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Undergraduate And Graduate Course Descriptions, 2023 Summer, Wright State University

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Wright State University undergraduate and graduate course descriptions from Summer 2023.

Implementation Of Daily Multidisciplinary Rounding Audits Of Adherence To An Indwelling Catheter Protocol Impact On Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections, Jacqueline April Wright

Doctor of Nursing Practice Scholarly Projects

Problem Statement: Catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) among critical care patients negatively impact the trajectory of the patient’s hospitalization through increased mortality, morbidity, length of stay, and cost. To combat this, hospitals have implemented bundles in compliance with evidence-based practice models to reduce CAUTIs. Purpose: Determine if implementing a daily multidisciplinary rounding audit of established CAUTI prevention protocol decreases the occurrence of CAUTIs in critical care patients with indwelling urinary catheters. Methods: Participants in this quality improvement project included critical care nurses and providers participating in daily multidisciplinary rounds on all critical care patients with indwelling urinary catheters admitted to …

Perceptions Of Elementary School Principals Regarding Strategies To Build Trust Among Staff To Support Positive Change, Laurel Cole

Doctor of Education Program Dissertations

Trust is essential between elementary school principals and teachers, for it is a necessary ingredient in well-functioning organizations, especially schools. The problem addressed in this phenomenological study was the lack of practical strategies for principals to build trust with teachers effectively and efficiently to facilitate positive change and, ultimately, to support student achievement. The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to understand how elementary school principals can quickly build trust with their teachers to facilitate positive change. Through the literature review, the researcher examined historical definitions of trust and early trust studies, the creation of trust and strategies for …

Accreditation As A Framework For School Improvement: A Quantitavite Study, Michael A. Burroughs

Doctor of Education (Ed.D)

This study investigated the perceptions of heads of schools from accredited schools concerning whether the accreditation process, as prescribed by the League of Christian Schools (LCS), leads to improvement in leadership capacity and the impact of instruction on the learning environment. The League of Christian Schools has developed an accreditation process that is based in systems theory as espoused by Senge (2006), which contributed to the theoretical framework for this study. Administrators in LCS member K12 schools provided 25 responses to an anonymous online survey. Quantitative data were collected and analyzed to determine perceptions regarding increased organizational capacities in the …

Utilizing A Multidisciplinary Team Approach To Opioid Stewardship At An Interventional Pain Clinic, Georgemarie Garber

Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects

Background: The opioid epidemic is a preventable health threat that is a recognized national problem by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and Health and Human Services (HHS). The evidence-based Opioid Stewardship (OS) toolkit is essential in the opioid epidemic because it supports identifying patients at risk for opioid aberrancy. However, at the Interventional Pain Management Clinic (IPMC), a chart review on the completion rates of the OS toolkit components for new patients admitted in June 2022 revealed that providers were not consistently completing components of the OS toolkit such as Opioid Risk Tool (ORT), the Morphine …

Implementation Of A Patient Care Specialist Role To Enhance The Patient Experience In A Pediatric Emergency Department, Jillian Brodeur

Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects

Background: Patient-centered care (PCC) has been an emerging trend in healthcare for the past two decades (Walsh et al., 2022). PCC and the patient experience have become essential measures of the quality of care provided and are linked to reimbursement dollars and improved patient outcomes (Rapport et al., 2019).

Purpose: The purpose of the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) project was to improve the patient experience in the Emergency Department (ED) of a metropolitan hospital. The DNP project focused on the benefit of a patient advocate in the ED to improve the patient experience. The project sought to improve …

Improving Influenza Vaccination Rates In A Primary Care Clinic: A Quality Improvement Crusade, Janet Lowe

Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects

Background: Research consistently shows that influenza vaccines prevent medical appointments, treatments, and disabilities. In the United States (U.S.), 25-49 million individuals contracted influenza from October 2022 through January 2023. However, despite a greater community consciousness regarding viral contagions and the improved availability of vaccinations through primary care settings, ambulatory clinics, and local pharmacies, adults in the U.S. continue to miss the national influenza vaccination goals of 70%.

Purpose: This Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) project aimed to boost influenza immunization rates and comprehension of vaccination benefits among patients in a primary care setting during the influenza season. The DNP student …

Establishing A Routine Process Of Medication Reconciliation In A Rural Primary Care Clinic To Address Unnecessary Polypharmacy In Patients 65 And Older, Jessica Kirkwood-Harp

Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects

Background: Medication safety by reducing the proportion of older adults who use inappropriate medications is a Healthy People 2030 goal (Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, n.d.(a)). The research for this proposal supported an established medication reconciliation (MR) to reduce errors and adverse drug events (ADEs). Consistent MR is essential for patient safety and positive patient outcomes in rural outpatient primary care clinics, as these patients possess multiple comorbidities.

Purpose: This Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) quality improvement project (QIP) established a routine MR process within a rural primary care clinic with reduced unnecessary polypharmacy and decreased risk of …

Improving Early Sepsis Recognition And Treatment By Utilizing The Surviving Sepsis Campaign In Emergency Department Patients, Rebecca Smith

Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects

Background: Sepsis is a physical reaction to infection that can cause bodily injury, organ deterioration, and death (Sepsis Alliance, 2022). Early sepsis identification and intervention requires staff engagement in quick recognition and implementation of care (Jorgensen, 2019). Septic patients require prompt initiation of intravenous fluids, hemodynamic observation, and appropriate laboratory testing (Evans & Rhodes, 2021). Rapid detection of sepsis can prevent patients from progressing to severe sepsis and septic shock, increasing the risk of mortality (Jorgensen, 2019). As a result of the high mortality rates and complications associated with this health disparity, evidenced-based care bundles were developed to improve care …

Let Us Talk About It: Using A Communication Tool To Improve The Timeliness Of Rapid Responses, Lajaynees Singleton

Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects

Background: In healthcare emergencies, minutes matter. Code blue, code stroke, and rapid responses are processes put in place by hospitals to save lives and improve the outcome of deteriorating patients. At a local medical facility in Alabama, the process for calling codes and rapid responses created miscommunication and delays in the code team’s arrival. An assessment revealed that a purchased clinical communication device (CCD) was underutilized.

Purpose: The purpose of the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) project was to improve the communication of code blue, code stroke, and rapid responses by utilizing the CCD.

Methods: The quality improvement project consisted …

Implementing An Emergency Severity Index (Esi) Triage Refresher Training To Decrease The Under-Triage Rate In The Emergency Department (Ed), Monique Wallace

Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects

Background: The Emergency Severity Index (ESI) is a triage tool used in most emergency departments in the United States (U.S.) that assesses acuity and resource allocation for emergency care patients. Registered nurses (RNs) must assign the appropriate triage category to ensure patients are seen in a proper time frame, have ideal patient outcomes, and have efficient patient throughput.

Purpose: This quality improvement project aims to decrease the under-triage rate of patients in the emergency department (ED) by implementing an Emergency Severity Index (ESI) triage refresher training.

Methods: This project used an A3 methodology. The triage specialist completed retrospective chart reviews …

Who Is Flexible And Adaptive In Everyday Life?, Valentina Vylobkova, Sonja Heintz

School of Psychology

Background: How flexible people react to changes, and adapt their behavior and plans, seems to be crucial in modern society. Nevertheless, no common conceptualization of flexibility exists in the psychological literature. Our work contributes to the scientific understanding of flexibility as a personality trait and offers a novel flexibility questionnaire. Methods and Results: An explorative study ( N = 279) examined three individual-difference concepts of flexibility and their relations with the Big Five personality traits. The results suggested that flexibility consists of predictability, adaptability, and orderliness can be assessed with 24 items (FS-24) and is distinguishable from the Big Five. …

Stem Educators’ Perceptions Of Gender Bias And The Contributing Factors That Persist For Women In Stem Education, Haleigh Nicole Kirkland

Theses and Dissertations

Social influence from society holds the key to social norms that influence students and their future aspirations. Gender bias is considered one of the influencing factors that affects the decisions of female high school students on participating in STEM education. This descriptive study describes the key factors that STEM educators perceived as influential for female high school students' participation in STEM education. The research questions of the study included: (1) What are high school STEM educators’ perceptions regarding gender bias in the STEM School of Study cluster at Skyler High School and (2) What factors do high school STEM educators …

2023-2024 Academic Catalog, Saint Mary's College Of California

Undergraduate Academic Catalog

No abstract provided.

Human Resource Management (Hrm) Practices And Female Mechanical Engineer Turnover Intentions: The Mediating Role Of Social Capital, Tyrone Walston Gorrick

Theses and Dissertations

The objective of the present study was to investigate the effect of human resource management (HRM) practices on female mechanical engineer turnover intentions while examining the mediating role of social capital. This study drew on insights from the HRM, social capital, and turnover theories and related models in the literature to formulate a set of hypothesized relationships and predictions that HRM practices positively influence social capital and social capital negatively affects female mechanical engineers' turnover intention. Turnover remains a challenging issue for all organizations, driving the need for measures that reduce employee quit intentions and, ultimately, turnover. After all, the …

Do Women See Leadership As Risky? The Potential Role Of Stereotypes And The Perception Of Risk In Claiming A Leader Identity, Julia Macgregor-Peralta

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this research was to determine if women perceive leadership as riskier than men do, and whether that could be holding women back. Specifically, this study investigated the influence of gender and leadership views on the development of leader identity and the role that perception of risk of leadership plays. Role Congruity Theory of Leadership, Lack of Fit, and Adaptive Leadership Theory were used as theoretical frameworks in this cross-sectional study using 2022 archival data. Participants were undergraduate and graduate students from five different universities in the United States. Leader role alignment (LRA), which is the congruence between …

Establishment Of Unit-Based Council Using A Shared Governance Toolkit For Surgical Clinics, Fica Etienne

Student Scholarly Projects

Practice Problem: Shared governance (SG) is an organizational framework that empowers healthcare professionals by granting them authority over their own professional practice. The absence of a unit-based council (UBC) has been identified as hindering collaborative decision-making and problem-solving approaches.

PICOT: In four surgical clinics requiring a Unit Based Counsel (UBC) structure (P), what is the impact of implementing a Shared Governance (SG) toolkit (I) compared to not implementing an SG toolkit (C) over eight weeks? (T)

Evidence: The existing literature strongly indicates that shared governance (SG) empowers nurses to collaborate as equal partners with nursing leaders within …

The Schools, Saint Mary's College Of California

Undergraduate Academic Catalog

No abstract provided.

Organizational Change Process Milwaukee - Key Findings, Quality Improvement Center For Workforce Development

Other QIC-WD Products

Background

The QIC-WD team engaged with the Department of Milwaukee Child Protective Services (DMCPS) in 2017 to conduct a thorough needs assessment to understand the root causes underlying a high turnover rate among Initial Assessment Specialists. In 2016, the overall turnover rate, including both external turnover and internal movement, was just under 49%, with a little over 11% due to internal movement and 37% due external turnover. The Organizational Social Context (OSC) baseline survey showed that there were several aspects of both culture and climate that were in need of improvement, including: 1) a hierarchical decision-making structure, 2) high …

The Role Of Psychological Safety On Employee Satisfaction And Retention In Healthcare Delivery Settings: A Systematic Literature Review, Jamey Paul

Capstone Experience: Master of Public Health

The healthcare industry typically has a high rate of employee turnover due to higher job stresses and burnout, lower job satisfaction, and insufficient organizational support and work culture. This turnover has worsened since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Psychological safety, a shared belief by organizational members that the team/unit is safe for interpersonal risk-taking, can be one of the many ingredients that contribute to employee satisfaction and reduce turnover. This systematic literature review explored the role of psychological safety on job satisfaction and retention of healthcare workers in delivery settings by synthesizing the known antecedents and outcomes of psychological …

Leveraging Church Environments To Promote Rural Physical Activity And Healthy Eating, Kelsey Rothera Day

Theses and Dissertations

Rural residents experience a greater burden of chronic disease related to physical inactivity and poor diet than their urban counterparts. A promising strategy to improve these health behaviors in rural areas is to leverage existing structures that may support physical activity and healthy eating, such as churches, in public health interventions. Three studies were conducted as part of this dissertation. They were designed to: 1) examine whether the walkability and healthy food density of neighborhoods surrounding rural and urban churches are associated with race, socioeconomic status, and rural/urban status; 2) examine rural church leaders’ views on the role of faith-based …

How Putin's Cyberwar Failed In Ukraine, Austen D. Givens, Max Gorbachevsky, Anita C. Biernat

Journal of Strategic Security

As Russian military forces surged across the Ukrainian border in February 2022, cybersecurity analysts shared predictions about the ways in which the Russian government would use cyberattacks to thwart Ukrainian defenses. Some government agencies and private sector organizations forecast that the Russians would launch a blitz of devastating electronic attacks against Ukrainian critical infrastructure targets, such as electrical power plants and air traffic control networks, crippling the country. While Russian cyberattacks have played a role in the conflict, their effects to date have been significantly less than what some analysts anticipated. But why? This article examines how analysts’ most extreme …

Fixing American Cybersecurity Ed. Larry Clinton, Georgetown University Press, 2023., Mark T. Peters Ii

Journal of Strategic Security

No abstract provided.

Transprofessional Competencies Of Information Managers And The Challenges Of The New Normal, Adeoye Augustine Bamgbose, Hassan Mallam Ibrahim, Sa’Ad Madaki Adamu

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Librarians and other information professionals are required to possess transprofessional competencies in the form of additional education or knowledge to increase the range of services that could be provided for improved efficiency of information service delivery in the new normal. This study investigates the transprofessional competencies of librarians and their perceptions of what barriers prevent librarians from developing transprofessional knowledge in this changing and knowledge-driven environment. The study is a qualitative research, and the phenomenography method was adopted for this study; The participants constitute librarians and information managers in four academic libraries in Lagos and Oyo states, Nigeria. A semi-structured …

Budget Participation: Interaction Effects Of Work Engagement And Empowerment, Yew-Ming Chia Dr, Lewis Grant Mr

Jurnal Akuntansi dan Keuangan Indonesia

This study investigates the two-way interaction effects of work engagement and empowerment on the degree of employees' budget participation industry in Scotland. Data are collected from 159 employees via an online questionnaire and analyzed using multiplicative regression analysis. The results confirm the presence of a two-way interaction effect between work engagement and empowerment on the degree of budget participation at a statistically significance level (p = 0.0002). Further analysis indicates that the higher the empowerment, the greater its enhancing effect on the positive relationship between work engagement and the degree of employees' budget participation. This study provides one of the …

علاقة التغيير التنظيمي في تحسين جودة الخدمات الصحية دراسة ميدانية في مستشفى الملك خالد بتبوك, أحمد محمد حامد الجهني

Muthanna Journal of Administrative and Economics Sciences

يعد التغيير التنظيمي عملية ضرورية للتحسين والتطوير المستمر، ولذا يهدف البحث إلى تحديد الأبعاد الرئيسية في التغيير التنظيمي وتحديد علاقتها في تحسين جودة الخدمات الصحية؛ خصوصاً في ظل برنامج التحول الصحي في المملكة العربية السعودية للخصخصة. هذا ويعد التغيير -وخاصة التنظيمي منه- تحدٍ للإدارة العليا والعاملين مع ضرورة ضمان مستوى عالِ من جودة الخدمات الصحية في القطاع الحكومي، وبالتالي وجود تغيير في خصخصة القطاع سوف يتأثر دون أدنى شك إيجابياً أو سلبياً، وهذا ما ركَّز عليه البحث. وقد استُخدم في البحث أداة الاستبانة للتحليل الوصفي لعينة عشوائية عددها (٣٠١) بين إداري وصحي من مجتمع المنظمة، والذي يبلغ (١٣١٣) فردا؛ للوصول …

Student And Educator Perceptions Of The Implementation Of A Social-Emotional Learning Approach: A Mixed Methods Study Of A Catholic School, Dorothy Balfe

LMU Theses and Dissertations

The goal of this mixed methods study was to examine educator and student perceptions of the implementation of social-emotional learning (SEL) and the RULER (i.e., recognizing, understanding, labeling, expressing, and regulating) approach in a Catholic school. The study investigated the perceptions of teachers, staff, and students about the implementation of SEL and RULER across elementary and middle school grade levels. The RULER approach is a K–12 SEL initiative designed to build the emotional intelligence and social-emotional competencies of all members of a school community. Data were gathered over a 4-month period through interviews with teachers and students, an educator survey, …

Inaugural Defense And Security Research Symposium Of The Purdue Military Research Institute, Chad Laux, J. Eric Dietz, John Springer, Randy Rapp, Leon Robert

Purdue Military Research Institute: Inaugural Defense & Security Research Symposium “Academia as a Strategic National Asset”

This document is the full conference proceedings from June 26-27, 2023.

Beyond The Ice, Nikolaus T. Butz, Joshua Hunter, Emma Fisher

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

Leadership is a management tool to direct effective achievement of goals. Historical investigation can provide a valuable lens for the study of leadership styles. To that end, this study examines the disparate approaches of Roald Amundsen and Robert Scott as they raced to be the first explorer to reach the South Pole. The objective of this study is to analyze the leadership techniques used in these expeditions, and to determine how they shaped the outcome of each. The process of tacit knowledge and experience coalesce and foster both leadership and action that is not only communication-oriented and value-driven, but also …

A Comparative Analysis Of Values-Based Leadership Theories: A Review And Future Research Agenda, Simon Tareke Abay, Jorge F. S. Gomes, Abeba Beyene Mengistu

The Journal of Values-Based Leadership

This paper systematically reviews the literature on values-based leadership (VBL) theories by analyzing 161 studies published in different peer-review journals from 2000 to 2022. The study first identified the literature on VBL and found that terms “values-oriented, values-centered, or value-based” leadership are used interchangeably as a roof term for various theories focusing on the moral, authentic, principled, and ethical dimension of leadership. The literature on leadership offers different types of leadership theories that constitute VBL, but we focused on six leadership theories that are widely cited as forms of VBL and have a strong theoretical background. This was followed by …