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Exploring Significant Impacts Of Global Health On Nursing Education And Resource-Poor Communities: An Integrative Literature Review, Kimberly Elkayam, Elizabeth Del Cimmuto
Exploring Significant Impacts Of Global Health On Nursing Education And Resource-Poor Communities: An Integrative Literature Review, Kimberly Elkayam, Elizabeth Del Cimmuto
Grace Peterson Nursing Research Colloquium
Exploring Significant Impact of Global Health Experienced by Nursing Educators: An Integrative Literature Review
Elizabeth Del Cimmuto & Kimberly Elkayam
Faculty Sponsor: Young-Me Lee, PhD, RN
Background: Nursing education in the United States is largely focused on health promotion at the local and community level. Modern advances in communication technology have facilitated a movement in nursing to gradually adopt a global health perspective in both practice and education.
Objective: to explore what research has been done regarding how nurse educators are impacted by adopting global health perspectives in nursing education and to suggest one potential way to add to this …
Investigating The Viability Of Two Stenotrophomonas Maltophilia Isolates After Air-Drying, Samantha Lane, Joanna Brooke
Investigating The Viability Of Two Stenotrophomonas Maltophilia Isolates After Air-Drying, Samantha Lane, Joanna Brooke
DePaul Discoveries
Abstract
Stenotrophomonas maltophilia is a water-borne infectious bacterium that is found in both clinical (hospitals) and non-clinical environments. This human pathogen is commonly recovered from respiratory tract infections. A recent study at a hospital in Taiwan suggested that dry patient charts can serve as a vehicle of transmission of this bacterium7. As S. maltophilia is not commonly isolated from dry surfaces, this current study tested the hypothesis that this pathogen can remain viable for some time on a dry surface. This study was designed to determine how long S. maltophilia could remain viable after air-drying by observing …