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Npwh Position Statement: Eliminating Preventable Maternal Deaths, National Association Of Nurse Practitioners In Women's Health

Group: National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women's Health (NPWH)

The National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women's Health (NPWH) supports coordinated and collaborative efforts at federal, state, local, and professional organization levels to eliminate preventable maternal deaths. For 2011-2015, the pregnancy-related mortality ratio (PRMR) in the United States was 17.2 deaths per 100,000 live births. This statistic translates to an average of 700 women dying of pregnancy-related complications each year, a rate that remains higher than that of any other resource-rich country. The CDC estimates that 3 in 5 pregnancy-related deaths in the U.S. are preventable. NPWH advocates for legislation, policies, and initiatives that promote access to care, establishment …

Extensions Of King: Measurable Outcomes And Expanded Nursing Process, Mary B. Killeen

Group: King International Nursing Group

This presentation provided a review of King Theoretical concepts and relevance to nursing outcomes thereby expanding the nursing process to include a theoretical foundation.

Internalized Racism And Mental Health: The Moderating Role Of Collective Racial Self-Esteem, Steven M. Sanders, Tiffany R. Williams, April T. Berry, Claudia Garcia-Aguilera, Kiera Robinson, Reniece Martin, Paigean Jones

Psychological Sciences and Counseling Faculty Research

Internalized racism is the internalization of beliefs about racism and colonization that contribute to the acceptance of negative messaging or stereotypical misrepresentations that inform perceptions about worth and ability. Internalized racism is associated with psychological distress in racially diverse people. Collective racial self-esteem is a potential protective factor that can serve as a moderator in reducing distress and facilitating psychological well-being. The sample for the present study consisted of 526 participants who self-identified as African American, Asian American/Pacific Islander, Latinx American, or American of Arab or Middle Eastern descent. The researchers used regression with the Process macro to investigate the …

First_Page Settings Order Article Reprints Open Accessarticle Internalized Racism And Mental Health: The Moderating Role Of Collective Racial Self-Esteem, Steven M. Sanders, Tiffany R. Williams, April T. Berry, Claudia Garcia-Aguilera, Kiera Robinson, Reniece Martin, Paigean Jones

Psychological Sciences and Counseling Faculty Research

Internalized racism is the internalization of beliefs about racism and colonization that contribute to the acceptance of negative messaging or stereotypical misrepresentations that inform perceptions about worth and ability. Internalized racism is associated with psychological distress in racially diverse people. Collective racial self-esteem is a potential protective factor that can serve as a moderator in reducing distress and facilitating psychological well-being. The sample for the present study consisted of 526 participants who self-identified as African American, Asian American/Pacific Islander, Latinx American, or American of Arab or Middle Eastern descent. The researchers used regression with the Process macro to investigate the …

University Of Dayton Roadmap To The Mcat: Tracking Mcat Content In Your Natural And Behavioral Science Courses, University Of Dayton

Pre-Health Resource Center Campus Communications

No abstract provided.

Housing And Children’S Social Care In England: Learning From Embedded Research, Thomas El-Hoss, Felicity Thomas, Felix Gradinger, Susanne Hughes

Peninsula Medical School

The UK housing crisis is having a detrimental impact on the lives of families. However, in England the links between housing and Children’s Social Care remain poorly understood. This paper draws upon 24 months of embedded research within Torbay Council, a Local Authority with comparatively high rates of children in care and acute housing challenges. It includes qualitative data from interviews/focus groups with parents (n = 66); Children’s Services professionals (n = 7), the housing department (n = 2); housing association (n = 2); and staff/volunteers from voluntary and community Sector organisations (n = 28). This study shows that housing …

Implementation Science And Pediatric Diabetes: A Scoping Review Of The State Of The Literature And Recommendations For Future Research, Julia Price, Jaclynn Hawkins, Daniel J. Amante, Richard James, Debra Haire-Joshu

Department of Medicine Faculty Papers

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: This scoping review aimed to identify implementation science (IS) research in pediatric diabetes, report integration of IS theory and terminology, and offer guidance for future research.

RECENT FINDINGS: Of 23 papers identified, 19 were published since 2017 and 21 focused on type 1 diabetes. Most involved medical evidence-based practices (EBPs; n = 15), whereas fewer focused on psychosocial (n = 7) and diabetes education (n = 2). The majority either identified barriers and facilitators of implementing an EBP (n = 11) or were implementation trials (n = 11). Fewer studies documented gaps in EBP implementation in standard …

Which Way? Experiences Of Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander People Who Are Deaf Or Hard Of Hearing Attaining Supports To Meet Their Interwoven Socio-Cultural, Health And Disability-Related Needs And Aspirations Within The Context Of Australia’S National Disability Insurance Scheme, Jody Barney, Alexandra Devine, Damien Howard, Marie Huska, Hannah Lack, Yeokyung Kim, Yi Yang, George Disney, Peter Summers, Ashley Mcallister

Journal of the Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet

The life experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing are often more complex than for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who are hearing, or non-Aboriginal Australians who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing. In turn, this can make engaging with and benefiting from policies and programs such as Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) more complex, particularly for individuals living in remote settings. To understand more about these complexities, yarnings were held with 15 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander NDIS participants who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing living in rural …

Intra-Professional Collaborative Practice Among Nurses, Registered Nurses' Association Of Ontario

General Submissions: Clinical Settings Materials

The purpose of this best practice guideline (BPG) is to strengthen collaborative practice among nurses, because effective collaborative practice is essential for working in health-care organizations.

In this guideline, there is a focus on collaborative practice amongst three types of nursing professionals:

• registered nurse (RN),
• registered practical nurse (RPN)
• nurse practitioner (NP)

The guideline explores what fosters healthy work environments for these groups of nurses (being aware that collaboration must align with the needs of the patient or client).

For more information including supplementary documentation and available translations, visit https://rnao.ca/bpg/guidelines/intra-professional-collaborative-practice-among-nurses

Reducing Food Insecurity In Pediatric Patients And Families, Alexandra Yusah Cramer

General Submissions: Clinical Settings Materials

This pilot was designed to evaluate the feasibility of implementing food insecurity interventions on our pediatric general surgery and orthopedic inpatient unit.

Professionalism In Nursing, Registered Nurses' Association Of Ontario

General Submissions: Clinical Settings Materials

This Best Practice Guideline (BPG) focuses on professionalism, which is essential for healthy work environments for nurses. A healthy work environment for nurses is a practice setting that maximizes the health and well being of nurses, quality patient outcomes and organizational performance. Professionalism in nursing is an essential ingredient in achieving a healthy work environment and is enabled by the context of practice.

Preventing And Mitigating Nurse Fatigue In Health Care, Registered Nurses' Association Of Ontario

General Submissions: Clinical Settings Materials

This best practice guideline has been developed to identify and describe:

• practices that result in preventing and mitigating fatigue for nurses and other health-care professionals
• system resources that support practices to prevent fatigue
• organizational culture, values and resources that support effective practices to prevent fatigue
• personal resources that can be used to prevent or mitigate fatigue
• anticipated outcomes when fatigue is effectively managed

Managing & Mitigating Conflict In Health-Care Teams, Registered Nurses' Association Of Ontario

General Submissions: Clinical Settings Materials

This Best Practice Guideline (BPG) focuses on nurses, Health-care teams and processes that foster healthy work environments. The focus for the development of this guideline was managing and mitigating interpersonal conflict among healthcare teams with the view that while some conflict is preventable, healthy conflict can also be beneficial. For the purpose of this document, conflict is defined as a dynamic process occurring between interdependent individuals and/or groups as they experience negative emotional reactions to perceived disagreements and interference with the attainment of their goals (Barki & Hartwick, 2004)

Workplace Health, Safety And Well-Being Of The Nurse, Registered Nurses' Association Of Ontario

General Submissions: Clinical Settings Materials

This guideline addresses the many factors that contribute to nurses' health, safety and well-being and makes specific recommendations that may influence the overall health and well-being of the individual nurse. This guideline also goes beyond global recommendations - such as developing broad-based strategies for nursing recruitment and retention - and includes recommendations specific to organizations, nursing education programs, researchers and, at the systems level, accrediting organizations.

Embracing Cultural Diversity In Health Care: Developing Cultural Competence, Registered Nurses' Association Of Ontario

General Submissions: Clinical Settings Materials

This guideline addresses:
- Knowledge, competencies and behaviours that exist in culturally competent workplaces
- Indicators and features of culturally competent practice settings
- Organizational values, relationships, structures and processes that support development of culturally competent practices
- Learning and development required to develop, support, and sustain culturally competent practices
- Behaviours and practices that reflect cultural awareness and serve as facilitators to embracing diversity in the workplace

Developing And Sustaining Interprofessional Healthcare: Optimizing Patient, Organizational, And System Outcomes, Registered Nurses' Association Of Ontario

General Submissions: Clinical Settings Materials

This best practice guideline, Developing and Sustaining Interprofessional Health Care: Optimizing patients/clients, organizational, and system outcomes is intended to foster healthy work environments. The focus in developing this guideline was identifying attributes of interprofessional care that will optimize quality outcomes for patients/clients, providers, teams, the organization and the system

Developing And Sustaining Nursing Leadership, Registered Nurses' Association Of Ontario

General Submissions: Clinical Settings Materials

This guideline is intended to assist nurses and others performing both formal and informal nursing leadership roles from the point-of-care to the board room, across a variety of practice domains and settings. It identifies evidence-based leadership behaviour that nurses can implement individually and collectively to benefit patients, health-care team members, organizations, systems and health-care policy, research and education.

Developing And Sustaining Effective Staffing And Workload Practices, Registered Nurses' Association Of Ontario

General Submissions: Clinical Settings Materials

The guideline was developed to identify and describe:

- Staffing and workload practices that foster healthy work environments resulting in better outcomes for nurses.

- System resources that support healthy staffing and workload practices.

- Organizational culturesG, values and resources that support effective staffing and workload practices.

- Outcomes of effective staffing and workload practices

Collaborative Practice Among Nursing Teams, Registered Nurses' Association Of Ontario

General Submissions: Clinical Settings Materials

The focus for the development of this guideline was collaborative practice among nursing teams with the view that this may be a first stage in a multi-staged process that could eventually result in interprofessional guidelines. A healthy work environment for nurses is a practice setting that maximizes the health and well being of nurses, quality patient outcomes and organizational performance. Effective nursing teamwork is essential to the work in health care organizations.

Culturally Competent Care At The End Of Life- A Hindu Perspective, Sujatha Shanmugasundaram, Margaret O'Connor, Ken Sellick

General Submissions: Clinical Settings Materials

Knowledge of particular cultural requirements is especially important in times of transition such as at the end of life, where issues of death and dying require great sensitivity to cultural and religious differences. Healthcare professionals need to understand different cultures and deliver care accordingly. This article explores the cultural aspects of end of life care among Hindus who live in places other than India and is based on a study of Hindus in Australia. The purpose of this study was to investigate the experience of families of terminally ill Indian patients. This article will explore aspects of the Hindu faith …

A Target Model For Social Justice Supervision, Sara E. Ellison, Paul Tierney, Margaret Taylor

Teaching and Supervision in Counseling

Addressing social justice in supervision is essential to dismantling systemic oppression and infusing social justice practices into the profession of counseling. Despite the importance of social justice to the training and development of novice counselors, few models exist in the professional literature to guide supervisors wishing to integrate these essential competencies. This article proposes a simple, structured Target Model for Social Justice Supervision utilizing the roles of Bernard’s Discrimination Model to focus on self-awareness, client and supervisee worldview, the counseling and supervision relationship, social justice interventions, and evaluation procedures. Specific goals, strategies, interventions, and the application of the model are …

Excellence In Clinical Practice [Complete Issue : Third Quarter 2002, Vol. 3, 3], Carol J. Farran, Sigma Theta Tau International

Sigma Past Publishing - Excellence Newsletters

Publishing History: Nursing Excellence published yearly in 1998 and 1999. The publication became Excellence in the first quarter 2000. It transitioned to Excellence in Nursing Education, Excellence in Nursing Administration, and Excellence in Clinical Practice in the second quarter 2000 with volume 1, number 2. Excellence in Nursing Education transitioned to Excellence in Nursing Education & Research in the first quarter 2002.

Publishing Frequency: Yearly 1998, 1999; Quarterly 2000 - 2004.

Format: Print 1999 - third quarter 2002; Online fourth quarter 2002 - first quarter 2004. Ceased publishing in 2004.

Select features in this issue:

Family caregivers, by Carol J. …

Faculty Senate Minutes | 2023-2024, Jsu Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Minutes

No abstract provided.

Co-Producing Learning Space In A Prison-University Partnership, Ross E. Little

Journal of Prison Education Research

This article explores a classroom co-produced by learners serving prison sentences, undergraduate criminology students and a pair of lecturer-facilitators. This space, in a high security prison for men serving life sentences (‘HMP Lifer’), provides a good example of ethical praxis and moral sight working in combination to mitigate against moral and ethical blindness. It is a mechanism by which pedagogical concerns, and some human-centred ones, can be realised in an unconventional context.

There are two areas to the discussion. Firstly, the effects of incorporating students from outside the prison into the classroom space, such as enhanced proximity, the reduction of …

A Veteran Mental Health Approach Sustaining Identity Post-Military Life: A Comprehensive Overview, Darren Sosa, Lindsay Gietzen

Pacific Journal of Health

Veterans and their mental health face readjustment challenges based on veteran identity, intersectionality, and experiences from their time serving in the military. This comprehensive overview and PRISMA analysis investigate the current evidence-based practices of veterans' identity and intersectionality. Specifically, psychoeducation and evidence-based practices for veterans readjusting back into their communities. A gap identified in this research’s findings calls for suggestions for future research on the veteran population and intersectionality. No specific psychoeducation or evidence-based practices tailored for identity readjustment or veteran intersectionality were found. This research constructs a tailored framework of suggestions for current and future evidence-based practices for the …

From Books To The Bedside: Post-Graduation Impact Of ‘Week On The Wards’ On Medical Education, Ashley Russell, Kimberly Eberenz, Meena Khandelwal

Abington Jefferson Health Papers

BACKGROUND: The transition between preclinical and clinical years during medical school has been shown to be challenging. Cooper Medical School of Rowan University (CMSRU) implements one required two-week-long shadowing program for first and one one-week-long shadowing program for second-year medical students called Week On the Wards (WOW). The goal of this study is to ascertain whether students who completed the WOW curriculum found it beneficial over the long-term. Specifically, we want to evaluate alumni's impression of the program's influence on career, specialty choice, professional development, personal development, and confidence.

METHODS: To evaluate our program, we developed, validated, and distributed a …

The State Of The Portals And The Internal Organization Of An Online Medium In Kosovo. Do You Know Who Owns The Portals In Kosovo, And Why Is Media Ownership Important?, Musa Sabedini

UBT International Conference

The topic that I have chosen to address is the state of online media, their organization, and in particular, the issue of portal ownership in Kosovo. I have taken this very seriously because it belongs to this field, and I know it well, or at least I try to understand it. I will address all professional, ethical, and organizational circumstances related to and around Kosovar portals. When the first online journalism initiatives began in Kosovo, new innovative ideas began to emerge, to make a portal as beautiful as possible in terms of color. In this paper of mine, the many …

The Student Movement Volume 109 Issue 5: Cowboys And Cafeteria Catastrophes, Andrew Francis, Marco Sciarabba, Aiko J. Ayala Rios, Corinna Bevier, Audrey Lim, Ember Clark, Finnegan Blake, Melissa Moore, Isabella Koh, Amelia Stefanescu, Madison Vath

The Student Movement V. 109 (2024-2025)

HUMANS

Student Workers Allege Mistreatment of Dining Services Employees, Andrew Francis

Fall Break Festivities!, Interviewed by Andrew Francis

AU Student Missionary Adjust to Life in Kenya, Marco Sciarabba

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Be Quiet! 'Romeo + Juliet,' Broadway and Theater Etiquette, Aiko J. Ayala Rios

Good Grief! The Essence of Childhood in 'It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown', Corinna Bevier

Introducing the AU English Department, Audrey Lim

If Wit Is Your Taste, Maggie Smith Served Up a Feast, Ember Clark

'Megalopolis' Is a Captivating Train Wreck, Finnegan Blake

NEWS

AUSA Hosts Annual Barn Party, Melissa Moore

Andrews University Students and Alumni …

Reducing Juvenile Recidivism: An Analysis Of Programs, Caitlyn M. Lewis

The Mid-Southern Journal of Criminal Justice

The purpose of this paper is to analyze and determine the best programmatic-related approach to reduce juvenile recidivism in the United States. Three main programs will be analyzed in this paper. Those programs are multisystemic therapy and wraparound approach, mentoring programs, and reentry and aftercare programs. These programs have proven to be highly successful via empirical research. By looking at and analyzing peer-reviewed research, the findings concluded that reentry and aftercare programs are the most successful. These conclusions were reached by evaluating each program type by three different criteria: research support, accessibility, and administrative ease. While reentry and aftercare programs …

Perceptions Of Police: Justice-Impacted And Non-Impacted Opinions, Taylor Williamson

The Mid-Southern Journal of Criminal Justice

The purpose of this paper is to examine what affects individual’s perceptions of the police through a review of the literature. Because the police work directly with their community, opinions that their communities hold of the police can affect their ability to perform their job effectively. Particular focus is given to justice-impacted persons. A justice-impacted person is an individual who is at risk for incarceration, has been incarcerated, or has had family members incarcerated. It is advantageous to survey justice-impacted persons regarding their perceptions of the police because they have had direct contact with the police. This contrasts with general …