Findings from a nursing scholarship study tour to inform a proposal for a day hospice model in South Australia
Bibliographic record
Abstract
South Australia releases national and international travel scholarships every year to the nursing and midwifery workforce to enable them to undertake observational site visits to inform the development of service models that can be introduced into care practices back in South Australia. Ten sites across New Zealand, Canada, and the UK agreed to host a site visit as part of a scholarship to look at day hospice (DH) programmes. The author undertook an observational study that included participation in DH programmes and discussions with staff and patients. There were many similarities across the three countries, in particular in the structure of the programmes, the staff makeup, and the support of the volunteer workforce. Two distinct models were observed: social and medical. Each has its value and both need to be incorporated to ensure services and participants have their needs met. Based on the site visits and other research, the author devised a proposal for South Australia to commence with a time-limited sessional group DH programme with a focus on maintenance of function for participants coupled with caregiver education and information provision.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.009 | 0.011 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".