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Sex-Related Differences In Brain Volumes And Cerebral Blood Flow Among Overweight And Obese Adults With Type 2 Diabetes: Exploratory Analyses From The Action For Health In Diabetes Brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study, Mark A. Espeland, Kathleen M. Hayden, Samuel N. Lockhart, Hussein N. Yassine, Siobhan Hoscheidt, Sevil Yasar, Jose A. Luchsinger, Rebecca H. Neiberg, Roberta Diaz Brinton, Owen Carmichael

Clinical Research Faculty Publications

Background: Sex may be an important modifier of brain health in response to risk factors. We compared brain structure and function of older overweight and obese women and men with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Methods: Cross-sectional cognitive assessments and magnetic resonance images were obtained in 224 women and 95 men (mean age 69 years) with histories of type 2 diabetes mellitus and overweight or obesity. Prior to magnetic resonance images, participants had completed an average of 10 years of random assignment to either multidomain intervention targeting weight loss or a control condition of diabetes support and education. Total (summed gray …

Exploring An Adaptive Version Of The 3d Model Of Debriefing Using A Virtual Patient Simulation, Francisco A. Jimenez, Cheryl Wilson

Nursing Education Research Conference (NERC)

In this study, we explored the debriefing experience of undergraduate students using the 3D Model of Debriefing after completing a virtual simulation module on conflict management. Results suggest that students can experience the benefits of a transformative learning experience when they are debriefed using the 3D Model with virtual patients.

Agacnp Student Led Interdisciplinary Teams: An Ipe Approach To Teamstepps In The Simulation Learning Center, Bethany J. Cieslowski, Sarah Jane Craig, Mary Deivert, Kathryn Reid

Nursing Education Research Conference (NERC)

To meet the needs of an evolving health care system, nurse practitioners (NP) must be prepared to lead teams. Course faculty for AG-ACNP and simulation collaborated to develop an interprofessional educational intervention that allowed NP students to practice leadership and teamwork with BSN students and licensed respiratory therapists using simulation.

Intergenerational Learning For Transforming Nursing Students' Perspectives Of Older Adults, Marleen Thornton, Kathryn Burns, Lara Street

Nursing Education Research Conference (NERC)

Intergenerational learning experiences focused on healthy aging that include nursing students and older adults may improve nursing students' perspectives of older adults and increase interest in geriatric nursing.

Using The Nursing Process To Enhance Critical Thinking: A Qualitative Study, Joanna M. Hernandez

Nursing Education Research Conference (NERC)

Integrating critical thinking strategies into nursing curricula is one method that can be used to meet the call to reform nursing education. The purpose of this presentation is to report research findings of teaching strategies that use the nursing process to develop critical thinking in the classroom.

Student Satisfaction And Engagement In Graduate Online Pathophysiology Delivered Using Adaptive Learning Platform, Julie Hinkle, Scott Sacommano, Carolyn Jones

Nursing Education Research Conference (NERC)

Adaptive learning platforms deliver content in a personalized way to students based on prior knowledge adjusting content delivery based on individual preferences and differences in knowledge acquisition. The purpose of this project was to compare a course developed in an adaptive learning platform to one in a traditional LMS only.

Student Nurses' Perceptions About The Culture Of Nursing And Why It Matters To Nursing Education, Susan M. Strouse, Emily A. Radtke

Nursing Education Research Conference (NERC)

Contemporary knowledge about the culture of nursing is limited. This focused ethnography study describes both pre-nursing and senior nursing students perceptions about the culture of nursing and learning that culture, as well as implications of those perceptions on nursing education, and the profession of nursing.

A Melting Pot Of Medications: Issues Regarding Over-Prescribing In Dementia Populations, Angela Gifford

UNO Student Research and Creative Activity Fair

Over-prescribing is an issue faced by many in the older population, but dementia patients statistically experience higher prescribing rates of potentially inappropriate medications compared to their peers. There are currently no FDA approved medications available for the direct treatment of dementia, but drug classes like anticholinergics and psychotropics are used for the management of behavioral symptoms associated with the disease. These drugs can cause negative side-effects in the dementia populations including gastrointestinal issues, neurological issues, increased hospitalizations, and increased mortality rates within this group. Most troubling, the benefits that are supposed to occur from taking these drugs have been show …

Path Analysis Of Education And Disease Burden In Dementia Vulnerability, Sarah Hubner, Hyeon Jung (Judith) Kim, Julie Blaskewicz Boron

UNO Student Research and Creative Activity Fair

When considering the various extrinsic variables that affect disease vulnerability, it is valuable to study temporal ordering of factors to identify areas for disease intervention. This study sought to inform improvement of networks for the purposes of education and health by attempting to better define the causal ordering of ethnicity, age, gender, education, disease burden, and dementia diagnosis with the Aging, Demographics, and Memory Study, a sub-study of the Health and Retirement Study. Participants and/or proxies self-reported total number of chronic conditions, subsequently regarded as disease burden. Assessments occurred over four waves; participants were not reassessed after dementia diagnosis. The …

To Empathize, Or Not Empathize In Educational Leadership, Mei Jiang, Shulan Lu

Journal of Organizational & Educational Leadership

In this paper, we discuss transformational leadership and propose that empathy is at the heart of transformational leadership. We review the research on empathy and discuss the implication of these insights in educational leadership. We highlight the multifaceted and interconnected nature of empathy and discuss components of empathy that are most relevant to educational leaders. Recognizing one’s constraints on the empathy scale could protect leaders from burnout and poor decision making.

Exploring Advanced Practice Nurse Personal Professional Practice Behaviors In Engaging People In Shared Decision-Making, Christine M. Galante, Helene D. Winstanley, Patrice Hood

Nursing Education Research Conference (NERC)

To explore the attitudes and perceptions of advanced practice nurses in active clinical settings about engaging patients with chronic diseases as partners in shared decision-making and self-management which may improve patient outcomes.

Early Integration Of Gerontologic Didactic And Clinical Experiences: Changing Nursing Students' Attitudes, Interest, And Knowledge, Dianne Yow Daniels, Karen Louise Valcheff, Julianne B. Page

Nursing Education Research Conference (NERC)

Nurse educators across the globe are challenged to assist students to value gerontological nursing. This study will explore whether a nursing course with integrated gerontological content and innovative clinical strategies can impact the attitudes, knowledge, and interest of first semester undergraduate nursing students toward older adults.

2020-March-03-College Of Nursing Named Among Top Most Affordable Online Dnp Programs, University Marketing And Communication, East Tennessee State University

ETSU News

JOHNSON CITY (March 3, 2020) – East Tennessee State University’s College of Nursing was listed 10^th among the most affordable online Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) programs in the country, according to a new ranking by BestHealthDegrees.com.

ETSU’s DNP program is a doctoral degree focused on rural clinical practice in primary care settings. The program prepares advanced practice nurses and executive nurse leaders to assess and evaluate evidence from research and translate or use the findings to affect practice change and enhance and promote quality of care.

The program is offered in an online/blended format in which students complete …

Implementing An Unfolding Case Study Throughout The Nursing Curriculum To Increase Opioid Addiction Education, Tonja M. Padgett, Barbara Derose, Shirley K. Woolf, Samantha Tielker

Nursing Education Research Conference (NERC)

It is critical to incorporate opioid addiction education into nursing school curriculum. An unfolding case study centered on a person addicted to opioids including ramifications on family was created. The scenario can be threaded throughout the undergraduate curriculum from assessment to critical care and can continue into the graduate program.

Disrupting Incivility In Healthcare Through Interprofessional Education, Jeannette M. Kates, Marybeth Pavlik, Yvonne F. Hamill

Nursing Education Research Conference (NERC)

In this session, we will describe our experiences with implementing a session on incivility during a leadership seminar with interprofessional undergraduate and graduate health sciences students.

Formulation Development And Evaluation Of Aspasomes Containing Skin Whitening Agent, Mousumi Kar, Md Saquib, Dinesh Kumar Jain

Manipal Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences

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Not Queer Enough: How Current Medical School Curriculum Is Failing The Lgbt+ Community, Vanessa C. Iroegbulem

Women's and Gender Studies: Student Scholarship & Creative Works

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT+) individuals have specific healthcare needs, and often experience barriers in accessing quality and reliable health services. Research has revealed that medical practitioners are inadequately prepared to attend to the needs of the LGBT+ community.This paper will draw on the concept of intersectionality to discuss current medical school curriculum and its lack of LGBT+ education. This paper's focus is specifically on older LGBT+ adults, specifically the ways in which the intersection of gender, sexuality, race, and even class play a role in the different experiences of older LGBT+ adults in regard to the medical care, …

Evidence That Brain-Reactive Autoantibodies Contribute To Chronic Neuronal Internalization Of Exogenous Amyloid-Β1-42 And Key Cell Surface Proteins During Alzheimer's Disease Pathogenesis, Eric L Goldwaser, Nimish K Acharya, Hao Wu, George A Godsey, Abhirup Sarkar, Cassandra A Demarshall, Mary C Kosciuk, Robert G Nagele

Rowan-Virtua School of Osteopathic Medicine Departmental Research

Blood-brain barrier (BBB) permeability is a recognized early feature of Alzheimer's disease (AD). In the present study, we examined consequences of increased BBB permeability on the development of AD-related pathology by tracking selected leaked plasma components and their interactions with neurons in vivo and in vitro. Histological sections of cortical regions of postmortem AD brains were immunostained to determine the distribution of amyloid-β1-42 (Aβ42), cathepsin D, IgG, GluR2/3, and alpha7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (α7nAChR). Results revealed that chronic IgG binding to pyramidal neurons coincided with internalization of Aβ42, IgG, GluR2/3, and α7nAChR as well as lysosomal compartment expansion in these …

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What If Granny Wants To Gamble? Balancing Autonomy And Vulnerability In The Golden Years, Mary F. Radford

ACTEC Law Journal

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Me Too? The Invisible Older Victims Of Sexual Violence, Ruthy Lowenstein Lazar

Michigan Journal of Gender & Law

A review of legal research on violence against women and elder abuse reveals a disturbing picture. There is hardly any American legal research examining sexual abuse of older women and its conceptualization in legal literature and treatment in the legal system.

This Article attempts to fill the abovementioned gap and to bring the hidden issue of sexual violence against older women to light. Scholars writing on rape, violence against women, and elder abuse tend to analyze age and gendered sexual violence separately from each other, without accounting for their interplay. This Article proposes a conceptual framework of sexual abuse of …

Adolescents' Attitudes And Intentions To Use A Smartphone App To Promote Safe Driving, Caitlin N. Pope, Emre Sezgin, Simon Lin, Nichole L. Morris, Motao Zhu

Graduate Center for Gerontology Faculty Publications

Purpose

Designing effective driving safety interventions is imperative as traffic crashes are the leading cause of injury and death for adolescents. Using concepts from the Integrated Behavioral Model, we investigated adolescents' attitudes and intentions towards engaging in safe driving practices and using smartphone-based driving safety technology.

Methods

Two-hundred and seven adolescents aged 14–18 (M = 16.1, SD = 0.8) completed a safe driving survey. A path model testing the associations between individual scores of attitudes, perceived norms, and perceived behavioral control with intentions controlling for demographic covariates was conducted.

Results

Greater intentions to drive safely was associated with greater …

Common Geriatric Syndromes In Elderly Patients Attending Geriatric Clinic In Medical City, Eman Jasim Mohammed Al- Akkam, Zahraa Hussam Eldin Ismaeel, Entidhar Jasim Mohammed, Eman Jasim Mohammed Al- Akkam, Zahraa Hussam Eldin Ismaeel, Entidhar Jasim Mohammed

Iraqi Postgraduate Medical Journal

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Elderly people develop different kinds of health problems which are known as geriatric syndromes that have more than one cause and involve many activities of the body. The common geriatric syndromes include urinary incontinence, falls, delirium, depression, dementia, sleep problems, osteoporosis, weight loss and constipation. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study to estimate the prevalence of common geriatric syndromes in relation to gender and to interview the working state. PATIENTS AND METHODS: This study included 300 elderly patients with age range of 60 years -84years of both genders in a cross-sectional study from March - June 2019 who …

Does Money Buy Healthiness: An Examination Of The Effects Of Socioeconomic Indicators On Physical And Mental Health, Caleb Nigrin

Honors Program: Senior Projects (Public)

The purpose of this thesis is to examine the impact of socioeconomic status indicators on physical and mental health. This study hypothesizes that higher socioeconomic status indicators are correlated with better physical and mental health while examining the extent of these relationships. In order to determine this, previous literature regarding health and socioeconomic status will be evaluated. The results of the General Social Survey (2016) will be used to test the effects of socioeconomic status on health using regression analysis. The responses of 1418 participants were used in this analysis, controlling for age, gender, race, political ideology, and religiosity. Two …

Influencing Factors On Specialty Preference Using The Social Cognitive Career Model: A Cross-Sectional Study On Medical Students In Taiwan, Yu-Shiuan Yang, Hui-Ching Weng

Journal of Medical Education

Purpose: A decline in the number of doctors in certain specialties has been observed around the world and affects medical care for those in need. Applying social cognitive career theory, this study aims to compare career preferences among medical students in different year groups, identify the influencing factors, and examine the impacts of malpractice anxiety. Our main purpose was to measure change in specialty preference among the different year groups and identify underlying causes. Methods: In this observational study, a self-reported survey was conducted. Questionnaires included three distinct parts: demographics, future specialty preferences, and factors affecting career choice. In total, …

Inhibition Deficits Are Modulated By Age And Cgg Repeat Length In Carriers Of The Fmr1 Premutation Allele Who Are Mothers Of Children With Fragile X Syndrome, Jessica Klusek, Jinkuk Hong, Audra Sterling, Elizabeth Berry-Kravis, Marsha R. Mailick

Faculty Publications

Individuals who carry a premutation (PM) allele on the FMR1 gene may experience executive limitations associated with their genetic status, including inhibition deficits. However, poor understanding of individualized risk factors has limited clinical management of this group, particularly in mothers who carry the PM allele who have children with fragile X syndrome (FXS). The present study examined CGG repeat length and age as factors that may account for variable expressivity of inhibition deficits. Participants were 134 carriers of the PM allele who were mothers of children with FXS. Inhibition skills were measured using both self-report and direct behavioral assessments. Increased …

Fall Prevention In Cognitively Impaired Patients, Bryan Kozlowski Rn, Jennifer Dill Bsn, Rn, Kristen Bray Bsn, Rn

Vizient/ AACN Nurse Residency Program™ EBP Projects

No abstract provided.

Not Queer Enough: How Current Medical School Curriculum Is Failing The Lgbt+ Community, Vanessa C. Iroegbulem

Audre Lorde Prize

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT+) individuals have specific healthcare needs, and often experience barriers in accessing quality and reliable health services. Research has revealed that medical practitioners are inadequately prepared to attend to the needs of the LGBT+ community.This paper will draw on the concept of intersectionality to discuss current medical school curriculum and its lack of LGBT+ education. This paper's focus is specifically on older LGBT+ adults, specifically the ways in which the intersection of gender, sexuality, race, and even class play a role in the different experiences of older LGBT+ adults in regard to the medical care, …

Dementia May Reduce Likelihood Of A “Good Death” For Patients With Cancer

Saudi Medical Journal

No abstract provided.