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The internal consistency and intra-rater reliability of an assessment practice grid for community nurses (2003)
Journal Article
Baulcomb, S., & Watson, R. (2003). The internal consistency and intra-rater reliability of an assessment practice grid for community nurses. Clinical Effectiveness in Nursing, 7(3-4), 168-170. https://doi.org/10.1016/s1361-9004%2803%2900095-5

The development of instruments to measure clinical competence in nursing shows little evidence of a systematic approach and studies of reliability and validity are absent. The present study was carried out using data on practice assessment collected... Read More about The internal consistency and intra-rater reliability of an assessment practice grid for community nurses.

Software Maintenance: concept and practice (2003)
Book
Grubb, P., & Takang, A. A. (2003). Software Maintenance: concept and practice. (2). World Scientific Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1142/9789812564429

Software systems now invade every area of daily living. Yet, we still struggle to build systems we can really rely on. If we want to work with software systems at any level, we need to get to grips with the way software evolves. This book should equi... Read More about Software Maintenance: concept and practice.

Accommodative speech and terms of endearment: elements of a language mode often experienced by older adults (2003)
Journal Article
Brown, A., & Draper, P. (2003). Accommodative speech and terms of endearment: elements of a language mode often experienced by older adults. Journal of advanced nursing, 41(1), 15-21. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2648.2003.02500.x

Aim. To discuss the use of patronizing patterns of speech and modified forms of address in conversations between nurses and other health workers, and older people.

Rationale. The impetus for this paper was the publication of the National Service F... Read More about Accommodative speech and terms of endearment: elements of a language mode often experienced by older adults.