According to OutServe's website, the conference will enhance "military readiness through encouraging an environment of respect with regard to sexual orientation and gender identity" by offering the LGBT military community "a means of building professional networks, sharing best practices and formulating strategies that help build a stronger military community".
The design of our professional network applied best practices aiming to support the creation of a vigorous community, to allow users to retrieve timely and appropriate information and to carry out actions in a small number of steps.
For testing our hypotheses and further explorative analyses, controlling for potential confounders, we will use multivariate logistic regression models to investigate the effect of social networks characteristics on professional performance of practice nurses and patients' self-management and health outcomes.
Two approaches will be used to investigate effects of social network characteristics on change in professional performance of practice nurses and self-management and health outcomes of patients after the intervention period at six month follow-up.
Main outcomes for health professionals will consist of 1) the description of social networks and 2) the hypothesized effects of several social network characteristics, controlled for possibly confounding variables, on professional performance of practice nurses and patients' health outcomes.
This article examines the function of social media as informal networks of professional practice within the public sector.
In the analysis of professional performance of practice nurses regression models will include six network characteristics (density, frequency of contact, homogeneity, presence of informal opinion leaders and CVRM-coordinators, and centrality) as predictors of main interest.
Participants were identified through advertisement via local divisions of general practice and professional networks (contacts in relevant professional organisations) already established by the investigators.
Professional networks that help validate and clarify policy and practice recommendations for practical application are called "communities-of-practice". [ 47].
The association of states, intergovernmental institutions and numerous professional networks collectively creates a variety of mechanisms to promote the rights of LGBT people and opportunities, to share promising practice and to provide technical expertise to governments seeking to implement changes.
