for instance) and in Ile-de-France, and to his part of Premier Architecte of the king Louis XIV, especially on the building sites of the Louvre and Versailles. An amount of publications have dealt with his life and with his architectural works. Still, many major aspects of his career remain rather obscure. This PhD aims at considering Louis Le Vau as a whole, at unifying erudition and critical analysis within a close chronological frame. The twenty first years of Le Vau’s career are here considered, begining with his first work known today, the hôtel Bautru in 1634, and ending with Le Vau starting his permanent service of the king in 1654. Through the study of his youth and of his professional beginnings till 1639 (Part I), through the analysis of his builder’s activity on the Ile Saint-Louis (part II) and lastly, of his conquest of the whole town of Paris and of the Court society, the focus of this PhD is not only on the architectural identity of the young Le Vau, but on the links one can establish between his works and the artistical, social and political ambitions in France in the middle of the seventeenth century.

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This thesis discusses the personal composition of the Court of King Ladislav Pohrobek from the year 1452 until Ladislav's death in November 1457. The period of ruling of the last member of albert's line of the Habsburg dynasty has been treated mainly as a stage of political history of the 15. century, and emphasis was placed on the acts of the provincial administrator Jiří z Poděbrad. Preferably on the basis of the diplomatic work of the material, trying to assemble portraits of courtiers of the Czech Crown lands and both Austria and put them into a broader historical framework. The Royal Court and its components, in the case of the young King did not exceed in the late medieval manners. In addition to court officials a large group of people were members of the Royal Council. An important institution and instrument of the King's Government was the Royal Council, which was indispensable and whose staff traveled with the monarch. Low age of Ladislav allowed several of the King's counselors to get a strong influence on the King's personality, from which they could benefit in its favor at the expense of the monarch. These create a power factions, which were competing for the Ladislav's trust. The situation was complicated not only by the King's inexperience, but also by national and estates problems....

Trata-se de estudo quantitativo, do tipo descritivo e exploratório, de corte transversal, em que se utilizou inquérito populacional domiciliar, que teve por objetivo analisar a qualidade de vida de mulheres com bexiga hiperativa no município de Sorocaba/SP, verificar as correlações existentes entre os escores de QV e algumas variáveis sócio-demográficas e clínicas da amostra, além de verificar as correlações existentes entre os escores de QV e a Escala de Sintomas do KHQ. Foi utilizado um questionário sócio-demográfico e clínico e o questionário específico de QV King\'s Health Questionnaire (KHQ), sendo que o estudo foi aprovado previamente pelo Comitê de Ética da PUC/SP. A população do estudo foi constituída por 334 mulheres das quais foram selecionadas para a amostra as 33 que apresentaram os sintomas caracterizadores de bexiga hiperativa (BH) e que possibilitaram uma estimação da prevalência da mesma para o município. As entrevistas foram realizadas nos domicílios das mulheres e o banco de dados implantado com o uso do software SPSS versão 13.0 foi submetido às análises estatísticas através da análise de regressão linear categórica pelo método CATREG (Categorical Regression with Optimal Scaling), tendo sido realizadas por meio dos programas estatísticos GENSTAT for Windows versão 8, Sudaan 7.5 e NCSS 2007. Foram avaliadas as correlações não paramétricas entre os dados sócio-demográficos e clínicos e os domínios do KHQ pelo Coeficiente de postos de Spearman e foram avaliadas as significâncias do qui-quadrado do Teste de Hosmer-Lemeshow que variaram de 0,384 a 0,85; indicando bom ajuste dos modelos, que foi a forma escolhida para a organização das variáveis para a análise. O teste da razão de verossimilhança mostrou que a contribuição de cada variável nos modelos ajustados foi significante (p< 0,05). A presença ou não de multicolinearidade (alta correlação entre as variáveis independentes) foi testada em cada modelo. O nível de significância adotado foi de 5% e as estatísticas com p descritivo <= 0,05 foram consideradas significantes. As propriedades psicométricas do KHQ foram dadas pelo Alpha de Cronbach (LAVD=0,76; LF=0,42; LS=0,82; RP=0,98; AE=0,90; SD=0,83 e MG=0,80). Os sintomas considerados, em ordem de importância foram freqüência diurna, freqüência noturna, urge-incontinência e urgência, sendo que o teste de NagelKerke mostrou que essas características explicam 72% da variação da ocorrência de BH. Os domínios do KHQ com maiores escores médios foram II (49,49); SD (45,95); LAVD (40,40) e PGS (40,15). As variáveis referentes aos sintomas específicos de BH, \"freqüência diurna aumentada\", \"urgência\" e \"urge-incontinência\", tiveram uma associação positiva e significante com todos os domínios do KHQ, com destaque para II (R2 = 0,631), sendo que a UI foi a mais importante. A presença de diabetes mellitus, hipertensão, neuropatias, infecções do trato urinário, dores, climatério, idade mais avançada, constipação intestinal, cirurgias pélvicas prévias, paridade aumentada, pouca atividade sexual e pouca libido e o uso de bebidas alcoólicas, pimenta e cafeína estão estatisticamente relacionadas com a BH. O estudo concluiu que a BH contribui para uma piora significativa na qualidade de vida específica das mulheres de Sorocaba por ela acometidas / This study aims to analyze the quality of life (QoL) of the women with Overactive Bladder (OAB) according the ICS definition, verify the correlations between the Qol scores and the social, demographics and clinical characteristics of the sample, and verify the correlations between the KHQ scores and the symptoms scale. It was approved by the Ethical Committee and investigated 334 women in the female population that filled out a social, demographic and clinical questionnaire and the King´s Health Questionnaire (KHQ), a specific health related questionnaire to evaluate QOL and symptoms of women with urinary incontinence and OAB. Women with evaluable data were included (33) in this study and it were possible to assess the prevalence of OAB in the city. The interview were made at the women\'s home and the data was organized with the software SPSS version 13.0 and analysed with the Categorical Regression with Optimal Scaling (CATREG) by the stathistical programs GENSTAT for Windows versão 8, Sudaan 7.5 e NCSS 2007. It was evaluated the non parametric correlations between the KHQ domains and the social, demographic and clinical data by the Spearman Rank Correlation, the significances of the Qui-square of the Hosmer-Lemeshow Test ranging from 0,384-0,85 with a good adjustment of the models. The test shows that the contribution of any variables was significant (p<0,05). The psychometric properties were tested using the Cronbach\'s Alpha Coefficient (RL=0,76; PL=0,42; SL=0,82; PR=0,98; E=0,90; SE=0,83 e SM=0,80). The symptoms considered was diurnal urinary frequency, nocturnal frequency, urinary urge incontinence and urgency in this important sequence and the NagelKerk test shows that this characteristics explains 72% of the occurrence ranging of OAB. The KHQ domains with the high scores were UII (49,49), SE (45,95); RL (40,40) and GHP (40,15). The symptoms diurnal frequency, urgency, and urinary urge incontinence had a positive and significant association with the KHQ domains and the urinary urge incontinence was the best one (R2 = 0,631). Diabetes mellitus, high blood pressure, neurological problems, urinary tract infections, pain, perimenopausal symptoms, high age, constipation, pelvic surgery, many deliveries, few sexual relationships, few libido, alcoholic beverages, pepper and caffeine were statistical related with the OAB. The authors concluded that the OAB improves a significant worst in the women\'s HRQoL

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Ce travail s'applique à éclairer les rapports qu'entretiennent la mort et la succession monarchique dans le théâtre tragique français du XVIIe siècle. Telle qu'elle est présentée par les textes théoriques et juridiques de l'époque moderne, la succession monarchique ne semble guère se prêter à la scène tragique. Dès lors, pourquoi et comment les dramaturges la représentent-ils ? C'est ce paradoxe que nous éclairons en adoptant une démarche pluridisciplinaire. Dans un premier temps, nous montrons que les dramaturges tragiques rejettent la mystique que la théorie politique contemporaine présente comme acquise, en particulier la fiction mystique des deux corps du roi. Cela ouvre la porte à toutes sortes de crises, ce qui ne signifie pas pour autant que la mort se produise toujours dans notre corpus. Selon les circonstances, un même motif (ambition, amour, liens du sang) peut mener à des issues strictement contraires. Aussi les dramaturges créent-ils des tragiques divers, qui vont du spectacle pathétique de la ruine des uns à la générosité sublime des autres. Il font donc preuve d'une grande liberté dans le traitement de la succession monarchique, ce qui pose problème. À une époque où le pouvoir royal s'absolutise, il peut sembler périlleux de présenter de tels désordres sur scène. C'est pourquoi nous nous attachons, dans un dernier temps, à prendre la mesure du potentiel subversif de notre corpus et à expliquer comment les dramaturges ont pu traiter un sujet aussi délicat de façon aussi variée. / This PhD dissertation focuses on the links between death and monarchic succession in Seventeenth Century French tragedies, tragi-comedies and heroic comedies. Since political philosophers and legal scholars of the Early Modern Era always present the monarch's death as natural and serene, succession did not seem to be of particular interest for tragic playwrights. One can therefore wonder why and how they staged succession crises. This is the question this dissertation answers in an interdisciplinary perspective. First, this dissertation shows that their plays did not present the mystical doctrine of the King's two bodies as valid. That is why playwrights could elaborate on all sorts of succession crises. This does not mean howewer that death always occurs in Seventeenth Century French Tragic Drama, even though it is often the case. Depending on the situations, similar patterns (ambition, love, blood ties) can lead to completely opposite endings. That is why playwrights sometimes aroused pity, horror, but also admiration in the spectator, which means they had great liberty when they staged succession. That can appear odd, as it is well-known that the Seventeenth Century saw the rising of absolutism in France. Why would the authorities allow such a fundamental issue to be questioned publicly? This is why this dissertation finally studies to what extent the French Tragic Drama of this period was subversive, and how playwrights could manage to stage such a delicate question as monarchic succession.

Trata-se de estudo quantitativo, do tipo descritivo e exploratório, de corte transversal, em que se utilizou inquérito populacional domiciliar, que teve por objetivo analisar a qualidade de vida de mulheres com bexiga hiperativa no município de Sorocaba/SP, verificar as correlações existentes entre os escores de QV e algumas variáveis sócio-demográficas e clínicas da amostra, além de verificar as correlações existentes entre os escores de QV e a Escala de Sintomas do KHQ. Foi utilizado um questionário sócio-demográfico e clínico e o questionário específico de QV King\'s Health Questionnaire (KHQ), sendo que o estudo foi aprovado previamente pelo Comitê de Ética da PUC/SP. A população do estudo foi constituída por 334 mulheres das quais foram selecionadas para a amostra as 33 que apresentaram os sintomas caracterizadores de bexiga hiperativa (BH) e que possibilitaram uma estimação da prevalência da mesma para o município. As entrevistas foram realizadas nos domicílios das mulheres e o banco de dados implantado com o uso do software SPSS versão 13.0 foi submetido às análises estatísticas através da análise de regressão linear categórica pelo método CATREG (Categorical Regression with Optimal Scaling), tendo sido realizadas por meio dos programas estatísticos GENSTAT for Windows versão 8, Sudaan 7.5 e NCSS 2007. Foram avaliadas as correlações não paramétricas entre os dados sócio-demográficos e clínicos e os domínios do KHQ pelo Coeficiente de postos de Spearman e foram avaliadas as significâncias do qui-quadrado do Teste de Hosmer-Lemeshow que variaram de 0,384 a 0,85; indicando bom ajuste dos modelos, que foi a forma escolhida para a organização das variáveis para a análise. O teste da razão de verossimilhança mostrou que a contribuição de cada variável nos modelos ajustados foi significante (p< 0,05). A presença ou não de multicolinearidade (alta correlação entre as variáveis independentes) foi testada em cada modelo. O nível de significância adotado foi de 5% e as estatísticas com p descritivo <= 0,05 foram consideradas significantes. As propriedades psicométricas do KHQ foram dadas pelo Alpha de Cronbach (LAVD=0,76; LF=0,42; LS=0,82; RP=0,98; AE=0,90; SD=0,83 e MG=0,80). Os sintomas considerados, em ordem de importância foram freqüência diurna, freqüência noturna, urge-incontinência e urgência, sendo que o teste de NagelKerke mostrou que essas características explicam 72% da variação da ocorrência de BH. Os domínios do KHQ com maiores escores médios foram II (49,49); SD (45,95); LAVD (40,40) e PGS (40,15). As variáveis referentes aos sintomas específicos de BH, \"freqüência diurna aumentada\", \"urgência\" e \"urge-incontinência\", tiveram uma associação positiva e significante com todos os domínios do KHQ, com destaque para II (R2 = 0,631), sendo que a UI foi a mais importante. A presença de diabetes mellitus, hipertensão, neuropatias, infecções do trato urinário, dores, climatério, idade mais avançada, constipação intestinal, cirurgias pélvicas prévias, paridade aumentada, pouca atividade sexual e pouca libido e o uso de bebidas alcoólicas, pimenta e cafeína estão estatisticamente relacionadas com a BH. O estudo concluiu que a BH contribui para uma piora significativa na qualidade de vida específica das mulheres de Sorocaba por ela acometidas / This study aims to analyze the quality of life (QoL) of the women with Overactive Bladder (OAB) according the ICS definition, verify the correlations between the Qol scores and the social, demographics and clinical characteristics of the sample, and verify the correlations between the KHQ scores and the symptoms scale. It was approved by the Ethical Committee and investigated 334 women in the female population that filled out a social, demographic and clinical questionnaire and the King´s Health Questionnaire (KHQ), a specific health related questionnaire to evaluate QOL and symptoms of women with urinary incontinence and OAB. Women with evaluable data were included (33) in this study and it were possible to assess the prevalence of OAB in the city. The interview were made at the women\'s home and the data was organized with the software SPSS version 13.0 and analysed with the Categorical Regression with Optimal Scaling (CATREG) by the stathistical programs GENSTAT for Windows versão 8, Sudaan 7.5 e NCSS 2007. It was evaluated the non parametric correlations between the KHQ domains and the social, demographic and clinical data by the Spearman Rank Correlation, the significances of the Qui-square of the Hosmer-Lemeshow Test ranging from 0,384-0,85 with a good adjustment of the models. The test shows that the contribution of any variables was significant (p<0,05). The psychometric properties were tested using the Cronbach\'s Alpha Coefficient (RL=0,76; PL=0,42; SL=0,82; PR=0,98; E=0,90; SE=0,83 e SM=0,80). The symptoms considered was diurnal urinary frequency, nocturnal frequency, urinary urge incontinence and urgency in this important sequence and the NagelKerk test shows that this characteristics explains 72% of the occurrence ranging of OAB. The KHQ domains with the high scores were UII (49,49), SE (45,95); RL (40,40) and GHP (40,15). The symptoms diurnal frequency, urgency, and urinary urge incontinence had a positive and significant association with the KHQ domains and the urinary urge incontinence was the best one (R2 = 0,631). Diabetes mellitus, high blood pressure, neurological problems, urinary tract infections, pain, perimenopausal symptoms, high age, constipation, pelvic surgery, many deliveries, few sexual relationships, few libido, alcoholic beverages, pepper and caffeine were statistical related with the OAB. The authors concluded that the OAB improves a significant worst in the women\'s HRQoL