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Open Access: Myths And Misconceptions In Scholarship And Publishing, Kimberly S. Thompson, Renee M. Wilmeth

Biennial Convention (CONV)

Special Session presented on: Monday, November 18, 2013:

Everyone in academe, publishing and research seems to be discussing Open Access, but the more information that becomes available, the more questions academics, scholars, writers, publishers and researchers have. What is green road? Should scholars pay to publish in journals? How does peer review fit in? What about libraries? Copyrights? Hybrid journals and other publishing options? This unique session will provide an overview of open access from STTI's lead informatics/librarian (and designer of the Henderson full-text repository) and STTI's publisher who leads the journal publishing program. The two will describe the current …

The Civility Dialogues: Conversations To Inspire Action, Kathleen T. Heinrich, Cynthia M. Clark, Susan Luparell

Biennial Convention (CONV)

Special Session presented on: Monday, November 18, 2013:

Has a thorny situation at work gotten so troublesome you think about resigning? Does worry about your relationships with colleagues or students keep you up at night, make it hard to get up in the morning, or diminish your desire to go to work? Do you find yourself eating too much and exercising too little? If you wish there was someone wise in the ways of civility to speak with about all this, here's your chance. This special session brings 3 pioneering researchers and thought leaders in the field of civility together …

From Impairment To Empowerment: Addressing Substance Use Disorder In The Nurse Profession, Karolyn Crowley, Carrie J. Morgan

Biennial Convention (CONV)

Special Session presented on: Monday, November 18, 2013:

Knowing that an estimated 1 in 10 nurses suffers from substance use disorder (SUD), makes this topic poignantly relevant for all nurse & related professionals. Deficient education, cultural stigma and avoidance set up nurses with SUDs for greater risk than recovery. Recognizing that addiction is a disease, it is a failure in the nurse profession to perceive nurses with SUDs as weaker or having moral shortcomings. This promotes ignorance and drives the disease deeper underground. It's time to get the conversation started: How do we become more informed and proactive in addressing …

From Quality Improvement To Health System Transformation: Rnao's Systematic Comprehensive Program Of Developing, Implementing And Evaluating Best Practice Guidelines, Irmajean Bajnok, Doris Grinspun

Biennial Convention (CONV)

Special Session presented on: Saturday, November 16, 2013: This presentation will provide an overview of the Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario's (RNAO) Best Practice Guidelines Program as it relates to a comprehensive quality improvement initiative leading to health system transformation, predicated on the use of best evidence. The program includes a rigorous scientific approach to guideline development; an evidence-based systematic methodology of guideline implementation, (with a focus on the individual, organizations and the system); and a strategic approach to evaluation and continuous quality improvement through monitoring of structure, process and outcome indicators. Each of these components will be described, featuring …

Nurse Faculty Leadership Academy: Outcomes In Three Domains, Deborah F. Cleeter Bailey, Meg Zomorodi, Carolyn Hart, Lenora M. Marcellus, David Anthony (Tony) Forrester

Biennial Convention (CONV)

Special Session presented on: Sunday, November 17, 2013: During this complex period of change in both healthcare and academe, the need to prepare the next generation of leaders in nursing education is imperative. The Nurse Faculty Leadership Academy (NFLA) prepares these emerging leaders through a rigorous intentional leadership development experience. The purpose of the program is to: foster academic career success, promote nurse faculty retention and satisfaction, promulgate personal leadership development, and cultivate high performing, supportive work environments in academe. The NFLA is designed for aspiring nursing education leaders who have less than four years of experience as full time …

Legacy Building: Telling Stories That Inspire, Doris S. Edwards, Eileen Wilson Richardson, Margret Lepp, Evelyn R. Hayes, Ainslie Nibert, Scott Emory Moore, Katheryn B. Arterberry, Anita Bella Collins, Rebekah Salt

Biennial Convention (CONV)

Special Session presented on: Tuesday, November 19, 2013: Legacy is what one leaves behind for those who follow. STTI regularly honors the accomplishments of colleagues but we still know too little about our shared global inheritance and the legacy builders working among us today. Legacy, as stories remembered and stories told, has the power to affirm and to motivate those who hear the stories. Many kinds of inheritances of can facilitate the accomplishment of one's goals and help in the overcoming of diverse barriers. STTI members and groups have created legacies in practice, education, service, scholarship, leadership and philanthropy. We …

Creating A Male Friendly Nursing Program: A Blueprint For Increasing Gender Diversity, Christopher L. Coleman, Spencer Stubbs

Biennial Convention (CONV)

Special Session presented on: Tuesday, November 19, 2013:

Given the underrepresentation of men in the nursing profession, it is essential to develop strategies that will provide a pathway of success for men entering the nursing profession. The purpose of this workshop is to describe how a student governance model at the Penn School of Nursing transformed the School of Nursing into an award winning nationally recognized 'Male Friendly Nursing Program'. In 2006, the Male Association of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania (MANUP) student organization was formed to provide resources that resulted in increased enrollment and retention of male nursing students. Since …

"Staying Connected" Increases Scholarly Productivity, Carlee R. Lehna

Biennial Convention (CONV)

Session presented on: Sunday, November 17, 2013: A major concern in nursing and higher education is for faculty to continue their scholarly work. This is important from two perspectives: 1) The dissemination of knowledge and research findings to the profession and other clinical disciplines, and 2) for new graduates who are in academic roles to demonstrate their scholarly productivity for tenure and promotion. Often, on completion of the PhD or terminal degree, individuals either enter or return to faculty positions. With the many demands on faculty for the teaching role, along with the movement away from peer support that may …

Achieving High Scores For Integrating Service Learning Into The Nursing Curriculum, Amy C. Pettigrew

Biennial Convention (CONV)

Session presented on: Tuesday, November 19, 2013: Service Learning supports the development and implementation of community-based nursing education in the academic programs of study at Miami Dade College Benjamin Leon School of Nursing. Our goal is to bring education to life by connecting the classroom to the community needs, helping our diverse students become men and women addressing the needs of a diverse community. Both the ASN and RN-BSN programs have a service learning component. In the ASN Community Health course students complete 40 service hours: 10 hours reflection and discussion; eight hours of orientation and community ethics; two hours …

Research Abstracts, Proposals And Grant Writing: Basics From Start To Finish, Lois Sarah Marshall

Biennial Convention (CONV)

Special Session presented on: Saturday, November 16, 2013 and repeated on Monday, November 18, 2013: This presentation will provide the novice researcher the basics to write a research abstract, proposal, and/or grant for submission. This session will enable participants to gain a basic understanding of the steps of the abstract/proposal/grant writing process in order to enable them to put forth a submission in the future. Participants will be able to interact with some past recipients of STTI small research grants who will provide practical information on the writing, submission, and follow-up process.

A Call For Radical Transformation In Nursing Education And Practice At Indiana University And Indiana University Health, Marion E. Broome, Linda Q. Everett

Biennial Convention (CONV)

Special Session presented on: Sunday, November 17, 2013: The formal partnership, led by Dean Marion E. Broome and Executive Vice President Linda Q. Everett, is guided by the Indiana University Nurse Learning Partnership (IUNLP) model which depicts the resources, linkages and outcomes that support and flow from the partnership. The model has five components: Exemplary Nurse Practice, Transformative Learning Experiences, Transformational leadership, Knowledge Generation/Translation/Application and Resources. The evolution of this partnership, which is five years old, began with leaders coming together to discuss common faculty and practice points of intersection at this time. Over a two-year period, monthly meetings of …

Becoming A Book Author, Renee M. Wilmeth

Biennial Convention (CONV)

Special Session presented on: Tuesday, November 19, 2013: This interactive session will give new, experienced or potential book authors a first-hand look at how a book goes from idea to published text including how to craft an idea into a book proposal that publishers will notice. Wilmeth, STTI's publisher and experience with trade, professional and academic publishing groups, will describe the content creation process and help attendees learn the elements of an effective proposal and discussing practical tools for working with publishers, editors, marketers, and more. Time will be allowed to answer questions from attendees.

Proposing A Metaliteracy Model To Redefine Information Literacy, Trudi E. Jacobson, Thomas P. Mackey

Communications in Information Literacy

Metaliteracy is envisioned as a comprehensive model for information literacy to advance critical thinking and reflection in social media, open learning settings, and online communities. At this critical time in higher education, an expansion of the original definition of information literacy is required to include the interactive production and sharing of original and repurposed digital materials. Metaliteracy provides an overarching and unifying framework that builds on the core information literacy competencies while addressing the revolutionary changes in how learners communicate, create, and distribute information in participatory environments. Central to the metaliteracy model is a metacognitive component that encourages learners to …

A Reconsideration Of Information Literacy, Stanley J. Wilder

Communications in Information Literacy

This article is a reflection on the author's 2005 Chronicle of Higher Education article "Information Literacy Makes All the Wrong Assumptions." In it, the author argues that while library instruction is properly grounded in disciplinary norms, information literacy serves a vital institutional obligation as a means of assessing student learning. The content of library instruction thus serves the University's "vertical" disciplinary agendas, while information literacy serves its "horizontal" institution-wide agenda.

Marketing Information Literacy, Maura Seale

Communications in Information Literacy

No abstract provided.

Moving Forward: A Discussion On The Revision Of The Acrl Information Literacy Standards For Higher Education, Ellysa Stern Cahoy, Craig Gibson, Trudi E. Jacobson

Communications in Information Literacy

Abstract: The first PA Forward Information Literacy Summit was held in State College at the Pennsylvania State University, University Park campus, on Wednesday, July 24, 2013. This summit brought together K-12 and academic librarians from Pennsylvania to discuss current issues in information literacy. This text is a transcript of a discussion between Ellysa Cahoy, past chair of the of the ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards Committee, and the ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards Review Task Force, and Craig Gibson and Trudi Jacobson who are currently co-chairs of the ACRL Information Literacy Standards Revision Task Force. This Task Force is charged …

The Eastern Echo, December 19, 2013, Section A, Eastern Michigan University

EMU Student Newspaper: The Normal News & The Eastern Echo

No abstract provided.

The Eastern Echo, December 19, 2013, Section B, Eastern Michigan University

EMU Student Newspaper: The Normal News & The Eastern Echo

No abstract provided.

Info Lit 2.0 Or Deja Vu?, Patricia Anne Iannuzzi

Communications in Information Literacy

In 1999, ACRL convened a national task force to draft Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education. ACRL has recently launched a revision to those standards. The original standards were influential because they helped advance a national need in higher education at the time: a shift to outcomes based learning. Fourteen years later, information literacy stands alongside oral and written communication, critical thinking and ethical reasoning as learning outcomes broadly acknowledged as needing to be integrated, with disciplinary content, into the curriculum. This author believes that, in contrast to the first process, the current recommendations for revision are focused on …

How Aasl Learning Standards Inform Acrl Information Literacy Standards, Lesley S. J. Farmer

Communications in Information Literacy

ACRL and other academic librarians are currently re-examining the tough questions of learning, literacy, and education -- and the librarians' role in addressing these issues. They can use AASL's learning standards as one springboard for thought, particularly in terms of articulating learning. The result is a developmentally appropriate set of standards that reflects lifelong engagement with, and creation of, recorded information.

Transforming Information Literacy In The Sciences Through The Lens Of E-Science, Elizabeth Berman

Communications in Information Literacy

In 2011, the ACRL Science & Technology Section (STS) completed its five-year review of the Information Literacy Standards for Science and Engineering/Technology. Predicated by the evolving nature of scholarship and research in the sciences, the reviewing task force strongly recommended that the standards be revised. This paper considers the broad recommendations of the task force, using the framework of e-Science – team-based, data-driven science – to address areas of necessary transformation in information literacy: an advanced team-based model that crosses disciplinary boundaries; a recognition that individuals and groups not only consume information, but also produce it; and stronger interplay between …

A Tree-Ring Based Reconstruction Of Logan River Streamflow In Northern Utah, Eric B. Allen, Tammy M. Rittenour, Justin Derose, Matthew F. Bekker, Roger Kjelgren, Brendan M. Buckley

Plants, Soils, and Climate Faculty Publications

We created six new tree-ring chronologies in northern Utah, which were used with preexisting chronologies from Utah and western Wyoming to reconstruct mean annual flow for the Logan River, the largest tributary of the regionally important Bear River. Two reconstruction models were developed, a “Local” model that incorporated two Rocky Mountain juniper chronologies located within the basin, and a “Regional” model that also included limber pine and pinyon pine chronologies from a larger area. The Local model explained 48.2% of the variability in the instrumental record and the juniper chronologies better captured streamflow variability than Douglas-fir collected within the Logan …

Information Literacy And Digital Literacy: Competing Or Complementary?, Rosanne Marie Cordell

Communications in Information Literacy

Digital Literacy is a more recent term than Information Literacy and is used for multiple categories of library users in multiple types of libraries. Determining the relationship between Information Literacy and Digital Literacy is essential before revision of the Information Literacy Standards can proceed.

Differential Effects Of Endocannabinoid Catabolic Inhibitors On Opioid Withdrawal In Mice, Thomas Gamage

Theses and Dissertations

The effects of cannabinoids in reducing somatic signs of opioid withdrawal have been known for some time. In morphine dependent rodents, opioid withdrawal following precipitation with the mu opioid antagonist naloxone elicits robust withdrawal behaviors including jumps, paw flutters, head shakes, diarrhea and weight loss. Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol has been shown to reduce this opioid withdrawal in mice via activation of the cannabinoid type-1 (CB1) receptor and recently it has been shown that inhibition of the catabolic enzymes for endocannabinoids also reduce somatic signs of opioid withdrawal. Specifically, inhibition the enzyme fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH), the catabolic enzyme for the endocannabinoid …

Listening To Primary Schools: Australian Health And Physical Education (Hpe)., Tj Lynch

Plymouth Institute of Education

This research investigated Australian Government Primary School Principal’s perceptions of a University Pre-service Teacher Education course where the graduate teacher is qualified as a generalist primary classroom teacher and a Health and Physical Education specialist. Research suggests that the optimum time for children to learn and refine their motor skills and to be introduced to positive HPE experiences is during preschool and early primary school years. The research data was gathered using surveys completed by 138 government primary school principal participants in the state of Victoria, a large number considering the demanding role of school principal. There were two ethical …

Southern Educator, Georgia Southern University

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Different Scores: Video Gamers’ Use Of Amateur And Professional Reviews, Richard Dillio

Theses

Though past research has measured the relationship between critical reviews and public response to such things as film and online products, there has been little investigation on the subject of video games. This study collected 146 survey responses aimed at gathering information on usage of amateur reviews, usage of professional critic reviews, and time spent playing games. The survey asked questions about respondents' beliefs regarding professional critics and amateur reviewers, and the review industry in general. Study respondents' views of the review industry, and their personal opinions of professional critics, show correlations with willingness to incorporate reviews in purchasing decisions. …

China's Rise And The Confucius Institutes: Chinese And American Perspectives, Shryll Whittaker

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

The Confucius Institutes are Chinese government-backed nonprofit organizations that promote Chinese language and culture. They are housed on collegiate campuses and designed to complement Chinese language and cultural studies by providing teachers, curriculums, textbooks and other educational materials. Their establishment has been a source of controversy, especially in the United States, due to the institutes’ close ties with and the financial, administrative, and political support they receive from the Chinese government. Critics have had two primary concerns: that the Confucius Institutes provide the Chinese government access to increase soft power by issuing propaganda and that their presence on American collegiate …

The Globalization Of Natural Resources: How External Actors Affect Political Survival In Resource Rich Countries, Chia-Yi Lee

All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)

This dissertation examines the effect of external actors, including foreign investors, the home governments of foreign investors, and international organizations: IOs), on leadership survival in resource rich countries. According to the existing literature, resource rich countries care less about external reputation and have a higher level of political risks for foreign investors, so, theoretically, they would tend to nationalize the resource sectors, especially in the presence of resource nationalism. In reality, however, resource rich countries cooperate closely with foreign actors and join IOs that constrain themselves. This dissertation provides a theory to explain this puzzle, by modeling the interaction among …

Ericksen Contributes To Coplac Book Project, University Relations

Campus News Archive

Work by Janet Schrunk Ericksen, associate professor of English, will appear in a forthcoming collection about teaching, scholarship, and service at public liberal arts institutions.