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Care Of Self: How Reiki Is Used By Nurses To Reduce Stress On An Acute Care Unit, Leann Olson

Theses and Graduate Projects

As the nursing shortage escalates and patient acuity levels continue to rise, nurses can expect to experience increased stress and burnout. Indeed, studies show that job dissatisfaction among nurses today is widespread. Finding ways to reduce the stress, improve job satisfaction, and retention is important not only for nurses, nursing units, and organizations, but also for patients. This paper describes a nursing practice model that was developed to reduce stress and burnout among nurses in an acute care unit of a large urban hospital. The model uses the energy therapy of Reiki and is guided by Martha Rogers' Science of …

Creating A Healing Environment In The Intensive Care Unit, Elissa Egbers

Theses and Graduate Projects

The intensive care unit (ICU) can be a very stressful environment. Patients are critically ill and require constant monitoring. Indeed, high tech care in the ICU environment includes multiple factors that may impair the patient's ability to sleep and rest. The purpose of this paper is to describe a practice model that is conducive to patient healing in an intensive care unit in a large urban hospital. This practice model is significant to patients, families, and nursing staff and is based on Florence Nightingale's Environmental Model of Nursing and her thirteen canons. This paper describes the potential implementation of the …

Fall 2011 Exam Schedule And Spring 2012 Key Dates, Office Of University Communications

Gardner-Webb NewsCenter Archive

The Fall 2011 semester is winding to a close, and the Spring 2012 term is nearly set to begin. Listed below are the Fall 2011 Day Program exam schedule and several important upcoming dates on the Gardner-Webb academic calendar. Also, check out the Spring 2012 class schedule for more specific information regarding the semester’s course offerings.

Gardner-Webb Fall Commencement Set For Dec. 19, Office Of University Communications

Gardner-Webb NewsCenter Archive

Gardner-Webb University will welcome the families and friends of more than 340 graduates to campus on Monday, Dec. 19 for the University’s 2011 fall commencement exercises. The ceremony takes place in Paul Porter Arena, inside the Lutz-Yelton Convocation Center, and begins at 10 a.m. Seating in Paul Porter Arena is available on a first-come, first-served basis.

The Parthenon, December 5, 2011 , Kristin Steele

The Parthenon

The Parthenon, Marshall University’s student newspaper, is published by students Monday through Friday during the regular semester and weekly Thursday during the summer. The editorial staff is responsible for the news and the editorial content.

College Voice Vol. 95 No. 9, Connecticut College

2011-2012

No abstract provided.

Alumnus’ Company Receives Prestigious Baldridge Award, Lindenwood University

Archived Lindenwood Press Releases

No abstract provided.

Student Senate Meeting Minutes, December 5, 2011, Eastern Michigan University

Student Government

No abstract provided.

The Collegian (2011-12-05), Rene Cardona Jr.

UTB/TSC Archives - The Collegian [Newspaper]

Vol. 64. No. 15

A Reflexive Approach To Capability Valuation And Determination In Sustainable Human Development: The 2010 Hillsborough County Transit Referendum, Eric James Fiske

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Sustainable Human Development (SHD), rooted in Amartya Sen’s development theory on the capability approach, envisions achieving sustainable human capabilities at the local and global levels. One major area of contention within this field of research concerns determination and valuation of capabilities. How a community decides which capabilities should be developed is as important as the development itself. Some capability scholars argue that a small group of experts or “philosophers” should make this determination, while others argue that a deliberative democratic process needs to be followed. I seek to reconcile these two positions by introducing a third way of determining and …

Curriculum Minutes 12/05/2011, Curriculum Committee

Curriculum Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.

The Bg News December 5, 2011, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. December 5, 2011. Volume 102-Issue 48.

December 5, 2011

The Gavel Gazette

No abstract provided.

Organizational Capacity To Absorb External Knowledge: An Exploratory Study Of Public And Nonprofit Decision Makers' Perceptions Of Impediments And Facilitators, Linda S. Birtley

Theses and Dissertations

Research indicates that many youth-serving agencies do not adopt evidence-based innovations in the field of youth violence prevention. This qualitative study was designed to explore a sample of community-based decision makers’ perceptions of why innovative, evidence-based programs and practices for the prevention of violence by youth are, or are not, adopted at the local level. The rationale for this study was that knowledge of evidence-based innovations in youth violence prevention originates primarily from research scientists who are external to the organizations that are the intended recipients of the innovations. Prior research has not viewed the failure to adopt evidence-based innovations …

Bjc Today

BJC Today

No abstract provided.

Ewell V. State Respondent's Brief Dckt. 38373

Not Reported

No abstract provided.

Revisiting "Hapworth": The Catharsis Of Buddy Glass, Brian Mctague

Theses and Dissertations

J.D. Salinger's "Hapworth 16, 1924," his last published work, is notorious for the initial critical silence it received, as well as the subsequent general consensus that it was a text to revile if not avoid. This thesis proposes that while "Hapworth" is a difficult and perplexing piece, there is a good deal about it that deserves if not outright praise, then a close critical re-examination. Assuming the "author" of the story is not the seven-year-old version of "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" suicide Seymour Glass, as the story purports, but his grieving younger brother Buddy, who has spent the years …

Faculty Senate Agenda, December 5, 2011, Utah State University

Faculty Senate & Faculty Senate Executive Committee

• Faculty Evaluation Committee Annual Report - Pamela Martin
• Athletic Council Report - Ken White
• Retention and Student Success Report - John Mortensen
• EPC Items (October and November)
• PRPC Section 405.7.2. 405.8.3, and 403.3.2 Title changes for the newVice President for Research and Dean of the School of Graduate Studies (Second Reading)
• PRPC Section 402.3.2, 402.3.4 Vacancies (First Reading)
• Presidential Task Force on Curriculum

Educational Policies Committee Program Proposal, College Of Humanities And Social Sciences, December 5, 2011, Utah State University

Educational Policies Committee

The Utah State University English Department requests that its English master’s degree specialization in Technical Writing, which was approved for online delivery in 1998 as a 30-credit Plan B specialization, be changed to a 33-credit Plan C specialization.

Keep The Poking To Yourself, Mrs. Robinson: The Missouri Facebook Statute And Its Implications For Teacher Free Speech Under The First Amendment, Alex Lehrer

Student Works

No abstract provided.

The Cuahsi Community Hydrologic Information System (Invited), David G. Tarboton, D. R. Maidment, I. Zaslavsky, Daniel Ames, J. L. Goodall, R. P. Hooper, Jeffery S. Horsburgh

Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications

Hydrologic information is collected by many individuals and organizations in government and academia for many purposes, including general monitoring of the condition of the water environment and specific investigations of hydrologic processes. Comprehensive understanding of hydrology requires integration of this information from multiple sources. The Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc. (CUAHSI) has developed a Hydrologic Information System (HIS) to provide better access to data by enabling the publication, cataloging, discovery and retrieval of hydrologic data using web services. This paper describes HIS capability developed to promote data sharing and interoperability in the Hydrologic Sciences with …

Evaluating The Success Of Benefit Fraud And Compliance Act In Affecting Wages And Offers For Seven Common H1b Occupations In Virginia, 2002-2010, Khalafala Alsadig

Theses and Dissertations

This study examined the role of the Benefits Fraud and Compliance Act (BFCA) in affecting H1B hiring policy in the state of Virginia, as it pertained to seven computer science-related occupations. By employing an independent samples t-test approach, it was discovered that there was a statistically significant difference in H1B actual wages, proposed wages, and per-employer offers before and after BFCA.

Adaptive Physical Education And Aquatics For Students With Disabilities: A Teacher's Unique Experience, Jennifer Cheryl Blassingame

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Students with the most severe disabilities have special needs that cannot be addressed with general education curriculum modifications in a traditional prekindergarten-12th grade environment (Heward, 2006). It is essential that expert teachers with specialized educational background and training are prepared to adapt daily lessons to accommodate all students. Thus, the purpose of this autoethnographic research was to study the personal and professional life experiences of an expert teacher that led to integrating physical education, sensory integration, and assistive technology into a unique pedagogical approach to teach students with multiple disabilities. This approach allowed these students to be as productive as …

Reported Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption And Body Composition In Urban Southern College Students, Sarah J. Achelpohl

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Objective To determine the impact of sugar-sweetened beverage consumption on body composition in urban southern college students.Design This study is a cross-sectional quantitative survey design evaluating the relationships among sugar-sweetened beverage consumption frequency, body mass index, and body fat percentage in urban southern college students while controlling for age, gender, and ethnicity and analyzed using Pearson correlations.Subjects Fifty-three subjects between 17 and 25 years of age were included in the study and were enrolled at the University of Memphis.Results This study revealed a significant linear relationship between sugar-sweetened soda and body mass index and body fat percentage in Caucasian students. …

Indirect Feedback: A Dialoguing Approach To Assessment, Dimitrios Vlachopoulos, Ricardo Tejeiro, Anthony Edwards, Estefania Campos

Higher Learning Research Communications

Whilst there is consensus in the current literature that feedback plays a fundamental role to student performance and learning, there is also debate about what makes it effective. Particularly, some assessment instruments, like the National Student Survey in the United Kingdom, reveal that evaluation and feedback are systematically amongst the areas that students are less satisfied with. This paper aims to describe the ‘indirect feedback’ (IF) technique, which was utilised by the principle author in his previous tenure as a Professor at the University of Cadiz (Spain) and to reflect on how it can be applied to overcome some of …

Living With Hiv: Views Through The Blog, Linda Eastham

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to develop a greater clarity of how HIV infected individuals live and work within the sphere of HIV infection as represented through unsolicited, personal narratives posted on blogs. Existing, single author, personal blogs were identified via a search engine. Blogs were defined as the blog author's postings and all responses, whether written by the blog author or a reader respondent. Inclusion and exclusion criteria were developed to respect indicators of bloggers' intentions for privacy, e.g., blogs which required a password were excluded. A total of 14 blogs met inclusion criteria. Actions to …

Eric Faulconer Earns Nscaa Southeast Region Coach Of The Year Honors, Armstrong State University

Armstrong Athletics: Women's Soccer News (Archived)

Eric Faulconer Earns NSCAA Southeast Region Coach of the Year Honors. Armstrong Atlantic State University head women's soccer coach Eric Faulconer has been named the 2011 NSCAA/Mondo DII Southeast Region Coach of the Year for a third consecutive season, announced over the weekend by the coaches' association.

Business Innovation Group (Big) News, Georgia Southern University

Business Innovation Group: News & Publications

• E-Zone Forum: How to Avoid Running Out of Cash

Garbage Picker Of Memory, Meg Tuite

Valparaiso Fiction Review

No abstract provided.

Deafdigest: Gold Edition, December 4, 2011, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2011

No abstract provided.