Live stream services have emerged as a highly profitable Internet application in recent years with rapidly growing audiences for this form of instant and interactive Internet media. This study applies media richness theory along with uses and gratifications theory to predict user loyalty to live stream services. The proposed model is empirically evaluated using survey data collected from 295 users responding about their perception of such services.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis article presents the development, design, implementation, and evaluation of the third-year course of a caring curriculum being developed for a 5-year associate degree nursing program in Taiwan. The course, titled Application of Caring Concepts, was taught to more than 800 students by 16 instructors recruited from various departments. The instructors attended workshops and seminars on caring and then developed the course materials and teaching strategies.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Caring is one of the most important domains of nursing research, peer caring among student nurses, and its potential effects on nurse caring behaviors remains largely unexplored. Few tools in the literature target peer caring interactions, and which were either irrelevant to our research purpose or culturally inappropriate for nursing student population in Taiwan.
Objectives: The purpose of this study was to develop a culturally sensitive instrument to measure peer caring behavior from the student perspective and to offer a descriptive answer to "what is peer caring in Taiwan.