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The Free Press Vol 46 Issue 9, 11-17-2014, Sam Hill

Free Press, The

Admins continue to work on teach-out plan--Chronicling USM’s national media attention--USM combines student services for savings--USM Preservation Fund meets $10,000 goal--Student worries about value of her education--Transfer students unaware of budget crisis

Nonpolitical Images Evoke Neural Predictors Of Political Ideology, Woo-Young Ahn, Kenneth T. Kishida, Xiaosi Gu, Terry Lohrenz, Ann Harvey, John R. Alford, Kevin B. Smith, Gideon Yaffe, John R. Hibbing, Peter Dayan, P. Read Montague

Department of Political Science: Faculty Publications

Political ideologies summarize dimensions of life that define how a person organizes their public and private behavior, including their attitudes associated with sex, family, education, and personal autonomy [1, 2]. Despite the abstract nature of such sensibilities, fundamental features of political ideology have been found to be deeply connected to basic biological mechanisms [3–7] that may serve to defend against environmental challenges like contamination and physical threat [8–12]. These results invite the provocative claim that neural responses to nonpolitical stimuli (like contaminated food or physical threats) should be highly predictive of abstract political opinions (like attitudes toward gun control and …

Implementation Of An Innovative Interprofessional Curriculum For Community Assessment, Practice, And Research For Masters' And Doctoral Education, Quannetta T. Edwards

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Sunday, July 27, 2014:

Purpose: Describe the implementation of an innovative inter-professional curriculum for community assessment practice, and research for doctoral education and discuss innovative approaches utilizing vulnerability and community assessment models.

Methods: Descriptive summary of an innovative curriculum designed for doctoral students (i.e. nurses and physicians) using inter-professional collaborative team approach at multi-centers at one large Health Science University (centers in Oregon and California). The program uses a myriad of approaches to provide a thorough assessment of community/populations that includes an analysis of social, epidemiological, behavioral , environmental and predisposing, enabling and reinforcing factors that impact …

The Family Partners For Health Study: A Randomized Cluster Control Trial For Child And Parent Weight Management, Diane C. Berry, Madeline Neal, Natnaree Aimyong, Robert G. Mcmurray, Gail D'Eramo Melkus, Emily Gail Hall, Todd A. Schwartz, Dean J. Amatuli

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Sunday, July 27, 2014:

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to test a two-phased nutrition and exercise education, coping skills training, and exercise intervention for overweight or obese low-income ethnic minority 2nd to 4th grade children and their parents in rural North Carolina, U.S.

Methods: A cluster randomized controlled trial was carried out with 358 children (7-10 years) and a parent (n = 358). General linear mixed models were used to determine the effects of the intervention on weight, adiposity, health behaviors and eating and exercise self-efficacy by examining changes in children and parents from baseline …

Changing Southern African Nurses' Roles In Antibiotic Stewardship: An Innovative Pedagogical Approach, Christine Amalia Varga

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Saturday, July 26, 2014:

Purpose: The purpose of this presentation is to describe the roles nurses can play in antimicrobial stewardship, lessons learned in the creation of health-related e-learning efforts in a developing country context. It will also illustrate means of encouraging inter-disciplinary strategies to antimicrobial steward through innovative pedagical approaches. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is an international health concern and major threat to global stability (Laxminarayan et al., 2007). While drug resistance is increasing worldwide, evidence suggests that AMR is disproportionately high in developing countries (Nweneka et al., 2009). This is certainly true for (southern) African countries, …

Global Epidemics Of Type 2 Diabetes And Cardiovascular Disease: Nursing Opportunities For Prevention And Management, Deborah Chyun

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Saturday, July 26, 2014:

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death throughout the world. Type 2 diabetes (T2DM) is not only an important risk factor for the development of CVD, but a prognostic marker for CVD-related morbidity and mortality. An additional challenge is that individuals with T2DM frequently do not display symptoms of coronary artery disease (CAD) and therefore CAD is often discovered late in the disease process. This session will explore the challenges in the prevention, detection and management of CVD in adults with T2DM through the current literature, as well as through the …

Understanding Workplace Reciprocity Of Emergency Nurses: A Qualitative Study, Christine Marie Corcoran

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Emergency Departments (ED) are unpredictable environments and are well-known for instantaneous change. At one moment, the ED may be relatively quiet and then suddenly ambulances and helicopters arrive with multiple patients from a serious car accident. Typically, nurses are the first healthcare provider encountered by the patient. Given the rapid changes, this is an environment with high levels of stress and more so for the ED nurse (Browning, Ryan, Thomas, Greenberg, & Rolniak, 2007; Spence, Laschinger, & Havens, 1997). EDs are open for patient care all day, every day. The flow of patients and their reasons for presenting to the …

Face-To-Face To Email To Helpp Zone App: Delivering Intervention In Intimate Partner Violence, Rose E. Constantino

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Thursday, July 24, 2014:

Purpose: To compare the effectiveness of HELPP (Health, Education on safety, and Legal Participant Preferred) intervention among three groups of participants experiencing IPV: online, face-face and waitlist controls.

Methods: A sequential transformative design in mixed methods was used. Participants were randomly assigned to one of three study groups (Online (ONL [n=11]), Face-to-Face (FTF [n=10]) and Waitlist Control (WLC [n=11]) by permuted block randomization after informed consent process and baseline testing were completed. Researchers were blinded to treatment allocation.

Results: The HELPP intervention was offered to a sample 32 female participants experiencing IPV who …

Women's Health And Sleep Research: A Health Ecology Exemplar For Dialogue On The Keys To Building A Research Career, Joan L. Shaver

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Friday, July 25, 2014: This session will involve interactive dialogue between the audience and presenter related to the strategies and skills needed for the building of an interdisciplinary research program as an academic clinician scientist. An exemplar of midlife women's health and sleep science according to a health ecology framework will be outlined. Revealed will be the research program outcomes, meaning for clinical practice and science growth potentials. Going beyond the typical Q & A, integrated will be opportunity for presenter and audience ideas, lessons learned and tips. Content to include how to: optimize success in attaining …

Predictors Of Depression Among Midlife Women In South Korea, Ok Kyung Ham, Eun-Ok Im

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Friday, July 25, 2014:

Purpose: Across the globe, depressive symptoms are more prevalent in women compared with men. Especially among Korean midlife women in South Korea, the prevalence of depressive symptoms ranged from 14 to 22%. Furthermore, within the population, women with specific characteristics (e.g., low income) were reported to experience depressive symptoms more than their counterparts. The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of depressive symptoms and identify predictors of depressive symptoms among midlife women in Korea.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among a convenient sample of 200 midlife women recruited from …

Enhancing Adherence To Treatment For Clients With Serious Mental Illness, Valerie N. Markley

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Non-adherence to treatment is a common problem in many chronic disorders with higher rates among clients with mental disorders. Non-adherence to treatment greatly compromises the effectiveness of psychiatric treatment and is associated with higher rates of relapse, hospitalization, and increased health care costs. Hildegard Peplau's theory of the nurse-client relationship and Ludwig von Bertalanffy's general system theory provide a model for intervening to increase adherence. The study was conducted over a 90 day period in the outpatient service of a for-profit psychiatric hospital. The intervention involved communication between office visits by an advanced practice nurse who contacted clients via phone …

Using Social Network Analysis To Depict The Structure Of Research Collaborations, Beth Baldwin Tigges, Shana Lane, Richard S. Larson

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Sunday, July 27, 2014: Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the structure of internal pilot grant collaborations in the first three years of the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center (UNM HSC) Clinical and Translational Science Center (CTSC) in the U.S. using social network analysis. Research funding agencies are increasingly prioritizing research that involves collaboration across multiple disciplines or specialties, institutions, or geographical locations. Social network analysis is one analytic tool that is useful for depicting the structure of collaboration and changes over time. In the U.S., initiatives such as the National Institutes …

Implementation Of An Innovative Interprofessional Global Health Curriculum For Doctoral Education, Ivy Tuason

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Sunday, July 27, 2014:

Purpose: The purpose of the presentation is to describe the implementation of an innovative inter-profession global health curriculum for doctoral education; and to discuss global health experiences that can be applied to doctoral students.

Methods: Curriculum development of an innovative global health program within an existing course in doctoral education using inter-professional collaborative teams of global health experts. Emphasis is on core concepts of global health, global health core competencies and practice experiences.

Results: Comprehensive modules were implemented enabling students an in-depth analysis of global health including its importance andrelevance to health and …

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 …

Sleep And Adolescent Obesity: Results From The Creating Opportunities For Personal Empowerment (Cope) Randomized Controlled Trial, Diana L. Jacobson

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Sunday, July 27, 2014:

Purpose: The purpose of this presentation is to report baseline findings related to sleep, gender, weight and mood in adolescents participating in the NIH funded, COPE healthy lifestyles intervention which was delivered by trained health teachers in high schools in a large, southwest metropolitan area.

Methods: Several analyses were conducted on this large sample of 14-17 year old adolescents including: (1) chi square (2) t-tests, (3) frequencies, and (4) Pearson's correlations. Comparisons were conducted between males/females and overweight/non-overweight participants.

Results: There were 779 teens in this study. The majority of adolescents were Hispanic …

Parent's Perception Of Recommendation Of Hpv Vaccination For Adolescent Children, Maria Jefferson-Walker

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there are approximately 40 types of genital HPV. Some types are responsible for most cases of cervical cancer in woman and other forms of cancer in men and women. Other types of HPV are responsible for genital warts in both men and women ('HPV Vaccinations,' 2011). In a CDC report (2011), in the United States, 11,000 new cases of cervical cancer occur each year and about 1 in 100 sexually active individuals contract genital warts at some time. The purpose of this study is to examine parents' knowledge regarding HPV, …

Factors Associated With Physical Activity In Kindergarten Children, Carol L. Hammonds, Janet C. Meininger

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Sunday, July 27, 2014:

Purpose: Reversing obesity is an urgent public health need for children: worldwide, in 2011 more than 40 million children under the age of five were overweight 1. Increasing intensity and duration of physical activity (PA) is a strategy to aid in preventing and reducing obesity. According to limited available research, PA in kindergarten children is decreasing below recommended guidelines and sedentary behavior is increasing 2; the potential to change the obesity trajectory, however, is greater in early childhood when healthy behaviors are 'imprinted' and entrenched 3. More than 11,207,000 children in the United …

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 …

Effects Of Shift Work Change On Occupational Stress In South Korean Female Nurses, Bokim Lee, Hyesun Jung

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Friday, July 25, 2014:

Purpose: For adequate care of shift workers' health, it is essential to understand the relationship between shift work schedule change and job stress. However, there is no published research on the association between shift work schedule change and job stress among South Korean workers, especially South Korean female nurses. The purpose of this study was to examine differences in job stress by shift work schedule change and to determine the association of shift work schedule change to job stress among South Korean female nurses.

Methods: A cohort of 781 nurses was established in …

Factors Affecting The Timing Of An Autism Spectrum Diagnosis, Ashley Darcy Mahoney, Bonnie Minter, Melinda Higgins

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Sunday, July 27, 2014:

Purpose: The prevalence of children with autistic spectrum disorders (ASD) has increased over the past two decades. Over this same time period, the number of infants born preterm has also increased. Early diagnosis of ASD enables interventions that improve the functioning of children with ASD. To address the question of whether late-preterm (LPT, 34-36 weeks) infants carry the same risk for ASD as full-term infants, this study explored possible relationships between gestational age and ASD diagnosis. Additionally, this study addressed how maternal education, race, age, marital status and neonatal factors collectively affect the …

Face-To-Face To Email To Helpp Zone App: Delivering Intervention In Intimate Partner Violence, Rose E. Constantino

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Thursday, July 24, 2014:

Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) is a pervasive but preventable social and public health problem but if left unresolved results in millions of injuries and more than 1000 deaths in the U. S. annually. In addition, IPV comes at an enormous cost to physical, mental, economic, and social well-being at $13.6 billion and is expected to rise to $15.6 billion by 2021. Survivors of IPV do not receive the needed intervention because they may not seek it, if they seek it, they may present a different unrelated cause of the injury. The Department of …

Law And Religion: Sharia Law And The First Amendment, Joseph A. Williamson

Senior Honors Theses

America has long been seen as the capital of religious freedom and individual rights. In recent years a debate has arisen over whether an individual can personally adhere to the legal concept of sharia law under the protections of the first amendment. At the center of this debate is precedent that can be drawn from previous interactions between religion and American ideals. Two similar issues that have been settled both judicially and legislatively are the conscientious draft objector and the federal prohibition of polygamy. By studying the roots of Islamic law and then the basis of these two concepts, a …

Pathogenic Landscape Of Transboundary Zoonotic Diseases In The Mexico–Us Border Along The Rio Grande, Maria Dolores Esteve-Gassent, Adalberto A. Pérez De León, Dora Romero-Salas, Teresa Patricia Feria-Arroyo, Ramiro Patino, John A. Goolsby

School of Integrative Biological & Chemical Sciences (Formerly Dept. of Biology)

Transboundary zoonotic diseases, several of which are vector borne, can maintain a dynamic focus and have pathogens circulating in geographic regions encircling multiple geopolitical boundaries. Global change is intensifying transboundary problems, including the spatial variation of the risk and incidence of zoonotic diseases.The complexity of these challenges can be greater in areas where rivers delineate international boundaries and encompass transitions between ecozones.The Rio Grande serves as a natural border between the US State ofTexas and the Mexican States of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, andTamaulipas. Not only do millions of people live in this transboundary region, but also a substantial amount …

Mmu: 11/17/14–11/23/14, Student Bar Association

Monday Morning Update

The Monday Morning Update, or MMU as it is referred to by students, is a weekly email newsletter of news, events, and opportunities of special interest to Notre Dame Law School students.

Biomodd: Exploring Relationships Between Biological, Electronic, And Social Systems Through New Media Art, Ds Maranan, Ad Librero

School of Art, Design and Architecture

Biomodd is a collaborative new media art project that explores the symbiosis between biological, electronic, and social systems. The project started in 2007 in the United States, and has since spawned multiple versions globally. The Philippine team was led by educators from the UP Open University, who organized a course on new media art practice as a springboard for exploring and developing the project. We discuss the imaginative and abstract relationships between biological, eletronic, and social systems that learners articulated over the course of the project. We describe how local, culturally-specific narrative elements were imaginatively integrated into the physical and …

Basic Principles And Applications Of Community-Based Participatory Research To Advance Nursing Science In Hiv Prevention, Adeline Nyamathi, Deborah Koniak-Griffin

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Sunday, July 27, 2014:

This session introduces participants to Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) and provides case illustrations of research applying this approach. Participants learn how CBPR, also known as community-partnered research, differs from traditional research; the rationale for using the approach and historical grounding in nursing; fundamental principles of how CBPR is conducted; and strategies to facilitate the planning of research in collaboration with the communities. The workshop also includes information on establishing effective community advisory boards. Guidelines are provided for implementation and evaluation of CBPR. The Anderson Community Partnership Model is presented with its process phases …

Innovative Approaches To Clinical Teaching And Learning: Caring For Clients Undergoing Perioperative Surgical Experiences By Nursing Students, Dora Maria Carbonu

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Saturday, July 26, 2014:

Purpose: Clinical Instructors are constantly challenged to optimize clinical teaching and learning opportunities for students, to master technical skills while providing patient care through critical thinking and reflecting on their performance.

Method: Students in the Nursing Program at Nunavut Arctic College are oriented to client assignments a day before clinical placement, visit the Unit and, utilizing the nursing process, develop a client-specific care plan for implementation and ensure optimal outcomes during client care. In 2013 academic year, the third-year students' clinical placement included Day Surgery and Operating Room (OR) ' to acquire skills …

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 …

Understanding The Families' Needs: Interventions For Family Members Of Adolescents With Disruptive Behavior Disorders, Ukamaka Marian Oruche

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Sunday, July 27, 2014:

Purpose: Adolescents with Disruptive Behavior Disorders (DBD) including Oppositional Defiant Disorder and Conduct Disorder present unique challenges to their families. DBD are prevalent and serious mental disorders first diagnosed in childhood. DBD are characterized by hostile, aggressive, defiant, and antisocial behaviors. These adolescents are at risk to drop out of school, abuse drugs, or be arrested. Therefore, family members of adolescents with DBD experience overwhelming and unrelenting stress related to the difficult challenges of managing the adolescents' behavior problems and interacting-often on a daily basis-with the mental health, schools, child welfare, and juvenile …

Activation Planning: Preparing A Workforce For Expansion Into A New Healthcare Facility, Katherine Pakieser-Reed, Emily Lowder, Sally Black

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Friday, July 25, 2014:

Background and Purpose: An organization faces many challenges when building a new healthcare facility and preparing to move or expand into this facility. Strategies to plan and implement such a move have been described in the literature. Guzman, Nering, and Salamandra (2008) outline the use of specific project management tools and the application of the nursing process (assess, plan, implement, and evaluate) in organizational transition planning. The scope of a successful transition plan must address the roles and responsibilities of organizational members, licensing and regulatory requirements, a transition budget, move planning, and management …