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Carol And The Ugly Sisters: A Play In Three Acts, Judith Jones

Master of Arts in Professional Writing Capstones

Carol and the Ugly Sisters, reflects the trajectory of two teenage African American girls growing up in 1960s Harlem. They met when Anita was 16, and Carol was 17. Anita, the protagonist, is from a lower middle-class family, and goes on to graduate Columbia University. Carol, her friend, dropped out of middle school, and is an unwed mother of three children, when she meets Anita. She remains mentally closed in a lower socio-economic mindset for the remainder of her life, and dies of the same alcoholism that killed her parents.

An Opportunity To Play, Kristin Waterfield Duisberg

UNH Today Archive

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

UNH Today Archive

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Planting The Seeds Of Stem Success, Jennifer Saunders

UNH Today Archive

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State V. Meyers Appellant's Brief Dckt. 45054

Not Reported

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

Not Reported

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State V. Ritchie Appellant's Brief Dckt. 45175

Not Reported

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State V. Jones Respondent's Brief Dckt. 44959

Not Reported

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Fetal Growth Restriction: Case Definition & Guidelines For Data Collection, Analysis, And Presentation Of Immunization Safety Data, Sarah Rae Easter, Linda O. Eckert, Nansi Boghossian, Rebecca Spencer, Eugene Oteng-Ntim, Christos Ioannou, Manasi Patwardhan, Margo S. Harrison, Asma Khalil, Michael Gravett, Robert Goldenberg, Alastair Mckelvey, Manish Gupta, Vitali Pool, Stephen C. Robson, Jyoti Joshi, Sonali Kochhar, Tom Mcelrath

Faculty Publications

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Small For Gestational Age: Case Definition & Guidelines For Data Collection, Analysis, And Presentation Of Maternal Immunisation Safety Data, Elizabeth P. Schlaudecker, Flor M. Munoz, Azucena Bardají, Nansi S. Boghossian, Asma Khalil, Hatem Mousa, Mirjana Nesin, Muhammad Imran Nisar, Vitali Pool, Hans M.L. Spiegel, Milagritos D. Tapia, Sonali Kochhar, Steven Black

Faculty Publications

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Boys & Girls Club, Justine Morales

First-Year Seminar Posters (COE 102/103)

BGC covers is childhood poverty.

Classroom Behavior And Respect, Anthony Weeks

First-Year Seminar Posters (COE 102/103)

The social issue at hand is that of disruptive behavior and the teacher/student interactions within the classroom, especially in lower socio-economic schools.

Assistant Sunday School Teacherst. John The Baptist Greek Orthodox Church, Nicholas Barbarino

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

Give the children the necessary information to be able to make a decision about the religion in their future.

Making A New Friend, Taylor Fireman

Second-Year Seminar Posters (COE 202)

Keeping elderly minds alive.

A Novel Weak Estimator For Dynamic Systems, Moinak Bhaduri, Justin Zhan, Carter Chiu

Mathematical Sciences Faculty Research

In this paper, we propose a novel approach for classifying incoming continuous data under a non-stationary environment. A class of estimators termed stochastic learning weak estimators has been generalized to include continuous time sampling and countable state categories. The method is founded on non-stationary Markov chain techniques and is useful in diverse applications, such as consumer behavior analysis, e-mail spam classification, or understanding drug effectiveness. In terms of tracking the true state probabilities, these weak estimators consistently outperform traditional competitors such as maximum likelihood estimates. Only one user defined parameter is necessary and the method is free of subjective ‘‘moving …

"Hinabing Ugnayan": Nature Of Caring Among Filipino Nurses Working With Children, Rudolf Cymorr Kirby P. Martinez

Dissertations

This study, rooted on the phenomenological philosophy, explored the nature of caring among Filipino nurses working with children. Seven (7) participants were gathered as co-researchers and were carefully chosen based on the following present criteria: They are willing to articulate, share, participate, and describe their lived experiences, and they are registered nurses, currently working at a pediatric hospital for at least two years. The experiences of the co-researchers were subsequently gathered and enriched via the following methods: Interview, Storytelling, Participant Observation, Art, Group Discussion, Immersion and Reflective Resonance. Subsequently, three levels of reflective analysis was done following the process developed …

County And Hospital Mental Health Collaborative In The Emergency Department, Theresa Hyer

General Submissions: Presentations (Oral and Poster)

Session I presented Saturday, September 16, 2017

Purpose: The aim of this collaborative is to offer an innovative solution for caring for the emergent needs of the mental health patient arriving at the emergency department(ED) in crisis. The Mental Health Emergency Collaborative is an integrated team made up of county mental health master level crisis workers, county mental health emergency psychiatry, emergency telepsychiatry, and ED staff. Working together the team members are able to emergently complete a psychiatric assessment, medically clear, medicate, and set up a comprehensive safety plan to assist the patient to return safely to the community. This …

Perceptions, Instances, And Reporting Of Violence In The Emergency Department, Dusti Everett-Hinkle, Ashley Sparks, Keith Coates

General Submissions: Presentations (Oral and Poster)

Session I presented Saturday, September 16, 2017

Purpose: Violence against staff in the Emergency Department is seen as part of the role assumed when someone begins a career in emergency medicine. This research project set out to determine what staff in the emergency department percieved as a violent act, and how often violent acts are reported by staff compared to the actual incidence of violent acts against staff.

Design: Emergency department staff were surveyed anonymously to discover their perception of what is a violent act, frequency of violence, and circumstances of reporting; A retrospective, randomized sampling of patient records, recording …

Sexual Assault Exam: Utilizing Simulation To Increase Nursing Confidence, Kari Watson, Eileen Bonin, Brie Auxier

General Submissions: Presentations (Oral and Poster)

Purpose: It was recognized that emergency department (ED) nurses were undertaking an examination of patients who have been sexually assaulted, but had not received formal training. ED nurses were unfamiliar with the exam process and were concerned of incorrectly collecting forensic evidence. Staff would wait until a sexual assault nurse examiner (SANE) became on call to complete the exam, therefore delaying throughput. The purpose of this staff development was to enhance the emergency nurse's knowledge and skills in caring for sexually assaulted patients. Simulation was identified as a way to build the nurses' confidence with performing a forensic examination.

Design: …

Sepsis Checklist Decreases Sepsis Mortality, Donna Crimmins-Bonnell, April Greenberg, Ashlee Mcadams

General Submissions: Presentations (Oral and Poster)

Purpose: Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt Project chartered to increase the use of our Sepsis Checklist as we were at 0% compliance and our Mortality OE was 1.35.

Aim: Primary: to increase initiation of Sepsis checklist, by 50% in ED for Sepsis positive patients by Dec 7, 2015; Secondary: to decrease Sepsis O/E (observed to expected) Mortality to an O/E below 1 by March 2016.

Design: Staff Development and Performance Improvment Project.

Setting: Acute Care 168 bed Hospital ED.

Participants/Subjects: ED staff, ED manager, charge nurse and ED Dir., Clinical Outcomes Team Lead and Director of Quality.

Methods: Lean 6 …

Improving Scanned Medications, Amanda Cothran, Nicholas Harmon, Kevin Jr. Smith

General Submissions: Presentations (Oral and Poster)

Purpose: Barcode medication verification has been proven to be an effective safety measure to help prevent errors during medication administration. It is necessary to provide safe medication administration to ensure quality care but verification still remains an opportunity within the emergency department. The objective of our project was to improve the overall safety of medication administration and reduce the rate of administration errors within the ED by ensuring that medications were scanned using a barcode verification system.

Design: This project was designed for quality assurance. The goal for bedside medication verification (BVM) using a scanned barcode method is 80%. It …

Transform Your Shared Governance Council: Measure Its Health!, Jennifer Isabelle Rheingans, Robert Hess, Diana Swihart, Stacey Brull

General Submissions: Presentations (Oral and Poster)

A few published tools measure the presence of nursing shared governance. However, where are instruments that help councils further develop, evaluate, and sustain their activities and outcomes? This interactive presentation for the first time introduces the Shared Governance Council Function Survey, a new tool designed to assess and guide councils with a template for best practices and assessment of strengths and opportunities of current council functioning.

A national team of shared governance experts in practice and theory convened to generate the Shared Governance Council Function Survey, framed by Donabedian's Quality Model for Structure, Process, and Outcome (1988). The …

Why Aren't Our Nurses As Diverse As Our Patients?, Leslie Harder

General Submissions: Presentations (Oral and Poster)

Background: The American Association of Colleges reported a "strong connection between a culturally diverse nursing workforce and the ability to provide quality, culturally competent patient care." According to the US Census Bureau, the percentage of ethnic and racial minority groups was 37% in 2012 while nurses from minority backgrounds "represent 19% of the registered nurse (RN) workforce." The 2010 IOM report on the future of nursing states "the current nursing workforce will need to grow more diverse." The increasing diversity in the patient population requires nursing to adopt methods to address the educational pipeline to attract and retain nurses from …

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.

Utilizing Undf In Dairy Cow Diets: A New Way Of Looking At Forage Fiber, Peter S. Erickson

Faculty Publications

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December 4, 2017: Historic #Givingtuesday, Farewell To Provost Dobkin, Magazine On Campus, Saint Mary's College Of California

SMC Bulletin 2013-2020

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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 …

Trust Me...I'M A Trauma Nurse, Wendy Hyatt, Stephen Clayton, Erin Kunkel, Elisha Nunley

General Submissions: Presentations (Oral and Poster)

Purpose: There is a large number of staff in the Emergency Department, high turnover rates, many different areas of focus which lead to inconsistencies in the care and documentation of care for trauma patients. The goal was to develop a small group of specially trained Emergency Department nurses to care for trauma patients and initiate the quality improvement process at the bedside.

Design: Course content was researched, developed and approved by both the trauma service and the emergency department. The content was based on evidence-based practice found in current literature, including American College of Surgeons requirements and hospital policy. Highlights …

Improving The Emergency Department Handoff To Facilitate Inpatient Throughput, Amy Garner, Veronica Sorenson

General Submissions: Presentations (Oral and Poster)

Poster presentation Session F presented Friday, September 15, 2017

Purpose: Emergency Department (ED) throughput has been identified as a major factor that can impact care and quality throughout the hospital (Handel et al., 2010). Delays in patient flow may derive from nursing handoff issues, availability of beds, and policies that inhibit patient transport (Baker & Esbenshade, 2015).. This project aimed to eliminate delays in throughput and maximize patient flow.

Design: This quality improvement (QI) project used lean principles and a Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) cycle to ensure that change was sustained.

Setting: This project was conducted in a suburban, ANCC Magnet recognized …

Evaluation Of Emergency Department Factors On Acute Ischemic Stroke Treatment, Melanie Aluotto, Terence Chau, Nicholas Yarbrough, Sapana Desai, Donald Garrett, Huy Liem Pham, Jesus Ledesma

General Submissions: Presentations (Oral and Poster)

Poster presentation Session A presented Thursday, September 14, 2017

Purpose: The objective of the study was to describe the relationship between emergency department factors and the timing of thrombolytic administration for acute ischemic stroke patients presenting to a community emergency department. Memorial Hermann Memorial City Emergency Department implemented a "Code Stroke" alert which consists of rapid triage, the involvement of a multi-disciplinary team, and expedited laboratory turnaround times for suspected acute ischemic stroke patients.

Design: This study was an IRB-approved retrospective quality assurance project of Memorial Hermann Memorial City's Code Stroke pathway.

Setting: The retrospective chart review was conducted at …