INTRODUCTION Health professionals have great difficulties to establish the adequate and safe time to start breast feeding in preterm infants. There is a need to develop a standardized tool to help health professionals to comprehensively evaluate preterm infant readiness to transition preterm infants' feeding from gastric to oral, and encourage breast feeding practice in neonatal units. AIMS T...

PURPOSE The purpose of the study was to identify predictors and outcomes of adult medical-surgical patients' perceptions of their readiness for hospital discharge. DESIGN A correlational, prospective, longitudinal design with path analyses was used to explore relationships among transition theory-related variables. SETTING Midwestern tertiary medical center. SAMPLE 147 adult medical-surgi...

Traditional indicators of college readiness mainly focus on subject-specific high school academic preparation. However, these indicators do not reflect the students’ readiness to be meaningful engaged. The purpose of this study is to broaden the dialog of college readiness to include college readiness for engagement. Results show that with each increasing level of high school academic engagemen...

Participants were required to switch among randomly ordered tasks, and instructional cues were used to indicate which task to execute. In Experiments 1 and 2, the participants indicated their readiness for the task switch before they received the target stimulus; thus, each trial was associated with two primary dependent measures: (1) readiness time and (2) target reaction time. Slow readiness ...

The goal of this paper is to identify the readiness of supply chain collaboration and design a measurement system to quantify them. The framework is first designed for a general IOS for supply chain collaboration. To further verify it, we apply the generic model to a specific case of implementing RosettaNet standards in high-tech industries. By calculating our proposed readiness index, each fir...

E-Health systems include applications of information communication technologies to promote healthcare services support, delivery and education. The success of an E-Health system is very much dependent on the success of EHR systems, as EHR forms the core of any E-Health system. Readiness assessment has been identified as an essential requirement for the success of EHR in terms of adoption rate a...

CUMULATIVE RISK, THE HOME ENVIRONMENT, AND INTERACTIVE BOOKREADING BETWEEN MOTHER AND CHILD AS PREDICTORS OF SCHOOLREADINESSbyLAURA M. NORTHERNERDECEMBER 2013Advisor: Dr. Christopher J. TrentacostaMajor: Psychology (Clinical)Degree: Master of ArtsThere is evidence in the literature that early school readiness predicts later school performance (Duncan et a...

The use of a dyadic lens to assess and leverage academic and community partners' readiness to conduct community-based participatory research (CBPR) has not been systematically investigated. With a lack of readiness to conduct CBPR, the partnership and its products are vulnerable. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the dimensions and key indicators necessary for academic and co...