Efficacy Of The Abcde Bundle In Reducing Delirium In Critically Ill Patients: An Integrative Literature Review, Leah Hanson

Nursing Masters Papers

Delirium is an acute dysfunction of the brain that occurs in up to eighty percent of critically ill patients which has been associated with increased morbidity, mortality and long-term cognitive deficits. In an effort to reduce symptoms associated with Intensive Care Unit (ICU) acquired delirium, leading critical care researchers created the Awakening and Breathing Coordination, Delirium Monitoring/Management and Early mobility (ABCDE) bundle (Balas et al, 2012). Through an integrative literature review, the aim of this scholarly inquiry paper is to determine the efficacy of the ABCDE bundle in reducing the incidence of delirium in critically ill patients and provide supporting …

Concerns And Considerations In Mental Health Practices With Older Culturally Deaf Adults, David M. Feldman

JADARA

The elderly population in America is expected to more than double over the next half century. Consequently, the corresponding growth of the culturally Deaf' elderly population becomes important to examine. Because this population is a subgroup of both the hearing elderly and culturally Deaf populations, the expectation is that mental health professionals working with Deaf elderly clients will have specific concerns and will behave in ways that are specific to this population. Little is known, however, about the issues that challenge mental health professionals working with elderly Deaf clients. At present, mental health professions across all fields are unprepared to …

A Quality Improvement Study On Missed Appointment Management In Primary Care, Aunye' Dina Amos

Dissertations

Abstract

Problem: Patients who miss appointments have poorer health outcomes and increase costs for medical care. The purpose of this quality improvement study was to evaluate the effects of missed appointments on patients’ outcomes for diabetes mellitus, and resulting financial losses to a private primary care practice.

Method: A quality improvement initiative with a retrospective review of patients over a six-month period in 2018 (before) and 2019 (after a missed appointment fee was implemented). All adult patients, aged 18-92 years, were included. For those with diabetes, a HbA1c for each patient who kept or missed their appointment was recorded.

Results: …

Applied Sciences Faculty Member Named Recreation Therapist Of The Year, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

Health, Exercise Science and Recreation Management unveils new recreational therapy minor

You Learn When You Teach: A Narrative Pedagogy For Faculty And Doctoral-Level Student Teaching Assistants, Lauren A. Acosta Ms, Rn, Phd Candidate, Penny M. Overgaard Phd, Msn, Rn, Natalie M. Pool Phd, Rn, Bsn, Susan M. Renz Phd, Dnp, Rn, Gnp-Bc, Janice D. Crist Phd, Rn, Fwan, Faan

The Qualitative Report

The purpose of this study was to understand the meaning of online co-teaching for PhD faculty and teaching assistants (TAs). Narrative pedagogy underpinned the inquiry, which was designed to advance the discourse on mentorship of PhD future faculty. A faculty member and TA authors kept concurrent weekly journals or after-the-fact written reflections. The authors analyzed data as a team using a five-phase interpretive phenomenological analysis process to interpret the meaning of co-teaching for faculty and TAs. Lines of inquiry, central concerns, exemplars, shared meanings, and paradigm cases supported the overall interpretation, “You Learn When You Teach.” Co-mentorship should be a …

Gc Minutes Nov 21, 2019, Graduate Council

Graduate Council Minutes

No abstract provided.

Social Prescribing For An Aging Population, Amy Clements-Cortés, Joyce Yip

Music Faculty Publications

As the human population is moving toward a demographic of aging individuals, increased levels of stress will be placed on the current health care system. “… As people live longer, there is a tendency or the onset of disease to occur closer to the end of life” (p. 441) and the incidence of mental health illnesses is prevalent in older adults. Currently, the medical model is dominant in the health care system and aims to cure any issue(s) without considerations in the cause or source. Social prescribing/social prescription enables physicians and health care professionals to refer individuals to non-clinical services, …

Academic Service-Learning Experience Embraces The Vincentian Mission In Physician Assistant Education, Alyssa Quinlan, Pamela Gregory-Fernandez, Corinne Alois, Carla Hernandez Goodman

Journal of Vincentian Social Action

Motivated by the belief that health care is a basic human right and driven by a Vincentian mission, St. John’s University Physician Assistant Program incorporates service minded educational experiences created to expose students to the necessity to reach those most in need—“the poor, alienated and the aged.” In Spring 2018, in conjunction with the SJU Academic Service-Learning program, a geriatric service assignment was integrated into the geriatric course curriculum. Working with Selfhelp Virtual Senior Center, local senior centers and nursing homes, students participated in an outreach project to serve senior citizens. Students shared their experiences through reflection and pre- …

Theresa Stretch, Theresa Stretch, Institute Of Child Nutrition. Child Nutrition Archives.

Oral History Project (all interviews)

Theresa Stretch is a native of the State of Illinois. After working as a food service director in both rural and metropolitan districts in Illinois, Theresa accepted a position as an Education and Training Specialist at the Institute of Child Nutrition, where she has been for the past twenty years. Theresa will retire on March 31, 2020.

Gut Microbiota: From The Forgotten Organ To A Potential Key Player In The Pathology Of Alzheimer's Disease, Dong-Oh Seo, David M Holtzman

Open Access Publications

More than 300 years ago, Antony van Leewenhoeck first described observing single-celled microorganisms, which he termed "animalcules," examining his saliva under a microscope. Although the idea of the coexistence of microorganisms in our body is not new, we have only recently been able to investigate their ecological relationship to our body, with the development of high-throughput molecular techniques. The diverse microorganism communities residing in our guts are established and maintained by complex interactions among microorganisms and their host. Notably, their alteration has been implicated in influencing various diseases including neurological diseases. Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of …

Deaf Action Centers Senior Citizen Program, Elizabeth C. Criswell

JADARA

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Public Awareness Of Hearing Impairment And Sources Of Assistance, Geri Lacourt Grinstead, Herbert J. Oyer

JADARA

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Contemporary Society And The Issues Facing Deaf Baby Boomers When Compared To Their Hearing Counterparts: A Review, Timothy J. Ainger, Elizabeth Romero, David M. Feldman

JADARA

In today's society, it is important for researchers and practitioners to note that the generation known as the Baby Boomers is more than a socio-demographic clump; it represents a significant part of the population. This paper will be reviewing the issues facing the deaf baby boomer’s population and how they are contrasted to their hearing counterparts. The areas examined include social/political, technological, physical health care, and mental healthcare. In each area, this paper aims to illustrate that it can sometimes be difficult for deaf individuals in the baby boomer generation to find and utilize any number of societal resources.

Children’S Cognitive Reflection Predicts Conceptual Understanding In Science And Mathematics, Andrew Young

Faculty Research and Creative Activities Symposium

The Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT; Frederick, 2005) is the dominant measure of adult individual differences in analytic vs. intuitive cognitive style. The task was designed to measure a person's tendency to override and inhibit an intuitive response that is incorrect and engage in deliberate reflection that leads to a correct response. The CRT is a meaningful predictor of a diverse range of adult psychological and behavioral outcomes, including conceptual change in science and math learning (Shtulman & McCallum, 2014; Gómez-Chacón et al., 2014). The present research employed a newly developed CRT for children, the CRT-D (Young et al., 2018), to …

Effects Of A School-Based Social-Emotional And Character Development Program On Peer, Family, School, And Neighborhood Contexts: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial, Naida Silverthorn, Kendra M. Lewis, Niloofar Bavarian, David L. Dubois, Alan C. Acock, Samuel Vuchinich

Faculty Research and Creative Activities Symposium

Aims: To evaluate the impact of a school-based social-emotional and character development program on the various socializing contexts of youth. Methods: A matched-pair, cluster-randomized controlled trial included 1,170 students from 14, low-income, urban, Chicago Public Schools. Outcomes were assessed longitudinally for a cohort of youth followed from grades 3 to 8. Multilevel growth-curve modeling and endpoint analyses were conducted on indicators of peer, family, school, and neighborhood contexts. Results: Students in PA schools had slower rates of decline and higher end-point scores than students in non-PA schools across all of the contexts examined. For example, impacts were observed for positive …

The Attitude Of Medical Practices Toward Lgbtq Older Adults Before And After Intervention, Mackenzi B. Kim Md, Lynn M. Wilson Do, Nyann Biery Ms, Brenda Frutos Mph

Department of Family Medicine

No abstract provided.

Impact Of A Web-Based Instructional Module Of Alzheimer’S Disease Within Seven Content Knowledge Domains, Joyce Haynie

Dissertations

Abstract

Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) has been classified as the most common form of dementia. Primary health care providers are usually the first clinicians to whom individuals present with symptoms of dementia. By 2050, it is expected that as many as 13.8 million Americans will be living with AD, and millions more will be placed in the challenging role of providing care for these individuals. However, studies continue to show that dementia is often underdiagnosed and under detected. The purpose of the study was to systematically inquire about the impact of AD education on level of knowledge about AD among primary …

Um Enrolls Next Generation Of Future Leaders Across Six Campuses, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

Oxford campus records its highest retention rate ever

Identifying Malnourishment In Geriatric Patients With Nutritional Screenings To Improve Surgical Outcomes, Laura Steadman, Leanne Livingston Peoples, Cassandra U. Winston-Griffin

Biennial Convention (CONV)

This project is to determine if geriatric patients identified as malnourished or at risk of malnourishment by pre-operative screening with the Mini-Nutritional Assessment (MNA) influence surgical outcomes within 30 days of surgery for patients 65 years old and older.

Implementation Of Steadi Toolkit Of Cdc For Preventing Falls Among Community Dwelling Older Adults, Jill Varughese

Biennial Convention (CONV)

Implementation of the Stopping Elderly Accidents, Death and Injury guidelines of Center for Disease Control to prevent falls and falls related injuries among community dwelling adults under the care of home health services.

Simulated Role-Play To Improve Attitudes And Empathy Toward Older Adults In Accelerated Nursing Students, Elizabeth Ann Galetz

Biennial Convention (CONV)

This pre- and post-test intervention study aimed to: 1) examine the effectiveness of two educational modalities, a case study and simulated role-playing scenarios, on improving attitudes and empathy towards older adults; 2) explore factors affecting attitudes and empathy in accelerated baccalaureate of science in nursing (ABSN) students towards older adults.

Three-Months Of Neuromotor Fitness Program Affect The Body Composition And Physical Performance In Untrained Women, João Vinnícius Vasconcellos De Oliveira, Estêvão Rios Monteiro, Victor Gonçalves Corrêa Neto, Paulo Henrique Marchetti, Jefferson Da Silva Novaes, Amanda Fernandes Brown

International Journal of Exercise Science

International Journal of Exercise Science 12(4): 1346-1354, 2019. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of three months of neuromotor fitness on body composition and physical performance in untrained women. Nine untrained women (age: 38.1 ± 6.9 years; total body mass: 79.3 ± 10.7 kg; height: 161.5 ± 3.9 cm; body mass index: 30.4 ± 4.1) participated in the present study. Subjects attended the laboratory on twenty-seven occasions during a three-month period at least forty-eight hours in between sessions. Sessions 1 and 2 were used to measure morphology and body composition, and to familiarize all subjects with …

College Of Engineering Welcomes Advising Center Assistant | College Of Engineering, Utah State University

College of Engineering News

USU’s College of Engineering welcomes new academic advising center staff assistant Madeline Walker. She will play an important role in managing the day-to-day operations of one of USU’s most active student advising programs.

Gapfon: An Agenda To Collaboration, Connect, Catalyze, Hester C. Klopper, Beth Baldwin Tigges, Cathy D. Catrambone

Biennial Convention (CONV)

The Global Advisory Council on Nursing and Midwifery (GAPFON) led to publication of global nursing and midwifery professional issues, health priorities, and a high-level stakeholder meeting of global nursing organizations during 2018. We will discuss the GAPFON process, clustering of global strategies, subsequent actions, and outcomes from the stakeholder meeting.

The Relationship Between Length Of Community Tenure And Residents’ Volunteering At Community Events: Results From The Metro Atlanta Speaks Survey, Ramesh Ghimire, Jim Skinner

Journal of Rural Social Sciences

Volunteering at community events could be associated with length of community tenure as residents with longer years of “tenure” might have a greater sense of community belonging, greater social capital (e.g. social networks and trust), and greater familiarity with regional cultures, compared to new residents. Using the Metro Atlanta Speaks survey conducted in 2015 and 2016, this study finds that residents’ volunteering at community events is significantly and positively associated with their length of community tenure in metro Atlanta counties. Other sociodemographic characteristics, such as age, gender, education, income, and children in the household also significantly influence residents’ volunteering at …

The Exploration Of Three Theoretical Constructs In Animal-Assisted Therapy With Ptsd, Lynette P. Harvey, Michele L. Butkiewicz, Brittany Anne Malosh

Biennial Convention (CONV)

This poster will explore Bandura's Social Cognitive Theory and self-efficacy, Callista Roy's Adaptation Model, and Jean Watson's Human Caring Theory as it relates to Human Animal Interactions and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in veterans, children, and older adults.

Decreasing Agitation And Aggression In Persons With Dementia, Jennifer Maurer

Biennial Convention (CONV)

A DNP pilot study to evaluate the effectiveness of routinely utilizing the Pittsburgh Agitation Scale by long-term care staff to improve outcomes for persons with Alzheimer's disease and dementia.

Dog Walking: An Exercise Incentive For Older Adults, Lynette P. Harvey

Biennial Convention (CONV)

This review will study the literature in outcomes of dog walking in promoting physical activity in older adults. Subjectively reported data showed trends towards dog walkers being more active compared to their counterparts. This may assist in improving physical and mental health in seniors.

Competent Older Adults' Preferences In Healthcare Decision Making, Misae Ito, Satoko Ono, Mana Sakai, Eri Kataoka, Keiko Hattori, Kyoko Murakami, Keiko Matsumoto

Biennial Convention (CONV)

This study aimed to investigate the elderly patients' thoughts of family involvement and its harmony among family in health care decision making by semi-structured interviews. They perceived the relation of family until they got sick, and appreciated family thinking of them sincerely. Support based on their believe and values is important.

Elderly Health Services At Senior Centers In An Urban South Korean Community, Boas Yu

Biennial Convention (CONV)

The purpose of this study was to identify the current status of elderly health services provided by senior centers in South Korea and to pinpoint any improvements or recommendations needed for the South Korean senior centers to better serve elderly population.