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Lean On Me: The Influence Of Leadership On Healthcare Transformation Initiatives, Judy E. Duchscher, Sonia Udod

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

LEAN was identified as a viable and sustainable solution for the growing cost, quality, and efficiency challenges faced by healthcare leaders. Despite its intent, many institutions say it is unsustainable and ineffectual. This study reveals the influence of nurse managers in actualizing a system transformation of this magnitude.

Strategic Institutional Approaches To Graduate Employability: Navigating Meanings, Measurements And What Really Matters, Ruth Bridgstock, Denise Jackson

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

Despite ongoing efforts by universities, challenges and tensions continue to exist in academic discourse, policy and practice around graduate employability. These factors can militate against the sector’s capacity to prepare learners for life and work, because they promote unclear, and sometimes counterproductive and competing, courses of action. This article suggests that higher education institutions’ approaches to graduate employability reflect at least three aims. The aims relate to: (i) short-term graduate outcomes; (ii) professional readiness; and (iii) living and working productively and meaningfully across the lifespan. The commitment to each of these aims is often tacit and ill-defined and varies within …

Reducing Suspension Rates In Camden, New Jersey, Christina Fleming

Theses and Dissertations

Researchers have found that being suspended is a strong indicator that a student will eventually drop out. Students who drop out are much more likely to end up in prison, becoming part of the "school to prison pipeline." This study will look to answer the question "Are Charter schools addressing the School to Prison Pipeline?" Camden, NJ, a city riddled with poverty, high crime rates, and high rates of incarceration is now a city with an all but dismantled public school system. Can Charter schools be the answer?

Researchers have gathered enough evidence to support various solutions including but are …

Exploring Masters' Entry Program Nursing Students' Poverty Simulation Experience, Susan L. Adams, Jessica E. Draughon Moret, Kupiri Ackerman-Barger

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

This presentation describes a masters' entry program in nursing students' perspective of a poverty simulation, "Community Action Poverty Simulation" learning experience. The descriptive thematic analysis demonstrated that students developed an empathetic connection with those living in poverty.

Leading, Energizing, And Developing Staff Through Times Of Change, Carol A. Watson, June Liebert, Jane Sánchez, Austin Martin Williams

Presentations

The nature of library work is changing. New technology, user preferences, tighter budgets, and new expectations have meant that libraries have altered and adapted the way they provide resources and services. While these changes have brought many benefits to library users, innovations in how libraries provide resources and services often have long-term implications on the skills needed from librarians and staff. Now more than ever, it's important to communicate to staff about the future of their work and their roles in the library, and to provide them with the development and training they need to transition into new roles. "Where …

A Mixed Method Examination Of Law Enforcement Investigatory Strategies Used In Jihadi And Far-Right Foiled Terrorist Plots Before And After 9/11, Brent R. Klein, Jeff Gruenewald, Steven M. Chermak, Joshua D. Freilich

Qualitative Criminology (QC)

"Empirical research on the law enforcement strategies used to prevent terrorism has increased since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Yet, few studies have examined how these preventative approaches vary based on terrorists’ ideological affiliations and across time. This study thus explores the similarities and differences in law enforcement investigatory strategies used to thwart global jihadi and farright terrorist violence prior to and since the 9/11 terrorism events. Employing a convergent parallel mixed method research design, our study analyzes both quantitative and qualitative data on 86 terrorism enterprise investigations from the U.S. Extremist Crime Database (ECDB). The quantitative data analyses …

Leadership Behaviour And Worker Performance In The Nigerian Construction Industry, Abiodun Kolawole Oyetunji, John Adebiyi, Nathaniel Ayinde Olatunde

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

Leadership is a dynamic process in which an individual influence other to contribute to the achievement of an assigned task. This paper investigates leadership behaviour and its impact on construction workers’ performance in Lagos, Nigeria. Purposive sampling technique was adopted to select 50 site-supervisors and 250 construction-workers involved in simple construction works. An investigation was carried out using a questionnaire survey method. The leadership variables investigated were ranked, regressed and correlated to workers performance. From the primary data analysis, leadership behaviour exhibited by supervisors were found to influence the site workers commitment to achieving the goal of the construction projects. …

Increasing Nursing Competence And Confidence During Obstetric Emergencies Through Simulation: A Quality Improvement Project, Tram Wallen

Dissertations

Problem: This quality improvement project aimed to improve the knowledge and confidence of the mother/baby nursing staff during postpartum hemorrhages through in situ simulation. PPH is a leading cause of maternal death. Hospitals across the U.S. lack a standard approach to managing obstetric emergencies; the complications of childbirth are often identified too late. Multidisciplinary simulation-based team training has been associated with improved outcomes in obstetrics.

Methods: A convenience sample of 26 registered nurses (RNs) that care for postpartum patients attended a one-hour instructor-led presentation followed by in situ simulations of postpartum hemorrhage. A knowledge assessment and confidence survey were administered …

9th Annual Leadership Conference At Andrews, Hannah Gallant

Andrews Agenda: Campus News

No abstract provided.

Examining Opioid Ordering Rates Of Advanced Practice Providers In An Emergency Department, Bridgette Thompson

Dissertations

Problem Opioid abuse has become a major public health issue in America. Many Americans die daily from an opioid overdose. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has identified prescription drug abuse and overdose as a major health threat.

Methods Descriptive cohort design with a retrospective record review of the number of opioids ordered by the advanced practice provider six weeks before and six weeks after a didactic and simulation educational experience.

Results The total sample was four (N=4). Using the paired samples t test there was no difference (t = 0.65, p = 0.56) between the number …

Closing The Gap Between Academe And Practice: Creation Of An Interprofessional/Interdepartmental Collaborative, Elsabeth Jensen, Rani Hajela Srivastava

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

The need for health care disciplines to demonstrate best practices challenges both current practicing professionals and students being prepared for practice. Partnerships, research and knowledge mobilization are keys to addressing these interdisciplinary challenges. This presentation describes one solution to bridging the gap between those two worlds.

Increasing Client Engagement In People Who Inject Drugs: Implementing Best-Practice For Syringe Service Programs, Tasha Turner-Bicknell

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

In light of the growing opioid epidemic and increased incidence and prevalence of HIV and Hepatitis C, national public health efforts engaging high-risk populations are crucial. People who inject drugs (PWID) are often disenfranchised from the healthcare system. Public health efforts to impact this population should focus on increasing engagement.

How Inquiries Into Craft Generate New Avenues For Multicultural Collaborations In Design, Bettina Minder, Shilpa Das, Praveen Nahar, Karina Kaindl, Sabine Junginger

Learn X Design Conference Series

This paper reflects on the STICH research project, an international research cooperation between Switzerland and India that investigated the topic of requirements of future design education by jointly exploring topic issues in the area of craft, design and social innovation. The cultural differences between these two countries allowed for an inquiry into the transformation of craft, design in new contexts of social innovation – and to discover similarities in the re-interpretation and significance of craft and design in the context of entirely different social challenges. The paper builds on existing theories of design education, crafts and design to propose future …

Prototyping A New Economy, Gerry Derksen, Zhabiz Shafieyoun

Learn X Design Conference Series

It is conceivable that capitalism and the new market economy as it currently operates is unsustainable despite the bullish opinions of businessmen and entrepreneurs. There are many obvious concerns surrounding an economy without money the most basic of which is the accounting of productivity. However, if we are seriously engaged in this thought experiment we must also consider two operations of the current system that seem to be most detrimental to societal and more recently, political constructs which are the accumulation, and transferability of money. Moderate restrictions have been placed on both operations but considering the involvement of business in …

Taking The Culture Out Of The Lab And Into The Office: A “Non-Lab” Approach To Public Service Transformation, Ryan Hum, Paul A. Thibaudeau

Learn X Design Conference Series

Over the years, “Innovation labs” have come and gone in public sector organizations. At Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, one low-key, co-design project over-delivered on client insights, service experience improvements and operational efficiencies. This case study shares one department’s success in embedding human-centered design into organizational culture by: competing against graduate design students, co-designing across the organization (from call agents, to policy, immigration officers, and communications), creating a design project alumni community, and adhering to rigorous measurement and experimentation. The case study will share opportunities and challenges that emerged from the process of embedding human-centered design (via a “non-innovation lab”) …

Predictive Policing Theory, Andrew Guthrie Ferguson

Contributions to Books

Predictive policing is changing law enforcement. New place-based predictive analytic technologies allow police to predict where and when a crime might occur. Data-driven insights have been operationalized into concrete decisions about police priorities and resource allocation. In the last few years, place-based predictive policing has spread quickly across the nation, offering police administrators the ability to identify higher crime locations, to restructure patrol routes, and to develop crime suppression strategies based on the new data.

This chapter suggests that the debate about technology is better thought about as a choice of policing theory. In other words, when purchasing a particular …

Identification Of Instructional Design Strategies For An Effective E-Learning Experience, B S S Karthik, Brig Bhuvanagiri Chandrasekhar, Dr Rajasekhar David, Dr A Kranthi Kumar

The Qualitative Report

The objective of the study is to identify various instructional design strategies used by the instructional designers for effective the E-learning experience. Thematic analysis is used to generate the factors accountable for the successful implementation of E-learning process. To fulfill the purpose of the study, semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with the instructional designers, students, and corporate employees, who are associated with E-learning apps. Interviews conducted are broadly classified into three sections. The first section dealt with the personal profiles of the respondents; second part dealt with the discussion on successful instructional strategies adopted by the designers, and the third …

Psychological Underpinnings Of The Work-Site Selection Process Of Knowledge Workers, April J. Spivack, Ashay Desai

Organization Management Journal

As a result of technological advances, knowledge workers have become increasingly mobile; people can perform work in a variety of new locations via an assortment of new working arrangements. Knowledge workers are now faced with the question of where to work. We argue that the process of work-site selection depends on the relationship between a variety of individual factors such as motivation, cognitive and affective evaluation, and regulatory focus as they interact with self-regulatory resources. Specifically, we use a dynamic interactionist perspective to integrate components of social exchange, self-determination, regulatory focus, and selfregulation theories. The resulting conceptual model contributes to …

This Is My Story: Using Patient Personalization Posters To Improve Nurses' Caring Behaviors, Kelly S. Johnson

Dissertations

The critical care environment renders patients unable to share the kind of personal information that illuminates their story outside of the intensive care unit. Therefore, learning about the individuality of this patient population and building caring relationships with them is more difficult than with a fully communicative patient. The aim of this project was to investigate the relationship between the patients' and families' perceptions of caring behaviors and the use of the "This is My Story" poster for critically ill adults. A two-group comparison was done between patients in a surgical intensive care unit who received the "This is My …

Strategically Engaging The Third Mission: A Comparative International Case Study Of Alternative Revenue Strategies Between The U.S. Flagship University And The European World Class University (Wcu), Harry Michael Clayton

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

ABSTRACT

The risk of financial sustainability for the university in the U.S. and Europe has been stressed by the reign of political authority in higher education disinvestment in the last four decades. The institution’s purpose has since been questioned, weighted by economics versus academics. Institutional priority and expanded centrality for strategic planning of societal engagement––the Third Mission––coupled with the Education and Research missions, promote clarity of the university’s purpose in this knowledge-based economy. Transparency of intended opportunities for regional economic engagement and societal development is then demonstrated to university communities. A comparative international case study of financial strategies between the …

An Evaluation Of The Effects Of A Student Trajectory Enhancement Program (Step Up) On High School Performance, Odalys G. Pritchard

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The Student Trajectory Enhancement Program (STEP UP) was launched in 2014 by Hillsborough County Public Schools (HCPS) as a six-week summer program that targeted over-age, retained, potentially under-achieving students completing the sixth grade. The purpose of this study was to conduct a summative evaluation of the effectiveness of the STEP UP program in keeping program participants “on track” for high school graduation and to determine if the intended goals of the program were realized.

STEP UP was developed in response to compelling data that there is an unacceptably high number of overage students in middle school in HCPS. STEP UP …

Listen To The Voices Of Maasai Women In Kenya: Ensuring The Well-Being Of Their Families Through Collective Actions, Taeko Takayanagi

International Journal of African Development

This is an ethnographic study that provides insight into grassroots activities managed by Maasai women leaders in the Narok area of Kenya. Four women’s narratives were used as a basis of analysis to demonstrate their roles in facilitating grassroots activities to improve village women’s well-being despite gender discrimination and multidimensional constraints. The women’s group leaders commented that low literacy had a negative influence on Maasai women’s development; however, the issue of illiteracy could be overcome through cooperative learning during women group activities in their village. The results showed that the women’s group leaders played a facilitative role in improving women’s …

Menaxhmenti Dhe Lidershipi Me Vështrim Të Veçantë Në Ndërmarrjet E Mesme Dhe Të Vogla Në Kosovë, Ardian Abdurrahmani

Theses and Dissertations

Roli i menaxhmentit ndërmarrës në lidership më vështrim të veçantë në ndërmarrjet e vogla dhe të mesme në Kosovë, është një temë mjaftë e gjerë për nga kuptimi. Ne ketë temë kemi mare shembuj të ndryshëm nga shtetet më zhvillim të madh ekonomik, duke ju referuar literaturës në gjuhen angleze dhe nga interneti.

Jemi fokusuar në fushën e menaxhmentit ndërmarrës dhe lidershipit (udhëheqjes) ne veçanti, se si menaxhohen ndërmarrjet e mesme dhe të vogla, cili është stili i tyre drejt udhëheqjes së suksesshme duke ju bere balle ndryshimeve të ekonomisë së tregut.

Në veçanti jemi fokusuar mbi qasjen e menaxhimit …

July 2019, Marci Grant

The CETL Correspondent

Please welcome Lisa Friesen as CETL’s new Director beginning July 1, 2019. I will be retiring at the end of June. I have enjoyed working with each of you during my 31 years at SWOSU. - Marci

Making It Work As A Working Mother: The Role Of Paradox Mindset In Positive Appraisal Of Working Motherhood Tensions, Tengjiao Huang

Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)

A prolific body of research on work-family interface documents the simultaneous, yet conflictual demands women face in fulfilling their roles as a career woman and a mother. However, little is known about how women cope with these contradictory tensions associated with working motherhood. This is important as many working women may decide to postpone motherhood to avoid the accompanying tensions. In this light, the current research leverages on the burgeoning literature on paradox management to investigate the role of a paradox mindset in positively appraising tensions to motivate dual career-motherhood endeavors. In positively appraising career-motherhood tensions, a paradox mindset is …

How School Leaders Shape School Culture: A Qualitative Case Study, Jennifer L. Schreiber

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The purpose of this qualitative case study was to identify how school leaders shape school culture and specifically what behaviors contribute to a positive school culture. The central question framing this study was: How do school leaders influence a positive school culture? I conducted a multiple case study at two central Pennsylvania public middle schools, referred to by the pseudonyms of Montem Middle School and Silvan Middle School. These schools were identified by the 2018 Niche report as having a positive school culture, which was affirmed through the district’s own survey data. Through purposeful sampling, I identified school leaders to …

Army Leadership And The Profession, Donald J. Polden

Faculty Publications

ADP 6-22 establishes and describes the Army profession and the associated ethic that serve as the basis for a shared professional identity. It establishes and describes what leaders should be and do. Having a standard set of leader attributes and core leader competencies facilitates focused feedback, education, training, and development across all leadership levels. ADP 6-22 describes enduring concepts of leadership through the core competencies and attributes required of leaders of all cohorts and all organizations, regardless of mission or setting. These principles reflect decades of experience and validated scientific knowledge.

Global Occupational Therapists’ Health And Wellness Interventions With Community-Dwelling Older Adults, Catherine Keegin, Lyndsey Lehman, Hannah Meier, Megan Weinberg

Older Adult

Rationale: The profession of occupational therapy (OT) has an opportunity to positively impact health and wellness for community-dwelling older adults with the approaching global increase of the aging population (He, Goodkind, & Kowal, 2016). Objective: The purpose of this study was to explore occupational therapists’ use of health promotion and wellness approaches to facilitate healthy aging with community-dwelling older adults in a global context. Results: Four qualitative themes were uncovered: perceptions of older adults, safety, the role of OT, and preventive versus reactive care. Participants with 10 or more years of experience addressed spirituality in practice more often than those …

The Role Of Institutional Pressures In The Adoption Of E-Procurement In Public Institutions In Developing Countries: The Case Of Lesotho, Salah Kabanda, Nteboheleng Pitso, Meke Kapepo

The African Journal of Information Systems

Benefits of E-Procurement are now well documented as experienced by both public and private organizations. Yet, in developing countries, and more so in Africa, few organizations have reported benefits of E-Procurement. Whilst institutional pressures are instrumental in shaping organization’s actions and outcomes with regard to technology adoption, few studies have examined their role in E-Procurement adoption in African public sector organizations. This study situated in Lesotho, seeks to examine the rational for E-procurement adoption in the public sector and identifies institutional pressures that affect successful adoption. Following an interpritivist approach, this study identifies (1) perceived benefits of efficiency and transparency …

Optimizing Intraprofessional Communication At Patient Handover, Allison Crabtree

Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects

This performance improvement project aimed to increase the communication competency of nurses during intraprofessional interactions at patient handover. An educational program focused on optimizing communication among nurses was implemented in a community-based, not-for-profit, rural hospital. The course was designed to incorporate a variety of instructional strategies to meet learner needs. Consistency and standardization of the patient handover process was a central theme. Topics of the course focused on the use of a standardized communication tool, the relationship of communication on patient safety, the importance of clear and effective communication, the role of the nurse as gatekeeper and facilitator of patient-specific …