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Creating Supportive Learning Environments For Novice Nurse Educators: The Advanced Academy Experience, Judith M. Jarosinski, Tina P. Brown Reid, Lisa A. Seldomridge, Nicole Hall, Brad Hauck, Beverly Payne

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Purpose: The Faculty Academy and Mentorship Initiative of Maryland (FAMI-MD), a grant-funded collaborative of nursing programs, universities/colleges, and healthcare organizations, develops clinical faculty while promoting a healthy work environment during their transition from clinician to educator. FAMI-MD offers two curricula: an Introductory Academy providing foundational content for new educators; the Advanced Academy developed in 2019 for nurses with teaching experience.

This presentation explores how the Advanced Academy prepares experienced nurses for new roles as clinical teachers equipped with skills effective in reducing incivility and promoting a safe learning environment (Layne et al., 2019).

Background: There is a need to increase …

A Collaborative Approach To Supporting Nurses' Well-Being Across An Integrated Health And Care System, Grace M. Cook, Joanne P. Bosanquet, Chris Caldwell, Claire J. Shaw

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

An Integrated Health and Care System in England with workforce priorities including staff wellbeing and equality, inclusion and diversity, together with the Foundation of Nursing Studies, wanted to develop a programme that supported the psychological wellbeing and development of resilience for nurses across the region.

Resilience-based Clinical Supervision (RBCS) is an evidence-based model of restorative clinical supervision (Stacey et al., 2017; Stacey et al., 2020) that is structured using compassionate mind theory (Gilbert, 2010; Gilbert and Simos, 2022). It is also underpinned by an ecological viewpoint on resilience which considers the roles of communities and systems as a response to …

Impact Of A Self-Care Intervention Program On Clinician Health And Well-Being, Melissa Rouse, Joanna Carrega

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Purpose: The health and well-being of healthcare clinicians has become a national priority. More than half of the nurses and health care clinicians report symptoms of burnout.^1-2 Burnout can lead to decreased overall wellness an increase in medical errors, and negative patient outcomes.^3-4 The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of the self-care management program on clinician health and well-being over six months. This study aimed to answer the following questions: 1) Among clinicians practicing in an acute care setting, does participating in a self-care management program impact perceived health and well-being at six months? …

Nursing Faculty Job Satisfaction During Covid-19: A Mixed Methods Study, Laura C. Sessions, Michelle M. Ness, Hayley D. Mark, Bo Kyum Yang

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Aim. To understand stress, resilience, and compassion satisfaction of nursing faculty during COVID-19 pandemic and identify factors related to their job satisfaction.

Background. The impact of COVID-19 on faculty stress, resilience, compassion satisfaction, and job satisfaction were unknown.

Methods. A mixed methods survey was distributed electronically to nursing faculty in the US. A convergent parallel mixed methods study design allowed us to measure and analyze quantitative and qualitative findings concurrently to support a fuller understanding of the results (Creswell & Plano Clark, 2017). A list of department leaders (chair, dean, or director) names and contact information was obtained from …

Survive Or Perish: Violence As A Survival Strategy For Abandoned Youth In Mayotte In Natacha Appanah’S Tropique De La Violence., Lydia Gyamfi

Department of French Studies Graduate Student Association Conference

No abstract provided.

1990s Alt Music Slang And Socioeconomic Precarity In Despentes’ "Vernon Subutex" Series, Daniel J. Lightfoot

Department of French Studies Graduate Student Association Conference

In a time of widespread cynicism and disillusionment with the political and economic status quo in France, how can literature give a voice to those discontents while inspiring hope? My contribution will explore Virginie Despentes’ use of slang from 1990s French alternative music subcultures in her narrative depictions of contemporary economic precarity and social alienation in the Vernon Subutex series (2015-17). I will discuss how Despentes uses French slang to establish a distance between economically marginalized characters and more affluent Parisians, highlighting how the former draw on vocabulary from Anglophone indie rock and hip-hop subcultures as an expression of a …

Adapting Identities: Multimodal Expressions Of African Women’S Agency In Francophone Film​, Alicia M. Hilaire

Department of French Studies Graduate Student Association Conference

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Why The Film Was Banned And Its Significance During The Colonial Era And Aftermath, Sawel Awuni

Department of French Studies Graduate Student Association Conference

This paper examines the usefulness of film according to the figure widely known as the father of African cinema, Ousmane Sembène. In 2008, Annett Busch and Max Annas published an edited volume of Sembène’s interviews titled Ousmane Sembène: Interviews, which compiles a wide range of conversations conducted with him during his lifetime. This compilation offers insights into his films and the stories surrounding each production. Drawing on this collection, this presentation aims to highlight the significance of film during the twentieth century, the reasons why certain films were banned, and what Sembène believed should be the purpose of filmmaking.

This …

On Literature And Inclination, Maria Laura Cucciniello

Department of French Studies Graduate Student Association Conference

I would like to discuss how literature can serve as an antidote to self-isolation and how it functions as a means to create relationships between humans, thereby providing meaning for life itself. To address this topic, one could recall Judith Butler’s reinterpretation of Adriana Cavarero’s theory of inclination (2021: 46-62). In the philosophical field of ontology, inclination works as an illustration of two different ways of existing: inclined and vertical. Both positionalities correspond to two different ontologies, namely one of caring and one of self-sufficiency. As interesting as the philosophical instances brought by Cavarero and Butler are per se …

“The Written Word, What For? Exploring Genre As Written Memory And Connection Over Time”, Hallie-Blair Quatro

Department of French Studies Graduate Student Association Conference

Why is it so important to continue reading modern and contemporary French and Francophone literature? And what does this mean for a real relationship between author and reader that can grow and change over time? Through the literary analysis of two contemporary French novels-- Maryse Condé’s Tales from the Heart: True Stories from My Childhood (1999) and Mariama Bâ’s So Long a Letter (1979)—I demonstrate how it is each author’s use of mixed genre that allows for a connection of author to reader, but also reader to self. In each work, this mixed genre can become a generative, reconciliatory space …

Civil Liability Of The Lawyer For Professional Errors In Light Of Technological Developments: A Study Under Uae Legislation, Hureyya Matar Alqaydi

Thesis/ Dissertation Defenses

This study aims to examine the provisions of the legislative texts governing the civil liability of lawyers for their professional errors by clarifying the position adopted by the UAE legislator regarding professional mistakes that may be committed by a lawyer while practicing the profession considering modern technological developments, and by defining the limits, scope, and legal nature of the lawyer’s civil liability. The study also seeks to identify the nature of the obligations imposed upon the lawyer in the performance of his or her professional duties and to clarify the way damages incurred by the client because of the lawyer’s …

The Role Of Optical And Synthetic Aperture Radar Satellites In Military Intelligence, Khalifa Alnaqbi

Student Research Symposium (SRS)

The objective of this paper is to demonstrate that while optical and Synthetic Aperture Radar satellites are the two most powerful remote sensing tools in military intelligence, neither is sufficient on its own. This research aims to articulate their distinct operational roles and argue that their synergistic integration, together with other intelligence assets such as unmanned aerial vehicles, signals intelligence, and human intelligence, is essential for achieving comprehensive situational awareness in modern warfare. To establish this, the paper will first analyze the role of optical satellites in target identification and Synthetic Aperture Radar satellites in persistent detection and monitoring, detailing …

Evaluating The Impact Of Self-Care Strategies Incorporated Into Undergraduate And Graduate Nursing Curricula: A Systematic Review, Roseanne Moody Fairchild, Salena Tully

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Background/Significance: Self-care is defined as a person’s capacity to partake in preventative measures promoting emotional, physical, and spiritual health to maintain one’s well-being. Registered nurses represent a majority of the healthcare workforce, and a 2017 report by American Nurses' Association found nurses have elevated risk for: a) being overweight, b) lacking adequate rest and sleep and, c) experiencing high levels of stress. As effects of the Covid-19 pandemic rapidly spread, substantial proportions of nurses reported heightened levels of anxiety, depression, and burnout. Impact of the pandemic has brought forth increased awareness regarding the need to encourage self-care practices among nurses …

Relationship Between Gratitude And Job Satisfaction In Nursing Leadership, Tammy P. Aiken

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

In the current healthcare climate, retaining our workforce has become increasingly important. Even more so the retention of nursing leadership has become even more crucial, as the need to have nurse leaders guide the profession during tenuous and difficult times is now even more apparent. Looking at ways hospital organizations can potentially increase their retention of leaders, which would assist in the retention of their staff, would be instrumental in easing labor shortage and therefore improve the quality of care. There has been a great deal of research that has shown that gratitude plays a significant role in a person’s …

Burned-Out By Example: A National Survey Of Academic Nurse Leaders’ Perceptions Of Staff Burnout, Adrienne S. Martinez-Hollingsworth, Linda Y. Kim, Jennifer L. Saylor, Jennifer Evans, Dawn Goodolf, Annette Hines, Delsa Richards, Nia Martin, Dajanae Gresham-Ryder, Uzo Nwankpa

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

Purposes: Burnout is a challenge to health systems and clinical outcomes (Maslach & Leiter, 2016). Recently, negative impacts on clinical faculty and trainees have also been recognized (Low et al. 2019; Hammoudi, Soltani, Dalli, Alsarraj & Malki, 2023). While the US population increases, higher education struggles to meet a growing need for nurses over the next decade (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2023). Downward trends in nursing program enrollment following the Covid-19 pandemic, insufficient number of faculty, clinical sites, and budget constraints (American Academy of Colleges of Nurses [AACN], 2023) have highlighted a need for explorations on how burnout may structurally …

Factors Contributing To Turnover Among Critical Care Nurses During The Transition To Practice Period, Paula M. Gellner

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Background: New nurses are the major source of hiring for most hospitals. They fill vacancies left by seasoned nurses. As a result, an experience-complexity gap is created. The turnover of new graduate nurses is as high as 85% in the first two years of employment. Despite previous efforts to improve the transition to practice, turnover at the local level remain high.

Purpose/Specific Aims: The purpose of this study was to determine the most important factors contributing to turnover and the opportunities to mitigate or reduce turnover in the critical care setting.

The specific aims were to evaluate the perceptions of …

Caring For Future Caregivers: Using The Faculty Toolkit Of Teaching Strategies To Support Well-Being For Health Sciences Students, Erica Sciarra, Alice M. Teall

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

Current literature supports the positive impact creating a culture of wellness has in promoting individual and organizational wellbeing. Faculty and institutions of higher learning have a responsibility to create a physically and psychologically safe learning environment. Modeling effective ways for students to prioritize their mental health and wellness within the context of the ten dimensions of wellness is paramount. The National Wellness Action Alliance (NWAA) Workgroup recognized and responded to the need to provide faculty with valuable strategies to promote wellness among health sciences students that can be implemented by individual faculty members as well as serve as a springboard …

Osha’S Knocking! A Descriptive Cross-Sectional Analysis Of Inspections At Private Universities In Florida., Acuna Gonzalez Santiago

Student Research Symposium (SRS)

Section 8 of the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSH Act) empowers OSHA to conduct inspections and enforce standards prescribed in Title 29 of the Code of Federal Regulations; however, limited literature and lack of descriptive statistics exist regarding oversight and inspection patterns across Higher Education Institutions (HEI) in Florida. Assessing these patterns is paramount for aiding higher education stakeholders in evaluating their hazard identification and control techniques. This descriptive cross-sectional study examined OSHA's inspection database — January 1, 2015 to October 20, 2025 — indexed by NAICS code 611310, analyzing all 32 four-year non-profit HEI with at least 1,000 …

Effects Of Burnout And Resilience On Turnover Intention In Long-Term Care Nurses Post-Covid, Rosemary Fromer, Rhonda Oldham, Hannah G. Callaway

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Nurses constitute the most significant proportion of the healthcare workforce providing care for residents in long-term care (LTC) facilities (American Association of Colleges of Nursing, 2023, July). The number of licensed practical or vocational nurses who typically care for the most vulnerable populations in LTC has declined by 33,811 since the pandemic (Martin et al., 2023; National Council of State Boards of Nursing, 2023, April 13). LTC patients and staff accounted for 23% of COVID-19-related deaths in the United States (Chidambaram, 2022, February 3). A cross-sectional study conducted by Aiken et al. (2023) at magnet hospitals in the United States …

Creating A Healthy Work Environment To Improve Nurse Retention: An Evidence-Based Practice Project, Megan Hignight

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Background/Significance: Following the COVID-19 pandemic, a community emergency department (ED) faced a critical staffing shortage with nursing turnover rates as high as 46.2%. Strategies to mitigate the staffing shortage were primarily focused on recruitment methods without an intentional focus on evaluating why the nurses were leaving. Understanding the interdependent relationship between nurse attrition and the work environment, the ED Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) led an evidence-based practice project to improve the work environment. The purpose of the project was to create an environment in which nurses feel valued, respected, and fulfilled in their work; ultimately leading to decreased nurse turnover. …

Nurturing A Healthy Work Environment For New Graduate Nurses In A Large Multi-Site Healthcare System, Vanessa C. Lopez, Nicole M. Ferrer, Lori S. Schultz, Ghada B. Dunbar

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This innovative program began with the New Graduate Registered Nurse (NGRN) cohort completing an initial survey and reflection. In alignment with literature findings, program data revealed NGRNs experienced heightened levels of stress and anxiety related to academic disruptions, limited resources, sudden change, and uncertainty in the healthcare environment due to the pandemic^3,4. With guidance from evidence-based practice standards, key stakeholders identified an aim to enhance the well-being of NGRNs by adapting and incorporating the American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN) Six Standards of healthy work environment. The Six Standards include 1.) Skilled communication, 2.) True collaboration, 3.) …

Fostering A Healthy Work Environment: Frontline Leadership For Charge Rns Across An Integrated Healthcare System, Yasith Wickramarachchi, Lori S. Schultz, Ghada B. Dunbar

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This novel leadership program incorporates adult-learning principles, interactive-learning activities, performance improvement project application, dynamic role play and practice-based learning. Through peer support, emotional intelligence role play, interactive didactive content, completion of a self-assessment and transformational leadership elements.

Nursing unit leaders, (Charge RNs), are assimilated with professional development skills and behaviors through participating with highlighting the organizational mission, vision, values and their unique role contribution across the Professional Practice model They exemplify and translate the incorporation of a healthy work environment and culture to enhance quality care and safety in clinical practice directly. The inclusion of the American Nurses Association (ANA) …

Shifting The Paradigm Toward Intent To Stay: A Career Crafting® Program To Increase Nurse Engagement, Jaclyn E. Davis

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

Nearly 50% of all RNs experience job disengagement, dissatisfaction, and signs of burnout during their career (National Academy of Medicine, 2019). RN burnout is largely associated with two predominant themes: perception of engagement in meaningful and motivating work and perception of personal ability to disconnect and decompress (Press Ganey, 2018). The techniques in this program guide people to experience work as a career and calling and find meaning in their work despite complex or difficult contexts. Through guided reflection on key elements of career success and available, but often unknown or under-utilized organizational resources, nurses learn to align their nursing …

Why We Work: Examining The Relationships Between Nurse Compensation, Burnout, And Intention To Leave Nursing, Jacqueline Christianson, Jill Guttormson, Maharaj Singh, Abir Bekhet, Norah Louise Johnson

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Purpose: The ongoing nursing shortage contributes to chronic nurse understaffing, which is associated with care rationing and adverse patient outcomes (Kiekkas et al., 2019 Tubbs-Cooley et al., 2019). Burnout-related attrition from the nursing profession is particularly problematic to the nursing workforce because it is both prevalent and preventable (Shah et al., 2021). Intention to leave the profession prior to anticipated retirement has been associated with burnout, however the nursing shortage has been observed to fluctuate in tandem with the availability of alternative economic opportunities (Benson, 2012). Additionally, many nurses self-report intention to stay in the profession despite burnout for financial …

Development Of A Resilience Training Program To Combat Burnout In Nursing Practice, Maggie Doherty Lynch

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In a recent advisory (2022), the Surgeon General of the United States put forth a call to build a thriving healthcare workforce and address conditions contributing to burnout, citing the many detrimental effects on patient care and safety as well as the financial burden when burnout contributes to turnover. Given the physical, emotional, and intellectual demands of nursing practice, nursing professionals are at risk and the implications for healthcare delivery are significant. Acknowledging the innate stressors of providing healthcare it is the responsibility of leaders in the industry to mitigate burnout to sustain the workforce critical to healthcare in the …

Enhancing Wildlife Strike Risk Assessment Through Large Language Model–Driven Data Analysis, Bill Deng Pan

Student Research Symposium (SRS)

Wildlife strikes remain a persistent safety and economic concern across global aviation operations, highlighting the need for advanced analytical methods to improve risk assessment and mitigation. Traditional statistical approaches to wildlife-strike data, while effective for structured variables such as altitude, phase of flight, or aircraft type, often overlook valuable insights embedded in the unstructured narrative components of strike reports. This study proposes the application of Large Language Models (LLMs) for the automated extraction, classification, and interpretation of information within the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Wildlife Strike Database. Using natural language processing (NLP) techniques, LLMs will be utilized to identify key …

Implementation Of Event Debriefing To Improve Teamwork And Safety In Cardiac Surgery, Kendall Elizabeth Law, Megan Wanzer, Linda Costa

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

Problem: The Cardiac Surgery Intensive Care Unit (CSICU) at an academic medical center is experiencing an increase in critical events. The 2022 Safe and Reliable Healthcare Safety, Communication, Operational Reliability, and Engagement (SCORE) Survey revealed that this unit scored in the lowest percentile for burnout climate and over seventy percent of the nursing staff left in a span of six months. The staff feels this has resulted in a lack of guidance and a chaotic environment. Incident reports have also shown an increase in near-miss events.

Purpose: The purpose of this quality improvement (QI) project is to utilize the institution’s …

Yoga For Stress Relief Program For Nursing Faculty And Staff, Julee Briscoe Waldrop

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

The phenomenon of burn-out in nurses is not new, however, it has been exacerbated and brought to the forefront of our attention since the COVID pandemic. Nursing shortages exacerbate the problem (National Council of State Boards of Nursing, 2023). The increased need for nurses due to many leaving the workforce and the aging of the population has increased enrollment pressure on schools of nursing, and therefore their faculty and staff. Nursing faculty also have stressful roles, that include balancing multiple expectations of teaching, scholarship, research and service. The above pressure as well as an ongoing faculty shortage (also exacerbated by …

Interprofessional Collaboration: Nursing And Dental Medical Students Provide Oral Healthcare Education In A Community Setting, Geraldine M. Maurer, Betty J. Braxter, Shareen A. Milligan

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Most of the obstetrical care occurs in the community in an outpatient setting. Early pregnancy care should include oral healthcare education to diminish the potential of pregnancy complications such as infections of pregnancy and preterm labor as the pregnancy progresses. Good oral healthcare continues beyond pregnancy and through the lifespan. Providing a multidisciplinary approach can improve patient outcomes. The purpose of this experience in the undergraduate baccalaureate nursing curriculum and the education of dental medicine students at a large, urban, public university was to introduce an interprofessional collaboration education opportunity. Interprofessional education was introduced into the curriculum when the school …

Therapeutic Horsemanship For The Caregiver: Overview Of Results, Pinky Shani, Laura A. Espinosa, Rebecca Yarbrough

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Background: Healthcare professionals (HCPs) are prepared to care for illness and experience stressful situations including trauma and death. However, the overwhelming conditions during and after the pandemic can put many HCPs at risk of developing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and burnout. Previous research has reported a prevalence of PTSD among HCPs between 21.5% and 38% (Greene et al., 2021; Yan et al., 2021). In addition, 48% of ICU nurses experienced PTSD (Sanchez, Simon, & Ford, 2019). Furthermore, past research has indicated burnout levels of 55% to 86% among HCPs. It is essential that resources are provided for HCPs to cope …