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An Examination Of Research To Practice Gaps In Education: Whole Language, Learning Modalities, And Brain Gym, Elizabeth Strohman

Senior Honors Theses

The purpose of this thesis is to examine the documented research to practice gap in education by discussing three recent trends in education that gained momentum with little to no empirical support: (a) whole language reading instruction; (b) modality-based instruction; and (c) Brain Gym. This thesis examines the trend in education toward embracing unsubstantiated strategies by spotlighting these three educational trends and offers recommendations for addressing the research to practice gap in the field of education.

Cry1f Resistance In Fall Armyworm Spodoptera Frugiperda: Single Gene Versus Pyramided Bt Maize, Fangneng Huang, Jawwad A. Qureshi, Robert L. Meagher, Dominic D. Reisig, Graham P. Head, David A. Andow, Xinzi Ni, David Kerns, G. David Buntin, Ying Niu, Fei Yang, Vikash Dangal

Faculty Publications

Evolution of insect resistance to transgenic crops containing Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) genes is a serious threat to the sustainability of this technology. However, field resistance related to the reduced efficacy of Bt maize has not been documented in any lepidopteran pest in the mainland U.S. after 18 years of intensive Bt maize planting. Here we report compelling evidence of field resistance in the fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (J.E. Smith), to Cry1F maize (TC 3507) in the southeastern region of the U.S. An F2 screen showed a surprisingly high (0.293) Cry1F resistance allele frequency in a population collected in 2011 from …

State V. Fencl Appellant's Reply Brief Dckt. 41985

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No abstract provided.

Clyne V. State Respondent's Brief Dckt. 42054

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Crow's Nest, November 17, 2014, Crow's Nest Staff

Crow's Nest

The November 17, 2014, issue of the Crow's Nest.

Psychological Mechanisms Underlying Support For Juvenile Sex Offender Registry Laws: Prototypes, Moral Outrage, And Perceived Threat, Margaret C. Stevenson, Cynthia J. Najdowski, Jessica M. Salerno, Tisha R.A. Wiley, Bette L. Bottoms, Katlyn S. Farum

Psychology Faculty Scholarship

We investigated whether and how a juvenile’s history of experiencing sexual abuse affects public perceptions of juvenile sex offenders in a series of 5 studies. When asked about juvenile sex offenders in an abstract manner (Studies 1 and 2), the more participants (community members and undergraduates) believed that a history of being sexually abused as a child causes later sexually abusive behavior, the less likely they were to support sex offender registration for juveniles. Yet when participants considered specific sexual offenses, a juvenile’s history of sexual abuse was not considered to be a mitigating factor. This was true when participants …

The Impact Of Computerized Clinical Decision Support On Diagnostic Accuracy In Nurse Practitioners, Maryjo Vetter

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Friday, July 25, 2014:

Clinical decision support (CDS) at the point of care is an evidence based intervention that has demonstrated incremental positive impact on quality of health care delivery over the past two decades. CDS information technologies help close the gap between healthcare provider knowledge and performance. CDS systems offer the potential to improve overall care safety, foster evidence based practice, optimize cost effectiveness and reimbursement for care, enhance patient education, and meet regulatory reporting requirements. CDS systems have been studied extensively and identified as an evidence based intervention that can positively impact practitioner performance in …

Nursing Health Promotion Interventions Needed To Reduce Oral Health Disparities: The Situation In Israel, Cheryl Zlotnick, Shlomo Zusman, Lital Keinan-Boker, Orna Baron Epel

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Saturday, July 26, 2014:

Purpose: The World Health Organization (WHO) reminds us that Nursing is a holistic discipline that "encompasses autonomous and collaborative care of individuals of all ages, families, groups and communities, sick or well and in all settings. It includes the promotion of health, the prevention of illness, and the care of ill, disabled and dying people." 'Yet, despite the well-established link between oral health and cardiovascular disease, nurses rarely consider this important aspect of health care in their disease prevention and health promotion activities. This omission needs to be corrected.'In the quest to reduce …

Mediating Effect On The Relationship Between Professional Commitment And Intent-To-Leave Among Hospital Nurses In Taiwan, Yuan-Ping Chang

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Saturday, July 26, 2014:

Purpose: This study was conducted to determine the mediating effect of work frustration on the relationship between professional commitment and intent-to-leave.

Methods: A cross-sectional study with a questionnaire survey was performed. The participants in this study were hospital nurses in Taiwan. Three questionnaires covering work frustration, professional commitment and intent-to-leave were used as measuring tools. Data were verified by SEM with AMOS.

Results: There was a significant direct and inverse correlation between professional commitment and intent-to-leave as well as a significant and indirect effect of professional commitment on intent to leave through work …

The Historical Research Of Legislative Process Of The Eugenic Protection Act And Maternal And Child Health Administration In Japan, Sachiko Tanaka, Yukari Kawahara, Kazuko Yarimizo, Atsuko Yumoto, Keiko Ogawa

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Saturday, July 26, 2014:

Purpose: Selections by individuals concerning pregnancy and childbirth fundamentally depend not only on the individual's will, but also on the country's paradigm and policy of the time. In Japan, after more than 60 years from the Second World War, the broadest ever range of selections has become available concerning pregnancy and childbirth, with the effect of developing medical science. It is considered essential to look back on Japan's historical systems related to pregnancy and childbirth, for the purpose of examining future maternal and child health administration and nursing. This study is aimed at …

Logistic Regression For Predicting Early Postpartum Depressive Symptoms In Japanese First-Time Mothers Aged 35 And Over, Emi Mori, Harumi Ozawa, Kyoko Aoki, Koji Tamakoshi, Miyako Tsuchiya, Tomoko Maekawa, Kunie Maehara, Yoshimi Mochizuki, Miyuki Makaya, Hiroko Iwata, Akiko Sakajo, Akiko Saeki, Akiko Morita

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Sunday, July 27, 2014:

Purpose: Currently, Japan is showing a trend towards later childbearing. In 2006, 5.6% of women giving birth were first-time mothers at age 35 and over (1); this increased to 8.4% in 2011 (2). Older first-time mothers have been shown to be at increased risk for pregnancy complications compared with younger women (3, 4). These women also possess several psychosocial characteristics such as increased autonomy, limited social support and limited prior experiences with children (5), which may potentially cause poorer maternal adaptation after childbirth. Older first-time mothers may therefore demand more careful consideration from …

A Project Of Applying Pdca Cycle To Improve New Nurse Medication Error In Surgical Ward, Li Hua Lee, Hsiu-Hui Lei, Wei-Ping Cheng

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Friday, July 25, 2014:

Purpose: Medical errors are common problems in types of medical negligence. Medicine behavior is the most activating part of nursing work every day. When accidental events happen, they affect patients' safety, worsen patients' condition, prolong the length of days in hospital and even result in death. The purpose of the study was to describe medical error problems and prevent new staff from abnormal medication administration.

Method: The study used actual medication auditing process, abnormal analysis and interview for new staff. The data collection period was from March, 2013 to October, 2013. Our investigation …

Knowledge, Attitude, And Rejecting Use Behavior Of Trans-Fatty Acid Among Children, Shu Yu, Chun-Hsia Huang

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Sunday, July 27, 2014:

Purpose: Health damage due to trans-fatty acid (TFA) is an important issue around the world, however there is a relatively few studies to explore TFA, particularly for children. The main purpose of this study consisted of investigating children's rejecting TFA use behavior as well as identifying influencing factors and predictors of the behavior.

Methods: A cross-sectional research design was conducted to 1086 children studying in the fifth and sixth grader in Taiwan (562 male occupied 51.75%; 524 female occupied 48.25%). A questionnaire was used to collect data.

Results: The main finding indicated that …

Community Engagement: Implementation Of An Innovative Interprofessional Curriculum For Community Assessment And Practice For Master's Education, Ruth Trudgeon

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Sunday, July 27, 2014:

Purpose: The purpose of this presentation is to describe the implementation of an innovative inter-professional curriculum for community assessment and practice for master's education and to discuss the use of theoretical approaches as a framework to guide the assessment.

Methods: Descriptive summary of an innovative curriculum that focuses on community assessment, education and practice for master's education using inter-professional approach.

Results: Comprehensive in-depth analysis of communities using a wide-range of modalities resulting in strategies to improve outcomes. Practice implementation that focuses on health promotion across the life span has been implemented to vulnerable …

The Red Box Strategy For Contact Precautions, Melissa A. Pollard, Kathleen Wickens

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Monday, July 28, 2014: Purpose: This work originated in a small community hospital who committed to achieving Magnet designation. As part of this commitment, an identified need was to develop a means to promote and support nursing research in our organization which did not have any university affiliations. Our Magnet Journey was successful, and this presentation reflects work done by one of our first direct care staff nurses with the support of the nursing research committee. Contact precaution policy requires healthcare personnel to always put on Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) before entering a contact precaution room. Although …

Educating Nursing Students To Recognize And Report Negative Behavior In The Clinical Setting: A Feasibility Study, Florence Schaefer

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Friday, July 25, 2014:

Purpose: While the clinical rotation provides an essential venue for socialization into the role of the professional nurse, socialization into a culture of abuse also begins at this time. The term 'eating our young' has terrible connotations. Between 72-100% of students reported witnessing or experiencing negative behavior (NB). Clinical nurses are frequently identified as a major perpetrator of the NB experienced by students. Episodes of NB, verbal and physical, are under reported. Reasons for this is that being a recipient of violence was viewed as being part of the job and the student …

Innovative Community Placements: Enhancing Students Experiences With Diverse Population, Ruth Trudgeon, Ivy Tuason, Stephanie Cornett

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Background: The recent focus on community and population based health care in nurse education means that effective clinical experiences within the community are an essential component of the nursing program. However, two factors have made this harder to do over the last decade as student nurse enrollment has increased annually but at the same time budget cuts have led to reductions in many traditional community health services. Therefore more students are competing for a limited number of spots in traditional community sites such as clinics, public health agencies and schools. This has led to a trend of implementing innovative community …

Relationship Between Social Desirability And Perception Of Physical Restraint Use Among Japanese Nurses, Kyoko Shida, Makiko Muya

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Saturday, July 26, 2014:

Purpose: In Japan, the aging society has been growing rapidly. In 2055, it is estimated the aging ratio would be 40.5%. The issues of aging society are proposed from several domains of quality of life. The increase of elderly patients and the shortage of care providers are also big issues. Additionally, ethical consideration for patients has been more and more paid attention under the precarious balance. Many nurses experience ethical dilemma toward elderly care, especially, the use of physical restraint for cognitive impairment. Ethical decision to use of physical restraint is entrusted to …

Difference Of Knowledge And Attitude About Human Pepillomavirus In Male And Female College Students, Dong Sook Cho

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Sunday, July 27, 2014:

Purpose: This study was done to identify the gender difference of knowledge and attitude about Human Pepillomavirus(HPV) in college students.

Methods: A cross-sectional survey design with a convenient sampling was used. The subjects were 215 college students. Data collection was done by self-reporting method from September 10 to 22, 2012. The reliablilty of the instruments were from .81 to .83. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze the characteristics of the sample and knowledge and attitude about Human Pepilomavirus(HPV). The independent t-test and x2test were performed using SPSS 18.0 to confirm gender differences.

Results: …

Daily Eastern News: November 17, 2014, Eastern Illinois University

November

No abstract provided.

Todd Wayne Mulder, Plaintiff/Appellant, Vs. State Of Utah, Defendant/Appellee, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (2007– 2019)

Petitioner Todd Wayne Mulder appeals the dismissal of his past-conviction petition. This court has jurisdiction under Utah Code Annotated §78-A-103(2)(j)(West Supp. 2012.)

Correlations Between Psychological Symptoms And Quality Of Life In Resident Elderly: A Regional Hospital In Taiwan, Su-Jung Jr. Liao, Tse Tsung Liu, Jiin-Ru Rong

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Sunday, July 27, 2014:

Purpose: According to the Council for Economic Planning Committee in Taiwan, said the United Nations and our population data and comparison of the data with the U.S. Census Bureau found that Taiwan's population is aging while compared with 193 countries in the United Nations, and our ranked world No. is 48 in 2010(1). At present, Taiwan's population's "aging index" is only 69% (the so-called aging index is defined as the population aged 65 and over accounted for 0 to 14 year-old the proportion of the elderly population is a young population that's 0.6 …

The Practice Of Skill Training For Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Yasuko Koyano

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Friday, July 25, 2014:

Introduction: The suicide rate in Japan is 24 per 100,000 population, the highest among the seven most developed countries, and Japan even ranks 9th even among the countries of the world as a whole. In 2010, the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare organized a Suicide and depression management project team as an approach to reducing the more than 30,000 suicides that occur in the country annually, and it has vigorously promoted measures to combat suicide. Cases in which patients take excessive amounts of psychotropic drugs prescribed by their physician for the treatment …

Reflecting On International Nursing Programs, Dalit Wilhelm, Cheryl Zlotnick

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Monday, July 28, 2014:

Purpose: "Nurses shall engage in critical reflection of their own values, beliefs, and cultural heritage '," states the Expert Panel on Global Nursing.'The evidence is clear.'As Leininger argues in her theoretical framework, self-reflection is an integral part of nursing education as it promotes self-awareness and assists us to gain cultural-based knowledge. Culture influences the manner in which we obtain, process, and conceptualize (i.e., epistemic beliefs) new knowledge. This qualitative study explores the written reflections of international students who worked on surgical units, and illustrates the impact that culture has on the patterns, processes …

The Effects Of Psychological Nursing Intervention Program On Psychological Distress And Quality Of Life In Women With Breast Cancer Undergoing Chemotherapy, Yeon Hee Kim, Kyung Sook Choi

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Friday, July 25, 2014:

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to develop a psychological nursing intervention program and evaluate the effect on psychological distress and quality of life for women breast cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy.

Methods: The research design was pre and post randomized controlled trials. Development of the psychological nursing intervention program proceeded as follows: (1) The program was based on the guideline of psychological intervention proposed by Fawzy (1996), focusing on chemotherapy symptom management education, coping skill for negative emotion while treatment process, and emotional support: body image, self concept, stress coping, expressing fear …

Family Structure; Process Of Family Life, Communication Patterns And Prevalence Of Smoking, Alcohol And Illicit Drug Use Among Primary Children, Yim Wah Mak, Alice Yuen Loke

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Purpose: This study examined the family structure; process of family life, communication patterns and patterns of smoking, alcohol and illicit drug use among primary children in a deprived district in Hong Kong. Methods: A two-stage random sample of primary five and six school children aged 10-12 years were recruited from 5 schools in two deprived districts in Hong Kong. Children from the schools were completed structured questionnaires in the classroom. Their family life (structure, parenting patterns and process), communication patterns and practices of health risk behaviors (smoking, alcohol and illicit drug use). Results: The prevalence of experimentation with smoking, alcohol …

Engaging Interprofessional Teams: Promoting Community And Global Health Initiatives For Education, Practice, Research And Policy, Quannetta T. Edwards

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Sunday, July 27, 2014:

Assessing the needs of the community is an important part of healthcare and integral to the development, initiation and evaluation of health education programs, policies and regulations that promote population, community and public health and quality of life. The purpose of this symposium is to describe the integration of community and global health into curriculum for education, practice, research and policy initiatives using an inter-professional collaborative team approach consisting of advanced practice nurses (nurse practitioners), public health nurses, physicians, dentists, and public health experts. The program uses a myriad of approaches to provide …

Measurement Of Moral Courage, Georgia A. Dinndorf-Hogenson

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Friday, July 25, 2014:

Purpose: Threats to patient safety exist. Nurse appraisals of these threats and the likelihood to act with moral courage have not been documented. This descriptive correlational study examined moral courage response to threats to patient safety. The moral courage model was based on Lazarus and Folkman's theory of stress and coping. The Dillman, Smythe, and Christenson (2009) tailored design method was used to construct the Moral Courage Questionnaire for Nurses (MCQN) instrument. Moral courage frequency and intensity were explored.

Methods: A randomized mail questionnaire distributed to Midwest perioperative registered nurses yielded 50% response …

Empowering Nursing Students At The Faculte Des Sciences Infirmieres De Leogane (Fsil) To Promote Evidence-Based Practice In Haiti, Marie-Carole France

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Sunday, July 27, 2014:

Purpose: Nursing research is considered one of the most important courses in nursing curricula to prepare baccalaureate-nursing students for evidence-based practice. The purpose of this project was to evaluate how Haitian nursing students at the Faculte des Sciences Infirmieres de Leogane (FSIL) circumvented their traditional subject-focused approach of learning to a process-driven method using problem-based learning (PBL) to stimulate their cognitive skills in the nursing research course.

Methods: To accomplish this goal, innovative teaching strategies: concept mapping, technology support, clinical case scenario, reflection, and group presentations were implemented in the course to help …

Effect Of The "Shisei" Meta-Cognition Educational Program Aiming At The Low Back Pain Improvement Of The Female New Face Nurses In Japan, Keiko Takeda, Yoriko Watanabe

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Friday, July 25, 2014:

Purpose: We examine an effect of the improvement of low back pain of the female nurse by the "SHISEI" Meta-Cognition educational program that we developed.

Methods: The subjects included were 31 female new face nurses with the low back pain in Japan. The purpose of this education program is to enhance awareness of physical and psychosocial factors affecting posture. The educational program is comprised of two elements. In Part 1, we explained it so that nurses could recognize low back pain as biopsychosocial sharp pain syndrome. Then, in Part 2, we introduced a …