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Honors Students Represent Gardner-Webb University At National Conference, Office Of University Communications

Gardner-Webb NewsCenter Archive

Five students in the Honors Program at Gardner-Webb recently represented the University at the National Collegiate Honors Council’s annual conference in Boston, Mass. The group included Callie Elliott, a senior biology major from Terrell, N.C., who serves as GWU Honors President and as student vice president for the Southern Regional Honors Council. Through her experience, Elliott said she’s met other students and improved her public speaking skills.

Defining Diagnosis: A Reflexive Account Of A Chronic Dis-Ease Process, Brandi Michelle Barnes

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

This is an autoethnographic account of the experience of living with chronic illness and a liminal status. This reflexive study is divided into three parts: 1) Lupus, the defining diagnosis, 2) Dis-ease, identity and reevaluation 3) Dis-identification, chronic dis-ease, and liminality. Throughout, music lyrics and my own poetry are used to represent my fluctuating identity. Systemic lupus erythematous (SLE) is a rare yet complex disease. The etiology is constantly questioned by doctors and not readily seen; it is both contested and invisible. Patients with this illness are highly stigmatized, and their psychological welfare can become neglected in a biomedical system …

Crow's Nest, November 26, 2018, Crow's Nest Staff

Crow's Nest

The November 26, 2018, issue of the Crow's Nest.

Genetics/Genomic Nursing Competency Of Korean Students Enrolled In A Us-Based Post-Licensure Nursing Program, Rachel Choudhury, Gail K. Baumlein

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Discussion of findings from a quantitative research study that explored genetics/genomics nursing competencies in post-licensure Korean students who have taken standalone genetics course in a U.S.-based RN-BSN program.

Daily Eastern News: November 26, 2018, Eastern Illinois University

November

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The Impact Of Within-Day Work Breaks On Daily Recovery Processes: An Event-Based Pre-/Post-Experience Sampling Study, Ze Zhu, Laruen Kuykendall, Xichao Zhang

Psychology Faculty Publications

Research on recovery from work stress has emphasized the importance of within-day work breaks. However, prior research has not been designed and analysed in a way that fully aligns with the processes described by the underlying theoretical framework (i.e., the effort-recovery model). The current paper examines the effects of within-day work breaks on recovery using an event-based pre-/post (EBPP)-design, in a way that more fully captures the recovery process as described by the effort-recovery model. We also included designs used in previous studies (i.e., an interval-based design and an event-based design without pre-break strain measures) to demonstrate the differences between …

Mcsa Forum Minutes 11/26/2018, Morris Campus Student Association

Morris Campus Student Association

No abstract provided.

The Moccasin Project: Understanding A Sense Of Place Through Indigenous Art Making And Storytelling, Colleen Carew

Expressive Therapies Dissertations

The purpose of this arts-based and Indigenous research study was to explore how Native Americans understand ‘place-based imagery’ through an Indigenous art making and storytelling experience to illuminate perspectives and experiences of a ‘sense of place’. Storywork, an Indigenous research method directed the culturally grounded research project. The Native American moccasin was the symbolic cultural catalyst used to create a multimedia art piece to express and reflect traditional cultural knowledge rooted within this symbol. Native Americans representing five federally recognized tribes participated in the study. As a result of a pilot study, a definition of place-based imagery was developed. Place-based …

College Faculty In The News: November 26, 2018, University Of Dayton

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

Department of Music faculty James Hiller and Joy Willenbrink recently discussed how music therapy helps people going through addiction recovery during a segment aired on public television.

Empowering The Oppressed: Factors Related To The Advanced Education Of Nurses, Mary Helen Durland, Ehrin Irvin, Rebecca Brown, Kristy Henegar, Diana Morrison, David Alex Snyder, Kate Rocklein Kemplin

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

There are many factors that influence a registered nurse's decision to return to school once in the workforce. Our study examines the roles of institutions, culture of nursing, and nurses' intrinsic factors in the motivation to pursue further education in nursing.

Standardized Patients To Increase Empathy Of Nursing Students: A Mixed Methods Study, Jodi Patterson

Nursing Theses and Dissertations

The importance of empathy in undergraduate nursing education is undeniable yet scholars from multiple disciplines struggle with a precise definition. Unfortunately, empathy is on the decline nationally, particularly with traditional college-aged individuals. An additional challenge to the empathy of healthcare professionals is caring for individuals with alcohol use disorders due to the difficult nature of the symptomatology. Simulation with standardized patients is frequently used to evaluate the empathy of health care professional students. However, little evidence exists regarding simulation with standardized patients and empathy of nursing students towards individuals with an alcohol use disorder.

Concept analysis is often used to …

The Bg News November 26, 2018, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. November 26, 2018. Volume 98-Issue 25.

Psychological Profiling Of Political Leaders: Searching For Three White Whales, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes three types of information crucial to psychological profiling of political leaders.

Sleep Paralysis Demons, Sierra Mackelprang

USU Student Folklore Fieldwork

Me: “Give me some context, of like when it started and what was going on in your life during that amount of time.”

Landon: “It all started when I was sixteen year old, at least I think I was sixteen, yeah I was sixteen, umm I don’t think I had heard of it before, I didn’t know what sleep paralysis was but I had heard stories, like I heard a story of someone feeling like they were getting pushed down at night and couldn’t sleep…so…yeah and then it happened to me like I couldn’t sleep that night for some weird …

Managing Students In Crisis: Implementation Of A Crisis Intervention Project In A School Of Nursing, Carleen Graham, Joana Velasquez

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

The authors describe the development and implementation of a crisis intervention program in a school of nursing. The project is intended to create and train a team of faculty and staff to recognize and respond to students experiencing symptoms of behavioral health problems and/or who may be in crisis.

Testing The Measurement Invariance And Latent Mean Differences Of Data From The Employee Perceptions Of Supervisor/Line Manager Coaching Behavior Measure Between Virtual And Traditional Employees From Generation X And Y, Bryn Hammack-Brown

Human Resource Development Theses and Dissertations

Currently, the workforce is comprised of multiple generations, of which Generation X and Y are the largest, working in a variety of arrangements. These include working from home, satellite centers, on the road, collaboration offices, and brick and mortar locations. As information and communication technology advances, more opportunities for individuals to supplement or change their working environments are available. Along with these different modes of work comes occasions and challenges for managers to demonstrate coaching behaviors toward employees who work alongside them on an on-going basis, and simultaneously to those who are removed from the face-to-face interactions and instead rely …

The Role Of Epistemic Beliefs About Authority And Source Presence On Multiple Text Comprehension, Erica Kessler

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

The current research examined the role of epistemic beliefs about authority as well as source presence influence multiple text comprehension. Our sample was insensitive to our manipulation of source information availability (no source information, source information, embedded source information), however, several interesting relationships between the individual differences and measures of multiple text comprehension were observed. Prior knowledge was positively related to accurate essay information as well as source mentions in essays and rank-order justifications. In addition, justification by authority beliefs emerged as a positive predictor of source mentions in essays. Misconceptions about vaccines emerged a negative predictor of inclusion of …

Development And Impact Of A Stem Educational Outreach Program For K-12 Students, Holland Maye Aguayo

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Studies show that K-12 students struggle more with math and science courses than other topics, which can deter K-12 students from pursuing opportunities in these fields. This leads to a shortage of STEM workers while job opportunities in STEM continue to grow at a faster pace than others. The STEM Ambassador program is designed to increase K-12 students’ interest in and preparation for STEM opportunities through employing undergraduate students as mentors, STEM activity leaders and tutors in K-12 schools. Impact of the program was assessed by analysis of K-12 student test score data and survey data from K-12 students, K-12 …

Your Journalism Is Transparent, But Is It Complete? Examining Objectivity's Successors, Alvie Proctor Hackle

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Critics have assailed objectivity as a guiding principle of journalists for more than half a century, dismissing its practices as defensive routines or strategic rituals. This study compares transparency, often touted as a new ethical framework for news media, and substantial completeness, a truth-telling strategy that has received less attention, to gauge whether substantial completeness could more adequately replace objectivity as journalism's core principle. A survey emailed to journalists nationwide drew 70 responses and confirmed the hypothesis that a majority of American newspaper and newspaper website journalists view substantial completeness as an ethical obligation when it is described as a …

Street Art And Museums: Their Similarities Applied, Samira Rahbe

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Street art and museums are posited as antithetical to one another. The former is essentially vandalism-as-art while the latter is the gatekeeper of culture. Although street art actively contests authority through its illegal existence in public, that does not prevent it from exisiting inside museums. This literal incorporation is explored briefly by way of the exhibition Banksy versus the Bristol Museum (2009), but it is not the primary concern of this thesis. Instead, the focus is how street art and museums operate from a similar goal of social justice apparent through their efforts to engage communities, increase accessibility, and nourish …

Jaw In A Day' Surgery The First Of Its Kind In Alabama, Staff

Browse All News

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Healthcare Reform: Engaging Stakeholders And Creating Continuity Of Care In A Multimorbidity Nurse-Led Clinic, Kathryn Davis

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

This visual representation of the planning phase of an initial action research cycle, fits within a broader study, to implement a nurse-led clinic for people living with multimorbidity. Research outcomes may include changes in professional and structural health system boundaries, with potential to inform future nurse-led clinics, nationally and internationally.

Family-Centered Care: Perceptions Of Newborn Care During Transition To A Higher Level Of Care, Emelia C. Garcia, Joann D. Long, Monica T. Foster

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

There is limited evidence on how best to communicate with parents with newborns with hypoglycemia during transition to a higher level of care. This project presents focus group findings from mothers of newborns with hypoglycemia and reports implications for evidence-based family-centered education.

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (Mbsr) Intervention On Emotional Distress And Glycemic Control In Diabetes Older Adults, Shu-Ming Chen

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

This study was to evaluate the effects of a Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) intervention for improving emotional distress and glycemic control (HbA1c) in diabetes older adults.

Standardized Exam Scores As Predictor For Nclex-Rn Pass Rates In A Second-Degree Accelerated Bsn Program, Nancy Haugen, Nandini Dasgupta

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

This poster presents the development of a model for standardized exam scores as predictor for NCLEX-RN first-time pass rates in a second-degree accelerated BSN program.

A Qualitative Metasynthesis Of Caring Leadership: Reclaiming Humanistic Caring In Nursing Leadership, Grissel Hernandez

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

A meta-synthesis was conducted of 12 qualitative studies on caring leadership. Five overarching themes emerged; caring leadership as way of being, situational, relational, action-driven practices and interventions, and enabling human flourishing. Results demonstrated caring leadership takes place at every level and had positive effects for leaders (self), followers and organizations.

Scaling Up Humanitarian Agenda Within Communal Violence In Myanmar, Mega Ayu Lestari

Journal of Islamic Law Studies

Following the historical origins, social triggers, and ethics about their status of citizenship, theRohingya should be treated properly as human-being. Even there are contradictions between the Burma Citizenship Law who did not admit them as an ethnic group of Myanmar, and Rohingya leaders who claimed as the descendants of the precolonial Muslim community of Rakhine State, it could not allow discrimination, confiscation of land, violence, and any other forms of injustice against the Rohingya. Hence, this paper would like to explain how they can be recognized in achieving their rights and reshaping the importance of humanitarian agenda, in which these …

The Challenge Of A Definition For Spirituality With A “Four Domains” Model, Harold Ristau

Consensus

No abstract provided.

Food Safety Knowledge And Practices Among Saudi Mothers, Wafa O. Ayaz, Anushree Priyadarshini, Amit Jaiswal

Articles

This study examines food safety knowledge and practices of mothers in Saudi Arabia. A total of 979 respondents participated in the study and completed a questionnaire that accessed their knowledge of food storage, food handling, usage and maintenance of kitchen facilities, personal hygiene and food poisoning. Results showed that mothers in Saudi Arabia had moderate knowledge of food storage (passing rate 64.9%) and usage and maintenance of kitchen facilities (passing rate 66.5%). While they had good knowledge of personal hygiene (passing rate 83.8%) and food poisoning (passing rate 78.5%), their knowledge with regard to food handling was poor (passing rate …

Blended Teaching Competency Assessment, Emily Pulham

Instructional Psychology and Technology Graduate Student Projects

This report details the process of developing a competency assessment for K-12 blended teaching competence in four areas: technology-mediated interactions, personalization, blending online and in-person learning, and real time data practices. It was pilot tested with a group of students in a blended and online teaching course.