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Advocacy: Are You Prepared?, Dale M. Mueller

Leadership Connection

Session presented on Friday, September 26, 2014:

The initial purpose of the research was to assess curriculum effectiveness on the topic of the nurses role as advocate in a Health Care Policy course through pre- and post-test scores on the Political Astuteness Inventory (PAI) (Clark, 1984). A secondary purpose at this time is that the findings of the initial study can serve to inform all nurses as to how to participate more fully as advocates to benefit the profession, current and future patients, communities and the nation as a whole.

Using Photography As A Data Elicitation Technique With African American Mothers Living With Hiv, Courtney Caiola, Sharron Lee Docherty

Leadership Connection

Session presented on Thursday, September 25, 2014:

The strength and vulnerability of African American mothers living with HIV functions at the intersection of gender-, race-, and class-inequality, HIV-related stigma, and motherhood, requiring multidimensional and transdisciplinary approaches to address the complex social and economic conditions of their lives, collectively known as the social determinants of health. Photography offers a means for participants to conceive of, take, and describe visual representations of their social determinants of health, but can also introduce important methodological issues and ethical challenges. This pilot study aims to explore the methodological issues and ethical challenges of using photography …

Spirituality Among Women Dementia Caregivers: Construct Validation Of The Spiritual Perspective Scale, Nirmala Lekhak, Wichiya Yolpant, Jaclene A. Zauszniewski, Tirth R. Bhatta

Leadership Connection

Session presented on Friday, September 26, 2014:

The older adult (65 years and above) is the fastest growing population in the United States comprising 13% of the total population. Dementia, which affects more than five million older adults in the United States, is the leading cause for their dependency and disability. Among 44 million of family caregivers, 15 million constitutes of caregivers of someone with Alzheimers disease or other dementias. More than sixty percent of the family caregivers are women. Providing care for elders with dementia has been linked with increased stress and depressive symptoms. Spirituality has been shown to …

Development Of Middle Range Theory To Guide Practice In A Nurse-Led Symptom Evaluation And Management Clinic, Savita Devi Sukha, Allison Gilmer, Sr. Callista Roy

Leadership Connection

Session presented on Friday, September 26, 2014:

Purpose: To develop a middle range theory (MRT) of symptom management to guide the assessment and management of patients in a nurse-led symptom management clinic in the NIH (National Institutes of Health) campus. Specific aims Phase I are: 1) to identify and retrieve the studies that relate to the 5 cardinal symptoms of chronic conditions; 2) to analyze and critique the studies to create a MRT; and 3) to select major concepts to create a schema of the MRT.

Methods: The literature review was carried out to identify publications for the years 2001-2014 …

Beyond Adoption: Exploring The Utilization And Integration Of Resident Assessment Instrument-Home Care (Rai-Hc)., Colleen R. Toye

Leadership Connection

Optimal care of the community client, including those considered senior or elderly has become a critical consideration of the Canadian health care system. As such, meeting the health needs of the community client, a fundamental role of home care, has been theoretically improved by home cares adoption of an electronic client assessment and information system known as Resident Assessment Instrument Home Care (RAI-HC), one of the many assessment systems within the inter-RAI suite of assessments. Valid and reliable client outcome data and algorithms are generated from a completed RAI-HC, and available to home care and its assessor coordinators to support …

A Peer Support Program For Adolescents With Type 1 Diabetes, Amber A. Fuller

Group: Nebraska Methodist College

Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1D) is a chronic condition impacting young children and subsequently follows them throughout life. The disease causes the body to lose the ability to produce insulin resulting in elevated blood sugar levels causing a cascade of detrimental complications. As children navigate through the different phases of life, especially during adolescence, the challenges of self-management of this disease can become difficult. In research, peer support programs have shown to be an effective method to approaching this challenge. This quality improvement project focused on the T1D adolescent population and created, implemented, and evaluated a peer support program, called …

Interactions In The Patient Room System €“ A Spatial Sociological Analysis, Alexander Meãÿner

Group: King International Nursing Group

This thesis aimed to identify and analyze the formation and characteristics of spaces within patient clinic rooms. Space was defined sociologically as arrangements of objects and living beings (Löw, 2001, p 271) and as a physical territory essential for interactions in King's theory of goal attainment (King, 1981, p. 149).

Professional Role Identity Formation Theory: Implications For Professional Role Clarity And Nurse Work Engagement In The Current Public Health Crisis, Maria W. O'Rourke

Group: King International Nursing Group

This presentation describes Professional Role Identity Formation Theory as a theoretical explanation of professional role identity formation. It advances knowledge about the process by which individuals become attracted to professional work and the discipline of nursing. It provides structure and process for exploring the source of one's professional role clarity and for developing a professional practice based on a well-grounded understanding of professional role expectations and obligations. The professional role clarity lens addresses the internal and external influences that can impact career decisions.

A Multistudy Validation Of An Instrument For Nurse Job Satisfaction, John W. Nelson, Georgia J. Persky, Mary Ann Hozak, Alice Albu, Pamela S. Hinds, Kay Savik

General Submissions: Instruments, Tools, and Measurements

This study aims to validate an instrument of nurse job satisfaction, the Healthcare Environment Survey (HES), across settings and time through an organizational change.

The Hierarchical Implication Of Jus Cogens: An Analysis Of Schwarzenberger And Kelsen On The Recognition Of The Prohibition Of Torture And Genocide As Peremptory Norms, Carlos G. Ramaglia Mota

Buffalo Human Rights Law Review

This article explores the challenge faced by positivist schools of law in integrating the concept of jus cogens within their systematic legal frameworks. By comparing the theories of Schwarzenberger and Kelsen, it demonstrates that Positivism is not a monolithic representation of the traditional international regime of consent. Utilizing a doctrinal legal research methodology, the study draws upon authoritative sources, including legal scholarship, case law, and conventions related to the prohibition of torture and genocide. The article traces the origins and development of jus cogens, examining its connections to post-war Germany and Austria, and its universalistic Christian roots. Analyzing doctrinal and …

Former Extremists In North American Research, Ryan Scivens, Steven Windisch, Pete Simi

Sociology Faculty Books and Book Chapters

"In what follows, we explore how researchers studying key issues in terrorism and extremism studies have incorporated formers into their work by tracing current trends in the empirical research in a North American context. First, we examine how those relying on interviews with formers have uncovered a complex web of overlapping push and pull factors that predispose extremist onset. Second, we explore how the use of formers to understand radicalization processes has provided valuable insight that would not have been available through secondary sources. Third, we discuss how formers have better informed our understanding of the processes of leaving extremism. …

Shifting Towards Boilerplate Regulation, Wayne R. Barnes

University of Miami Law Review

Consumer assent to standard form contracts has been creating cognitive dissonance among contracts scholars for a century. Businesses impose standard forms on consumers, who never read the terms. But consumers would not understand them if they did. And they don’t have the bargaining power to change them anyway—the terms are famously “take it or leave it.” Contracting is ideally theorized as an act of voluntary, knowing consent to all the terms agreed to. The dissonance is that consumers, although ostensibly signaling their assent to the boilerplate by signing (or clicking, or tapping their phone screen), do not in fact know …

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.

It Is Time To Stop Using The Washington Group Questions To Measure Disability In U.S. Federal Surveys, Scott D. Landes, Bonnielin K. Swenor, Jean P. Hall

Population Health Research Brief Series

Disabled people are a population with health disparities, so accurate data on disability status is required to fully understand and mitigate these disparities. The National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) is the primary survey used to monitor the health of the U.S. population. Currently, the NHIS uses the Washington Group Short Set on Functioning (WGSS) questions to create a disability indicator that can be used to estimate the size of the disabled population and ascertain the severity of a person’s level of functional limitations. This study used data on U.S. adults ages 18+ from the 2010-2018 NHIS to determine how accurately …

New Hampshire Residents' Perceptions Of Aquaculture Show Opportunities For Education, Anna Maccaroni, Emily Whitmore, Lindsey Williams

Carsey Publications

In this brief, authors Anna Maccaroni, Emily Whitmore, and Lindsey Williams discuss the results of a June 2024 statewide survey of New Hampshire residents to understand their perceptions of aquaculture. Conducted by the University of New Hampshire’s Survey Center on behalf of New Hampshire Sea Grant, participants were asked about their opinion of aquaculture in New Hampshire, how much they have read or heard about aquaculture, whether they are aware of aquaculture activity in New Hampshire, and how frequently they consume seafood products. The authors report that the majority of New Hampshire residents are unfamiliar with aquaculture and are not …

The Link October 29, 2024, Access To Justice Institute

The Link Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Utilising An Indigenous Qualitative Information Analysis Method: An Example Of The Application Of Thought Ritual, Meg M. Kelly, Kelly A. Marriott-Statham, Maria Mackay

Journal of the Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet

This paper aims to provide a worked application of Thought Ritual as an Indigenous data (information) analysis tool. Thought Ritual is unique in providing an Indigenous underpinning to Indigenous research and promotes the use of cultural methods to analyse collected information. This worked example explores the use of Thought Ritual and dissects the four stages of the analysis tool: (1) connection, (2) diversity, (3) interaction and (4) adaption. Thought Ritual can be difficult to apply due to ambiguity with the associated stages. Due to the recent development of Thought Ritual, there remained limited application of the tool. This worked example …

A Qualitative Exploration Of Spiritual Practices Of Simplicity Among Emerging Adults, Falon Opsahl Barton

Discernment: Theology and the Practice of Ministry

This article explores how emerging adults (18 to 29‐year‐olds) integrate pro‐environmental behaviors and spiritual practices of simplicity. First, this article synthesizes the research on emerging adulthood, including what it is, how they experience and express their spirituality, and their emotional and practical behaviors in response to the climate crisis. Then, this article explores how a small sample of Western Protestant emerging adults practice pro‐environmental simplicity in their daily lives. As a result of integrating spiritual practices that focus on simplicity and pro‐environmental behaviors into their spiritual expressions, emerging adults experience profound spiritual formation and a meaningful way of participating in …

Spirituality Of Emerging Adulthood, Falon Opsahl Barton

Discernment: Theology and the Practice of Ministry

This article synthesizes the research on emerging adulthood. After defining the term, this work explores the causes of this phenomenon, the demographic that constitutes it, and how those in this phase of life experience and express their spirituality. Among the significant issues for this demographic are their emotional and practical behaviors in response to the climate crisis.

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 …

The Crime Of Luring A Minor For Contact Sexual Abuse: Exploration Of Demographic Patterns & Criminal Records Of Convicted Offenders., Bridget Diamond-Welch, Anna E. Kosloski, Christopher P. Carey, Molly Mcdade

Criminology and Criminal Justice Faculty Publications and Presentations

Background

Child sexual abuse (CSA) is a significant public health problem, with a small but important subset of crimes committed by strangers, often facilitated through luring. Understanding the characteristics of individuals who engage in luring is essential for developing effective prevention and intervention strategies.

Objective

This study aimed to analyze the demographic characteristics and criminal histories of individuals convicted of luring a minor and to examine the types of crimes committed before and after conviction.

Participants and setting

The study included all individuals (N = 115) convicted of “luring a minor” between 2011 and 2021 in one county in …

Decoupling Defined: Four Theories And Four Illustrations From The Sino-American Trade War, Raj Bhala

Washington International Law Journal

Abstract: This article seeks to bring clarity to a much used, yet ill-defined, term “decoupling.” The article explores the theory and practice of “decoupling” in the context of the Sino-American Trade War, which, launched in March 2018, shows no sign of a ceasefire. As to theory, this article argues that conceptually, “decoupling” takes (at least) four forms. There is efficiency, jurisprudential, security, and values decoupling. As to practice, this article shows these four theoretical typologies of decoupling are obvious today. This theory and practice are illustrated (respectively) with respect to labor-intensive industries, commercial transactions in rule-of-man jurisdictions or …

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. …

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 …

10.28.2024 Orsp Connect, Liz Williamson

ORED Newsletter

ORSP Name Change

RED Talk

Businesses Invited to a Day With NASA

LINC Door Prize Winners

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

Counseling Faculty Publications

Abstract

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 …

Ndls Communicator: Week Of 10.28.24, Notre Dame Law School

NDLS Communicator

The Latest News

• Notre Dame Law School welcomes new faculty and visiting scholars for the 2024-25 academic year
• Professors Paolo Carozza and Richard Garnett honored by the American Academy of Sciences and Letters
• Law School Professor Derek Muller joins CNN as contributor for 2024 presidential election
• Notre Dame Law Professor Patrick Corrigan named to The Irish Legal 100
• Tribute: The Honorable Daniel A. Manion ‘64
• ND Law's Eviction Clinic reaches settlement for South Bend family fleeing lead-filled home
• Bryan Stevenson delivers powerful message about ‘proximity’ at lecture in South Bend

Faculty News and Briefs

• Dean G. Marcus Cole was honored …

Inclusiveness Of English As A Second Language Nursing Students In The Academic Setting, Bahgat Youwakeem

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

This study explored the perceptions of English as a Second Language (ESL) nursing students regarding inclusiveness in nursing programs in the southern United States. The problem addressed is the limited research on how ESL nursing students perceive inclusiveness in academic environments, particularly in the Southern States, where diversity is increasing. Previous studies have focused on the general challenges faced by ESL students, but few have examined their specific perceptions of inclusivity in nursing programs. The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study, guided by Whannell and Whannell’s identity theory, was to gain insights into ESL nursing students' lived experiences of inclusiveness. …

Cover And Forewords, Lawrence R. Handley

The Geographical Bulletin

Cover and Forewords

Volume 46-2 Complete Issue, Lawrence Handley

The Geographical Bulletin

Volume 46-2 Complete Issue