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The Effectiveness Of Resiliency Programs In Mitigating Burnout Among Nurses In Acute Care Settings, Amarachi Eke-Okoro, Viji George

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

Background: Nursing burnout is a significant problem with far-reaching consequences. High levels of stress, emotional exhaustion, and reduced job satisfaction among nurses contribute to poor patient outcomes, increased medical errors, and high turnover rates. There is a high prevalence of burnout among nurse executives, consequences of which include extreme stress, emotional anguish, and a desire to quit, which points to a larger problem with burnout affecting the nursing profession (Martin et al., 2023). Fostering resilience among nurses can help to mitigate these outcomes by enhancing physical, mental, and social health through building purpose, positive emotions, and effective stress management. Resilience …

Charting Burden And Burnout, Kelsey Elizabeth Alloo

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

Nurses enter about 600-800 data points per 12-hour shift, an average of one data point every 1.11 minutes (Gesner et al., 2022). The nurse burnout rate of 38% is 10% higher than the national average and the cost of turnover equates to over $40,000 per bedside nurse (Gesner et al., 2022; Melnick et al., 2021). As evidenced by these key numbers, charting burden and burnout are significant in the nursing workforce, which is the largest population in the healthcare workforce (Gesner et al., 2022). Assessing and analyzing charting burden is a relatively new concept having just been researched and published …

Nurses' Practice Environments, Burnout, And Mental Health In Northwestern Ontario, Ainsley Miller, Vicki L. Kristman, Mannila Sandhu

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

Background/objective: An estimated one-tenth of nurses worldwide are said to be suffering from severe burnout¹. The high prevalence of burnout is concerning as a Canadian survey determined that nurses with high levels of burnout were 17 times more likely to screen positive for posttraumatic stress disorder, 43 times more likely to screen positive for major depressive disorder, 25 times more likely to screen positive for generalized anxiety disorder, and 23 times more likely to screen positive for panic disorder than participants who reported no burnout². A common precipitating factor associated with nurses’ burnout and mental health …

Investing In Well-Being: The Return On Investment Of Nurse Renewal Retreats, Julie Wild Rose

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the already high rates of moral distress, trauma, and burnout among healthcare professionals. To address these challenges, the Nursing and Allied Health Resilience and Well-Being Program partnered with an external organization to offer overnight nurse renewal retreats. These retreats aim to empower nurses to rediscover their passion, purpose, and connection to their profession by providing a safe and nurturing environment for processing difficult experiences.

Methods: This mixed-methods feasibility pilot study was conducted in two hospitals within a 12-hospital system in Washington state. Participants engaged in journaling, trauma-informed care, mindfulness, yoga, self-compassion, and healing circles to …

The Importance Of Workplace Support On Nurse Well-Being And Intention To Stay During The Pandemic, Hyang Baek, Alison Trinkoff

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

The detrimental effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the healthcare sector have further aggravated the ongoing nursing shortage. Consequently, many nurses have opted for early retirement or felt compelled to leave their positions, leading to increased turnover rates during the pandemic. In this light, more sustainable ways need to be explored for nurse retention instead of heavy reliance on temporary nursing agencies to address staffing shortages.

A secondary cross-sectional data analysis of 1063 nurses was conducted using the Nurse Worklife and Wellness Study data collected in 2020-21. Multiple logistic regression explored the moderating effect of workplace support on the relationship …

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Impact: A Journal of Community and Cultural Inquiry in Education

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Transpositions: Reflections On Friendship And Nine Days In October With Peter Beilharz And Sian Supski, Christopher G. Robbins

Impact: A Journal of Community and Cultural Inquiry in Education

In this essay, the author uses the idea of transposition to reflect on Peter Beilharz and Sian Supski's historic visit to Eastern Michigan University and southeast Michigan in October 2024. Transposition is used to deprivatize Robbins's reflections to consider broader and more generalizable concerns relative to pedagogy and educational philosophy. Further, transposition, in this regard, provided a way to reflect on the (increased) importance of friendship in academia.

Keywords: transposition, translation, friendship

"Through A Medium Of Fordism": Images And Ideas On Utopia, Lisa Voelker

Impact: A Journal of Community and Cultural Inquiry in Education

The concept of utopia, which has long captivated human imagination, offering a vision of an ideal society that can be inspiring, is elusive at best and harmful in many of the actual attempts we’ve seen throughout history. This photo essay takes me through the philosophical underpinnings of Fordism’s Utopian ideas, the cultural intersections between the United States and Australia, and the enduring fascination with antiquity that shapes our modern identities (Gray, 2018). I aim to learn more about the contradictions and patterns that define our collective and individual pursuits of an ideal world.

Keywords: utopia, contradictions, liberation, photography

The Flaying Of America's Utopia: What New Dreams Can Be Imagined?, Rachel Robbins-Whited

Impact: A Journal of Community and Cultural Inquiry in Education

Amid the collapse of American constitutionalism and the crisis of late capitalism, this paper argues for the urgent reimagining of global education through Critical Globalization Studies (CGS). Drawing from world-systems analysis, Fordism, and utopian theory, it traces how the United States exported capitalist hegemony globally, contributing to our current interregnum. The paper proposes CGS and Critical Global Citizenship Education (CGCE) as pedagogical tools for cultivating ethical, justice-oriented youth capable of imagining post-capitalist futures. Emphasizing glocalization and the legitimacy of non-Western epistemologies, the work calls for a reversal of hegemonic flows, where peripheral cultures help to reshape global education. It addresses …

Road Trip!: U-Turns, Detours, And Construction Aplenty In Fordist Modernity, Eric Ferris

Impact: A Journal of Community and Cultural Inquiry in Education

Beginning with Peter Beilharz’s (2015) assertion that the modern and its active form, modernization, are often reductively conflated with both Fordism and Americanism, this essay teases out the idea that modernization is multifaceted, contested, and global in scope, despite the pains that both Fordism and Americanism have taken to obscure this unevenness in an attempt to monopolize the narrative of modernization. From there, it takes seriously Beilharz’s (2015) assertion that modernization imprints itself onto both production and consumption, and that among its paramount innovations is its impact on culture. The essay asserts that in addition to the automobile, Fordism has …

Forging Desire Paths In Undesirable Times, Rachel Dick

Impact: A Journal of Community and Cultural Inquiry in Education

Drawing on the visit of Dr. Peter Beilharz and Dr. Sian Supski to Eastern Michigan University in October 2024, this essay explores the relationship between desire paths and our intersectional identities. Examining the impact of modernity on our lived experiences and conceptions of utopia, the essay explores the reality of the paths we must navigate daily to function in a society built on systems of power and oppression. Ultimately, the essay argues that marginalized individuals must draw survivance and insurgent lines, rather than truly desirable lines, in order to strive towards utopia.

Keywords: desire paths, utopia, identity, survivance, insurgent

Desire Paths: The Visible And Invisible, Audrey Farrugia

Impact: A Journal of Community and Cultural Inquiry in Education

This paper explores the concept of desire paths, unplanned routes created by people to move quickly through an environment, and their relationship to inclusivity and social justice. Building on Sian Supski’s public talk at Eastern Michigan University’s College of Education, sponsored by The Workshop for Community+Collaboration and the Morris Chair for Educational Transformation, which highlighted the use of desire paths in everyday life, this paper promotes the exploration of the unconventional and often invisible desire paths created and traveled by marginalized people.

Keywords: desire path, inclusivity, disorientation guide

Sowing The Seeds Of Utopia Collectively, From Australia To America And Everywhere In Between: A Methodology And Practice For Resistance And Emancipation, Rachelle F. Marshall

Impact: A Journal of Community and Cultural Inquiry in Education

This reflection on internationally renowned scholars Peter Beilharz and Sian Supski’s visit to Eastern Michigan University (EMU) in October 2024 presents utopia as a sociological methodology useful for research in educational studies. Presenting a brief introduction and exploration of the methodology, this article considers the cultural changes that are necessary to teach toward democratic, ecologically sustainable utopias compared to capitalist visions of utopia. As a starting point for further discussion, this personal reflection merely scratches the surface to provide a glimpse into the conditions that would underlie a democratic, ecologically sustainable utopia and serves to document a few of the …

Letter To Peter Beilharz And Sian Supski, Dante Dorsey

Impact: A Journal of Community and Cultural Inquiry in Education

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It's A Long Way To Ypsilanti, If You Start From Croydon, Outside Melbourne (Take A Cut Lunch, Or Keep An Eye Out For New Friends), Peter Beilharz

Impact: A Journal of Community and Cultural Inquiry in Education

Fordism is both a global and a local phenomenon. Here I look to make some connections between American and Australian experience, beginning with the social model indicated by Gramsci in interwar Italy; travelling on to visit the Australian model and its institutional field, especially the basic wage, before casting back to Detroit and again to the antipodes to close.

Keywords: Fordism, Americanism, Australia, Gramsci, social model

Editors' Introduction, Rachel Dick, Rachel Robbins-Whited

Impact: A Journal of Community and Cultural Inquiry in Education

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Front Matter

Impact: A Journal of Community and Cultural Inquiry in Education

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Music Manuscript From The Cdss Collection, Osgood, Bessie

Music and Dance

A note on the fable "The Frog and the Mouse", along with a short melody.

Music Manuscript From The Cdss Collection, Osgood, Bessie

Music and Dance

A music manuscript with the notation for the song "Prince Federick's Hornpipe" on the front. The back page contains an unfinished song. Part of the collection of songs and dances from the 17th and 18th centuries gathered by Bessie Osgood; "Prince Federick's Hornpipe" is in F major and 4/4 time.

Music Manuscript From The Cdss Collection, Osgood, Bessie

Music and Dance

A music manuscript with the notation for the song "The [Lads] of the [Brook]" on the front. The back page is blank. Part of the collection of songs and dances from the 17th and 18th centuries gathered by Bessie Osgood; "The [Lads] of the [Brook]" is in D major and 3/4 time.

Music Manuscript From The Cdss Collection, Osgood, Bessie

Music and Dance

A music manuscript with the notation and lyrics for the song "Dame of Honor or World Turning Upside Down" on the front. The back page is blank. Part of the collection of songs and dances from the 17th and 18th centuries gathered by Bessie Osgood; "Dame of Honor or World Turning Upside Down" is in B-flat major and 6/4 time.

Music Manuscript From The Cdss Collection, Osgood, Bessie

Music and Dance

A music manuscript with the notation for the song "The Polish Minuet on Miss Kitty [unintelligible]'s Delight" on the front. The back page contains notation for the song "Favorite Minuet of Mr. Handello". Part of the collection of songs and dances from the 17th and 18th centuries gathered by Bessie Osgood; "The Polish Minuet on Miss Kitty [unintelligible]'s Delight" is in G major and 3/4 time; "Favorite Minuet of Mr. Handello" is in F major and 3/4 time.

Music Manuscript From The Cdss Collection, Osgood, Bessie

Music and Dance

A music manuscript with the notation for the songs "[unintelligible] for Louis XIV"—by Jean-Baptiste Lully—and "Reel in [Love] in a Village" on the front. The back page contains notation for the song "The General". Part of the collection of songs and dances from the 17th and 18th centuries gathered by Bessie Osgood; "[unintelligible] for Louis XIV" is in D minor and 3/4 time; "Reel in [Love] in a Village" is in G major and 4/4 time; "The General" is in G major and 4/4 time.

Music Manuscript From The Cdss Collection, Osgood, Bessie

Music and Dance

A music manuscript with the notation and lyrics for the song "Lord Bacon" on the front. The back page is blank. Part of the collection of songs and dances from the 17th and 18th centuries gathered by Bessie Osgood; "Lord Bacon" is in G major and 4/4 time.

Music Manuscript From The Cdss Collection, Osgood, Bessie

Music and Dance

A letter from Gamaliel Waldo Beaman, a famous landscape painter from New England, to Bessie Osgood. The music for, "On the Road to Boston" is written along the top edge of the front page; Princeton, Massachusetts; December 18, 1907.

Music Manuscript From The Cdss Collection, Osgood, Bessie

Music and Dance

A music manuscript with the notation for the song "Miss Meade's Frollick" on the front. The back page is blank. Part of the collection of songs and dances from the 17th and 18th centuries gathered by Bessie Osgood; "Miss Meade's Frollick" is in A major and 6/8 time.

Music Manuscript From The Cdss Collection, Osgood, Bessie

Music and Dance

A music manuscript with the notation for the song "The [unintelligible] Air" on the front. The back page is blank. Part of the collection of songs and dances from the 17th and 18th centuries gathered by Bessie Osgood; "The [unintelligible] Air" is in A major and 6/8 time.

Music Manuscript From The Cdss Collection, Osgood, Bessie

Music and Dance

A letter from Grace E. Blanchard to Bessie Osgood; the front of the letter has notation for the song "Carillon de Louis XIV" by Charles Neustedt.

Music Manuscript From The Cdss Collection, Osgood, Bessie

Music and Dance

A music manuscript with the notation for the first and twelvth stanzas of the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas" on the front. The back page is blank. Part of the collection of songs and dances from the 17th and 18th centuries gathered by Bessie Osgood; both stanzas of "The Twelve Days of Christmas" are in G major and 2/4 time.

Music Manuscript From The Cdss Collection, Osgood, Bessie

Music and Dance

A music manuscript with the notation for the song "Dumbarton's Drums" on the front. The back page is blank. Part of the collection of songs and dances from the 17th and 18th centuries gathered by Bessie Osgood; "Dumbarton's Drums" is in D minor and 4/4 time.