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November 2017 Issue, Occupation: A Medium Of Inquiry For Students, Faculty & Other Practitioners Advocating For Health Through Occupational Studies

OCCUPATION: A Medium of Inquiry about Health through Occupation

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Patrick Guilbaud Named Worldwide Fistula Fund Board Member, Winthrop University

Winthrop News 2017

• Guilbaud has spent more than 15 years leading, developing, and supporting global human capacity building and health information system projects both in the public and private sectors.
• Founded in 1995, Worldwide Fistula Fund strategically partners with local organizations and institutions to enable Africans to solve their own problems in meeting their women’s health care needs.

Physician Travels To Africa To Treat Women Who Have Suffered Childbirth Injuries, Staff

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The Implementation Of A Leadership Development Program And Its Impact On Nurse Managers Self-Reported Competency Levels, Anne Marie Flatekval

Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)

The nurse manager has a crucial role in healthcare organizations. The responsibilities include ensuring the care provided to patients is safe, caring, effective, and fiscally responsible (American Nurses Association [ANA], 2013). Additional responsibilities include liaison, which ensures that the healthcare organizations’ vision, mission, essential values, and beliefs are carried out at the unit level, as well as providing care utilizing evidence based practice to attain high quality outcomes (ANA; Cipriano, 2011; Weber, Ward, & Walsh, 2015; Zori, Nosek, & Musil, 2010). The nurse manager is essential to ensuring the provision of a healthy work environment for staff (Fennimore & Wolf, …

Posthurricane Environment's Impact On Childhood Cancer Rates In Louisiana, 2004-2010, Lenora M. Robinson

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Childhood cancer is the second leading cause of death in children aged 0-19 years. Research efforts to identify factors associated with or influencing this growing health problem are limited. The purpose of this research study was to examine, in reference to Louisiana during the period 2004-2010, the annual number of children diagnosed with cancer; the types of cancers; the possible effects of the environmental aftermath resulting from Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Gustav; and any correlation between environmental contaminants following these hurricanes with the number of children diagnosed with cancer. This study employed correlational quantitative methodology using archival data from the …