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“The Hierarchy Is Your Constraint:” A Qualitative Investigation Of Social Workers’ Moral Distress Across A U.S. Health System, Sophia Fantus, Rebecca Cole, Lataya Hawkins

School of Social Work Faculty Publications

This paper reports findings from a qualitative study on the triggers of hospital social workers’ moral distress at a large southern U.S. health system. Moral distress occurs when ethical conflict cannot be resolved in a way that aligns with an individual’s personal and professional values and ethics. Participants indicated that moral distress derives from both individual interactions and the culture and climate of health systems. For example, participants expressed how sources of moral distress derived from client-centered decisions, such as end-of-life care and patient autonomy; interpersonal dynamics, including team or supervisory conflict; structural issues, such as insurance barriers or internal …

Examining Associations Between Servant Leadership, Job Burnout, And Job Satisfaction In The Iowa Probation And Parole Job Profession, Alfredo Rodriguez Ordaz

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The following research paper investigated the associations between servant leadership, job burnout, and job satisfaction in the Iowa probation and parole profession. There is extensive literature examining job burnout and job satisfaction in many disciplines, including the field of corrections. Leadership literature examining the servant leadership model remains limited. The leadership literature suggests that probation and parole agencies operate through a traditional paramilitary command and control hierarchy of strict adherence to rules, policies, and procedures. The importance and significance of this study are that it examined the extent to which probation and parole leaders practiced and engaged in servant leadership …

Among Friends Fall 2022 Vol 23 No 1, Friends Of The Bethel University Library

Among Friends Library Newsletter

Theme Issue: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Inclusive Excellence

Contents:

• Others' Stories
• Collecting DEI
• Honoring a Native Woman Artist
• Ukrainian Youth at Primetime
• Take Action
• New Vice President for Inclusive Excellence
• Faith and Inclusive Excellence
• 2022 Scholarship Winner
• Multicultural Gallery
• Book Review
• Celebrating Research
• Student Kick-Off 2022
• Footnotes: Celebrating Staff Accomplishments and Milestones

Macalester Today Fall 2022, Macalester College

Macalester Today

No abstract provided.

Patient Perspectives Of The Climate Of Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion In The Emergency Department, Kavya Davuluri, Nikhil Goyal, Harold Gomez Acevedo, Jason Folt, Namita Jayaprakash, Michelle Slezak, Martina T. Caldwell

Emergency Medicine Articles

Objective: Assessing the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) climate of emergency departments (EDs) can inform organizational change to provide equitable, inclusive, and high-quality care to their diverse patient populations. The purpose of this project was to investigate patient perspectives on the climate of DEI in an urban ED.

Methods: This was a cross-sectional survey study conducted in a large-volume, urban ED in Detroit, MI, from November 2018 to January 2019. The survey was developed by an experienced ED DEI committee via an iterative process and broad consensus.

Results: During their care in the ED, 849 patients completed an anonymous survey …

Ancient Andean Archipelagos: Human Interaction And Social Innovation At Chawin Punta And Kunturay In The East-Central Highlands Of Pasco, Peru, Nicholas E. Brown

Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertations

This dissertation studies the dynamic relationship between interaction and innovation in ancient Peru, where archipelagos of social movement developed among groups of people living in distant regions of the Central Andes and Amazon. The earliest development of these archipelagic societies can be traced to the rise of the Chavín phenomenon in the 2nd and 1st millennia B.C.E., when monumental platforms and plazas were built across the Andes to accommodate large gatherings of people for new kinds of civic and ceremonial events. Although the people who gathered at Chavin monuments had different cultural backgrounds and geographic origins, their collective experiences forged …

House Church Leaders: A Multisite Case Study, Lance Croy

PhD in Organizational Leadership

The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine house church leaders in situ within three typologies of home gatherings. Billings (2011) identified three stages of house church formats: (a) Oikos, where the congregants assemble in the home for a complete meal, including the Eucharist; (b) Domus, where the curate renovates and dedicates rooms in their homes for Christian usage; and (c) Aula, where rented facilities house larger gatherings, the liturgy becomes more formalized, and the Eucharist is no longer a full meal (Billings, 2011). House church leaders and congregants sampled fit the three typologies while addressing a gap in …

The Relationship Between Transformational Leadership And Organizational Citizenship Behaviors Of Bank Employees In The United States, Silas N. Reuben

PhD in Organizational Leadership

This study examined the relationship between transformational leadership and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) of bank employees in the United States. The study was necessary, as bank customers are urging banks to go the extra mile or engage in OCB to improve customer service given the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, which affected customers' use of bank services. The study used the 20-item MLQ Form 5X-short for transformational leadership and the OCB instrument developed by Podsakoff et al. to collect data from bank employees in the National Capital Region (NCR) of the United States. Pearson correlation analysis was conducted to …

Transforming Departmental Culture: Empowering A Department Through Appreciative Inquiry, Symphony D. Oxendine, Kerry K. Robinson, Michele A. Parker

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

This article outlines an appreciative inquiry (AI) into a departmental professional development process and describes the resulting implementation of an appreciative peer evaluation meeting as one part of the new professional development process. Using AI, a departmental faculty development committee sought to re-envision the professional development process. Also, the authors discuss how using AI can result in positive impacts for culture change and how the model for peer evaluation can promote both individual and collective development of faculty.

Fellow Travelers: Taking Stock Of Faculty Fellows Programs In The Age Of Organizational Development, Susan A. Colby, Laura Cruz, Danielle Cordaro, Clare Cruz

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Faculty fellows have long served as a staple of centers for teaching and learning (CTLs), but to date little to no evidence has been gathered regarding their broader impact. The current study provides a snapshot of U.S.-based faculty fellows programs today, based on a comprehensive review of CTL websites. We categorize faculty fellows programs across five modalities that reflect decades of evolution and adaptation in the field of educational development. Our findings are intended to provide the foundation for new pathways of research, practice, and inquiry regarding the implementation of CTL fellowship programs.

Required Sample Size To Detect Mediation In 3-Level Implementation Studies, Nathaniel J. Williams, Kristopher J. Preacher, Paul D. Allison, David S. Mandell, Steven C. Marcus

Social Work Faculty Publications and Presentations

Background: Statistical tests of mediation are important for advancing implementation science; however, little research has examined the sample sizes needed to detect mediation in 3-level designs (e.g., organization, provider, patient) that are common in implementation research. Using a generalizable Monte Carlo simulation method, this paper examines the sample sizes required to detect mediation in 3-level designs under a range of conditions plausible for implementation studies.

Method: Statistical power was estimated for 17,496 3-level mediation designs in which the independent variable (X) resided at the highest cluster level (e.g., organization), the mediator (M) resided at the intermediate …

Undergraduate And Graduate Course Descriptions, 2022 Fall, Wright State University

Course Descriptions

Wright State University undergraduate and graduate course descriptions from Fall 2022.

A Descriptive Analysis Of Remote Work Adoption In The United States, Paul A. Hill, Amanda D. Ali, Lendel K. Narine, Debra M. Spielmaker

Journal of Human Sciences and Extension

Advances in information and communications technology have enabled organizations to shift traditional work functions away from place or where work is accomplished to how work is accomplished (i.e., task facilitation). With the rise in remote work, there was a need to describe the adoption process by organizations in the United States. Given that the practice of remote work is considered an innovation, this quantitative study was guided by the theory of Diffusion of Innovations and followed a nonexperimental design with a correlational analysis, collecting cross-sectional data from a sample of organizational leaders in the United States (N = 1,259). Results …

Impacting Nurse Job Satisfaction And Engagement Through Shared Governance, Meghan K. Douglas

Doctor of Nursing Practice Scholarly Projects

Problem: Shared governance (SG) has been identified as an effective process to promote shared decision-making between direct care nurses and nursing leadership. However, barriers were identified at a large hospital system in the Southeastern United States (US) that postponed the full implementation of SG. This prevented nurses from having input on policies and actions that directly affected their work. Purpose: The purpose of this evidence-based project (EBP) was to determine if unit-based SG improved job satisfaction and engagement for nurses on inpatient medical-surgical units at a large hospital system in the Southeastern US. Method: Five medical-surgical units were identified to …

Organizational Readiness For Implementing A Postpartum Depression Screening Protocol In The Nicu, Deanna L. Suber

Doctor of Nursing Practice Scholarly Projects

Problem Statement: Postpartum depression (PPD) is a major depressive disorder that is the most common complication following childbirth, occurring in about 16% of new mothers (Berns et al., 2021). Mothers with infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) are 40% more likely to develop PPD but are not typically screened for this complication (Berns et al., 2021; Cherry et al., 2016; Garfield et al., 2021). Implementing a PPD screening protocol in the NICU could help increase the detection of PPD in this population but would first require an evaluation of organizational readiness to ensure sustainability. Purpose: The purpose of …

Statedata: The National Report On Employment Services And Outcomes Through 2019, Jean Winsor, John Butterworth, Alberto Migliore, Daria Domin, Agnes Zalewska, John Shepard, Esther Kamau

All Institute for Community Inclusion Publications

Access the latest information about employment and economic self-sufficiency for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Both national and state-level statistics are included.

What Common Elementary Practices Impact Teacher Efficacy?, Staci Souhan

School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Theses and Dissertations

Efficacy and its impact on student outcomes have often been researched. Specific practices within an elementary setting that impact teacher efficacy has not been widely researched. This research focused on gathering the perceptions of elementary teachers regarding which experiences had impacted their feelings of efficacy positively or negatively. This qualitative research followed a grounded theory process. Data collection methods involved gathering data from an email survey and following up with a focus group which allowed triangulation of data and findings. Participants from a midwestern suburban high-performing elementary school were selected for this research based on the assumption that high-performing schools …

Advances In Managing Tourism Across Continents: Volume 2, Levent Altinay, Osman M. Karatepe, Muharrem Tuna

University of South Florida (USF) M3 Publishing

Advances in Managing Tourism Across Continents book consists of peer-reviewed (double-blind) research papers that were presented at the Third Managing Tourism Across Continents (MTCON22) conference in March 2022. The book is published by the University of South Florida M3 Publishing as open-access.

ISBN 978-1-955833-08-0

Table of Contents

• Analysis of green marketing orientations of green hotels during COVID-19 with fuzzy
  • Ceylan Bozpolat and Burcu Simsek Yagli
• The effect of organizational change on organizational commitment
  • Ali Sukru Cetinkaya and Shafiq Habibi
• Tourism-oncology: More than a treatment
  • Ozge Buyuk and Gulsah Akkus
• A literature review on tourism studies based on technology acceptance model …

The Effect Of Organizational Change On Organizational Commitment, Ali Sukru Cetinkaya, Shafiq Habibi

University of South Florida (USF) M3 Publishing

Change is an ongoing process of renewing the structures, directions, and capabilities of the organizations to adapt to the variable needs of customers, employees, and the marketplace. Thus, organization needs to change in order to stay in the market. Change process will be smoothed by employee’s commitment. There is a strong need to examine the effects of organizational change on organizational commitment. In this quantitative research, survey technique was used as a data collection tool. It employs the scale developed by Meyer and Allen (2004) for organizational commitment. Items used for organizational change have been adapted from scales created by …

Implementing The Use Of The Emergency Severity Index Triage Tool In Urgent Care, Sakeena Spencer

Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects

Background: The urgent care sector has quickly grown in the last decade. Patients who visit healthcare facilities seeking treatment for exacerbations of chronic conditions or episodic illnesses such as asthma without scheduled appointments receive healthcare services from Urgent Care Centers (UCC) or Emergency Departments (E.D.s). Upon visiting the UCC, these patients report life-threatening symptoms; hence require immediate medical attention. UCC healthcare workers should distinguish between non-acute and acute patients to prioritize providing healthcare to patients, ensuring they are not at risk for fatal outcomes. Using the Emergency Severity Index (ESI) triage tool while delivering healthcare services to these patients has …

The Emotionally Competent Pastor, Kevin Spratt

Journal of Applied Christian Leadership

A pastor with high emotional intelligence is more likely to be successful in the skills required to lead a church, which will likely produce a healthier church. Stated another way, a lack of emotional intelligence is a potential predictor of pastoral leadership failure, which could lead to an unhealthy church. Current church authors and researchers miss emotional intelligence as a key leadership competency. This article raises the importance of emotional intelligence and suggests that an emotionally intelligent pastor who is both self-aware and socially aware can relationally lead a church well.

Sustainability Matters: Advocating For The Establishment And Continuation Of Peer-Led Team Learning, A.E. Dreyfuss

Publications and Research

The successful dissemination of the Peer-Led Team Learning (PLTL) model at multiple institutions of higher education, in the United States and other countries, is reflected in the number of publications (see www.pltlis.org). However, many PLTL campus programs are no longer active or exist. This may be due, more recently, to the COVID pandemic and its disruptions. Historically, programs no longer exist because grant funding that supported the initiative ended; other reasons include the promotion, retirement, or even death of the practitioners whose work championing their PLTL program ended. What can sustain a campus PLTL program so that its benefits …

Implementation Of Routine Screening To Detect Early Cases Of Depression And Anxiety In Hispanic Adolescents In The Primary Care Setting, Latoya Hayward

Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects

Depression and anxiety are among the leading causes of illness and disability in adolescents and are two of the most prevalent mental health conditions in Latino youth. If left unrecognized and untreated, these conditions can lead to decreased quality of life and increased rates of suicide. Researchers recommend early mental health screening to occur in the primary care setting. Through routine screening using evidence-based screening tools (PHQ-9 and GAD-7), the primary goal of this quality improvement project was to increase early detection of depression and anxiety in primary care and initiate early treatment. Project methods included implementation of new workflow, …

Lessons For 4-H Youth Member Recruitment And Retention From The First-Generation College Student Literature, Ashley Patricia Parra, Nicholas Morris, Jeremy Elliott-Engel

Journal of Youth Development

4-H is the largest positive youth development organization in the United States and is implemented by the land grant university system. To achieve program expansion, the century-old organization will need to recruit and retain millions more youth that reflect their increasingly diversified communities. Higher education has also worked to recruit and retain youth previously not engaged in college. This paper explores the hypothesis that there are lessons to be learned by the 4-H program from the literature on first-generation college students. Literature on risk factors and retention are presented for both first- generation college students and 4-H youth members. The …

What Machines Can't Do (Yet) In Real Work Settings, Thomas H. Davenport, Steven M. Miller

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

AI systems may perform well in the research lab or under highly controlled application settings, but they still needed human help in the types of real world work settings we researched for a new book, Working With AI: Real Stories of Human-Machine Collaboration. Human workers were very much in evidence across our 30 case studies. In this article, we use those examples to illustrate our list of AI-enabled activities that still require human assistance. These are activities where organizations need to continue to invest in human capital, and where practitioners can expect job continuity for the immediate future

Strategies Ambulatory Practice Leaders Use In Optimizing Electronic Medical Record Systems, Jeffrey L. Brown

All Theses And Dissertations

Electronic medical record systems (EMRs) were quickly adopted by ambulatory care practices due to federal government programs encouraging their rapid adoption and implementation. The accelerated implementation and adoption of these digital care systems introduced new forms of administrative burdens that have become negatively associated with the practice of medicine. Research regarding the challenges related to implementing and adopting EMR systems has been abundant. However, there is little research on EMR optimization strategies within ambulatory practice settings. This qualitative phenomenological study explored the lived experiences of ambulatory practice leaders and the strategies they used to optimize EMR systems. The data collected …

Stakeholder Engagement In Adoption, Implementation, And Sustainment Of An Evidence-Based Intervention To Increase Mammography Adherence Among Low-Income Women, Jennifer Holcomb, Gayla M Ferguson, Jiali Sun, Gretchen H Walton, Linda Highfield

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Multi-level organizational stakeholder engagement plays an important role across the research process in a clinical setting. Stakeholders provide organizational specific adaptions in evidence-based interventions to ensure effective adoption, implementation, and sustainability. Stakeholder engagement strategies involve building mutual trust, providing clear communication, and seeking feedback. Using constructs from the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research and The International Association for Public Participation spectrum, a conceptual framework was created to guide stakeholder engagement in an evidence-based intervention to increase mammography appointment adherence in underserved and low-income women. A document review was used to explore the alignment of the conceptual framework with intervention activities …

Faux-Flipping A Supportive Housing Training: Lessons From Pandemic Adaptations, Shelley K. Buchbinder, Emilie R. Banz

Journal of Human Services: Training, Research, and Practice

Following March 2020 coronavirus closures, the Community Support Services training initiative for supportive housing providers transitioned to fully remote learning. Training remotely, the trainers developed a faux-flipped model of midtraining interactive video lectures alongside videoconferencing with time for active learning through interactions and activities. There were benefits to training remotely using a faux-flipped model, including increased participation, training retention, and self-evaluated knowledge. After improved training results, the faux-flipped recorded video lectures will remain in future training. The coauthors suggest additional research to elaborate the faux-flipped model and assess its impact on learning and engagement.

Organic Leadership—Implicit Followership Interaction: Relations Among Trust In Supervisor, Active Followership And Ocb, Sheng-Wen Liu, Ming-Tsang Hsieh, Ralph Norcio, Harika Rao

Faculty and Staff Publications & Presentations

Due to the impact of COVID-19, a large number of employees of organizations around the world have been forced to work remotely from home starting in 2020. As a result, leaders and followers face new communication and interaction challenges. If an enterprise is to be successful in the new wave of economic development, it must embrace the role of employee followers. However, there is currently no relevant research. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to analyze the interaction between organic leadership and implicit followers from the perspective of followers who are working remotely and further analyze their relationship with …

Improving Undergraduate Psychology Students’ Academic Advising Experiences, Kelsey Grant

Theses and Dissertations

This action research study evaluated how to prepare undergraduate Psychology students for the transition from a developmental style of advising to the prescriptive advising style of departmental advisors. As an Undergraduate Academic Advisor, I drew upon a theoretical framework of appreciative advising, positive psychology, and the theory of transition to examine how to improve my practice in terms of this transition. Survey data from students who had not yet made this transition and interview data from students who had already made the transition enabled me to evaluate their perceptions of the advisor–advisee relationship and overall advising model in Psychology, as …