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Marco...Polo: Real Time Location, Mady Hirsch, Emily Kite, Kerigan Mcdonald, Abbi Zanger

Group: Blessing-Rieman College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Implementation of Real-Time Location Systems for senior leadership nursing students. Real-Time Location Systems help locate students and ensure safety.

Pain Control Methods In Perioperative Patients, Emily Owens, Sara Pate, Paige Phelps

Group: Blessing-Rieman College of Nursing and Health Sciences

In perioperative patients, nonpharmacological and non-opioid methods may result in adequate pain control and less adverse effects than opioids.

Solitary Confinement And Mental Health, Donna Archibald, Josh Grindinger, Rebecca Reinbeck

Group: Blessing-Rieman College of Nursing and Health Sciences

In the inpatient and residential adult population how does solitary confinement and seclusion affect mental health?

Bedside Shift Report, Courtni Hopper, Grace Sparrow

Group: Blessing-Rieman College of Nursing and Health Sciences

In medical-surgical patients, how does going into each room for report affect hospital errors and improve patient safety?

Nurse Job Satisfaction Research: A Literature Review, 2006-2011, John W. Nelson, Mary Ann Hozak, Alice Albu, Linda Thiel

General Submissions: Nursing as Profession

This literature review aims to evaluate the state of nurse job satisfaction research by identifying the instruments and scientific rigor used to measure the latent construct of nurse job satisfaction around the globe, during the years 2006-2011.

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

The Role Of The National Certification As A Mark Of Professionalism In Critical Care, Monica Jaramillo

General Submissions: Clinical Settings Materials

Professional certifications in health care represent a mark of professionalism, accountability, knowledge, and expertise. Lifelong learning is vital to ensure positive outcomes. This concept is especially true in critical care areas where the demands of caring for critically ill patients require advanced training. This manuscript is a call to action for acute care and all allied health professionals to engage in similar achievements to promote high-quality services and expand the body of knowledge of health care globally.

Utilizing An Individualized Music Playlist And A Receptive Music Approach To Reduce Agitation In Hospitalized Patients With Dementia As Evidenced By The Agitated Behavior Scale (Abs), Michelle W. Moreno Lee, Mary Harris

General Submissions: Clinical Settings Materials

The number of patients with Dementia (PwD) admitted to acute care hospitals is increasing worldwide. Prolonged hospital stays are associated with a deterioration in cognitive, functional, and physiological status (Mathews, Arnold, & Epperson, 2014). Dementia is a disease that causes cognitive deterioration leading to a decrease in the stress threshold, and a decreased ability to comprehend verbal language (Wall & Duffy, 2010).

Forest Bathing As A Self-Care Modality For Nurses, Nancyruth Leibold

General Submissions: Clinical Settings Materials

The self-care practice of forest bathing for nurses is the focus of this article. Self-care is the use of actions to promote one's well-being and is an essential aspect of being a nurse. The Japanese form of shinrin yoku is not a perfect translation to English as forest bathing. Forest bathing means walking or being in the woods. Included in this article is the self-care practice of forest bathing, evidence, and safety tips. Forest bathing is a healthy self-care activity. Health benefits based on evidence include an increase in killer T lymphocyte cells, lower cortisol levels, reduced blood pressure, lower …

The Jacki Jacket After Mastectomy With Reconstruction: A Randomized Pilot Study, Donna L. Berry, Traci Blonquist, Barbara Halpenny, Fangxin Hong, Samantha Morrison-Ma, Michele Mccullough, Katherine Carelli, Laura Dominici, Tari King

General Submissions: Clinical Settings Materials

Breast cancer patients undergoing mastectomy with reconstruction (TM+R) often experience post-operative discomfort from surgical drains. Despite a variety of garment options for use in the post-operative period, high quality data assessing the impact of specific garments on post-operative pain are lacking. We report results of a prospective randomized trial assessing the impact of the Jacki Jacket (JJ), a long-sleeve jacket with inner drain receptacle pockets, on post-discharge pain and quality of life (QOL) after TM+R.

Preoperative Instructions, Health Literacy, And Medication Adherence, Lynette Khanna, Titilope Fajuyigbe

General Submissions: Clinical Settings Materials

The purpose of this pilot research study was to determine nurses' beliefs and practices in assessing health literacy and medication adherence in the ambulatory surgical setting.

Decreasing Primary Care Providers' Stigma Of Mental Illness, Nicole Hoogasian

General Submissions: Clinical Settings Materials

A recent study has indicated that primary care providers hold comparable and possibly more negative attitudes towards persons with mental illness than the general public (Mittal et al., 2016b). Because of their regular interactions with patients with mental illness, providers stigmatizing attitudes has been implicated as a primary factor behind healthcare disparities for this population (Flanagan et al., 2016; Lebowitz & Ahn, 2016). Effective interventions at decreasing mental health stigma needs to be researched, evaluated, and implemented in primary care settings (Beaulieu et al., 2017). An analysis of the literature was done to answer the question,"What interventions are effective in …

An Exercise In The Provision Of Care For An Adult Patient Under Investigation (Pui) For Ebola: A Patient Care Drill, Justin Mast, Julie Poore, Evelyn Stephenson, Alisha Harter, Debra Fawcett, Claire Roembke, Vicki Harden, Mary Kay Foster, Shawn Gibbs, Amy Voris, Melissa Mcmasters

General Submissions: Clinical Settings Materials

In October of 2014 Indianapolis found itself, like many communities, preparing for the unknown realities of providing care to a Patient under Investigation (PUI) for Ebola Virus Disease (EVD). A group of clinical experts from local facilities gathered to discuss clinical management, guidelines, challenges, and opportunities. Trainings and exercises with local EMS agencies had already begun within the community. But more in depth hospital exercises had not yet been conducted. The clinicians recommended developing an exercise specific to patient care areas where a PUI would be taken care of.

Breathing Techniques Associated With Improved Health Outcomes, Kathleen Benjamin Rickard, Dorothy J. Dunn, Virginia M. Brouch

General Submissions: Clinical Settings Materials

The purpose of this study was to determine if there is evidence to support teaching purposeful breathing techniques to patients for the improvement of health outcomes.

Toolkit: Implementation Of Best Practice Guidelines (2nd Ed.), Registered Nurses' Association Of Ontario

General Submissions: Clinical Settings Materials

Best practices are recommendations that may evolve based on ongoing key expert experience, judgment, perspective and continued research (Health Canada, 2008).They are also known as systematically developed statements of recommended practice in a specific clinical or healthy work environment area, are based on best evidence, and are designed to provide direction to practitioners and managers in their clinical and management decision-making (Field & Lohr, 1990).

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)

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.

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.

The Intensity Of Pain Experienced By Respondents Given Intramuscular (Im) Injection With/Without Skin Tapping Technique, Rita Lakhani, Mini Chacko, Shimon Ghatge, Sharmila Jadhav, Soumya M.K., Supriya Patkar, Vinod Patil

General Submissions: Clinical Settings Materials

A study to evaluate the intensity of pain experienced by respondents given intramuscular (IM) injection with/without skin tapping technique in a selected hospital in Mumbai.

Enhancing Cultural Competence In Counselor Education Through Sociolinguistic Awareness, Jessica Haas, Diane D. Walsh, Marisa Marroquin

Teaching and Supervision in Counseling

Language plays a central role in building a therapeutic working alliance. Language is essential in building trust, conveying empathy, and creating shared meaning between counselors and clients. Nevertheless, language can equally harm the working alliance if used insensitively or without awareness of cultural and social differences. Sociolinguistic awareness emphasizes the interpretational nature of language and how it can unintentionally perpetuate discrimination against marginalized identities. Counselor educators can utilize sociolinguistic principles to model and teach the significance of language in counseling and its relationship to multicultural competency and cultural humility. The article highlights how clients' language may connect to their social …

Beyond The Standards: A Qualitative Analysis Of Perfectionism Among Master’S-Level Counseling Students, Sara E. Ellison, Jessica M. Tyler, Malti Tuttle

Teaching and Supervision in Counseling

This study investigates how perfectionism in counselor training impacts the relationships between students and clients/supervisors and contributes to imposter syndrome, burnout, and social disconnection. Using a transcendental phenomenological approach, we explored the experiences of perfectionism among 13 master’s counseling students during their graduate training. Four key themes emerged from the data analysis: (a) striving for enoughness, (b) masking inadequacy, (c) embracing vulnerability, and (d) connecting with authenticity. The implications of these findings for graduate training programs are discussed, emphasizing the specific needs of students grappling with perfectionism.

Unequal Access: The Perpetual Struggle For Voting Rights And The Case Of Wisconsin, Benjamin Edelstein, Mark L. Thomsen, Atiba R. Ellis

Fordham Law Voting Rights and Democracy Forum

In this Article, we examine the transformation of Wisconsin from a state celebrated for its progressive voting laws to a focal point for stringent voting restrictions. This shift mirrors a recurring pattern in American history where progress in voting rights is often countered by strategies aimed at preserving existing power structures. We trace this pattern through American history, highlighting the role of white supremacy and structural racism in continuously reshaping the boundaries of electoral inclusion and exclusion. Wisconsin’s situation is a stark example of how contemporary legal and political tactics to limit access to the ballot box continue a long …

Volume 34, Issue 1: Contents

Washington International Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Is India The "New China" In U.S. Foreign Policy?, Sital Kalantry

Washington International Law Journal

Abstract: The University of Washington International Law Journal’s timely symposium explores the strains in the U.S.-China political and economic relationship. As China and the United States become estranged, or “decoupled,” this essay explores the United States’ relationship with India in light of this trend. The U.S.-India foreign relations are stronger today than they have been in India’s 75-year history as an independent nation.[1] To understand why this is the case, we have to examine both the U.S. and Indian foreign policy perspectives. The United States’ interest in India has grown in part due to the United States’ own …

Imperial Collision: Future Of China's Relations With Russia, Dongsheng Zang

Washington International Law Journal

Abstract: In April 2024, Biden Administration officials revealed that in the year 2023, about 90% of Russia’s microelectronics came from China, which Russia has used to make missiles, tanks, and aircraft. Nearly 70% of Russia’s approximately $900 million in machine tool imports in the last quarter of 2023 also came from China.[1] U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken recently stated at the G7 meeting that “[w]e see China sharing machine tools, semiconductors, [and] other dual-use items that have helped Russia rebuild the defense industrial base.”[2] This demonstrates how far China is willing to go in defiance of the …

Sustaining Life On Earth: An Arts-Based Research Exploration Of Collective Lived Experiences Of Covid-19, Nancy Gerber, Karin Hannes, Marco Gemignani, Jacelyn Biondo, Richard Siegesmund, Lucia Carriera, Elisabetta Biff, Madeline Centracchio, Mandy Archibald, Gioia Chilton, Janet L. Kuhnke, Angela Dawson, Jorge Lucero, Nicky Haire, Sara Scott Shields

College of Health Professions Faculty Papers

This article presents the philosophy, innovative methods, and final aesthetic synthesis of a collaborative arts-based research project about the lived experience of COVID-19. The project was initiated in 2020 and completed in 2022. Nineteen international arts-based research scholars participated as co-researchers, submitting their arts-based and narrative responses to the project. The six-member core research team guiding the project collected and organized the submissions while simultaneously entering into immersive, iterative, dynamic, arts-based data generation, dialogic analytic and syntheses processes with co-researchers, and each other. Materials-discursive analytic processes, arts-based responses, sensorial coding, intersubjective dialogues, and arts-based assemblages conducted iteratively throughout the project. …

Leveraging Social Practices In The 11th Grade American Literature Classroom: Video Games As Texts, Alora Moser

Dissertations

This quasi-experimental study explores the effectiveness of using a video game as a text in high school narrative instruction, testing Lave and Wenger’s (1991) situated learning theory, which posits that learning is a by-product of social interaction. This study seeks to bridge the gap between literacy practices at home and in school (Beavis, 2014; Ladson-Billings, 1995), effectively acknowledging students’ cultural capital, including multiliteracies (New London Group, 1996) and affinity spaces (Gee, 2013) in privileged academic settings such as the Georgia Milestones American Literature End of Course assessment. 11^th grade American literature students in a suburban Georgia high school were …

Back‑Calculation Of Subgrade Modulus Based On Genetic Algorithm And Viscoelasticity Theory, Dai Fugui, Wang Xihui, Wu Yaguang, Li Hai

Journal of China & Foreign Highway

To improve the applicability of the PFWD detection method for the back-calculation of subgrade modulus，taking the subgrade splicing project of the west loop line in Nairobi as an example，this paper adopted 3D Kelvin viscoelasticity model and quasi-static response analysis to deduce the displacement function of viscoelastic subgrade under long-term fixed loads，and combined the principle of liner superposition of viscoelasticity with genetic algorithm to propose a new method based on multi-population genetic algorithm for the modulus back-calculation of viscoelastic subgrade.Among them，the corresponding program for back-calculation was written by Matlab.The comparison between theoretical derivation and field tests shows that the peak value …