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Investigation Of Cultural, Social, And Religious Aspects Of Saudi Arabia And Neighboring States And Implications For Best Practice In Health Education And Promotion, Sami Abdulrahman Al-Hamidi

Biennial Convention (CONV)

Session presented on Monday, November 9, 2015 and Tuesday, November 10, 2015:

Gulf culture has been examined in a variety of mediums but a thorough survey of its structure for use by health care practitioners and nurses in particular has not been made. Since the majority of health care in that location is provided by non-Saudis, this work should be a major assistance to health care professionals in that locale. It should further be of assistance as a guide for inquiry to professionals who are working in cultures which they are seeking to understand. By examining the cultural, social, and …

A Changed Approach In The Management Of Chronic Non-Cancer Pain In Older Adults, Lisa R. Binns-Emerick, Mary Beth Lepczyk, Claudia Jean Beverly

Biennial Convention (CONV)

Session presented on Saturday, November 7, 2015 and Sunday, November 8, 2015:

Inappropriate use of opiate medication for the management of chronic pain by older adults is fraught with challenges for the patient as well as healthcare providers. The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) recently changed the scheduling of hydrocodone combination products which created an opportunity to change pain management prescribing patterns and use for our elderly patients. The number of older adults, with their ever more complex needs, will continue to increase as the baby boomers age in our country thus having nurse leaders poised to address these needs within …

Launch Of An Interdisciplinary Poverty Simulation, Terry Delpier, Karen H. Morin, Karen L. Carlson

Biennial Convention (CONV)

Session presented on Saturday, November 7, 2015 and Sunday, November 8, 2015: Background: Poverty is a significant issue in the United States. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the 2013 poverty rate was 14.5%, with a 19.9% poverty rate for children. Living in poverty is associated with significant long-term consequences, especially for children. Children are more likely to have lower levels of cognitive development with lower levels of educational achievements, and are also more likely to develop behavior problems and mental health issues that may continue into adulthood (Edin & Kissane, 2010). For people of all ages, living in poverty …

Filling The Gaps: How "Super Utilizers" Received Care Through A Hospital-School Of Nursing Partnership, Della J. Anderson

Biennial Convention (CONV)

Session presented on Saturday, November 7, 2015 and Sunday, November 8, 2015: Purpose: Our Emergency Department (ED) was experiencing increased visits by a patient population referred to as "Super Utilizers." The Continuum of Care department recognized an opportunity for innovative collaboration with the Emergency Department (ED) and an affiliated School of Nursing. A zero cost model program was created using Camden Model/Spectrum Health/Colorado Mental Health Model of Care as the basis. We determined these patients returned because of challenges in access to a primary care; inability to pay for healthcare services; lack of health education; or desire for social interaction. …

Nurses Taking The Lead In Healthcare Teams: The Sbirt Model - Integrating Evidence-Based Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral And Treatment For Persons At Risk For Substance Use And Mental Disorders, Pamela G. Lusk

Biennial Convention (CONV)

Session presented on Saturday, November 7, 2015:

Nurses are often the first line healthcare providers for persons entering a healthcare setting. There is strong evidence to support a model of screening all persons who enter the healthcare setting for risky behaviors- behaviors that put them at risk for developing a substance abuse or mental disorder. An evidence based model, promoted by SAMHSA - the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services - Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, for identifying persons at risk, and then providing active early intervention is SBIRT - Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment. …

Care Coordination Clinical Reasoning Model For Advanced Practice Nurses, Ruthanne Kuiper

Biennial Convention (CONV)

Session presented on Sunday, November 8, 2015:

In the current health care arena, practice has shifted to include systems thinking and value network analysis to determine priority patient health care issues that interface with interdependent health care provider roles and relationships. The major focus of current health care practice is interest in identification and achievement of patient health outcomes. To function effectively in this arena, nurses need outcome specification skills. The role of case manager and care coordinator is becoming essential for meeting patient health care outcomes. Advance practice nurses such as nurse practitioners in these roles require additional clinical …

Cultural Diversity In Childbirth Practices In A Rural Community In Southern Nigeria, Ekpoanwan E. Esienumoh, Idongesit I. Akpabio, Josephine Bassey Etowa, Heather Waterman

Biennial Convention (CONV)

Session presented on Tuesday, November 10, 2015: Cultural diversity refers to the differences between people based on shared ideology and valued set of beliefs, norms, customs and meanings evidenced in a way of life. Knowledge of cultural diversity is important at all levels of nursing and midwifery care as this addresses ethnic and racial differences where applicable. Additionally, such knowledge can strengthen and broaden the healthcare delivery system through conceptualization of illness and development of treatment models. It is acknowledged that in a typical nurse/midwife-patient/client encounter, there is interplay of three cultural systems namely, the culture of the nurse/the profession, …

Strategies To Grow And Sustain A Competency Assessment Model Utilizing The Quality Safety Education For Nurses (Qsen) In The Clinical Setting, Ciara Culhane

Biennial Convention (CONV)

In the practice setting, a comprehensive measurement of competency assessment is essential in initial orientation and ongoing education of clinical staff. This presentation will describe how a large academic healthcare system integrated, expanded, and sustained a clinical competency assessment model utilizing the Quality Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) framework. As the Institute of Medicine (IOM) identified criteria for nursing to provide safe quality patient care, it became apparent the use of a traditional skills checklist was not an accurate measurement of competency. This shifted the thought process from measuring skills to a more comprehensive approach including knowledge, skills and attitudes. …

On The Road To Information Literacy: Mapping Il Learning Outcomes To Service Learning Courses, Olivia H. Ivey

The Colloquium on Libraries & Service Learning

Community Based Learning courses are on the rise at American University. Under the Guidance of the Center for Community Engagement and Service (CCES), faculty build courses that focus students’ attention on the intersection of community involvement, academic study, and practical experience. Just as these programs are beginning to mature, the Faculty Senate Committee on Learning Assessment (COLA) has begun promoting AU’s new institutional learning outcomes, including information literacy. This presentation will explore the role librarians played in including information literacy as an institutional learning outcome and ways they have reached out to service and community based learning groups on campus. …

Utilizing Prosecutorial Discretion To Reduce The Number Of Juveniles With Disabilities In The Juvenile Justice System, Mary Willis

Brigham Young University Education and Law Journal

No abstract provided.

New Roles For Non-Lawyers To Increase Access To Justice, Richard Zorza, David Udell

Fordham Urban Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Rethinking Critical Consciousness: Latina Teachers, Latina Girls, And Alternative Educational Spaces, Salvador Martin

LMU Theses and Dissertations

Latinas face many challenges within public schools. They are a marginalized group that has struggled to overcome the effects of practices that have created entrenched cycles of poverty and educational failure. The development of a critical consciousness has been proposed as a means of resisting and transcending oppression. Freire (1970) defined conscientização, or critical consciousness, as “learning to perceive social, political, and economic contradictions, and to take action against oppressive elements of reality” (p.19). This study reexamined the development and nature of critical consciousness through the use of critical feminist methodologies. Standpoint theories assisted in the development of counter-stories that …

Parents’ Perceptions Of Partners In Print, A Family Literacy Program, Rebecca Jane Godbey

LMU Theses and Dissertations

Partners in Print, a family literacy program, was brought to the urban elementary school in this study to educate and empower kindergarten and first grade parents to promote literacy development at home. This research aimed to explore the impact of participation in this program after consistent participation by utilizing a one-group pre-test, post-test research design. The Parent Empowerment and Home Literacy Environment Survey, which included both structured and unstructured questions, was administered before and after participation in the program to elicit notions of parent empowerment and growth in the home literacy environment. Parent participants also completed a document review of …

The Absence Of Aspiration In The Era Of Accountability, Mary R. Martinez

LMU Theses and Dissertations

Reforms early in the 21st century purported to close the achievement gap between White students and students of color, to provide accountability and transparency to taxpayers, to implement meaningful consequences for low-performing schools, and to create the workforce for the century. In this study, I investigated the effects of school reform on the lived experiences of students who graduated from high school in 2014 by inquiring into six young people’s perceptions of their schooling. I sought to better understand whether participants were aware of the existence and intent of school reforms, and how or whether their aspirations for their futures …

Jody Williams Great Lakes Peace Jam Nobel Laureate, John M. Dunn

WMU President John Dunn

No abstract provided.

The Double Disparity Facing Rural Local Health Departments, Jenine K. Harris, Kate E. Beatty, J. P. Leider, Alana Knudson, Britta L. Anderson, Michael Meit

ETSU Faculty Works

Residents of rural jurisdictions face significant health challenges, including some of the highest rates of risky health behaviors and worst health outcomes of any group in the country. Rural communities are served by smaller local health departments (LHDs) that are more understaffed and underfunded than their suburban and urban peers. As a result of history and current need, rural LHDs are more likely than their urban peers to be providers of direct health services, leading to relatively lower levels of population-focused activities. This review examines the double disparity faced by rural LHDs and their constituents: pervasively poorer health behaviors and …

A Poor Idea: Statute Of Limitations Decisions Cement Second-Class Remedial Scheme For Low-Income Children With Disabilities In The Third Circuit, Jennifer Rosen Valverde

Fordham Urban Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Victim Offender Mediation: When Divergent Paths And Destroyed Lives Come Together For Healing, Clynton Namuo

Georgia State University Law Review

No abstract provided.

Lanthorn, Vol. 50, No. 49, March 17, 2016, Grand Valley State University

Volume 50, July 13, 2015 - June 6, 2016

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

The Setonian, March 17, 2016, Seton Hall University

2016

No abstract provided.

March Agenda, Wku Graduate Council

Graduate School

Meeting agenda.

Practice-Based Qualitative Research: Participant Experiences Of Walk-In Counselling And Traditional Counselling, Cheryl-Anne Cait, Michelle J. Skop, Jocelyn Booton, Carol A. Stalker, Susan Horton, Manuel Riemer

Lyle S. Hallman Social Work Faculty Publications

Walk-in single session counselling is becoming a more widely used model for delivering mental health services across Ontario. This paper reports findings from the qualitative phase of a mixed method study, exploring the experiences of those attending walk-in counselling (WIC) model compared to the traditional service delivery model employing a wait list. We used a comparative case study design for the qualitative phase. Findings reveal that participant outcomes of the walk-in counselling model is influenced by accessibility, how a participant makes sense of the service, and the degree to which a participant is motivated and able to engage in counselling. …

Enhancing Interprofessional Education Through Technology-Supported Simulation: Lessons Learned, Alice L. March, Lea G. Yerby, Jeannine C. Lawrence, Robin Huebner

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Sunday, July 26, 2015: Purpose: Although advances have been made the U.S. healthcare system continues to rely heavily on the silo model of education and practice. Students learn about their profession and practitioners provide care at their level of training, but often for only one disease and without the knowledge or understanding of the complementary roles of other healthcare professions in patient care. Therefore, patients with multiple chronic conditions receive fragmented care affecting cost, safety, effectiveness, quality of life, and mortality. Practitioners must be trained to collaborate in interprofessional (IP) teams. This cannot happen without each person …

Considering School-Based Forgiveness Programs: Learning From The Old Order Amish, Angela M. Kueny

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Sunday, July 26, 2015:

Purpose: The purpose of this presentation is to report findings from a focused ethnographic study about forgiveness promotion in schools within a Midwestern Old Order Amish community; secondarily, these findings will be compared to reported non-Amish school-based forgiveness programs. With this information, recommendations for future nursing practice and research can be made. With increased school shootings, bullying, and mental health issues in schools in recent decades, interventions focused on building healthy relationships and preventing violence is needed. Children who work through forgiveness training, psychotherapy, and/or school programs have decreased anger, improved well-being, increased …

Provider Cardiovascular Risk Management In An Urban Hiv Practice, Martha A. Abshire, Yvonne Commodore-Mensah, Jason E. Farley, Cheryl R. Dennison Himmelfarb

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Friday, July 24, 2015:

Purpose: With the advancements of antiretroviral therapy (ART) persons living with HIV (PLWH) have experienced the benefits of longer life but may also be at increased cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. Care providers for PLWH who are focused on achieving HIV infection control may not prioritize cardiovascular risk management. There have been few studies examining HIV provider CVD prevention practices among PLWH. This two-phase study examined the use of guideline-driven CVD prevention practices by the care providers for PLWH in an urban HIV clinic. Phase 1 was a provider survey and phase 2 was …

Utilizing Student Outcome Data From A Three Year Interprofessional Clinical Practice Team Grant To Develop Effective Nursing Leadership Education, Susan J. Kimble, Margaret Brommelsiek, Heather Gotham

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Saturday, July 25, 2015:

Background: This project extended experiences in two urban clinics utilizing collaborative healthcare teams of advanced practice nursing students alongside Pharm D and Dental students. This project enhanced interprofessional education (IPE) efforts, where students gained advanced knowledge and skills in caring for vulnerable medically underserved populations. The project was the first clinically-based IPE activity at this midwestern university focused on nurse leadership and the importance of developing patient focused team based care.

Methods: The project provided innovative opportunities for IPE by incorporating team based primary care, collaborating with two urban clinics. Prior to clinical …

Managing Dignity In Later Life: Global Influences, Personal Strategies, Cellular Effects, Cynthia S. Jacelon, Rachel Walker, Jordon Bosse

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Saturday, July 25, 2015:

Dignity is an inherent human characteristic and a dynamic, attributed part of the self is susceptible to human and environmental interaction. In the first paper we present an ecological model exploring the dignity of older adults as a form of resilient health potential to enhance well-being in later life. Through a synthesis of the literature we demonstrate how societal, community, family/interpersonal, and individual factors can combine to threaten the dignity of community-dwelling older adults. Chronic exposure to these threats can lead to maladaptive stress responses, cellular aging, pathological changes, and increased risk of …

Empowering Female Immigrant Nurses To Care For Their Own Mental Health, Joy Penman

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Friday, July 24, 2015:

Purpose: The recruitment and development of the immigrant workforce is indicated as a strategy to overcome workforce shortages in aged care in Australia. However, the employment experience of immigrant workers in aged care (consisting mostly of female nurses) have had problems, especially in regional Australia. Some report isolating, negative and unsatisfying work experiences. To improve these experiences, it was proposed that an eductional resource manual be developed and a series of educational workshops on caring for one's own mental health be conducted in workplaces. In preparing the educational resource and workshops, a reference …

Enhancing Clinical Experience Through Experiential Learning, Penelope Pattalitan, Pasquale Iemma

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Friday, July 24, 2015:

Introduction: Our academic institution aims to graduate caring, compassionate, and competent nurses of the future. The faculty and the administrative team foster supportive environment to assist the students to achieve success. The team effort of the committed faculties, professional tutors, clinical coordinators, administrative team, and leaders are crucial to the academic success of the students. The goal to achieve the highest passing rate is imperative. Bringing passionate and caring nurses of the future is the utmost priority of the campus. The competitiveness of the job placement after graduation poses a challenge to the …

Maintaining Emergency Room Nurse Momentum To Screen For Substance Use, Irene Kane, Ann M. Mitchell, Kathryn Puskar, Holly Hagle, Dawn Lindsay, James L. Aiello, Kimberly Owens

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Session presented on Sunday, July 26, 2015:

Purpose: Substance use is a worldwide public-health priority. Annually, 2.5 million die from the harmful use of alcohol (World Health Organization (WHO) 2011 Global Status Report). WHO also reports that at least 15.3 million persons have drug use disorders (WHO, 2014). Risks associated with use of alcohol and other drugs can lead to accidents, violent behavior, and societal/developmental issues. To address substance use risks, an interprofessional (academic-community-health provider) partnership trained Emergency Department Registered Nurses (EDRN to utilize an evidence-based practice (Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment: SBIRT) to screen patients for substance …