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It Takes A Village: Addressing Health Inequities Via Nurse Practitioner Education, Felesia Renee Bowen

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Saturday, July 26, 2014:

Introduction: This presentation describes how nurse practitioner (NP) education can be used to ameliorate the effects of health inequities in an urban area. In the United States (U.S.) minorities who reside in urban areas experience noticeable health inequities when compared with their white counterparts. Primary care providers offer valuable preventive care and screening services that are needed to prevent and manage chronic conditions. Early screening, detection and access to primary care services can make a significant difference in the quality and longevity of an individual's life. Nurse practitioners can ease the burden of …

Who Collaborating Centers Advancing Global Nursing Leadership And Fostering Collaboration, Rachel Blankstein Breman, Phyllis Sharps, Debra Jackson

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Saturday, July 26, 2014: The Johns Hopkins University Center for Global Nursing World Health Organization Collaborating Center (WHO CC) in collaboration with University of Technology Sydney's, WHO CC will present current and past accomplishments of their WHO CCs. There are a variety of forms for WHO CCs such as research institutes, parts of universities or academies, which are designated by the WHO to carry out activities that support WHO activities. Currently there are over 800 WHO collaborating centres in over 80 Member States working with WHO on areas such as nursing,midwifery, occupational health, communicable diseases, nutrition, mental …

Effects Of Advance Care Planning On Knowledge, Behavior And Well Being Of Older People: A Systematic Review Protocol, Mi Fun Ng, Helen Y. L. Chan, Doris Y. P. Leung

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Saturday, July 26, 2014:

Background: Advance Care Planning is a process of discussion about an individual's preferences for care in their anticipation of future deterioration. There are different formats and inconsistent approach in implementing Advance Care Planning to older people. The effectiveness of Advance Care Planning intervention will influence on the knowledge, behavior and well- being in older people.

Method of review: Inclusion Criteria

Types of participants: Older people who are age 60 or over, with or without chronic illness, no restriction on any disease groups and health status of participants.

Types of interventions: Advance Care Planning …

The Discrimination Of Screen Pre-Frailty For Community-Dwelling Elderly People, Shu-Fang Chang

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Friday, July 25, 2014:

Purpose: The purpose of this presentation is to analyze the risk factors and cut-off point of a short battery of physical performance tests for identifying community-dwelling elderly people with pre-frailty.

Methods: A short battery of physical performance tests was employed at community activity center to assess the following characteristics among elderly people: balance, mobility, and flexibility. Instructions were provided to participants by demonstration.

Results: Logistic regression analysis indicated that four indicators were significantly correlated to pre-frailty, that is, pre-frailty included falls in the previous year (OR = 3.05, 95% CI of OR = …

Evidence Of Culturally-Tailored Diabetes Management Program For Asian-American Immigrant Population: A Systematic Literature Review, Jee Young Joo, Hae-Kyung Lee

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Friday, July 25, 2014:

Background: In the United States, Asian immigrants' populations are growing rapidly. In addition, Asian immigrants have a higher prevalence of diabetes diagnosis due to change of diet and lifestyle than other ethnicities. Many hospitals and clinics have offered diabetes programs, but care to ethnic minorities still remains inadequate, ineffective, and inaccessible. Language barriers and lack of health care insurance are the main contributing factors for the lack of effective programming. For these populations, a culturally-tailored diabetes intervention is needed. Cultural tailoring is defined as "employing the native language, integrating cultural dietary preferences, encouraging …

Development Of Multilingual Educational Materials For Postpartum Health Of Immigrant Women In South Korea, Kyungwon Kim

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Sunday, July 27, 2014:

Purpose: This study was to develop educational materials for health care during postpartum periods in foreign women who immigrated to South Korea. Then, educational materials were to translate into their native languages.

Method: This study was composed of three procedures. First, the contents of materials were made up of result from the survey on health care needs of immigrant women and health staffs of the community health centers and group discussion by experts in women's health. Detailed items of contents were based on Roy's adaptation modes. Second, content validity in educational materials was …

The Effectiveness Of Nurse-Led Pre-Operative Assessment Clinics For Patients Receiving Elective Orthopaedic Surgery: A Systematic Review, Sau Man Conny Chan, Janita Pak-Chun Chau, Wan Yim Ip

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Saturday, July 26, 2014:

The effectiveness of nurse-led pre-operative assessment clinics for patients receiving elective orthopaedic surgery: a systematic review. Key words: nurse-led clinic, pre-operative assessment, orthopaedic nursing. Abstract:' Background: Patients are usually admitted to hospital on the day before a scheduled surgery. However, patients are often found not fit for surgery due to changes in their medical or social conditions since the last medical consultation. This results in high cancellation rates on the day of surgery. Evidence suggesting that day of surgery cancellations waste hospital resources and cause anxiety in patients. Nurse-led preoperative assessment clinic (POAC) …

The Nethersole Nursing Practice Research Unit: Reflecting On Its Successes And Challenges In Promoting Evidence-Based Practice In Nursing In Hong Kong, Helen Y. L. Chan, Diana T. F. Lee

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Sunday, July 27, 2014:

Evidence-based practice is a global development trend in the healthcare field with an ultimate goal to promote positive impacts on patient outcomes and care quality. Clinicians are empowered to make care decisions for individual patients on the basis of current best available research evidence together with their clinical expertise and patient preferences. This development trend calls for an urgent need to build capacity among nurses on the integration of research and clinical practice, and hence promote a culture of evidence-based care in nursing. In response to this, the Nethersole Nursing Practice Research Unit …

The Effects Of Ballroom Dance On Blood Pressure, Heart Rate, Weight, Waist Circumference, And Body Mass Index Among Filipino-Americans: A Feasibility Study, Alona Angosta

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

The purpose of this feasibility study was to examine the effects of 3-month ballroom dance on resting blood pressure, heart rate, weight, waist circumference, and body mass index of Filipino American adults.

Promoting And Supporting Breastfeeding: A Local Support Group Perspective, Yu-Chen Huang, Hsien-Hsien Chiang

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Thursday, July 24, 2014:

Purpose: Encouraging breastfeeding is a primary health promotion strategy. Breast-feeding policy helps mothers to extend breastfeeding up to 6 months by local breastfeeding support groups. Through breastfeeding support groups, mothers can continue get information from other experienced mothers and professional health nurses after discharging. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore mother experiences of breastfeeding from women who have breastfed a child in Taiwan's rural area.

Methods: Women were recruited during as peer-support volunteers in Minsyong Township Healthy station, Chiayi County, Taiwan between April 2012 and September 2012. A hermeneutic approach …

A Correlational Study In Older Adults With Metabolic Syndrome, Yi-Lin Su

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Friday, July 25, 2014:

Purpose: To investigate the correlated factors of elderly people with metabolic syndrome.

Methods: The method was based on cross-sectional survey and convenient sampling. Data were collected through a structured questionnaire assessing personal information, disease related information, health promotion lifestyle and perceived health status of each respondent. The respondents were selected from elderly people who took a health exam in a regional hospital in Taipei City in 2010 and elderly people who needed to visit the hospital for follow-up assessment or treatment of metabolic syndrome.

Results: Two hundred and twenty questionnaires were distributed, and …

The Risk Demographic Predictors Of Low Health Promotion Lifestyles In Caregivers Of Children With Disabilities, Jen-Kuei Ko, Ying-Hui Lin, Jih-Yuan Chen, Ming-Hong Yen

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Sunday, July 27, 2014:

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the risk demographic factors is related to the risk of low Health Promotion Lifestyles scale and subscales scores in caregivers of disabled children. We can early find the groups of risk demographic factors and provide those who have risk factors about the health promotion information and intervention.

Methods: A total of 251 caregivers for health promotion assessment in the department of pediatric psychology and hereditary counseling and a setting of Taiwan muscular dystrophy association at southern Taiwan. Health-promoting lifestyle Scale in Chinese version was …

Success Against All Odds Lessons Learned From Successful, Impoverished Students, Amanda L. King

Senior Honors Theses

The effects of poverty on students’ education have been well documented and a positive correlation can be seen between these effects and their academic success. What is unclear, however, are the exceptions to this correlation. How do students from low-socio-economic status (SES) families succeed despite the seemingly insurmountable odds they face? The literature from a wide variety of longitudinal—and interview-based studies from the past three decades suggests that character traits such as persistence, determination, and curiosity are key to their success. Schools with a majority student body from low-SES homes have found success in meeting and exceeding state standards through …

Transition Experiences Out Of Intercollegiate Athletics: A Meta-Synthesis, Rhema D. Fuller

The Qualitative Report

Given the renewed focus as to the degree in which institutions of higher education are preparing their student-athletes for life after sports, this study used a qualitative meta-synthesis research method design to examine the transition experiences of college athletes out of intercollegiate sport. The researcher synthesized data from nine qualitative studies, leading to the identification of six themes characteristic of the transition experience: athletic identity, anticipation and preparation, branching out, satisfaction with athletic performance, loss of camaraderie and support systems. Finally, the manuscript discusses the results of the meta-synthesis in light of their theoretical and practical implications.

"I'D Rather Dance Outside": A Phenomenological Examination Of Youth Experiences In Outdoor, Noncompetitive Physical Activity, Richard W. Christiana, Marsha Davis, Melissa Freeman

The Qualitative Report

Research has shown that youth with low levels of fitness or little interest in organized sports and traditional physical education are more likely to participate in noncompetitive outdoor physical activity. However, little is known about what influences youths’ decisions to participate in these activities. This study examined rural young adolescents’ experiences of participating in noncompetitive outdoor physical activity. In depth qualitative interviews were conducted with young adolescents aged 11-13 years (N = 24) from one rural middle school to elicit detailed descriptions of experiences of participation in outdoor physical activities. Interview transcripts were analyzed inductively and emergent themes related to …

Plasticity In The Contribution Of T Cell Receptor Variable Region Residues To Binding Of Peptide-Hla-A2 Complexes, Sheena N. Smith, Daniel Sommermeyer, Kurt H. Piepenbrink, Sydney J. Blevins, Helga Bernhard, Wolfgang Uckert, Brian M. Baker, David M. Kranz

Food for Health: Publications

One hypothesis to account for MHC-restriction by T cell receptors (TCRs) holds that there are several evolutionary-conserved residues in TCR variable regions that contact MHC. While this ‘germline-codon’ hypothesis is supported by various lines of evidence, it has been difficult to test. The difficulty stems in part from the fact that TCRs exhibit low affinities for pep/MHC, thus limiting the range of binding energies that can be assigned to these key interactions using mutational analyses. To measure the magnitude of binding energies involved, here we used high affinity TCRs engineered by mutagenesis of CDR3. The TCRs included a high-affinity, MART-1/ …

Performance Of A Temperate-Zone Channel Catfish Biofloc Technology Production System During Winter, Bartholomew W. Green

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

Channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) have been grown successfully in an outdoor biofloc technology production system. Outdoor biofloc production systems in the tropic sare operated year-round, whereas the channel catfish studies were conducted only during the growing season and biofloc production tanks were harvested and idled for the winter. If an outdoor biofloc production system is to be adopted by farmers at temperate latitudes, then data gaps related to system and fish performance over the winter must be addressed. The present study was conducted to address these data gaps for channel catfish culture. Waters from a recently completed biofloc …

The Induction Of The P53 Tumor Suppressor Protein Bridges The Apoptotic And Autophagic Signaling Pathways To Regulate Cell Death In Prostate Cancer Cells., Lymor Ringer, Paul Sirajuddin, Lucas Tricoli, Sarah Waye, Muhammad Umer Choudhry, Erika Parasido, Angiela Sivakumar, Mary Heckler, Aisha Naeem, Iman Abdelgawad, Xuefeng Liu, Adam S Feldman, Richard J Lee, Chin-Lee Wu, Venkata Yenugonda, Bhaskar Kallakury, Anatoly Dritschilo, John Lynch, Richard Schlegel, Olga Rodriguez, Richard Pestell, Maria Laura Avantaggiati, Chris Albanese

Kimmel Cancer Center Faculty Papers

The p53 tumor suppressor protein plays a crucial role in influencing cell fate decisions in response to cellular stress. As p53 elicits cell cycle arrest, senescence or apoptosis, the integrity of the p53 pathway is considered a key determinant of anti-tumor responses. p53 can also promote autophagy, however the role of p53-dependent autophagy in chemosensitivity is poorly understood. VMY-1-103 (VMY), a dansylated analog of purvalanol B, displays rapid and potent anti-tumor activities, however the pathways by which VMY works are not fully defined. Using established prostate cancer cell lines and novel conditionally reprogrammed cells (CRCs) derived from prostate cancer patients; …

Understanding Perceptions And Attitudes To Risk In The Tourism Industry, Anthony Clayton, Lourdes Cisneros Mustelier, Maximiliano E. Korstanje

International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage

An increasingly complex and rapidly-evolving array of risks presents one of the greatest challenges for decision-makers in all sectors, including the transport and tourism industry. The prospects of an international destination can be profoundly damaged in minutes as a result of a major outbreak of infectious disease, a natural disaster or a terrorist incident. It is therefore vital to understand the changing nature of risk and the ways that risks are perceived and understood, especially as people tend to respond to the perception of risks rather than actual risks, which means that their responses are not always rational and can …

The New Hampshire, Vol. 104 [105], No. 18 (Nov. 14, 2014), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire. This volume was printed as 104, but it is the 105th volume in the series. This was corrected in pencil.

Nebraska Libraries - Volume 2, Number 4 (November 2014)

Nebraska Libraries

No abstract provided.

A Comparison Of The Caulobacter Na1000 And K31 Genomes Reveals Extensive Genome Rearrangements And Differences In Metabolic Potential, Craig Stephens, Kurt Ash, Theta Brown, Tynetta Watford, Latia E. Scott, Bert Ely

Biology

The genus Caulobacter is found in a variety of habitats and is known for its abilityto thrive in low-nutrient conditions. K31 is a novel Caulobacter isolate that has the ability to tolerate copper and chlorophenols, and can grow at 48Cwith a doubling time of 40 h. K31 contains a 5.5 Mb chromosome that codes for more than 5500 proteins and two large plasmids (234 and 178 kb) thatcode for 438 additional proteins. A comparison of the K31 and the Caulobactercrescentus NA1000 genomes revealed extensive rearrangements of gene order,suggesting that the genomes had been randomly scrambled. However, a careful analysis revealed …

Do Wetland Characteristics, Specifically Plant Communities, Surface Water, And Soils Play A Significant Role In Whooping Crane (Grus Americana) Site Selection?, Kristin Marie Bahleda

Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

To examine the relationship of environmental conditions and their effect on Whooping crane (Grus americana) nest site selection; wetland soils, plant community structure and surface water quality were analyzed throughout nineteen established nest sites and twenty non-nesting wetland sites. Due to past fire management throughout the refuge, the effects of fire history were also investigated by comparing burned (n=17) and un-burned (n=22) areas.

A multi-dimensional scaling analysis did not detect significant differences in plant community structure between nest and non-nesting sites, but did find a significant difference with respect to time since last burn. Soil parameters were not …

Modulation Of The Cardiac Calcium Release Channel By Homocysteine Thiolactone, Laura Jean Owen

Dissertations and Theses

Elevated levels in blood serum (≥10μmol/L) of the amino acid homocysteine is strongly correlated with the incidence of heart failure (HF). We present evidence that the cyclic thioester, homocysteine thiolactone (HTL), a metabolic product of homocysteine, irreversibly modifies proteins that regulate the contractile process in cardiac muscle. Two proteins found in the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR), the Ca²⁺ pump (SERCA2), and the ryanodine receptor (RyR2), are responsible for controlling the cytosolic Ca²⁺ concentration and hence the contractile state of the heart. While both improper Ca²⁺ handling and elevated homocysteine levels have been considered bio-markers in HF, a direct …

Connecting Undergraduate Science Education With The Needs Of Today's Graduates, Viviane Callier, Richard H. Singiser, Nathan L. Vanderford

Markey Cancer Center Faculty Publications

Undergraduate science programs are not providing graduates with the knowledgebase and skills they need to be successful on today’s job market. Curricular changes relevant to today’s marketplace and more opportunities for internships and work experience during students’ secondary education would facilitate a smoother transition to the working world and help employers find graduates that possess both the hard and soft skills needed in the workplace. In this article, we discuss these issues and offer solutions that would generate more marketplace-ready undergraduates.

Examination Of Possible Protective Effect Of Rhesus D Positive Blood Factor On Toxoplasma-Related Depressive Symptoms In Pregnancy, Lisa Lynn Parnell

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Toxoplasma gondii infects approximately one third of the population worldwide. There is strong evidence that a relationship between T. gondii titer and depressive symptoms exists. There is also evidence suggesting a protective effect of RhD positive blood factor on toxoplasma-induced behavioral and personality changes. This protective effect may influence the relationship between T. gondii and prenatal depressive symptoms. The purpose of this secondary data analysis was to examine the possible protective effect of RhD positive blood factor on prenatal depressive symptoms in 56 pregnant women with T. gondii infection. The cross-sectional design was utilized to answer the question “Does positive …

Meeting Minutes, Wku Graduate Council

Graduate School

Meeting minutes.

November Agenda, Wku Graduate Council

Graduate School

Meeting agenda.

Parental Perception Of Healty Eating And Physical Activity: Results From A Preliminary Photovoice Study, Nicole Mareno

Faculty Articles

The aim of this study was to explore parental perception of assets and barriers of healthy eating and physical activity among a group of diverse, economically disadvantaged mothers in southeastern USA.

The Setonian, November 13, 2014, Seton Hall University

2014

No abstract provided.