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Are You Ready For The Certification Challenge?, Elizabeth A. Coyne Rn, Msn, Crnp, Nancy Dubois Crni, Msn, Lisa Caple

Jefferson Hospital Nurses Week

Presents the benefits of becoming a certified nurse.

Emergency Eye Care From The Heart: Care Of Chemical Injury To The Eyes, Registered Nurses, Wills Eye At Jefferson Emergency Department

Jefferson Hospital Nurses Week

No abstract provided.

Painful, Pointless And Potentially Infectious: Improving Perioperative Iv Catheter Management, Philippa Ratcliffe Rn, Ma

Jefferson Hospital Nurses Week

Describes the process and rationale of changing the procedure for securing IV catheters in the PACU.

Searching For Binding Partners For The Novel Phkg1 Variant, Phkγ 181, Kishore Polireddy

Student Research Conference Select Presentations

Phopshorylase kinase (PhK) is a hexadecameric holoenzyme made up of four different subunits in the arrangement (αβγδ)4 and has total molecular mass of 1.3MDa. Alpha and β are regulatory subunits, γ is catalytic, and δ is an intrinsic molecule of calmodulin. PhK is a serine threonine kinase with glycogenolytic regulatory functions. Our lab has recently discovered that the γ subunit can be alternatively processed to produce a truncated form of 181 residues (γ-181). This variant of γ contains a phosphorylation site for PK-C, and its activity is influenced by this phosphorylation. We are using a LexA based yeast two hybrid …

Project Esl: Enhancing Student Learning For Esl Nursing Students, Mary Powell, Barbara Hoerst, Gloria Kersey-Matusiak, Lyn Buchheit, Terry Mcgee, Alexis Marsella

College of Nursing Faculty Papers & Presentations

It is incumbent upon nursing programs to recognize the demographics and issues involved in training nursing students for whom English is not their first language. Project ESL used a variety of techniques to boost academic success, facilitate progress through graduation, and develop faculty sensitivity to language and cultural issues.

Bridge Over The Theory-Practice Divide, Judith Wilson

Nursing Conference Papers

This qualitative study was conducted to explore how the student midwife in the final stages of her Postgraduate Diploma of Midwifery Course perceived the theory practice gap. Much research has been published about the theory practice gap from the perspective of educators or employers but little is published on the view of the student who sits in the centre of this dilemma. This study was conducted by interviewing 5 student midwives with a set of open ended questions. The first of these questions sought to ascertain if indeed the student perceived such a gap existed. Further questions explored factors, if …

An Innovative Educational Experience: The Use Of Video To Enhance Learning Of Practical Skills In The Undergraduate Nursing Curriculum, Karen Clark-Burg, Annie Das, Selma Alliex

Nursing Conference Papers

Interactive video analysis program was used as a teaching and assessment tool in an undergraduate nursing curriculum at the University of Notre Dame Australia. Using a software program, students were required to code their footage into predetermined categories according to competencies set out for that skill. They could then review, reflect, and critically annotate their performance of the skill. The software program is designed to provide immediate analysis and student feedback, exemplify key lecture content, and moderate student performance.

It was decided that two 1st year nursing skills would be piloted. The lecturer was videoed demonstrating a particular skill and …

Clinical Skills Team Modelling Interprofessional Collaboration, Susan I. Vella

Graduate School of Medicine - Papers (Archive)

Background: The Graduate School of Medicine at the University of Wollongong began with its first cohort of 80 graduate-entry students in January 2007. A diverse group of tutors was recruited from the region to deliver the clinical skills program. Tutor expertise included clinical and academic education from generalist and specialist fields of nursing and medicine.

A variety of health and medical schools are investigating how to improve professional relationships within the health care industry by fostering interprofessional collaboration in the curriculum. One problem fostering interprofessional collaboration in the early years of training is lack of student awareness of the boundaries …

Photochemical Studies Of Nutraceuticals In The Presence Of Cyclodextrins, Zlata Tofzikovskaya, Christine O'Connor, Mary Mcnamara

Conference Papers

The photostability studies of Folic acid and Menadione Sodium Bisulfite, also known as vitamin K3, were carried out in their aqueous solutions at room temperature. Solutions of Folic acid ( 4.8 x 10-5 M) and Menadione Sodium Bisulfite (4.0 x 10-4 M) were exposed to ultraviolet radiation at a wavelength of 365 nm. During exposure absorbance of both solutions was measured using a Perkin Elmer Lamda 900 UV/VIS/NIR Spectrometer. During the stability tests it was noted that addition of β Cyclodextrin (1:1 ratio) to aqueous solutions containing the vitamin slowed down the photodegradation process. The unique shape of Cyclodextrins allows …