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Online Simulation With Actor And Facilitator To Assist Iens Develop Strategies To Address Incivility, Patricia Ann Bradley, Linda Patrick, Elaine Santa Mina, Kirsten Woodend, Ayesha Bhatti

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Internationally educated nurses (IENs) may face obstacles transitioning into the Canadian healthcare environment due to incivility (Cruz, Quicho & Ibañez, 2022). Workplace incivility describes workplace behaviour that is rude, disruptive, and disrespectful and that promotes discord and disharmony (Clark et al., 2020). Incivility has an impact on nurses’ well-being, patient engagement, and patient outcomes (Jackson, Usher, & Cleary, 2024).

We will share the virtual simulation multi-dimensional design, development, and evaluation outcomes that features actors as simulated participants (SPs) and facilitators for the provincially funded Ontario Internationally Educated Nurses Course Consortium concept and competency-bridging program of study for IENs. The learning …

Implementing An Intercultural Journal Club For Graduate Nursing Students, Becky Davis, Helen Ewing, Shelly Luger, Augustine Ndaimani

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

In June of 2025, two private universities – one in the Midwestern US and the other in Rwanda, Africa, entered a partnership and began collaborating on a DNP program with emphasis on global health, leadership, and advanced level nursing. While the idea of international academic partnership is not new, in this case, the mutually agreed outcomes were intentional and reciprocal. Both universities have graduate Nursing programs that include a Leadership focus. Even though students are geographically diverse, they are all focused on advancing their professional identity as nurse leaders. As a result, faculty partners launched the intercultural Journal Club (JC) …

Sustaining A Sense Of Unknowing Of The Risk For Coronary Artery Disease After Gestational Diabetes, Daisy Baldwin

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Background: Coronary artery disease (CAD) is a major global health issue (Khan et al., 2020; Roth et al., 2017; Virani et al., 2021) and affects many women, with one death every 16 minutes in Canada (Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, 2023; Norris & Mulvagh, 2024). Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), a rising non-traditional CAD risk factor (Garcia et al., 2016; Mussa et al., 2021; Saeedi et al., 2019), increases women’s CAD risk fourfold (Garcia et al., 2016). Despite this, women often lack knowledge of the long-term risks associated with GDM (Craig et al., 2020; Khooshehchin et al., 2016; Lennon, 2018; …

Co-Designing Success: Supporting New Rns In Their Transition To Practice, Morgan Hoffarth, Robert Mihan, Shanoja Naik, Hasitha Wimalarathna, Doris Grinspun

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Newly graduated nurses (NGNs) face disproportionately high turnover rates compared to experienced nurses, with estimates ranging from 18% to 43% globally¹. This persistent challenge has prompted increased attention to transition-to-practice programs, which aim to support NGNs during their critical first year of work³. Research has identified key facilitators and barriers to successful transition through thematic analysis; however, their recommendations lacked direct input from NGNs themselves, highlighting a gap in participatory approaches³. Understanding the transition experience from NGNs and mentors is essential to design effective, responsive supports⁵. The urgency of this issue has …

Development, Implementation And Evaluation Of A Digital Health Best Practice Guideline, Christine Buchanan, Lyndsay Howitt, Giulia Zucal, Jennifer Yoon, Maureen Charlebois, Michelle Rey, Doris Grinspun

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Introduction: A best practice guideline (BPG) including four recommendations for health providers, organizations and health systems in the context of a digital health environment was developed by the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario (RNAO) (1). The scope includes many digital health technologies, including virtual care technologies and predictive analytics (1). This presentation will discuss the recommendations in the BPG, and implementation and evaluation considerations noted by a Canadian hospital partnered with RNAO through its Best Practice Spotlight Organization® program.

Methods: The RNAO team worked with an expert panel to develop the BPG (2). Five research questions and corresponding outcomes were …

Reimagining Access In Nursing Research Methodologies, Elizabeth Straus

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Dismantling structural and systemic ableism in nursing research is essential to the promotion of equity with disability communities; however, issues of access and ableism rarely find their way into dialogues about equity-oriented and anti-oppressive research in nursing. We think with disabled scholars of colour, such as Campbell (2001) and Lewis (2022), who define ableism as a system of beliefs and values that “assigns value to people's bodies and minds based on societally constructed ideas of normalcy, productivity, desirability, intelligence, excellence, and fitness” (Lewis, 2022). Nursing research methodologies and practices tend to be enacted under an assumption that people move, think, …

Exploring The Relationship Between Registered Nurses’ Resilience And Disaster Response Readiness, Jessica Parrott, Janice Evans Hawkins, Beth Tremblay, Robert Joseph Hawkins

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Nurses play a critical role in disaster response and readiness. While there is significant research that speaks to the importance of resiliency in the nursing profession, there is a lack of research specific to the relationship between resiliency and disaster response readiness. The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between RNs’ resilience and their readiness to respond to disasters. This descriptive cross-sectional study used purposive and snowball sampling to recruit participants. Data were collected via an anonymous online survey. Descriptive, non-inferential, and inferential statistics were used for data analysis. The sample included 352 RNs representing 271 distinct …

R3: Reverence, Reciprocity, & Relationality: Indigenous Entheogen Perspectives In Health Curricula, Christine Rodriguez, Samantha Korbey

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

The resurgence of the Western psychedelic movement has raised concerns among Indigenous Nations regarding colonization, bioprospecting, commodification, and cultural appropriation of sacred medicines. These practices perpetuate exclusion in research, scalability, and commercialization, silencing Indigenous voices and eroding the profound ecological and cultural wisdom contained therein (Celidwen, Redvers, Githaiga et al., 2023; Ens, 2021; Fotiou, 2020).

As Fotiou (2020) notes, the intensifying Western psychedelic movement faces a critical bifurcation: to perpetuate the hegemonic, ethnocentric paradigms of Western science or to re-examine Western frameworks through pluralistic, cross-epistemological approaches. The latter invites methodological expansion, ethical reflexivity, and deeper community engagement to drive future …

Evaluating Fall Prevention Implementation Approaches Through Natural Language Processing, Shanoja Naik, Hasitha Wimalarathna, Doris Grinspun

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Background: Falls are leading causes of injury, hospitalization, and reduced quality of life among older adults in long-term care (LTC) settings(2,8) .This study explores the use of Natural Language Processing (NLP) to evaluate the uptake and impact of Preventing Falls and Reducing Injury from Falls (2017) best practice guideline (BPG)(4,5,6) in Ontario LTC homes.

Methods: A retrospective qualitative content analysis design was employed, and data were collected from 153 LTC reports submitted between 2015 to 2022 to a qualitative nursing data reporting system(3,4). Unstructured narrative text was processed through tokenization, part-of-speech tagging, stop-word removal, stemming/lemmatization, and keyword extraction via Rapid …

Acp Roles, Barriers, And Emotional Labor Of Home Health Nurses In Japan: A Text-Mining Analysis, Yoko Hashimoto, Kumiko Kotake

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Background: Home care in Japan has increased rapidly among older adults and individuals with cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, and chronic conditions (Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, 2021). Within this expanding community-based care system, Advance Care Planning (ACP) is essential for supporting patients’ values and end-of-life preferences (Rietjens et al., 2017). Home health nurses, who observe patients’ daily lives closely, play a central role in ACP (Chan et al., 2020). However, their roles and emotional burdens remain underexplored.

Objective: To clarify the roles, barriers, and emotional experiences of home health nurses in ACP support in Japan and identify implications for educational …

D3.10 Cierre, Cristo Leon, New Jersey Institute Of Technology, Red De Investigadores De Juegos De Rol, The Collaborative For Leadership, Education, And Assessment Research

10mo Coloquio Internacional de Estudios sobre Juegos de Rol

Sesión de cierre del 10mo Coloquio Internacional de Estudios sobre Juegos de Rol, con despedida institucional, presentación del 11 coloquio

D3.08 Mesa Redonda C: Teoría, Lenguaje, Diseño Y Archivo En Los Estudios De Juegos De Rol, Diogo A. Camelo, Jefferson De Moura Saraiva., Ana Paula Trevisani, Maria Eduarda Ribeiro Ferreira, Ana Julia Ferreira Do Nascimento, Arthur Barreira Dos Santos, Juan Manuel Díaz De La Torre, Miguel Ángel Galindo Núñez Dr., Óscar Kaleb Gómez Gutiérrez, Tadeu Rodrigues Iuama, Luiz Falcão, Cainã Tavares Wanzeler, Carlene Ferreira Nunes Salvador, Edgar Ramírez Hernández

10mo Coloquio Internacional de Estudios sobre Juegos de Rol

La Mesa Redonda C reúne contribuciones que examinan los juegos de rol desde perspectivas teóricas, lingüísticas, educativas, hermenéuticas y culturales. Las ponencias abordan el LARP como herramienta para la enseñanza de idiomas, el juego de rol como infraestructura de metacolaboración, la relación entre símbolo, ritual, mecánica y narrativa, la defensa de la autonomía en los estudios de role-play analógico, la traducción especializada en versiones portuguesas de RPG y el ciclo ontológico-hermenéutico como tecnología del yo.

En conjunto, la mesa propone comprender los juegos de rol como prácticas situadas y mediadas en las que lenguaje, diseño, identidad, aprendizaje y producción simbólica …

D3.08 Sesión De Ponencias 7, Wolfgand Enrique Kook Camero, Christian Miguel Rudich De La Rosa, José Abdón Palma-Durán, Gonzalo García Hirt

10mo Coloquio Internacional de Estudios sobre Juegos de Rol

Séptima sesión de ponencias del 10mo Coloquio Internacional de Estudios sobre Juegos de Rol, dedicada a presentaciones académicas organizadas en un bloque temático del programa.

Información de ponencias

Ponente 7.1. Wolfgand Enrique Kook Camero

Título: “Un modelo por competencias para la profesionalización de la dirección de juegos de rol: Diseño, evaluación y certificación”

Ponente 7.2. Christian Miguel Rudich de la Rosa

Título: “Roll for Resolution: Identifying Shared Simulation Mechanics between Model United Nations, Tabletop RPGs and LARP.”

Ponente 7.3.  Dr. José Abdón Palma-Durán.

Título: “Juegos de rol de Diario: Una propuesta para su aplicación en el aula”

Ponente 7.4. …

D3.07 Sesión De Ponencias 6, Alejandro Guzmán Vendrell, Yatana Danielle Guerrero Sandoval, Juan David Henao Santa, Francisco Fernando Gallego Escobar, Jackeline Valencia Londoño, Nora Chavez, Clara Fattal

10mo Coloquio Internacional de Estudios sobre Juegos de Rol

Sexta sesión de ponencias del 10mo Coloquio Internacional de Estudios sobre Juegos de Rol, dedicada a presentaciones académicas organizadas en un bloque temático del programa.

Información de ponencias

Ponente 6.1. Alejandro Guzman Vendrell.

Título: “Evaluación de las estrategias lúdicas en la comunicación de la ciencia”

Ponente 6.2. Yatana Danielle Guerrero Sandoval.

Título: “Aprender Scrum jugando: diseño de experiencias de rol para la capacitación de equipos ágiles”

Ponente 6.3.  Juan David Henao Santa, Francisco Fernando Gallego Escobar y Jackeline Valencia Londoño.

Título: “Sistema Lúdico-Pedagógico Guacas y Entierros / Hoards and Caches: Diseño de Narrativas, Mecánicas e Interacciones en miniRPGs” …

D3.06 Comida, Cristo Leon, Comité Organizador, New Jersey Institute Of Technology, Red De Investigadores De Juegos De Rol, The Collaborative For Leadership, Education, And Assessment Research

10mo Coloquio Internacional de Estudios sobre Juegos de Rol

Pausa para comida durante el primer día del 10mo Coloquio Internacional de Estudios sobre Juegos de Rol.

Technological Behaviour Of Pellets Containing Dried Green Crop, Christian Furll

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

Pelleted dried green crop presents essential advantages compared to chaff and meal as processing forms. Normally, the solidity of the pellets does not exceed the values required by animal feeding. Abrasion resulting from turnover processes is at present too high, particularly for the discharge of bins. Belt conveyors, vibrating conveyors, and bucket elevators are suitable to convey pellets. Storage of pellets over long periods has to be done by respecting prescribed climate conditions. Zones with excessive portion of abraded par­ticles in the storing pile are a preferred cause for self-heating. Slit-type dosing units as well as dosing units equipped with …

Results Of Comparative Investigations Into The Chevving And Ruminating Activities Of The Dairy Cow Fed Dried Forage From Grass And Leguminous Crops, B Piatkowski, S Nagel

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

The chewing and ruminating activities were studied of dairy cows fed grass, alfalfa, and straw of different physical forms. An electronic­ally controlled measuring device was applied. When feeding 8 kg of grass hay (32 % crude fibre in dry matter), the ruminating time was 5: 24 and 1 :49 hours (20,712 and 6,982 ruminat­ing movements) for chopped and ground + pelleted forages, respectively. It declined from 1 : 49 to 0: 0 l hours (from 6,929 to 70 move­ments) when hot-air dried alfalfa (23 % crude fibre) was fed in chopped and ground + pelleted forms, respectively. The ruminating time …

Feed Efficiency In Dairy Cows Of Roughages Preserved And Treated In Different Ways, M Zausch, E Boldt

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

Trials were conducted with dairy cows to investigate the feed efficiency of grass-clover mixture (wilted silage, silage made of fresh material with addition of foDTiic acid, artifi­cially dried forage, pellets with varying portions of straw). The results obtained allow to draw the following conclusions:

As regards dry matter intake, digestibility, and feed efficiency, grass-dover for wilted silage should be wilted to give a OM content not exceeding 40 %.

Pelleting artificially dried grass-clover mix­ture and its use in mixed rations together with other separately pelleted components should be avoided.

The best feed efficiency is reached when dried grass-clover is converted …

The Influence Of Dried And Ensiled Grass On Rumen Fermen­Tation, J Voigt, B Piatkowski

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

Rumen-fistulated cows were used to study the influence of the forage preservation technique on rumen fermentation and holdup time of the feed in the rumen. Cocksfoot (Dactylis glomerata) preserved as wilted silage or dried green crop was fed in the following variants: wilted silage alone; wilted silage + sugar beet + protein supplement; dried green crop alone; dried green crop + sugar beet + protein supplement. As compared with dried green crop, the shares of true protein and sugar in wilted silage were reduced from 9.8 • to 6.4 '.'I􀉧 and from 7.7 to 1.8 %in DM, respectively. In comparison …

Changes In Feeding Value Of Preserved Grass And Legumes By The Action Of High Temperatures, R Prym, F Weissbach

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

High temperatures acting on grass and legumes during preservation and storage, cause nutrient digestibility to deteriorate. Protein digestibility is likely to be most strongly affected. Digest­ibility measurements were performed on sheep to estimate the extent of heat damage suffered by dried green forage and silages. Various laboratory methods were applied for record­ing. such damage. The detennination of the acid-detergent insoluble crude protein portion proved a very suitable approach.

Growth And Nitrogen Retention Of Lambs Fed Alfalfa Dehy­Drated At Different Temperatures, H K. Goering

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

Alfalfa was dried at four temperatures ranging from 60 to 180 °C in two experiments to evaluate the effect on composition, diet di­gestibility, and growth by lambs. In Experi­ment I, the alfalfa was supplemented with 0.6 % salt and pelleted. In Experiment 2, alfalfa was supplemented with 24.4 % starch, 18.5% straw, 6% cane molasses, 0.5% sodium phosphate, and 0.6 % salt so that total nitrogen intake was not in excess of the protein require­ment for growth of the lambs. Cell wall, acid­detergent fiber, lignin, acid-detergent insoluble nitrogen, and pepsin insoluble nitrogen in­creased in the alfalfa dried at 180 °C. …

Non-Mechanical Field Losses In Wilting Grasses As Influenced By Different Factors, G Rucker, O Knabe

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

When wilting grasses, non-mechanical field losses of different extent may occur. The main factors influencing the extent of losses were: water content at cutting time, drying rate, temperature, amount of rain, swath den­sity, and content of water-soluble carbohy­drates in the crop.

The Effect Of Mechanical, Thermal And Chemical Treatment On The Loss Of Water From Cut Leaves Of Grasses, Colin Edward Harris

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

Laboratory experiments have demonstrated that cut grass -leaves have a high resistance to water loss, probably largely due to the imper­meability of the surface cuticle to water vapour. This resistance can be reduced and drying rate increased by thermal and mechanical treatment, and by exposure to the vapour of boiling petroleum ether. The effectiveness of formic acid and tri-n-butyl phosphate suggests the possibility of using chemicals to increase the drying rate of grass crops cut for hay and dried in the field.

Measures For Increasing The Efficiency Of Hot-Air Drying Of Forage, Siegfried Prufer, Gerd Neubert

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

In the GDR, the drying of wilted green forage as well as of whole plants of cereals and grain maize considerably improves the effi­ciency of hot-air drying as a whole. The proc­essing of wilted crop and the inclusion of whole-plant drying in the drying pattern cause the throughput to increase by 30 to 50% and fuel consurnption per ton of dried crop to de­crease by up to 50 %, in comparison with drying of fresh green forage containing 15 to 18 % dry matter. Hot-air drying is particularly suitable for feed production along industrial lines. -Being but little dependent on …

Gdr Standard Plant For Producing Feed Pellets On Straw Basis, Gerheard Schmidt

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

Following the international trend, livestock production units are growing in size. Straw, a major feed reserve, must be effectively utilized to meet the growing roughage requirements, especially of ruminants. Therefore, in the GDR a standard feed pelleting plant (type GF A) was developed and put to commercial production. The various machines and equipment em­ployed in the different stages of the GFA pellet­ing technology are explained in detail. The use of that standard feed pelleting plant shows the advantages of processing straw for semi-finished and finished feeds.

The Efficiency Of Producing And Feeding Complete-Ration Feed Briquets Containing Forage Chop, G V. Blagoveshcheski, V M. Sokolov

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

Production of forage chop from a clover­timothy mixture is efficient when harvesting the forage between the shooting of clover (35 to 40 cm stand height) and mid-flowering. For high-temperature drying, each vegetative stage of the plants requires a clearly defined regime. When establishing formulas for com­plete-ration feed briquets containing clover­timoihy chop harvested before clover budding, the protein/carbohydrate ratio must be bal­anced by supplementing the ration with 30 p.c. barley meal and 29 p.c. straw; when the mix­ture was harvested during budding, phos­phorus supplementation (one p.c. monocal­cium phosphate) is necessary, whilst the mix­ture harvested during flowering has to be supplemented with …

The Production Of Dry Feeds From Straw And Green Forage In The Gdr, Fritz Berg

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

In the GDR, at present about 9% of the feed energy requirement of cattle is covered by dry feeds, above all mechanically processed and chemically treated straw as well as dried green forages. This share is expected to rise to 15 % in forthcoming years. On the basis of technological fundamentals devised by animal nutritionists, corresponding production processes are being developed and perfected. They allow to convert the feedstuffs into a physical and chemical form favourable to high intake; in addition, the feeding value of high-fibre feedstuffs is improved. In this way, the feedstuffs are fed in favourable com­bination as …

Evaluation And Determination Off Actors Defining The Length Of Thin-Stalked Green Forage Chop, Peter Szendro

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

A more exact analysis of the length distribution of chopped material from thin-stalked green forage crops provides more information for the further processing of this material and for comparing the quality of work of the different technologies. Material cut into longer and less homoge­neous chop with heavier destruction of the green plant particles shows properties more suitable for further processing than chop harvested with a self-propelled precision-chop forage harvester. In consideration of the special importance of the questions discussed it seems advisable to continue the experiments and to perform them under production conditions as well; the results thus obtained will …

Organization Of Wilted Silage Production Along Industrial Lines In The Selbelang Inter-Farm Cooperative Crop Produc­Tion Division, Hunter Watzke, Karl Bachmann

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

The production of high-quality wilted silages on the basis of highly efficient machines and facilities for harvesting and preservation in the Selbelang inter-farm cooperative crop pro­duction division (KAP) is determined by the use of industrial methods of production. Ob­servance of optimum spans for harvesting forage to be used for the production of wilted silage, and the full utilization of machinery and facilities at rising levels of labour pro­ductivity and declining cost are achieved by way of complex and shift employment of machines, facilities, and workers. The size of machine complexes and their performance are dependent on the shape, equipment and …

Possibilities Of Ensiling Meadow Grass With Different Water Content, Roman Moraczewski, Helena Jurkiewicz

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

The paper involves results of investigations into the influence of various methods of grass preservation, different cutting times, and dif­Jerent water contents on the nutrient and min­eral levels in the silage. These results show good possibilities of preserving meadow grass by ensiling. Silage fodder has higher contents of crude protein, crude fibre, crude fat, and ash constituents than are found in hay dried under optimum conditions.