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Enhancing Membership With Services And Knowledge Resources, Jenny Paugh Hoffman, Mary Ann Scott, Kimberly Thompson

Leadership Connection

Session presented on Thursday, September 20, 2012: STTI members have access to a wide-variety of services, products and knowledge resources. Attend this session to become familiar with these STTI benefits and learn how to navigate the Nursing Knowledge International and Virginia Henderson International Nursing Research Library websites to enhance your member's experiences.

Disaster Nursing: From Headline To Frontline, Cynthia Vlasich, K. Joanne Mcglown

Leadership Connection

LEARNING OBJECTIVES By the end of this presentation, the learner will be able to …. • Describe the global frequency, severity and impact of disasters. • Identify potential roles for nurses in the US Federal response system. • Outline various ways in which nurses may enter the disaster response system. • Describe initial expectations of disaster nurses as part of an effective disaster response.

Basic Event Planning: It's More Than 'Just Planning A Party', Scott Kerr

Leadership Connection

Session presented on Thursday, September 20, 2012:

Most professional event planners will tell you that planning an event will be one of the most challenging things you will ever do. It requires a variety of skills covering many details that can make or break the success of your event. In this session, you will receive a birds-eye view of the five broad areas of event planning: organization & needs assessment, goals & objectives, planning, implementation and post event assessment. Together, these areas fit together to create a successful event that has a positive return on investment for your organization.

Exploring The Potential Applications Of Generative Ai In East Asian Librarianship: Use Cases, Reflections, And Inspirations, Yi Jiang, Kwok-Leong Tang, Tang Li, Haruko Nakamura

Journal of East Asian Libraries

This article delves into the nuances, opportunities, and challenges of generative AI tools as discussed in the CEAL conference workshop, exploring how this innovative technology could profoundly transform the future of East Asian librarianship. It begins with a concise overview of the recent workshop hosted by the CEAL Technology Committee, detailing its background, content, and key insights. It then examines the four use cases demonstrated during the workshop session, exploring the opportunities and challenges associated with integrating generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) into everyday library workflows. With the analysis of the use cases, the article identifies several critical questions that need …

Beyond Boundaries: Evaluating Bl/Yaoi Subject Headings In Academic Library Classification, Cecilia Zhang

Journal of East Asian Libraries

This study critically evaluates the effectiveness of the newly established Library of Congress Subject Headings, "Boys' Love (Gay Erotica)" and "Yaoi (Gay Erotica)," in classifying and facilitating the retrieval of information related to these genres. By examining the complex history of these terms within fan communities in Japan, China, and Korea across different historical periods, this research argues that the current LCSH oversimplifies the genre's rich cultural context and ongoing innovation, creating barriers to effective information retrieval and access. Additionally, the use of the term "Gay Erotica" is misaligned with the nuanced nature of BL/Yaoi, further complicating its classification. This …

Mentorship Impact On Novice Advanced Practice Provider Satisfaction And Turnover, Michelle Gillard

Group: Northern Arizona University School of Nursing, DNP Doctoral Papers

In response to a healthcare provider shortage, the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) workforce is rapidly expanding with more practitioners entering clinical practice than ever before. Unfortunately, once APRNs enter the workforce, decreased job satisfaction, role strain, and increased job demands may contribute to high turnover rates. To increase institutional support for novice Advanced Practice Providers (APPs) during the transition period, a large academic quaternary pediatric hospital in the southwestern United States developed a mentorship subcommittee for APPs with fewer than two years of advanced practice experience. This quality improvement project evaluated the impact of formal mentorship on job satisfaction …

Impact Of Teaching Breathing Techniques On Patient Health Outcomes: A Systematic Review, Kathleen Benjamin Rickard, Jennifer Reich, Dorothy J. Dunn

Group: Northern Arizona University School of Nursing, DNP Doctoral Papers

The United States has some of the most expensive health care world wide, with an increase in chronic illness, poorer outcomes, and fragmentation of care. Patients seek integrative or alternative methods of care in order to participate and improve their own health outcomes. Promoting cost effective, useful, and safe tools for patients to learn during an office visit allows patients to participate in their own care for improved health. The clinical question for this systematic review is: What is the evidence for teaching breathing techniques in primary care to improve health outcomes? Evidence in the literature shows that while breath …

Influenza Education To Improve Vaccination Rates Among College Students, Shelley Vaughn

Group: Northern Arizona University School of Nursing, DNP Doctoral Papers

Objective: The purpose of this project was to provide influenza vaccine education and improve vaccine uptake among Eastern Arizona College dormitory residents. College students living in dormitories are considered a high-risk population for influenza, and the current vaccination rate for this age group is reported as 41.1% nationally, compared to Healthy People 2020’s goal for influenza vaccination of 80%.

Participants: The population comprised 300 Eastern Arizona College dormitory residents aged 18 and older.

Methods: During back-to-school week, students participated in an influenza education intervention. At 4 weeks post-intervention, a 10-item follow-up survey was administered electronically to measure the impact of …

Implementation Of Depression Screening To Optimize Chronic Pain Management, Aaron B. Castle

Group: Northern Arizona University School of Nursing, DNP Doctoral Papers

Background: Chronic pain affects millions of people worldwide and the evidence demonstrates prevalent co morbidity of chronic pain and psychological issues such as anxiety, insomnia, and depression. The existence of psychological issues can have negative impact on pain management and compound the challenges inherent to successful management. Although clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) recommend routine screening for depression, anxiety, and insomnia in all chronic pain patients, many primary care providers fail to routinely perform appropriate screening. The purpose of this project was to implement a practice change that would include screening for depression with chronic pain patients in a rural …

Patient Education, Engagement, And Activation For Chronic Pancreatitis Patients And Care Partners, Christina Sailors, Tara Whitmire

Group: Nebraska Methodist College

Background and Review of Literature: Chronic pancreatitis is a progressive disease with significant symptomatology, which can severely impact an individual's quality of life as well as their activities of daily living. The disease is difficult to diagnose and difficult understand.

Purpose: The purpose of this project was to develop and implement an individualized, face-to-face patient education, engagement, and activation session in effort to increase the level of patient and care partner knowledge of the CP disease process, improve patient and care partner expectations of care management, and increase patient and care partner involvement in their own car.

Methods: Ten-item surveys …

Complex Illness Support Alongside Standard Oncology Care, Kimberly A. Bland

Group: Nebraska Methodist College

Aim. To evaluate the effect of Complex Illness Support alongside standard oncology care for patients with incurable cancer on symptom control, patient satisfaction with care, and chemotherapy utilization within 30 days of death.

Design. This was a descriptive study to evaluate the effect of Complex Illness Support alongside standard oncology care for patients with incurable cancer on symptom control and patient satisfaction with care. Additionally, the use of chemotherapy within 30 days of death was evaluated using inferential statistics.

Method. A convenience sample of consecutive patients with incurable cancer who presented through a lung cancer clinic in a Midwestern urban …

The Impact Of A Virtual Poverty Simulation On Undergraduate Nursing Students' Attitudes, Beliefs, And Awareness, Kimberly A. Sullivan, Alice Kindschuh

Group: Nebraska Methodist College

Purpose: The purpose of this project was to determine the impact of a virtual simulation on undergraduate nursing students’ attitudes, beliefs, and awareness of poverty. Methodology: The SPENT virtual poverty simulation was conducted in a small private college located in the Northeast. The program was implemented during a Community Health nursing class with 22 students. Participating students were given a pre- and post-questionnaire to assess how the implementation of a virtual poverty simulation impacts undergraduate nursing students’ attitudes, beliefs, and awareness of poverty. Implications/Conclusion: There was no statistically significant results obtained from pre to post test results. Two-tailed t-tests were …

Purposeful Rounding And Improved Patient Care: An Evaluation Of Nurses’ And Nursing Assistants’ Perceptions Of Purposeful Rounding And Intervention To Improve Practice, Bernadine Ihediohanma, Valerie Lynn Anderson

Group: Nebraska Methodist College

Purposeful rounding has gained acceptance in academic literature regarding its clinical benefits in patient optimal outcomes. A Mid-Atlantic regional hospital implemented hourly rounding a few years ago, but it has not been successfully sustained. Hospital administrators desired to improve practice with consistent implementation. The purpose of this project was to implement a structured purposeful rounding intervention on a medical-surgical inpatient unit aimed to improve nurses’ and nursing assistants’ perceptions of purposeful rounding, thereby decreasing patient fall rates, and improving patient satisfaction. A process improvement initiative was implemented. A baseline organizational assessment was completed on a 30-bed medical-surgical unit of the …

Advance Directive Protocol In The Primary Care Setting, Alexei Boettcher

Group: Nebraska Methodist College

Background and Review of Literature: Advance directives (AD) are documents that offer patients a way to avoid unwanted care in the event of a serious illness or incapacity. Studies demonstrate the care patients receive at the end-of-life is not often consistent with their preferences, as a result of suboptimal communication between the patient and provider as well as documentation of health care proxies and treatment preferences (Isaac & Curtis, 2016). The lack of a current formal protocol used by primary care providers regarding ADs, particularly towards the young adult patient population, resulting in insufficient discussions of patients’ wishes regarding end-of-life …

Assessment Of Nursing Knowledge In Palliative Care, Yen Nguyen, Hilary Applequist

Group: Nebraska Methodist College

Background: Acute care nurses are challenged in caring for chronically and terminally ill patients. Many nurses do not have the knowledge or comfort level in handling ethical challenges or palliative care (PC) discussions with patients and their families. Understanding the palliative care approach can help acute care nurses increase their palliative care knowledge and promote the use of the palliative care team.

Purpose: The purpose of this project is to assess palliative care knowledge in nurses at a Midwestern acute care hospital, prior to and after an educational intervention. By performing this comparison, a determination will be made on whether …

Education To Ease Distress In Spouses Of Cardiac Rehabilitation Patients, Kathryn A. Jelsma

Group: Nebraska Methodist College

Spouses of cardiac rehabilitation (CR) patients can experience overwhelming distress during their partner's recovery, yet interventions to ease this distress are limited. While spouses have the ability to help influence their partner's recovery, little assistance or counseling has been offered to the spouses. Oncology and inpatient cardiology units have found educational packets helpful in reducing spousal distress. Therefore, an evidence-based interventional project to determine if education could ease distress among the spouses of patients who have received a coronary artery stent and enrolled in outpatient CR took place at a Midwestern hospital. Participants were spouses of patients who received a …

Reducing Food Insecurity Within A Midwestern Suburb, Lucas Manning

Group: Nebraska Methodist College

Food insecurity, characterized by inadequate access to food, poses a significant challenge affecting numerous individuals and communities across the United States. This project examines the impact of an educational program aimed at increasing donations to a local pantry within a transportation-limited Midwestern suburb burdened by a prevalent food desert. The intervention involved the dissemination of an electronic presentation and pantry flyer via email to a community agency. The outcomes assessed included the number of items donated, the number of individuals served, and the number of meals provided by the pantry. The pre- and post-intervention data collected and analyzed with descriptive …

Implementing Online Educational Modules To Introduce Specialty Disability Care To Students In Undergraduate Nursing Programs, Keegan Brunner, Molly Helton

James Madison Undergraduate Research Journal (JMURJ)

In 2016, 1 in 4 adults reported living with a disability in the United States; however, few nursing schools include education about how to best care for these individuals in their curricula. Studies have found that when nurses and other healthcare workers have better attitudes toward patients with disabilities, it leads to better health outcomes. The literature suggests that education and exposure are the most effective ways to increase positive attitudes toward disabled communities. This study offered Equity Access modules titled “Disability and Healthcare” and “Accessibility” developed by Duquesne University to pre-professional health students planning on pursuing Nursing degrees at …

Npwh Position Statement: Brain Health Is Women's Health, 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 collaborative action to establish brain health as a crucial aspect of Women's healthcare. A comprehensive approach includes promoting brain health, detecting cognitive impairment (CI) to facilitate accurate diagnosis and early intervention, and identifying and addressing the needs of individuals who are caregivers for loved ones with CI. NPWH believes a need exists for extensive research to better understand modifiable factors that influence brain health, improve one’s ability to make an early diagnosis of CI, establish effective therapies to prevent and treat CI, and support families and caregivers of individuals …

Project Thrive: A Multidisciplinary One-Stop Shop Model Of Healthcare For Survivors Of Human Trafficking, Jonell Potter, Stephen Symes, D. Jeffrey Newport, Anastasia Godur, Grechen Mills, Ira Karmin, Panagiota Caralis

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

Purpose: The purpose of this program is to provide an overview of a model of medical care designed for human trafficking survivors.

Summary: Human trafficking for sex and labor is a national epidemic. Most victims access health care while being trafficked. Once rescued, many victims need medical and mental health services. A comprehensive "one-stop shop" model of health care offering multidisciplinary services in a single location for survivors of human trafficking was designed to provide a patient centered approach within an environment that fosters compassion, trust, support and stability was designed and implemented to assist survivors with access to primary …

Npwh Position Statement: Access To Safe Abortion, 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), along with numerous other national health professional organizations, affirms that abortion is an essential component of comprehensive reproductive healthcare and that it should be legal, safe, and accessible. Legal restrictions do not eliminate abortion but instead increase the likelihood that abortions will be performed unsafely, with the potential for complications and death. Legislative and policy decisions should be firmly rooted in science, protect the patient-clinician relationship, and aim at reducing disparities to ensure equitable access to safe, effective, and timely abortion care.

People with low incomes, those living in rural …

Contemporary Models For Clinical Nursing Education, Lauren Hill, Ellen P. Williams

Group: King International Nursing Group

Approaches for clinical nursing education remain inadequate despite manifold calls for the use of alternative methods of experiential learning in schools of nursing. Mandates for transformation of clinical nursing education arise from multiple sources, including reports by the Institutes of Medicine and the Carnegie Foundation. On a pragmatic level, changes are driven by a scarcity of available clinical sites, generational differences in ways of learning, increased student/teacher ratios in traditional clinical settings, and an explosion of knowledge relative to health promotion, disease prevention, and treatment. Continuing use of traditional clinical nursing education models contributes to poor critical thinking and reasoning …

Scaleddetr: An Alight Weight Object Detection Model For Autonomous Driving, Ali Elhenidy, Labib Mohamed, Amira Yassien, Mahmoud Saafan

Mansoura Engineering Journal

End-to-end object detection is one of the recent trends in object detection; however, it is time- and memory-consuming due to the Transformer encoder-decoder (TED) module. Detection TRansformer (DETR) is the first end-to-end object detector using a TED architecture. Despite achieving competitive performance, it suffers from slow convergence due to a long sequence of attention and the whole image. In this paper, ScaledDETR is proposed to handle the slow convergence issue in DETR and speed up the training process by implementing end-to-end detection based on the latest efficient backbone with fewer parameters. ScaledDETR proposes an efficient model with fewer parameters by …

Buying From A Competitor: A Model Of Knowledge Spillover And Innovation, Dominique Lauga, Matthew Selove, Mohammad Zia

Business Faculty Articles and Research

Many firms buy a production input from a competitor. However, managers often worry that this supply relationship may give their competitor valuable knowledge about new product innovations. We develop a two-period model in which a firm can buy an input from a competitor or a third party in each period. In order to innovate, the firm must invest in improving the input, which results in its supplier learning to produce a higher quality input. We show that buying from the competitor: (i) increases short-term profits by softening price competition and (ii) may reduce long-term profits by preventing investment in innovation. …

Wics Conference 2024: Creating Connections Together: Agenda And Abstracts, Daren D. Redfearn, Christopher A. Proctor

Water and Integrated Cropping Systems Conferences

WICS Conference 2024: Creating Connections Together

Agenda and Abstracts

Water Security (Quantity/Quality)

Nebraska Groundwater Quality Clearinghouse; Augustine Adjei, Martha Rhoades, and Kent Eskridge

Assessing the AquaCrop model’s accuracy for soybean under variable irrigation; Anmol Singh

Yield response of irrigated maize hybrids to water availability; Thais Murias Jardi, Saleh Taghvaeian, Chris Proctor, Daran Rudnick, and Chuck Burr

Using the DSSAT CERES-Maize model to evaluate farmers' irrigation decisions; Rintu Sen

Nutrient Management and Cycling

Effect of cover crop mixtures and crop rotation on nitrogen dynamics and crop yield in southeast Nebraska; Madhusudhan Adhikaari

Nitrogen inhibitors reduce nitrogen losses via ammonia volatilization, nitrous …

Assessing The Effects Of Dasatinib On Mesenchymal Stem/Stromal Cells, David P. Heinrichs, Vitali Maldonado, I Kade Karisma Gita Ardana, Ryan M. Porter, Rebekah M. Samsonraj

Biomedical Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

Introduction

Progressive aging, or senescence, of mesenchymal stem/stromal cells (MSCs) is a major obstacle faced when trying to culture potent stem cells for use in therapy. Senescent cells are irreversibly nondividing cells that cease performing critical functional effects. Elimination of senescent cells using biochemical means, such as the use of senolytic drugs like dasatinib, may be useful in retaining the viable and proliferating populations of the cells.

Methods

An in vitro approach was used to investigate the effect of dasatinib on phenotypic, genotypic, and immunomodulatory functionality of osteogenic and adipogenic differentiated MSCs. Replicative senescence was achieved through multiple sub-culturing in …

Green Cities And Transportation, Ariadna Reyes-Sanchez, Soheil Sharifi-Asl, Ladan Mozaffarian

Mavs Open Press Open Educational Resources - Archive

Green Cities and Transportation examines the significance of sustainable transportation projects for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions while supporting transportation equity for vulnerable commuters. The book examines insightful case studies from around the world that can serve as a reference for sustainable transportation initiatives in the U.S. It is organized into three sections: 1) Sustainability, Transportation Equity, and Planning, 2) Case Studies and Lessons from the North and South, and 3) Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Cities, and Mobility.

Transportation Land Use Modeling And Policy, Qisheng Pan, Soheil Sharifi-Asl

Mavs Open Press Open Educational Resources - Archive

Transportation Land Use Modeling and Policy provides a comprehensive introduction to land use and transportation models, offering a detailed exploration of integrated modeling approaches through case studies and real-world examples. It begins with an overview of current transportation planning issues and moves into several chapters dedicated to integrated land-use and transportation models, including Land Suitability, Lowry-type models, and more recent approaches such as MEPLAN and PECAS. The book also examines traditional travel demand modeling (TDM), giving readers a solid foundation in the subject.

Editorial: Advances In Ecological Environment Changes In Coastal And Estuarine Waters In Response To Hydrodynamic Variability, Jiayi Pan, Yeqiang Shu, Zhe-Wen Zheng, Adam T. Devlin, Majid Nazeer, Andrew M. Fischer

Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

Over the past few decades, coastal and estuarine ecological environments have undergone significant and rapid transformations, driven by a range of factors, with the variability in hydrodynamic conditions being one of the most prominent (Elliott et al., 2019; Statham, 2012; Da et al., 2024). These dynamic forces influence water movement, sediment transport, and nutrient cycling, all of which are critical components affecting the health and stability of these ecosystems (van Vliet et al., 2023; Li et al., 2023). Consequently, understanding and interpreting hydrodynamic processes in coastal and estuarine waters are fundamental to unraveling the mechanisms behind ecological changes. This task …

Electrical And Computer Engineering Technology Student Restores 1951 Television, Connecting Passion With Practical Learning, University Of Dayton

Blog: The Dayton Engineer

Engineers at the University of Dayton are empowered to follow their passions as they engage in our holistic education and skill development inside the classroom. Junior electrical and computer engineering technology student Michael Kennelly found his passion for hands-on learning in restoring his family’s 1951 Transvision A-3 television.