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Clinical Judgment: Nursing Actions And Measurable Indicators, Sheryl Sommer, Christine Mills, Kevin Loughlin

Biennial Convention (CONV)

Recommendations for educators from a study identifying nursing actions associated with the performance of clinical judgment, and measurable indicators providing evidence that clinical judgment occurred.

Arts & Humanities News, Georgia Southern University

Arts & Humanities: News & Publications (2009-2023)

• Costello to present at inaugural COmicana Conference

Adolescent Identity Exploration And Civic Identity Development In A U.S. Government Classroom, Sarah Mead Denney

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

As technological advances provide minute-by-minute updates of current events and personalized media feeds push the boundaries of political polarization, the task of social studies educators to provide students with the tools to become effective citizens becomes increasingly important. Undergirded by theories of psychosocial identity development, civic identity development, and the promotion of identity exploration in the academic curriculum, this qualitative multiple case study attempts to examine the processes of adolescent identity exploration and civic identity development in relation to the assignments and activities in a twelfth-grade Advanced Placement (AP) U.S. Government classroom. Classroom observations, teacher and student interviews, and artifact …

An Assessment Of The Role Of Florida Pharmacists In The Administration Of Inactivated Influenza Vaccine To Pregnant Women, Oluyemisi O. Falope

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The influenza vaccine is a safe and effective vaccine in preventing influenza infection in the general population. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recommend that pregnant women receive influenza inactivated vaccine (IIV) due to the high morbidity and mortality associated with influenza infection in pregnant women. Despite the recommendation, the U.S. national influenza vaccine uptake rates among pregnant women continue to remain low. Studies have shown barriers to influenza vaccine uptake in pregnant women to include issues with access, unavailability of vaccine, and lack of time during prenatal visits. These barriers can be overcome using pharmacists because, among healthcare providers, …

Diy Educational Escape Rooms: Behind The Scenes, Lynn L. Wiles, Janice E. Hawkins, Beth Muriel Tremblay

Biennial Convention (CONV)

This session includes a behind the scenes look at creating, piloting, implementing and evaluating an educational escape room in the nursing curricula. A “how to” discussion of escape room planning, including workload considerations and lessons learned, will assist educators in determining whether or not to adopt this learning strategy.

Academic Leadership Development: The Experienced Nurse Faculty Leadership Academy (Enfla) Cohort Iii Outcomes, Carol J. Huston, Julie B. Meaux, Laly Joseph, Abigail S. Rea, Catherine Wilson Cox, Debra M. Stark, Gayle J. Kipnis, Lisa S. Lewis, Michael Joseph S. Dino, Michelle M. Kelly

Biennial Convention (CONV)

This session provides an opportunity for the nine 2018/2019 Experienced Nurse Faculty Leadership Academy Scholars (3rd cohort) to present outcomes related to their leadership development. Additional information about applying for future leadership development academies will be made available to attendees.

Parents' Perceptions Of The Impact Of Social Media On Their Adolescents, Rebecca M. Larson

Biennial Convention (CONV)

Adolescent mental health issues are rising, and social media use is rising as well. This study explores the possible relationship between social media use and mental illness by examining parents' perceptions of adolescent participation in activities, school involvement, peer interactions, and other factors.

An Innovative Idea To Improve Undergraduate Participation In Your Chapter, Kady L. Martini

Biennial Convention (CONV)

Learn how to involve undergraduate students in all levels of your chapter. The Sigma Theta Tau International Epsilon Chapter created an undergraduate student advisory board and this increased participation and interest in the Epsilon Chapter. Learn how and why your chapter should implement this innovative idea.

Shame And Type 2 Diabetes: Patient Perceptions Of Providers' Impacts On Disease Self-Management, Allyn E. Harker

Biennial Convention (CONV)

Patients with Type 2 diabetes experience regular interactions with the healthcare system and healthcare personnel and many of those interactions may have an emotional impact on their confidence in managing their disease. Healthcare providers can improve patient outcomes by understanding how these interactions affect their patients.

Promoting Health In The Hispanic American Population Through An Educational Experience On Diabetes Mellitus, Emily Katherine Hanks, Norma Salas Maldonado, Francine B. Jensen

Biennial Convention (CONV)

Hispanic Americans (HA) have a 12.1% incidence of having diabetes (DM). A diabetes educational intervention using a pre/post design targeted community-dwelling HAs to provide knowledge and increase awareness of diabetes. Results showed gains (p=.038) in modifiable behaviors such as diet changes and increase in exercise activity.

Experimental Testing Of A 3d-Printed Metamaterial Slow Wave Structure For High Power Microwave Generation, Antonio B. De Alleluia

Electrical and Computer Engineering ETDs

A metamaterial (MTM) high power microwave (HPM) vacuum electron device (VED) was developed using 3D printing technology. The specific geometric pattern of the source can produce both negative permittivity and permeability to interact with a relativistic electron beam. The electron beam is generated using a pulsed electron accelerator with a maximum energy of 700 keV and lasting approximately 16 ns. The design of this novel VED consists of a circular waveguide loaded with complementary split-ring resonators in a linear periodic arrangement in which the relativistic beam travels guided by a magnetic field. The electrons interact with the MTM producing electromagnetic …

Physicochemical Properties Of Blend Poly (Vinyl Alcohol) And Sodium Alginate Membranes For Potential Application In Wound Dressings, Martha Pieper

Mechanical Engineering Theses

Poly (vinyl alcohol) (PVA) and sodium alginate (SA) are water-soluble polymers with excellent biocompatibility suitable for biomedical applications in wound dressings. In this study, pure PVA, pure SA, and blends of PVA/SA membranes were solvent cast into films followed by crosslinking in CaCl₂, boric acid, and a mixture of CaCl₂/boric acid solutions for 5, 10, and 30 minutes. Initial feasibility studies showed a strong correlation of film thickness to the observed mechanical properties. Further studies in solvent casting of blend PVA/SA films, using various polymer concentrations, yielded better film appearance with minimal physical changes after crosslinking. …

Will A Self-Compassion Intervention Improve Rural Caregivers Of Persons With Early-Stage Dementia Quality Of Life?, Dorothy J. Dunn, Michael J. Mccarthy, Yolanda E. Garcia

Biennial Convention (CONV)

This descriptive quantitative intervention study is to determine if there is a relationship between self-compassion, increase in caregiver knowledge of dementia care, and improvement of quality of life. Rural caregivers of a person with early-stage dementia will be recruited for this five-week intervention.

Utilizing Social Media In Graduate Nursing Education: A Review Of The Literature, Kristen Munyan, Joanna M. Hernandez

Biennial Convention (CONV)

This systematic review of evidence on the utilization of social media summarizes best practices in the use of this emerging technology as a teaching strategy.

Cultivating A Spirit Of Excellence Inquiry Through Alignment Of Magnetâ® And Evidence-Based Practice, Lindsay A. Williams, Alexandra Duke, Mary Kateri Tobias, Yesenia Vale

Biennial Convention (CONV)

This poster describes the alignment and interaction between EBP models and the Magnet model, and how the union can be leveraged to engage staff and patients in Magnet redesignation.

Childhood Obesity: Approaches To Policy Change To Improve Population Health In Baltimore County Public Schools, Caroline Raynor

Biennial Convention (CONV)

Childhood Obesity predisposes children to chronic diseases that reduce the quality of life, increase the cost of healthcare, and increase health disparities. This poster presentation illustrates two approaches to health policy advocacy to reduce childhood obesity and improve the population health in Baltimore County Public Schools (BCPS).

The Diamond, November 8, 2019, Dordt University

Dordt Diamond

• Front Page: Dordt Student Selected as National FFA Representative; Entomology Class Inspects and Identifies Insects; Students Dedicate Senior Design Project to Haitian Orphanage
• News: California Wildfires Run Rampant Again; Cheating and Academic Dishonesty at Dordt; Humans vs. Zombies Returns to Dordt; Kielstra Research and Scholarship Center; Planning for PLIA; Opinion: the Prodigal Son Returns: Kanye West and Jesus Is King; Practice Pays Off: Music Departmental Recital; "The Price Is Fright" on Saturday Night
• Feature: Kill the Conversation? Chapel Series on Sexuality Creates Controversy; Dordt Professor Selected for NASA Research; Midwest Miseries to A-maize-ing Memories: The Kernel Journal; The Sneaker …

Understanding The Family Planning Care Experiences Of Young Black Women Using An Intersectionality Mixed Methods Approach, Rachel G. Logan

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Introduction: Black women in the U.S. disproportionately experience unintended pregnancy, particularly as compared to their white counterparts. When racial and ethnic disparities in reproductive health are combined with other marginalized identities, such as low social status and young age, Black women’s risk of negative health outcomes may increase and further produce disadvantage.

Objective: The overall objective of this research was to understand the family planning care experiences of young Black women.

Methods: This study used a transformative mixed methods design to understand young Black women’s most recent family planning care experience in the last 12 months through Intersectionality, Psychological Reactance, …

The George-Anne Daily, Georgia Southern University

George-Anne Media Group: Newsletters & Magazines

No abstract provided.

The George-Anne Daily, Georgia Southern University

George-Anne Media Group: Newsletters & Magazines

No abstract provided.

Metabolic Dynamics Of Developing Rice Seeds Under High Night-Time Temperature Stress, Balpreet K. Dhatt, Nathan Abshire, Puneet Paul, Kalani Hasanthika, Jaspreet Sandhu, Qi Zhang, Toshihiro Obata, Harkamal Walia

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

High temperature stress during rice reproductive development results in yield losses. Reduced grain yield and grain quality has been associated with high temperature stress, and specifically with high night-time temperatures (HNT). Characterizing the impact of HNT on the phenotypic and metabolic status of developing rice seeds can provide insights into the mechanisms involved in yield and quality decline. Here, we examined the impact of warmer nights on the morphology and metabolome during early seed development in six diverse rice accessions. Seed size was sensitive to HNT in four of the six genotypes, while seed fertility and seed weight were unaffected. …

One-Legged Contracting, Ian Ayres, Gregory Klass

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

This response to Robin Bradley Kar & Margaret Jane Radin, Pseudo-Contract and Shared Meaning Analysis, 132 Harv. L. Rev. 1135 (2019), makes three broad points. It criticizes as arbitrary and essentializing Kar and Radin’s insistence of shared meaning as the core of contracting. It argues that even if shared meaning were the sine qua non of contracting, their proposal fails to achieve it because it does not assure that the terms would be cooperatively communicated. And it argues that their proposed enforcement standard would in practice severely limit freedom of contract and likely reduce consumer welfare. There is a …

November 8, 2019, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

National Climate-Mitigation Policy: The Spatial Framing Of (In)Justice Claims, Ian Bailey

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.

Using Social Media For Professional Development, Sean Griffin

Science Seminars

Sean Griffin is a social media marketer with a degree in marketing from Louisiana Tech University and a background in consumer behavior, sales & entrepreneurship and communications (business and interdepartmental).

Topics to be covered at this seminar include:

- Social media etiquette

- LinkedIn for beginners and intermediate users

- Personal branding and marketing

- How to use social media to find prospective employers, connections, and research

Come at 3:30pm for refreshments, speaker at 4:00pm

Gaming Is Bad For Society?: Online Gaming, Social Skills, And Civic And Political Perceptions Among Adolescents, Hyerin Kwon

Shared Knowledge Conference

The goal of this research is to establish the relationship between online game use and interpersonal skills and political awareness among adolescents. Previous studies have found that the political awareness is often shaped and transformed by media consumption. As online gaming is one of the most appealing media to young people, it is expected that online game has a significant impact on their political awareness. However, few studies have questioned the relationship between online game use and political awareness. According to the uses and gratification perspective, some users have motivations to interact with other players, which can lead to interpersonal …

Indigenous Women Rize | Community Curriculum And Development Plan, Sara Twiss

Shared Knowledge Conference

The Indigenous Women Rize (IWR) project is a workshop series created for self-identified Indigenous young women from ages 17 and up, as this is an important time when they begin exploring respect they have for themselves, their relationships with their families/kinships (siblings, cousins, and peers), and their romantic relations as they leave high school and transition into college, or into the workforce. The major topics and overviews are conducted through four separate days, where main points transition kindly for the Indigenous women to grow and flourish with knowledge. They address specific actions and practices that are both contemporary and traditional …

“Who’S Driving The Bus?” Or How Digitization Is Influencing Archival Collections, Kathelene Mccarty Smith, David Gwynn, Beth Ann Koelsch, Jennifer Motszko

Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies

Archivists who work directly with unique collections, as well as librarians and other professionals who coordinate digitization, generally agree that access should be prioritized. However, each group has its own goals, standards, and timelines that may conflict with those of their colleagues. The push to maximize access to collections may, in some cases, go so far as to influence collecting policies. Is the lure of rapid digitization affecting best practices of arrangement and description? If online access to the collections is the ultimate goal, and if each stakeholder has a different perspective on how best to accomplish this, who decides …

Diversity In Video Games: The Personal Experience Of Gamers

Symposium of Student Scholars

Diversity in video games has often been ignored or caricaturized such as in Final Fantasy VII, where the main character, Barret Wallace, is portrayed as African American. Video games are now big business, impacting almost every facet of American society and earning more than $91.5 billion dollars annually. This research explores how triple A games portray character identities and why these portrayals may be changing? Data will come from five semi-structured interviews with gamers about their experiences and perceptions about how diversity in video games affects their views about and enjoyment of the games they play. Do diverse characters enhance …

Partners With Passion For The Archives, Nadia Nasr

Staff publications, research, and presentations

On November 7, 2019, the Sisters of the Holy Family religious congregation located in Fremont, California, celebrated the 148th anniversary of their founding at their community event "Celebrating Our Legacy: Past, Present, and Future," held at the conference center of the Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose, located in Fremont, California. This presentation provides an update to the Sisters of the Holy Family after completion of the SHF Archives transfer to SCU, articulating the reasons why this partnership is important not only to Santa Clara University but also to understanding the history of women in the Catholic Church, as well …