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The Beat: December 2008, Centracare Health

The Beat

• "May your days be merry and bright"
• Coborn family makes contribution to CentraCare
• Employee to participate in leadership program
• Home Care and Hospice named to elite list
• Diabetes Center offers weight management program
• Heart Center ranks in nation’s top 100 — again
• Diabetes Health Professional Update
• CentraCare Clinic receives two awards
• St. Cloud Hospital joins Spirit of Women
• Long Prairie Winter Gala
• Thank a Doctor launched
• Give Lifeline as a gift

Patient Care News: December 2008, St. Cloud Hospital

Patient Care News

Holiday Greetings

Christmas/New Year’s Cut/Call

Chest Tubes/Catheters in the Pleural Space

Clinical Ladder

Prescribed Reading: December 2008, Centracare Clinic

Prescribed Reading

• Welcome to our new providers
• Welcome to these New Employees
• Recognition for Years of Service
• CentraCare Clinic receives two awards
• CentraCare Clinic offers Sports Medicine program
• Culture of Quality Survey Update
• New CentraCare Health System Reward Program
• Employee Benefit Reminder
• Kudos to . . .
• Health professional seminar on diabetes
• Tree of Hope recognizes children with cancer
• Condolences to . . .
• Heart Center ranks in nation’s top 100 — again
• Coborn family makes $2 million contribution
• Home Care and Hospice named to elite list
• Women’s Health 101 planned
• Stroke & blood vessel screenings

The Beat: November 2008, Centracare Health

The Beat

• "Sharing our story"
• Melrose Area Hospital welcomes new administrator
• New development officer for Melrose, Long Prairie
• Melrose construction begins
• Cancer Center hosts survivorship holiday event
• Cancer center research employee recognized
• Event raises $15,000 for hospice fund
• Hind-Site fund created
• Tree of Hope
• Celebrate Festival of Lights at St. Cloud Hospital
• Gift Gallery holds Annual Christmas Sale
• Breast Center collects pennies for greatest needs
• Recovery Plus is growing

Patient Care News: November 2008, St. Cloud Hospital

Patient Care News

Magnet Site Visit

Research Article: Value-Added Care

Thanksgiving Cut/Call

Clinical Ladder

Prescribed Reading: November 2008, Centracare Clinic

Prescribed Reading

• Improving care for patients with diabetes
• Welcome to our new provider
• Employees asked to complete culture survey
• Neurosurgery Department now has two homes
• Kudos to . .
• Congratulations to. . .
• Construction begins on Melrose campus
• Telling our story
• Welcome to these new employees
• Recognition for years of service
• Condolences to . . .
• Diabetes Center offers healthy cooking classes
• CentraCare’s Weight Management Programs

Identity And Technology: Organizational Control Of Knowledge-Intensive Work, Guowei Jian

Communication Faculty Publications

Much has been written about the functioning of managerial ideologies in identity-based organizational control. However, less attention has been given to the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and identity defined by a technological discourse in regulating knowledge-intensive work. The purpose of this research is to examine the roles of identity and ICTs in the control of knowledge-intensive work. A case study of a technology service organization reveals that the construction and consumption of a technologist identity operate as organizational control, and that ICTs enable the functioning of a dialectic of technological control. This study also demonstrates the paradoxical …

Ua3/9/5 Presentation To Joint Committee On Education, Wku President's Office

WKU Archives Records

Presentation by WKU president Gary Ransdell to the Kentucky Joint Committee on Education. Data regarding WKU enrollment, tuition, degrees awarded, student retention, graduation statistics, transfer students, Applied Research & Technology Program, Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (STEM), SKy Teach, student financial aid, Finish WKU, Division of Extended Learning & Outreach (DELO), WKU Glasgow, WKU E-town/Radcliff/Ft. Knox, WKU Owensboro, Gatton Academy of Mathematics & Science and doctoral programs.

The Beat: October 2008, Centracare Health

The Beat

• "You deserve to feel proud of your work, CentraCare"
• Golf tournament raises $130,000 for pediatric cancer
• Learn about heart attacks and treatment
• United Way Celebration
• CentraCare employees volunteer for Day of Caring
• Telling our story at Report to the Community
• CentraCare physicians make health care leaders list
• Ice fishing seminar
• ‘Food for The Cure’ raises $102,000 to fight cancer
• Use a CentraCare pharmacy

Patient Care News: October 2008, St. Cloud Hospital

Patient Care News

Guidelines for Articles

Magnetic Redesignation Survey

Respiratory Care Medications

UTI Prevention

Call your Respiratory Therapist

Look-alike/Sound-alike Medications

Medication Safety Events

Pressure Ulcer Accountability

Clinical Ladder

Prescribed Reading: October 2008, Centracare Clinic

Prescribed Reading

• Welcome to these new providers
• Cooking class series offered
• Sleep Center adds psychologist to team
• Welcome to these new employees
• Serving diverse patients in the community
• Recognition for Years of Service
• Kudos to . . .
• Learn about heart attacks and treatment
• Getting back to ‘Food Allergy’ Basics
• United Way campaign runs Oct. 20-Nov. 7
• United Way Run, Walk, Bike
• Images almost faster than the speed of light!
• Election 2008 - get involved
• Register for Turkey Tune-Up 2008 by Oct. 13
• Flu Fact: Get your shot to help you keep healthy
• Condolences to . . .
  
  

Topscholar™ And Selectedworks™: Forging New Paths Of Information Access And Research, Connie Foster

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Presentation made before the WKU Academic Deans regarding the use of TopSCHOLAR and SelectedWorks in promoting scholarly publication among faculty.

The Beat: September 2008, Centracare Health

The Beat

• "Recruits strengthen neurosurgery program"
• CentraCare breaks ground on new St. Joseph clinic
• Celebrating a Quarter Century of Cardiac Care
• CentraCare Laboratory Services accredited
• Long Prairie Health Fair
• Dr. Congdon becomes medical director for Short Stay Units
• Senior Community to host open houses
• Learn about Alzheimer’s
• St. Cloud Hospital joins Spirit of Women
• Melrose offers new depression treatment program
• United Way Celebration
• CentraCare Clinic partners with QUITPLAN

Patient Care News: September 2008, St. Cloud Hospital

Patient Care News

Blood Bank Changes Providing Care After Death

Do Not Attempt Resuscitation (DNAR)

Fall Management Policy Changes

Contact Precaution Signs

Fall/Winter Holiday Work Schedules

PTO Policy Changes

Clinical Ladder Educational & Professional Programs

Prescribed Reading: September 2008, Centracare Clinic

Prescribed Reading

• Welcome to these new providers
• Long Prairie Health Fair
• CentraCare breaks ground on new St. Joseph clinic
• Employees of the quarter recognized
• Condolences to . . .
• Kudos to . . .
• Congratulations to . . .
• On the road . . .
• Walk to create awareness of kidney disease
• Melrose offers new depression treatment program
• Turn off the television and enjoy a family dinner
• CentraCare Clinic partners with QUITPLAN
• Welcome to these new clinic employees
• Recognition for Years of Service
• The Hard to Swallow Truth
• Diabetes Center offers healthy cooking classes

Organizational Credibility Counts, Christine G. Springer

Public Policy and Leadership Faculty Publications

As economic stressors increase and voting participation decreases, it is important for public administrators to find ways to minimize the negative consequences of distrust in government and to rebuild credibility by making the necessary changes to organizational culture, improving business practices, working with the media to build new more positive relationships, and by accentuating the good news about progress made. Events like Hurricane Katrina tragically teach us how long lasting one negative event can truly be because it is truly a disaster not only for those directly affected but also for those indirectly involved due to its negative affect on …

Liberal Arts 2.0, Bridget B. Baird

Convocation Addresses

The title, Liberal Arts 2.0., "stems from the term Web 2.0, which refers to the recent evolution of the Web as interactive, participatory, collaborative and collective. Web 2.0 includes blogs, wikis, user-generated media, social networking: like much of what it describes, the definition is amorphous and inexact." Baird believes that Web 2.0 and all that it implies will necessitate a revision of the way we do liberal arts and thus the title “Liberal Arts 2.0.”

Her premise: that a liberal arts college is a place where teaching and research are improved by digital tools, where students are taught to negotiate …

Ua3/9/5 Faculty & Staff Opening Convocation, Wku President's Office

WKU Archives Records

Speech delivered by WKU president Gary Ransdell at fall convocation. He discusses achievements, budget cuts, strategic planning, tuition, construction and degree productivity.

The Beat: August 2008, Centracare Health

The Beat

• "Engagement scores continue to improve"
• New hospitality house construction begins soon
• Get Your Rear In Gear Central Minnesota!
• Attention, golfers!
• Serving diverse patients in the community
• Celebrating a quarter century of cardiac care
• Cardiac rehab program recertified
• Sixth Annual Senior Expo
• St. Benedict’s welcomes new administrator
• How has United Way affected your life?
• Breast Center switches to digital mammography

Patient Care News: August 2008, St. Cloud Hospital

Patient Care News

Labor Day Cut/Call Sheets Patient Safety Alert: Shower Seats

DeRoyal Tube Holder

Fusion Dictation System

Clinical Ladder Educational & Professional Programs

Prescribed Reading: August 2008, Centracare Clinic

Prescribed Reading

• Welcome to these new CentraCare providers
• Congratulations to . . .
• What’s new under CentraNet’s EMR/EPIC tab?
• Parade of bikes draws crowd
• CentraCare physician presents at national meeting
• Condolences to. . .
• Recognition for years of service
• Welcome to these new employees
• Employee shares talent for Gallup recognition

Family Communication Patterns: Can They Impact Leadership Styles?, Suthida Prasitthipab

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

A plethora of studies has worked on family communication and leadership separately. Little research has combined these two components although they both relate to personality characteristics and communication styles. Therefore, this thesis investigated correlations between leadership styles and family communication patterns during childhood. Two hypotheses were proposed representing the relationship between conformity orientation and task leadership, and between conversation orientation and relation leadership.

Faculty, non-academic staff, and students in leadership positions from Western Kentucky University were samples of this study. They completed a questionnaire voluntarily. Family communication pattern scale and Leadership Behavior Descriptive Questionnaire were used in the survey. Pearson …

Burning Down The House: Emotional Labor, Burnout And Real Estate Sales Professionals, Laura Cooley Rawlins

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of emotional labor on instances of burnout by specifically focusing on real estate sales professionals. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (2008) cites the purchase or sale of a home as one of the most substantial and complicated financial events most people ever experience, thereby magnifying the challenges of work and communication in the real estate sales profession and providing a rich framework for understanding the concepts of emotional labor and burnout. A three part questionnaire focused on emotional labor and burnout was distributed to 450 real estate sales professionals in …

The Beat: July 2008, Centracare Health

The Beat

• CentraCare Health System is strong, growing
• Area couple donates to new hospitality house
• Homes that help and heal
• Long Prairie, St. Cloud earns patient safety awards
• Join the Stroll for Epilepsy
• Check out the new Cancer Center Web page
• American Heart Walk deemed a success
• Fundraiser honors those affected by cancer
• Stroke & Blood Vessel Screenings available
• Pediatric Cancer Picnic
• Cancer Center recruiting for research study
• Golf Tournament helps others
• Parade of bikes draws crowd
• Cleft & Craniofacial Picnic

Patient Care News: July 2008, St. Cloud Hospital

Patient Care News

Naltrexone

Caring for Children Who are Dying

New Fusion Dictation System

Scheduling Reminders for Students Cardiac Surgery Program Receives Top Rating New Attorney Joins Health System

Physicians Honored at Celebration of Commitment

Upcoming Ed Programs Clinical Ladder

Strategic Management Of Crises, Christine G. Springer

Public Policy and Leadership Faculty Publications

The article discusses the duties and responsibilities of managers in assessing workplace threats. Managers should care when someone causes harm in the workplace. It is a duty of the managers to warn through a collaborative discussion about the advantages or drawbacks in a small group meeting. It is also an obligation of managers to act when an employee indicates that he or she is being harassed or threatened.

The Beat: June 2008, Centracare Health

The Beat

• "State lawmakers take positive steps"
• Welcome to...
• Excellence in Birth Registration award
• St. Benedict’s receives $25,000 Otto Bremer grant
• New clinic and site planned for St. Joseph
• Cardiac surgery program receives top rating
• CentraCare doctors honored
• A celebration of life
• City Council OKs rezoning for new Hospitality House
• Attend the Long Prairie Golf Scramble Fundraiser
• Physician’s article published
• Sleep Center has new location

Patient Care News: June 2008, St. Cloud Hospital

Patient Care News

Construction Update

Critical/Toxic Lab Call-Back policy

Injury Prevention Teaching sheets

Surgical Site Marking posters

Journal Article Review

Philanthropists Receive Award

Nurses’ Week Poster Winners

Clinical Ladder

Prescribed Reading: June 2008, Centracare Clinic

Prescribed Reading

• New clinic and site planned for St. Joseph
• Kudos to…
• Congratulations to . . .
• Condolences to:
• Welcome to these new employees
• Recognition for Years of Service
• Dorsher receives 2008 Caduceus Award
• Cardiac surgery program receives top rating
• Attorney joins health system
• Pre-diabetes classes offered
• Employee Campaign raises $362,268!
• Calling all bike riders!
• Stroke & Blood Vessel Screenings
• Sharing the gift of life

Ua12/8 Annual Report, Wku Police

WKU Archives Records

A statement of current campus policies regarding procedures for students and others to report criminal actions or other emergencies occurring on campus and policies concerning the institution's response to such reports.