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Assessing Occupational Stress And Preparedness Among Campus Safety Officers And Dental School Employees At An Academic Medical Center During Covid-19, Decature Banker, Lorena Baccaglini, Miriam Mccann, Chandran Achutan

Capstone Experience

Job stress can lead to adverse physical and emotional health effects in employees and is worse during an emergency or pandemic. The complexity of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is taking a toll on the healthcare systems and their employees. This cross-sectional study looked at two different groups of academic medical center employees, Campus Safety Officers and Dental School employees, who’s work puts them at risk for COVID-19 exposure. We hypothesized that Campus Safety Officers and Dental School employees who felt adequately trained to conduct COVID-19 related work would not feel more stressed during the COVID-19 pandemic than they …

Hipaa Compliant Patient-Provider Communication: Student-Clinician Perceptions, Rachel Wenzl

Capstone Experience

Purpose: To evaluate the service learning clinical training facility’s HIPAA training by assessing student-clinician knowledge of the clinic’s HIPAA Compliance Plan and the impact of its training on student-clinician perceptions toward HIPAA-compliant patient-provider communication (PPC). For example, do student-clinicians feel it is important to be HIPAA-compliant and are they confident in discussing health-related activities and programs with patients or caregivers? The purpose of this project is not, at this time, to measure student-clinician intention to perform the behavior.

Methods: This project employed a mixed-methods, non-experimental cross-sectional study design using a retrospective post-test survey and group interview. The survey …