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Teaching Peace: The Effects Of Concentrated Interaction With Anti-Racist/Anti-Bias Media On A Montessori Guide’S Practice, Sarah Streyle Dec 2020

Teaching Peace: The Effects Of Concentrated Interaction With Anti-Racist/Anti-Bias Media On A Montessori Guide’S Practice, Sarah Streyle

Masters of Arts in Education Action Research Papers

The purpose of this self-study was to examine the effects of concentrated interaction with anti-bias/anti-racist media on a Montessori guide’s practice. It was conducted over a total of six weeks. The intervention included a pre- and post- survey of understanding, nightly media interactions, daily reflection journaling, daily tallies of anti-bias/anti-racist thoughts during the school day, and a daily confidence scale to measure the participant’s confidence to integrate anti-bias/anti-racist concepts into her teaching practice. The study was completed at a private Montessori school in a medium-sized midwestern town, with an early childhood classroom of fifteen three- to five-year-old students of diverse …


Employee Benefits Managers’ Understanding Of Occupational Therapy And Their Influence On Employees’ Knowledge, Andrew D. Noble Oct 2020

Employee Benefits Managers’ Understanding Of Occupational Therapy And Their Influence On Employees’ Knowledge, Andrew D. Noble

Master of Arts in Occupational Therapy Theses and Projects

This study investigated what employee benefits managers know about occupational therapy and the influence they have on employees’ knowledge of, and access to, occupational therapy services. This qualitative research focused on what employee benefits managers know about occupational therapy, how they learned what they know, how they prefer to learn about healthcare services in general, and the reasons they would or would not recommend occupational therapy services to their employees. The study included ten semi-structured interviews with ten employee benefits managers who were employed at nine different organizations. The interviews were coded and analyzed to develop categories and themes in …


Developing Multi-Modal Education For Obstetric Critical Care Nurses, Colette Henke, Rebecca Kojak May 2020

Developing Multi-Modal Education For Obstetric Critical Care Nurses, Colette Henke, Rebecca Kojak

Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects

The maternal morbidity and mortality rates in the United States continue to outpace other industrialized nations. Across the United States, a variety of obstetric critical care programs have emerged to address the unique healthcare needs of the high-risk obstetric population. One teaching and specialty hospital in a Midwest metropolitan city responded to the needs of high-risk obstetric patients by developing a critical care program within its service line. Because high-risk obstetric patients present with multi-faceted and complex needs, this program represented varied nursing expertise, including obstetric and intensive care specialties. Because care was delivered within the ICU setting, nurses from …


Effectiveness Of A Delirium Prevention Initiative On An Inpatient Neuroscience Unit, Teresa Cyrus, Brenda Hall, Rebecca Wenthold May 2020

Effectiveness Of A Delirium Prevention Initiative On An Inpatient Neuroscience Unit, Teresa Cyrus, Brenda Hall, Rebecca Wenthold

Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects

The MIND project is an Interprofessional Evidence-based Clinical Scholar project aimed at delirium prevention for acute care neuroscience patients. The MIND Project stands for Meeting the Inpatient Needs of Delirium and included three objectives. The first objective was to increase nurses’ knowledge of delirium prevention and improve their confidence in identifying delirium. The second was to design a volunteer program to assist health care staff in preventing delirium. The third objective was to establish an ongoing monitoring approach for ensuring continued improvement in preventing delirium.