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Partnering To Determine The Scope Of Simulation In Us Acute Care Hospitals, Marie Gilbert, Krista Kipper, Linda Markey, Lygia L. Arcaro, Kate J. Morse, Gregory E. Gilbert

General Submissions: Presentations (Oral and Poster)

Over the past year, ANPD has partnered with the Society for Simulation in Healthcare and the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning to describe the use of simulation in acute care hospitals. This session presents the findings from this first national descriptive study and its implications for NPD practice.

Discharge Lounge And The Journey To Excellence In Patient Satisfaction, Jillian Lee

General Submissions: Presentations (Oral and Poster)

Purpose: Our Emergency Room (ER) patient satisfaction baseline scores related to discharge instructions for FY 2016 were at 43.31%. Our fiscal year goal, however, was to receive a score of 51% (75th percentile) with an answer of "excellent" on the question, "How were your discharge instructions?" from the ER patient satisfaction survey.

Design: This quality assurance project was spearheaded by frontline staff. Ideas gathered from other healthcare system hospitals as well as a literature review, led to the implementation of best practices including: implementation of a discharge lounge, daily follow-up phone calls, a discharge checklist, and feedback voicemail line. A …

Developing Those Who Develop Others: Quarterly Educator Symposiums, Cathleen S. Opperman

General Submissions: Presentations (Oral and Poster)

Professional Development Nurse Specialists are uniquely qualified to teach, mentor and provide networking opportunities for all roles that develop other employees in the organization. Many different roles provide employee education and training. They are full and part-time; central and unit-based; prepared by graduate education and not; and it may be a primary part of their job description or "duties as assigned." With this variety of: 1) preparation for educating; 2) priority in role responsibilities; and 3) opportunities to share best educational practices; we created the Clinical Educator Forum to standandize practices and share educational best practices. Membership in this group …

Abracadabra, Hocus Pocus, Same Song, Different Chorus: The Newest Iteration Of The "Science" Of Lie Detection, Carrie Leonetti

Richmond Journal of Law & Technology

The “lie detector” is the holy grail of criminal investigation and adjudication. Dissatisfied with the jury’s ability to sort truth-tellers from liars, police, prosecutors, and criminologists have longed dreamed of a scientific talisman that would definitively sort the guilty from the innocent.

Fsec Meeting Minutes December 4, 2017, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Executive Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.

2017-18 Faculty Senate Xxii - December 4, 2017 Minutes Summary, Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Agendas & Minutes

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Unh Researchers Use High-Technology Sensors To Understand Water Quality, Lori Tyler Gula

Media Relations

No abstract provided.

The Use Of Formative Instructional Practices To Improve Student Performance, Courtney L. St. John-Wacker

Theses and Dissertations

This study explores teacher and school leadership perceptions on the use of Formative Instructional Practices (FIP) in classroom settings located in a large urban school district. Research indicates that using formative assessment can increase student achievement; however, professional learning of such practices is needed (Frey & Fisher, 2013; Harrison, O’Hara & McNamara, 2015; Wiliam, Lee, Harrison & Black, 2004). Research questions developed for this study included one main question and three secondary questions. The main question explored the participant’s perceptions of FIP implementation while the secondary questions focused on the development of student motivation and classroom assessments for students. Additionally, …

A Case Study Of Two Taiwanese Students With Hearing Loss Navigating The English As A Foreign Language Requirement At Their University, Yu Chen

Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies ETDs

Many institutions of higher education (IHE) students in Taiwan now need to meet the English proficiency requirement to earn their higher education degrees. In this case study, I intended to a) provide the opportunity for IHE students with hearing loss in Taiwan to share their opinions, thoughts, and experiences of learning English as a foreign language in higher education institutes; and b) understand how English as a foreign language policies and educational practices contribute to create opportunities and barriers for IHE students with hearing loss. The research question I intended to examine was “what are the perceptions of the lived …

Medication Reconciliation Completed By Pharmacy On Admission From The Ed, Lauren Humiston, Rachael Duncan, Nancy J. Fry

General Submissions: Presentations (Oral and Poster)

Purpose: Medication reconciliation should be performed at all transitions of care according to the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and AHRQ Patient Safety Network. A recent systematic review on errors in medication history at admission estimated that 54-67% of all admitted patients have at least one discrepancy between the medication history obtained by the admitting clinicians and the actual preadmission regimen and that, in 27-59% of those cases, such discrepancies have the potential to cause harm. This project aimed to assess the accuracy of a newly implemented pharmacy-driven admission medication reconciliation service based in the ED.

Design: This was a quality …

Advancing Disaster Nursing: Disseminating A Critical Initiative, Judith Katzburg, Kelly A. Wolgast, Roberta Proffitt Lavin

General Submissions: Presentations (Oral and Poster)

Session I presented Saturday, September 16, 2017

Purpose: The Society for the Advancement of Disaster Nursing" (SADN) was formed in 2016 to advance solutions to the complex issues surrounding disaster nursing preparedness in the United States; building upon a 2014 Veterans Emergency Management Evaluation Center (VEMEC) initiative to advance Disaster Nursing in collaboration with national nursing leaders and disaster management experts. Effective communication was identified as a primary goal; a dissemination workgroup (DW) was formed to develop the best options and resources for communicating key processes and outcomes.

Design: This is a national quality improvement project.

Setting: The work of …

Using Social Media To Improve Communication And Staff Engagement, Brandon "Kit" Bredimus, Dana Taylor, Gini Hendley

General Submissions: Presentations (Oral and Poster)

Session B presented Thursday, September 14, 2017

Purpose: Emergency Department (ED) staff reported frustration with obtaining information about meetings, events, and new information that was disseminated via traditional hospital e-mail. Staff wanted a means of communication with improved accessibility and optimized for mobile use.

Design: Staff development project where the ED Director would establish a private Facebook group with approval from administration and Public Relations Department. This group page would have the highest privacy setting and would be monitored by the ED Director to adhere to hospital established Social Media Policy.

Setting: County Hospital, Suburban level III Trauma Center.

Participants/Subjects: …

A Split-Flow Model For Ed Level 3 Patients, Brooke Cabello, Berta Ruscio, Ami Patel, Tony Woodard, Phyllis Tipton

General Submissions: Presentations (Oral and Poster)

Purpose: Prolonged wait times and length of stays have inundated Emergency Departments(ED) across the nation. Our ED has struggled with these same hurdles over the past few years. Specifically, patients that are assigned emergency severity index (ESI) level 3 have overwhelmed our department by increasing wait times and length of stays (LOS). Therefore, the purpose of this project was to implement a method to decrease the level 3 emergency department discharged patients' LOS. A secondary purpose was to reduce our left without being seen (LWBS) level 3 patients.

Design: This is a quality improvement project that was conducted over a …

Leadership Engagement And Retention Toolkit: Stay Interviews And Reverse Mentoring, Denise Brennan, Nancy M. Robin, Robert Iii Boss, Christopher Amore, James Corbett, Joanne Kane

General Submissions: Presentations (Oral and Poster)

Session G presented Saturday, September 16, 2017

Purpose: The Emergency Department (ED)reviewed specific aggregate and unit survey questions based on our National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators (NDNQI) nurse satisfaction 2014 survey results. The Leadership team looked at business strategies to improve engagement and retention. The purpose of this project was to increase the percent of RNs planning to remain in direct patient care in the ED through the use of innovative strategies.

Design: Nurse satisfaction improvement project.

Setting: Teaching, urban emergency department with 67,000 annual visits.

Participants/Subjects: ED Leadership, Staff RN's.

Methods: Staff nurse focus groups, the ED Unit …

Supporting Clinical Nurses In The Dissemination Of Best Practices, Tara Serwetnyk, Stephanie Von Bacho

General Submissions: Presentations (Oral and Poster)

The Best Practice Showcase at a large, academic medical center, coordinated by a Nursing Professional Development (NPD) practitioner, provides the support and structure for nurses to disseminate research and performance improvement projects to the interprofessional healthcare team through a formal poster presentation. The showcase began in 2010 as a National Nurses' Week event and has evolved to incorporate formal training and mentoring for staff nurses. The event is judged by nursing leadership and nursing shared governance council members and is an opportunity to celebrate achievements.
The NPD practitioners in the Center for Nursing Professional Development collaborated with the Nursing Clinical …

The Bg News December 4, 2017, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. December 4, 2017. Volume 97-Issue 32.

In The Classroom, David Vogt

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Pat Council Open House, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Full Circle, Kristin Waterfield Duisberg

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

$15 Million Usaf Research Contract For Udri, University Of Dayton

News Releases

The University of Dayton Research Institute has been awarded a $15 million contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory to support its efforts in air-launched off-board operations.

The Eitc’S Fall And The Opium Wars, Charles Barrett

Student Works

The East India Trading Company (EITC) was one of the first companies to establish a monopoly over goods traded around the world. The EITC spread goods that were typically only found where they originated, such as tea, spices, and opium.

The Chinese had access to poppy before the EITC began importing it, and when China levied a ban on opium being imported China, the EITC ignored it and continued to profit off China’s opium addiction. The EITC, and Britain, saw the ban, and the actions taken by China to enforce the ban, as an act of war and reacted as …

Drowning In Big Data: Abundance Of Choice, Scarcity Of Attention And The Personalization Trap, A Case For Regulation, Sofia Grafanaki

Richmond Journal of Law & Technology

These eye-catching headlines are just a sample of the headlines that have dominated the news recently. So the secret is out. The Internet can no longer be seen as a utopian place where everyone is equal and freedom is the status quo. Not everything that has to do with technology is simply a “technical” issue. “The technical is political.” There are always values and politics involved in the structure, design and architecture of technology; put differently, these issues are socio-technical and have a deep effect on what sorts of citizens we become.

Archeota, Fall 2017, Kimberlee Frederick, Jennifer Castle, Joann Urban

Archeota

No abstract provided.

The Guardian, Week Of December 4, 2017, Wright State Student Body

The Guardian Student Newspaper

News articles from The Guardian for the week of December 4, 2017. The Guardian, the official student-run newspaper for Wright State University. It has been published regularly since March of 1965.

Slave To The Algorithm? Why A 'Right To An Explanation' Is Probably Not The Remedy You Are Looking For, Lilian Edwards, Michael Veale

Duke Law & Technology Review

Algorithms, particularly machine learning (ML) algorithms, are increasingly important to individuals’ lives, but have caused a range of concerns revolving mainly around unfairness, discrimination and opacity. Transparency in the form of a “right to an explanation” has emerged as a compellingly attractive remedy since it intuitively promises to open the algorithmic “black box” to promote challenge, redress, and hopefully heightened accountability. Amidst the general furore over algorithmic bias we describe, any remedy in a storm has looked attractive. However, we argue that a right to an explanation in the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is unlikely to present a …

An Opportunity To Play, Kristin Waterfield Duisberg

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Stronger Storms Hamper Ability Of Streams And Rivers To Clean Up Pollution, Lori Wright

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Planting The Seeds Of Stem Success, Jennifer Saunders

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Sparkes V. Idaho Department Of Fish And Game Respondent's Brief Dckt. 45133

Not Reported

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Patient-Centered Care: Teaching Psychosocial Skills To New Nurses, Elizabeth Wierman, Susan Jones

General Submissions: Presentations (Oral and Poster)

Although the adoption of patient-centered care is increasingly more frequent in healthcare organizations and well supported in nursing, interdisciplinary educational strategies in the acute care setting to support patient-centered care training for caregivers of patients with both medical and behavioral health problems are noticeably lacking (Kitson et al., 2013). This disparity is particularly worrisome in the acute care setting, given the prevalence of comorbid behavioral health problems in the medical inpatient population (Sledge et al., 2015). In an effort to address this gap, our RN Residency Program developed an 8 hour education curriculum, Psychosocial Foundations, aimed at providing resident and …