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Finding The Time For Self-Care, Jacqueline Williams, Sarah Ball, Elizabeth Flott, Joely Goodman, Christine Young

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

Learn about interventions implemented during an education program intended to enhance the students ability to handle the intense work environment in their future healthcare career. Discuss future course implications with educators overcoming nursing students conceived notion of time constraints between a rigorous curriculum and need to implement self-care strategies.

The Impact Of Shared Governance On Hope, Resilience, And Empowerment, Alison Partridge, Marcey Jorgenson, Emily Johnson

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between hope, resilience, and empowerment in registered nurses in clinical practice. Initial results show a difference in hope, resilience and empowerment in nurses who participate in shared governance activities compared to those who do not.

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Developing And Evidence-And-Ethic Informed Intervention For Moral Distress, Sadie Deschenes, Shannon D. Scott, Diane Kunyk

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

In this presentation, we will describe the multi-phase approach we took to develop an evidence-and-ethic informed moral distress intervention for paediatric critical care nurses. Our proposed intervention offers a novel approach to address moral distress and has the potential to better support pediatric critical care nurses experiencing the phenomenon.

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Altered Effort And Deconditioning Are Not Valid Explanations Of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Todd E. Davenport, Carmen Scheibenbogen, Mark A. Zinn, Mary Dimmock, Janet Stone, Karl J. Tronstad, Øystein Fluge, Jonas Bergquist, Staci R. Stevens, David Tuller, Uta Behrends, J. Mark Van Ness, Mark A. Vink, Luis Nacul

Pacific Faculty Work

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2025-10-17 Agenda Book, Morehead State University. Board Of Regents.

Morehead State Board of Regents Agenda Books and Meeting Minutes

Agenda booklet for the Board of Regents meeting of October 17, 2025, which includes the minutes of the meeting held on August 8, 2025.

Aging By Design, Bruce Vermeer

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

"While we may be tempted to see aging as a loss, let us receive it as a gift that refines our faith, strengthens our witness, and deepens our longing to dwell forever with the Lord."

Posting about a ­­­­­­­­healthy perspective on getting older from In All Things, an online hub that offers insight into maintaining and faithful and orthodox Reformed Christian worldview while fearlessly engaging in every aspect of contemporary life – until all is made new.

Aging by Design

Caring For Caregivers With Equine Assisted Services, Laura A. Espinosa, Pinky Shani

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

Research on equine assisted therapy has shown it to be an effective treatment for anxiety and stress related symptoms; however, research on nurses is limited. The purpose of the study is to explore the effect of equine assisted therapy on post-traumatic stress disorder among healthcare professionals at Houston Methodist West.

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Secondary Posttraumatic Stress Education Within Graudate Counseling Programs, Brandi S. Colesanti Phd

Counseling and Psychology Dissertations

Secondary posttraumatic stress is a known occupational hazard for mental health counselors. Affecting approximately 49.5% of practicing counselors, it is a normal reaction to indirectly experiencing graphic stories (Lanier & Carney, 2024). Due to underdeveloped coping skills and limited experience working with traumatized individuals, counselors in training are especially vulnerable to its impact. Extant literature contains studies exploring the effects of secondary posttraumatic stress on graduate students, made and recommendations for self-care, resilience strategies, and therapeutic interventions to be integrated into graduate counseling curriculum to mitigate symptoms. Although studies demonstrated the effectiveness of these recommendations on symptom mitigation, no formal …

Building Bridges: Open Doors Brings Students Into The Lyceum, Jordan Karnbach

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – Surrounded by history, University of Mississippi students and administrators will come together Oct. 21 at the Lyceum for the annual Open Doors event. The open house invites students to meet and talk with university leaders in a relaxed, welcoming setting.

Developing Nurses And Interprofessional Teams In Caring Science To Support Healthier Practice Environments, Tina Vittoria Cartwright

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

Organizations must find ways to sustain nurses and healthcare workers beyond traditional human resource programs and focus on unhealthy practice environments. A program evaluation was conducted to determine whether developing Caritas behaviors through a Caring Science program improves compassion satisfaction in nurses and interdisciplinary teams professional quality of life.

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Exploring The Black Woman Experience Related To Sexual Practice, Sexual Identity, And Sexual Expression: A Qualitative Study, Ashley V. Rodriguez

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

This study revealed the complex interplay between personal identities and social constructs, focusing on Black-identifying women and their lived experiences with sex, sexuality, and sexual expression. Over centuries, societal influences depicted Black women as hypersexual, simultaneously exposing them to criticism, shame, and judgment for their sexual expression and meaning-making related to sex and sexuality. Consequently, Black women remain a high-risk demographic for unsafe sexual practices and sexually transmitted infections. Using intersectionality theory and Black feminist theory, this study explored how Black-identifying women give meaning to sex, sexuality, and sexual expression as they shape the Black feminine experience. I sought to …

Interprofessional Allyship In Healthcare, Eileen Thrower, Charlotte Swint

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

The AACN Healthy Work Environment Standards include essential evidence-based guidelines for improving nursing and patient outcomes. However, the centering of dominant groups limits the implementation of these standards. This presentation examines strategies for interprofessional healthcare teams to become authentic allies with nondominant groups and to create healthy work environments.

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Improving Nurse-Patient Communication By Fostering Ethnocultural Empathy, Cynthia M. Stacy

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

The Improving Nurse-Patient Communication by Fostering Ethnocultural Empathy quality improvement project engaged bedside nurses at an East Bay urban medical center in online cultural competency curriculum and focus group discussion. Nurses Scale of Ethnocultural Empathy (SEE) was assessed pre- and post – training using the SEE assessment tool.

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The Transformative Power Of Serendipitous And Structured Mentoring: A Reflective Case Study, Carole D. Liske, Naomi F. Tutticci

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

The value of formal mentoring in nursing noted in literature too often emphasizes goal attainment without focusing on establishing meaningful relationships. A shared value held by mentor and mentee to intentionally transform within the partnership depends on each embracing a growth mindset and vulnerability to overcome barriers to dyad development.

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Creating A Healthy Work Environment During The Covid-19 Pandemic For Hearing-Impaired Healthcare Professionals, Ellen G. Soyombo, Carla Braboy, Kimberly S. Navarro, Laryza Rodriguez, Jessica M. Smith, Rosario Tarriman Suico, Kenn M. Kirksey

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

Pandemic-mandated masks have resulted in communication challenges among hearing-impaired healthcare personnel who rely upon visual cues and lip-reading. This session provides an evidence-based approach for mitigating these issues among hearing-impaired colleagues and ensure a healthy work environment for staff and patients.

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Secondary World Language Teachers’ Perspectives On Gamification-Based Assessments, Taryn Thompson

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The problem that was addressed through this study was that there was a gap in the literature about secondary world language teachers using gamification-based assessments and the influence on student learning. The purpose of this basic qualitative study was to explore teachers’ perspectives on the benefits and challenges of gamification-based assessments. The study was grounded in the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology, digital game-based language learning, and Krashen’s second language acquisition theory. To secure a sample of 12 participants for this study, purposeful and snowball sampling were employed, wherein potential secondary world language teachers were solicited through …

Animal Behavior Observation As A Gateway To Scientific Inquiry For Non-Majors, April A. Watson

Faculty and Staff Publications & Presentations

Undergraduate science educators often face challenges when designing hands-on assignments that are both engaging and accessible for non-science majors. These challenges are heightened in today’s varied course structures, which may be in person, online, or hybrid, and in formats ranging from four to sixteen weeks. In compressed courses, the need for meaningful yet straightforward research experiences are especially pressing. At Lynn University, the Scientific Literacy course meets daily for two and a half hours over four weeks. To provide authentic research within this time frame, I implemented animal behavior observation projects. Students are introduced to ad libitum and focal animal …

Passenger Delight In Liminal Spaces: Uncovering The Dynamics Of Airport Airside F&B, Thorsten Merkle, Sushanta Das

ICHRIE Research Reports

The airport airside environment is a unique and highly consequential setting for consumer behavior, where passengers’ food and beverage (F&B) decisions are shaped by time pressure, emotional states, and spatial constraints. This study empirically validates two complementary frameworks - the CX Delightors Framework and the Airport Airside Consumption Model - in the U.S. context to deepen understanding of passenger behavior in this liminal space. Using survey data from 1,374 passengers across three major U.S. hub airports (DEN, PHX, SLC), we conducted principal component analyses to refine the original nine CX Delightors attributes into five robust dimensions: Hospitality & Ambiance, Value …

The Political Construction Of Anti-Transgender Policy: A Critical Policy Analysis Of North Carolina State Legislators' Discursive Strategies, David Osworth, Morgan Edlin

Journal of Queer and Trans Studies in Education

In recent year anti-LGBTQ policy has been cropping up at the state level across the United States. While these policies have been described as unprecedented, they signal a period of retrenchment for the rights of queer and transgender individuals in the United States. This critical policy analysis of North Carolina state legislation that is decidedly homophobic and transgender examines the discursive tactics of policy actors (i.e. North Carolina Legislators) as they argue these policies during legislative sessions. Through our analysis of legislators’ commentary during House of Representative sessions we identified discursive formations that were considered allied with the LGBTQ community …

Wayward Joy In Queer Femme-Inist Educational Research, Sarah Stapleton, Lindsay Cavanaugh, Jade Crimson Rose Da Costa

Journal of Queer and Trans Studies in Education

This article draws on our experiences with “Femme Educational Futurities,” a dream-mapping (Author 2, 2023), critical arts-based, participatory-informed project about softness in K–12 schools, to explore the boundaries of queer, femme-inist research. We trace how our attempts to enact research softly (Schwartz, 2020) led us towards wayward joy (Hartman, 2019): a messy affective terrain marked by connection, vulnerability, shame, and hope. For each author, we identify what Applebaum (1995) calls a “stop” moment and explore within each instance the convergence of softness, radical love (hooks, 2000) and tender failure (Halberstam, 2011), and discuss what joy means to us as a …

“It Has Made Me Stronger”: The Strengths Of Trans And Nonbinary Teachers, Heather K. Mcentarfer, Matthew D. Rice

Journal of Queer and Trans Studies in Education

This study draws from two data sets collected from interviews with trans and nonbinary (TGNB) teachers. It highlights the strengths related to gender identity and gender history that the teachers bring to schools and classrooms, as identified by the teachers and the researchers. Strengths identified included multiple ways of supporting LGBTQ+ students (especially TGNB students), connecting with all students, greater self-awareness, and seeing beyond “boxes.” The study adapts Pennell’s (2016a, 2016b) queer cultural capital, introducing and exploring TGNB cultural capital.

Unskilled But Aware Of It: Understanding Self-Assessment By Estimating Guessing From Cognitive-Metacognitive Paired Measures, Edward Nuhfer, Steven Fleisher

Numeracy

We utilize concepts of numeracy including number sense, reading and interpreting graphs, basic probability and statistics, and reasoning to estimate guessing and verify our earlier findings on human self-assessment as replicable. Our field study employed a low-stakes paired measures assessment (11,229 scores from the validated Science Literacy Concept Inventory and postdicted global self-assessment ratings generated upon completion of the Inventory) in conjunction with a five-category taxonomy of self-assessment proficiency. We also simulated 11,229 random guessing responses, to model responses that disengaged, purely random-guessing participants should produce. At least 90% of participants sincerely engaged with the instruments of measure, self-assessed imperfectly …

Myths And Magical Thinking: American Civil Religion, The Establishment Clause, And “Codified Irrationality” In Anti-Crt Measures, Kyle Reinhard

Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development

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In Part I, I preview some of the overlapping tensions in U.S. public schooling created by the occasionally competing mandates of education federalism and democratic theory; describe the current state of the law with respect to the constitutionality of state and local governments seeking to inculcate (allegedly) prosocial community values in curriculum; and consider how battles over the meaning of “patriotism” through the decades show that ideology and religion often blend—and still, inevitably, make it—into the public square broadly nonetheless.

In Part II, I describe how religion is a useful tool, both descriptively and as a constitutional jurisprudential framework, …

Whose Right(S)?: Civil Rights Impact Of Cultural Conflicts In The Curriculum, S. David Mitchell

Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development

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Opponents of anti-woke legislation have challenged the presumption that the topics being taught are divisive or designed to indoctrinate students with a liberal or Left leaning ideology. Instead, they argue that these topics tell the unvarnished history of the United States. Furthermore, opponents have also challenged the asserted legality and validity of anti-woke legislation, arguing that the legislation infringes upon the First Amendment, specifically students’ and teachers’ academic freedom, students’ right to learn, and parents’ right to direct and control the education of their children. Unlike other controversial topics such as sexual education, which are taught in courses that …

Atmosphere: The Charm Of Artistic Innovation In Lu Xun's Fiction―A Case Study Of Call To Arms And Wandering, Jinyan Li

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art

The concept of “great beauty without words” has been integral to Chinese literary theory since ancient times. Since the late 20th century, the aesthetics of atmosphere has gained increasing attention in academic research, which provides a new perspectives for appreciating, evaluating, and interpreting works of literature and art. Lu Xun excels at creating unique artistic aesthetics through the construction of diverse atmospheres in his fiction. In his works, Lu Xun utilizes specific hallucinations and visions to present ineffable aesthetics, revealing characters' unconscious layers. At the same time, Lu Xun also integrates different psychological sensations and impressions through artistic techniques such …

The Indiana Statesman, October 16, 2025, Indiana State University

Student Newspaper

Homecoming wrapped; Pickleball fundraiser for Buddy Benches; Sister Cindy touches down at Indiana State University

Fy2026 Salary Report - All Tabs, Clemson University

Salary Reports

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Learning How To Practice Takes Practice, Micah Killion, Robert Duke

John J. Cali School of Music Scholarship and Creative Works

Effective music learning depends on effective music practice. Although time spent with teachers is an important component of young musicians’ development, time spent alone practicing is perhaps even more consequential. Researchers and teachers have offered many prescriptions about effective music practice, yet observations of young musicians’ actual practice reveal that their behavior in the practice room is often quite unlike what teachers envision. The most important aspects of effective practice are the thinking, perceiving, and decision-making that serve to organize how musicians spend their time. We discuss how to help students focus their attention in ways that lead to the …

Clinicians’ Perceptions Of Adverse Childhood Experiences, Resiliency, And Treatment Engagement With Criminal Offenders, Aaron Pena

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

This study investigated the pervasive impact of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) on clinicians, particularly those who provide services to criminal offenders. ACEs contribute to a range of mental and physical health issues that can extend into adulthood, affecting not only individuals who experienced these adversities, but also clinicians who treat them. Despite the growing body of research on the consequences of ACEs, there remained a significant gap in terms of understanding how clinicians’ own histories influence their professional resilience and treatment efficacy. Garmezy’s resiliency theory, the framework for the study, emphasizes the role of positive contextual, social, and individual factors …

Ai Implementation Solutions In Small Real Estate Businesses, Nathan Taylor

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the capacity to reshape business operations, yet many small real estate business leaders in the United States struggle to use it effectively due to limited resources and insufficient knowledge of its applications. These challenges place small businesses at risk of reduced competitiveness, inefficiencies, and missed growth opportunities. Grounded in the technology–organization–environment framework, the purpose of this qualitative pragmatic inquiry was to Explore strategies small real estate business owners in the Midwestern United States used to address financial limitations and knowledge gaps in adopting AI. Participants were six small business owners who successfully adopted AI. Data were …