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Playing-Related Medical Injuries And Health Conditions In Collegiate Saxophonists: A Survey Of Saxophonists In North American Universities, Michael Anne Tolan Jan 2022

Playing-Related Medical Injuries And Health Conditions In Collegiate Saxophonists: A Survey Of Saxophonists In North American Universities, Michael Anne Tolan

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When compared to other areas of musical performance, medical research on the performing arts is limited when it comes to studies on woodwind players, particularly saxophonists. The gap in research may be attributed to the circumstances surrounding selection processes and identifying subjects for study. For example, saxophonists are not salaried professionals in orchestras, which are commonly pooled for medical research. Establishing contact with saxophonists to conduct studies can prove difficult due to the wide range of genres that utilize the saxophone. Some issues may also be attributed to research methodology. To find the onset of injuries, researchers in previous studies …


Implementation Of A Training Program To Improve The Crna Precepting Experience At An Academic Medical Center, Megan Jean Gillespie Jan 2022

Implementation Of A Training Program To Improve The Crna Precepting Experience At An Academic Medical Center, Megan Jean Gillespie

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Formal preceptorship training has been shown to improve the comfort and confidence with precepting across many disciplines. Currently, there is no training program in place for the Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA) preceptors at a large academic medical center in West Virginia. The overarching goal of this quality improvement (QI) project was to implement a formal preceptorship training for the CRNAs at the facility of interest. The training, or intervention, was the Preceptor Essentials Parts I and II on NetLearning. This project followed the pre-intervention-post-survey design. The participants were self-selected CRNAs. The survey results were analyzed using the Mann-Whitney U …