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Selecting Internationally Educated Nurses (Ien) To Participate In A Program Of Nclex-Rnâ® Preparation, Susan T. Sanders

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Provide a test to identify Internationally Educated Nurses (IEN) for a program of study leading to NCLEX®-RN success. Upon acceptance, the IEN applicants will enter a prescriptive program of study to prepare for the NCLEX®-RN

Impact Of Cultural And Linguistic Diversity On Success Of The First Attempt Of The Nclex-Rn, Ernestine Hunter Cuellar

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Schools of nursing are struggling with high attrition rates and low NCLEX-RN first time pass rates. Many students identified among those with high attrition rates and low pass rates are culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD). Currently in some classrooms there are as many students, representing different cultures, in one class.

Student And Faculty International Exchanges, Renee Pozza, Aja Lesh

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

A model of collaboration and exchange built upon a trusting relationship and mutual identification of goals and outcomes is an effective way to establish collaborative partnerships between two Schools of Nursing in two different countries.

Cultural Competence: Gaps In Knowledge Of Navy Healthcare Personnel During Global Health Engagement Missions, Heather Cuniff King, Natalie Todd, Patricia Watts Kelley

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Military medical personnel assigned to United States (US) Naval hospital ships perform global health engagement missions worldwide. This abstract will highlight the need for targeted in depth cultural education to enhance cultural competence of future military nurses, physicians, corpsmen, and leaders who participate in global health engagement missions.

Non-Traditional Community Partnerships For Recruiting Hispanic Research Participants, Deanne Karen Hilfinger Messias

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Improved access to culturally and linguistically tailored health information through technology enhances healthcare access and outcomes for Hispanic immigrants. However, little is known about technology usage patterns for those living in recent settlement areas, and research poses unique challenges. This session describes non-traditional community partnerships to enhance research participant recruitment.

A Pattern Approach To Examine The Design Space Of Spatiotemporal Visualization, Chen Guo

Department of Computer Graphics Technology Degree Theses

Pattern language has been widely used in the development of visualization systems. This dissertation applies a pattern language approach to explore the design space of spatiotemporal visualization. The study provides a framework for both designers and novices to communicate, develop, evaluate, and share spatiotemporal visualization design on an abstract level. The touchstone of the work is a pattern language consisting of fifteen design patterns and four categories. In order to validate the design patterns, the researcher created two visualization systems with this framework in mind. The first system displayed the daily routine of human beings via a polygon-based visualization. The …

The Use Of Social Learning Theory And Communities Of Practice In The Exploration Of Social Interaction Between Hearing And Deaf Employees In The Workplace, Keisha N. Burnett

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Although the Americans with Disabilities Act has brought attention on disparities that focus on physical aspects of discrimination, there is a scarcity of research on the deaf employee's day to day experiences in a hearing work environment. Due to the differences in communication styles between deaf and hearing individuals, deaf employees face obstacles in social interaction and participation in the workplace. The purpose of this study was to explore how the deaf employee's social interaction and participation is impacted by their experiences with hearing and deaf employees in the workplace. A narrative inquiry qualitative design was used to gain understanding …

Buried History: Reclaiming Native Diplomats In Congressional Cemetery, Rachael Cassidy

History ETDs

ABSTRACT: The Congressional Cemetery in Washington D.C., the first national cemetery in United States, holds the remains of thirty six Native Diplomats who died in capital city while negotiating treaties for their nations. The diplomats faced discrimination in Washington D.C. because they were perceived as racially inferior. Myths, such as Manifest Destiny and the vanishing Indian, justified the displacement of Indigenous people from their homelands and attempted to erase them as America’s first people. Although Native diplomats faced intense racial stereotypes and intentional deception during treaty negotiations, they skillfully negotiated to protect their nations and their sovereignty. The stories of …

Wagon Tracks. Volume 31, Issue 3 (May, 2017), Santa Fe Trail Association

Wagon Tracks

2 On the Cover
4 President: As I See It
5 Joanne’s Jottings
7 Trail News
8 SFTA Board of Director Candidates
10 SFTA/NPS: A 30-Year Partnership By Frank Norris
12 Answers to Certain Queries Upon the Origin, Present State, and Future Prospect of Trade Between Missouri and the Internal Provinces of Mexico: Report to Congress 1825
18 Symposium 2017 “The Santa Fe Trail: America’s First Highway of International Commerce”
23 Designation of SFT as National Historic Trail
24 Charles Trumbull Hayden (1825-1900): Santa Fe Trail Merchant and Freighter By Joy Poole
31 Junior Wagon Master Program Enchants
32 Chapter …

Textile Terminologies From The Orient To The Mediterranean And Europe, 1000 Bc To 1000 Ad, Salvatore Gaspa, Cécile Michel, Marie-Louise Nosch

Zea E-Books Collection

The papers in this volume derive from the conference on textile terminology held in June 2014 at the University of Copenhagen. Around 50 experts from the fields of Ancient History, Indo-European Studies, Semitic Philology, Assyriology, Classical Archaeology, and Terminology from twelve different countries came together at the Centre for Textile Research, to discuss textile terminology, semantic fields of clothing and technology, loan words, and developments of textile terms in Antiquity. They exchanged ideas, research results, and presented various views and methods.

This volume contains 35 chapters, divided into five sections: • Textile terminologies across the ancient Near East and the …

Using The Task Analysis Process With Teachers To Uncover Language Demands Within An Eight-Week Ngss Summer Course, Leah Plack

Dissertations and Theses

The state of Oregon has adopted the Next Generation Science Standards as well as the English Language Proficiency standards, both of which affect elementary school teachers. These standards adoptions challenge teachers and professional developers to rethink how they approach science conceptual understanding and language acquisition. The Math Science Partnership K-6 Instructional Specialist Grant made the decision to incorporate a Task Analysis process, which asks the participant to analyze the demands of a content-based task in the domains of content knowledge, analytical skills and language, into six eight-week summer courses focused on the Next Generation Science Standards. A pre and post-assessment …

Volume 54, Number 50: July 26, 2017, University Of North Dakota

University Letter Archive

No abstract provided.

Impact Of Health Literacy On Clinical Trial Enrollment For Breast Cancer Patients, Jessica Keim-Malpass, Christine Kennedy, Shayna Showalter, Aubrey Doede

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Purpose: Health literacy, or the ability to obtain, appraise and integrate health-related knowledge, is recognized by the Institute of Medicine as an integral component of high-quality health care. In adults, limited health literacy can be a critical indicator of adverse health outcomes such as: diminished health-related knowledge, increased measures of morbidity, poor adherence to medication regimens, and high utilization of health care resources. It is estimated that 20 - 36% of all adults in the United States have limited health literacy, and that the prevalence rises to closer to 50% among those who are also from a low income background. …

What Should The U.S. Army Learn From History? Recovery From A Strategy Deficit, Colin S. Gray Dr.

Books, Monographs & Collaborative Studies

Does history repeat itself? This monograph clearly answers “no,” firmly. However, it does not argue that an absence of repetition in the sense of analogy means that history can have no utility for the soldier today. This monograph argues for a “historical parallelism,” in place of shaky or false analogy. The past, even the distant and ancient past, provides evidence of the potency of lasting virtues of good conduct. This monograph concludes by offering four recommendations: 1) Behave prudently. 2) Remember the concept of the great stream of time. 3) Do not forget that war nearly always is a gamble. …

Conducting A Communal Questionnaire In Community-Oriented Cultures, Forrest Watson

Markets, Globalization & Development Review

In order to enrich our scholarly knowledge we need to consider how our methodologies fit the particularities of every social context. A recent experience conducting a questionnaire in rural Turkey revealed a “community orientation” (Turan 1975) among respondents that caused me to question the individual as the center of analytic attention. Based on my findings, I propose the communal questionnaire, an innovative hybrid of the structured survey, qualitative interview, and focus group, which accounts for the non-standard nature of respondents’ social situations. I conclude with methodological suggestions for conducting research in community-oriented cultures.

Mobile App To Prevent Depression In The Dominican Republic: Sociocultural Adaptations And International Collaborations, Tariana V. Little, Susan Caplan, Adrian Aguilera, Ester R. Shapiro, Angelina Sosa Lovera, Patricia Reyna, Jenny Ariannly Sanchez Castillo, Pak Chau

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Purpose: Globally, depression is among the most significant contributors to burden of disease (Whiteford et al., 2013). The rapid increase of mobile phone use in low-and-middle income countries provides an opportunity to leverage technology-based interventions to improve global health (mHealth) (World Health Organization (WHO), 2011). This study builds on previous research and ongoing collaboration with the Dominican Ministry of Public Health on mental health stigma and mental health service needs in the Dominican Republic (DR), which found unmet mental health care service needs, particularly in terms of access to care, affordability of treatment, and stigma (Caplan, Little, Reyna, Sosa Lovera, …

A Concept Analysis: Facilitation And Practice Development Analyzing Evidence From The Literature And Beyond, Elizabeth Breslin

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

This is an exploration of the concept of facilitation within practice development (PD) using a concept analysis (CA) methodology. Achievement of conceptual clarity and a shared understanding of what facilitation in PD means, will contribute positively to both caring and academic practice domains.

Football And Colonialism : Body And Popular Culture In Urban Mozambique, Nuno Domingos

Ohio University Press Open Access Books

In articles for the newspaper O Brado Africano in the mid-1950s, poet and journalist José Craveirinha described the ways in which the Mozambican football players in the suburbs of Lourenço Marques (now Maputo) adapted the European sport to their own expressive ends. Through gesture, footwork, and patois, they used what Craveirinha termed “malice”—or cunning—to negotiate their places in the colonial state. “These manifestations demand a vast study,” Craveirinha wrote, “which would lead to a greater knowledge of the black man, of his problems, of his clashes with European civilization, in short, to a thorough treatise of useful and instructive ethnography.” …

Stewards Of God’S Mercy: Vocation And Priestly Ministry In Africa, Jordan Nyenyembe

Journal of Global Catholicism

A reflection on the tasks of priestly ministry in Africa with specific reference to the example and exhortation of Pope Francis. Among the issues addressed and critiqued are Western “cultic” understandings of the priest and the, the “Igwe Syndrome" which likens the priest to a chief.

Contested Moral Issues In Contemporary African Catholicism: Theological Proposals For A Hermeneutics Of Multiplicity And Inclusion, Stan Chu Ilo

Journal of Global Catholicism

Drawing upon the broad work of Vatican II and Pope Francis’ Evangelicum Gaudium the article proposes how a hermeneutic of multiplicity and inclusion could help hold in balance the tension between tradition and innovation, universal principles and specific contextual application for Catholicism in Africa. Among the issues addressed are cultural relativism, natural law theory, and polygamy.

Communicating The Justice And Peace Of God In Africa Today, Walter Ihejirika

Journal of Global Catholicism

Engaging with the work and theories of Arnold van Gennep and Victor Turner, the article charts out a spirituality of communication within Nigerian Catholicism. Discussing the intersection between various forms of media and community, the article argues for the utilization of media in the pursuit of social justice and the dismantling of inequalities.

Inculturation Of Liturgical Music In The Roman Catholic Church Of Igbo Land: A Compositional Study, Benedict Nwabugwu Agbo

Journal of Global Catholicism

A study of inculturation, composition and music among Catholics in Igboland, Nigeria. The article insects with contemporary discussions of inculturation/enculturation after Vatican II and the recommendation of St. John Paul II in his Ecclesia in Africa.

Editor's Introduction, Marc Roscoe Loustau

Journal of Global Catholicism

Introduction to African Catholicism: Contemporary Issues: Volume: 1, Issue 2 of the Journal of Global Catholicism

Generation Of Speech Training Data For Special Speech Recognition Tasks, Dimitri Kanevsky, Andrew Senior, Sara Basson

Defensive Publications Series

Speech recognition is widely used as a voice-user interface in several settings, e.g., interactive voice response, virtual personal assistants, transcription, translation applications, etc. Although speech recognition technology has advanced far enough to be useful to a sizeable number of human speakers, there are still populations that cannot take full advantage of speech recognition. For example, people with impaired speech, speakers of rare languages or dialects, with strong accents, etc. have difficulty using an application that uses speech recognition. The reason for such user difficulty is that there is insufficient data to train an automatic speech recognizer to recognize such relatively …

Right Time In Medication Administration: A Multifaceted Concept, Juliana J. Brixey, William Scott Erdley

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Purpose: The medication administration process is a five-step procedure entailing prescribing, transcribing, dispensing, administering, and monitoring. Medication administration involves giving a pharmacological agent, such as a drug, to a patient or client. Within medication administration the patient expects the right medication, in the right dose, to be at the right time, and by the right route. ‘Right time", which is clearly identified as an important component of the medication administration process, should therefore be clearly defined as well achievable. ‘Right time" also implies a measurable period of time. The literature does not clearly define ‘right time" instead defining through linking …

Language And Literacy Relationships In Spanish-Speaking English-Language Learners From Kindergarten To 2nd Grade, Kathleen Marie Durant

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

This dissertation investigated the cross-linguistic development of metalinguistic and literacy skills in the period between kindergarten and 2nd grade in 71 Spanish-speaking English-language learners in two studies. The studies’ goals were to 1) describe the cross-linguistic relationships between kindergarten Spanish and English phonological awareness (PA) and letter identification and later 2nd grade morphological awareness (MA) skills and literacy outcomes as well as 2) explore a developmental, cross-linguistic model of metalinguistic and literacy development in Spanish-speaking ELLs in early elementary school. In the first study, Spanish PA performance in kindergarten accounted for the majority of variance in performance on four MA …

The Extended Room Or What Otto Didn't Know, Ryan Victor

Episteme

The author provides succinct explications of the relevant literature pertaining to the debate resulting from Turing’s thesis on artificial intelligence. It is argued that Searle’s Chinese room example is refuted by neither the so-called systems reply nor the Extended Mind thesis. Such attempts to defend strong AI err because they rely on altered definitions of concepts that we should not accept. The author, in addition to pointing out the importance of factoring in consciousness, provides several illustrative examples, parallels, and original arguments (including a modified concept of “strong coupling”) in his defense of Searle’s position. The paper concludes with a …

Hilary Putnam's Semantic Scientism: A Critique, Gregory R. Warner

Episteme

This author is puzzled by and disagrees with Putnam’s theory of meaning. In particular, the author argues that there can be a gap between scientific meaning and acceptable normal use, thereby showing the tension between Putnam’s scientism and his attention to linguistic communities. Part of the problem is Putnam’s imprecision, given that he neither argues for why we should privilege scientific classification, nor helps us draw the boundary surrounding our linguistic community. The author cites commentator Gregory McCulloch a great deal to help summarize and grasp Putnam’s project, thereby necessitating a discussion of McCulloch’s own “the understanding tracks real essence” …

Acquitting Nietzsche: An Alternative View Of His Infamous Misogyny, Susan Parillo

Episteme

Nietzsche has an appreciation for women’s naturalness and instinctual femininity; he desires to help emancipate them. A closer look at Beyond Good and Evil exonerates Nietzsche of the charge that finds him to be a supreme misogynist. The author begins her paper by rectifying the misunderstandings concerning his style, which makes wide use of confusion-causing linguistic tools. She then supports Maudemarie Clark’s attention to the distinction between “women as such” and “women.” The author argues that Nietzsche attacks the socio-psychological construction of womanness and the typically unhelpful role women play in perpetuating it. In the late 19th century, the women’s …

State V. Castrejon Appellant's Reply Brief Dckt. 44783

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

No abstract provided.