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Fostering Wellness In Nursing: Insights From Mental Health Bulletin Boards, Christina Marie Lightner, Kelly A. Wolgast, Khalid Almasloukh, Amy Criscitello

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

The College of Nursing promotes a wellness culture to address growing mental health challenges among nursing students and professionals (Lipson et al., 2022). Grounded in the 12 dimensions of wellness (Gawlik et al., 2024), these initiatives foster resilience, support healthy lifestyle behaviors, and create a nurturing environment for the nursing community. Mental health and wellness interventions play a crucial role in improving the well-being of college students, including nursing students (Melnyk et al., 2020).
This presentation outlines the development and thematic analysis of Mental Health Bulletin Boards (MHBBs), designed to engage nursing students and professionals in self-care and resilience-building practices. …

Creating Healthy Work Environments Through Holistic Innovation, Bree Joseph

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

Purpose: Holistic Certified Nurse Specialists (HCNS) with nurse leadership responded to clinical nurse feedback to support their ability to use available wellness and stress reduction resources. Together, they developed a scheduling system to maximize clinical nurse use of holistic support.

Significance: An organizational well-being survey indicated that clinical nurses experienced higher stress and burnout than other clinical staff. Covid 19 and its aftermath significantly impacted the overall health of nurses who reported symptoms of stress, anxiety, and emotional exhaustion. Through transformational leadership, the HCNS leveraged the hospital’s person-centered care philosophy to create an environment for nurse wellbeing.

Methods: Previously, the …

Addressing Nurse Mental Health And Suicide Prevention: The Role Of The H.O.P.E. Certification, Christopher Wojnar, Sally Spencer-Thomas

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

Nurses' mental health, essential for quality patient care, is severely compromised by systemic issues, resulting in heightened suicide risks. Recent data reveals that nurses face a higher suicide risk than other professions. This was tragically exemplified by the 2023 suicide of Tristin Kate Smith, whose "Letter to My Abuser" exposed the profound emotional and psychological toll of her work environment and inadequate support, highlighting critical systemic failures.

Statistical Context:
Between 2017 and 2018, 729 nurses in the U.S. died by suicide, totaling 2,374 nurse suicides from 2007 to 2018 (Davis et al., 2021).
40% of nurses report severe psychological distress, …

Multidisciplinary Workplace Wellness Committee To Improve Employee Engagement, Fatima Arastu, Helen Chen, Hillary Duncan, Rich Elles

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

Background: A healthy work environment is an active process that involves employees and the leadership team to meet the complexities of the health care settings. Post Pandemic, there’s been intentional efforts to redesign the worker well-being to reduce workplace stress and increase staff engagement (Grant et al., 2020, Lovejoy et.al., 2021). A healthy work environment is foundational to safety culture, as it promotes effective communication, collaboration, shared decisions-making, authentic leadership, and meaningful recognition (Grant et al., 2020, Vaughan, 2023). Employers have increasingly invested in workplace wellness programs to enhance employee health at the organizational level (Song & Baicker, 2019). However, …

Supporting A Healthy Work Environment By Attending To Nurse Mattering, Katherine Hall, Beth Epstein

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

Background: Mattering, the feeling that you make a difference and are significant to others,1 is endorsed by the U.S. Surgeon General as an essential part of a healthy work environment.2 Mattering is negatively associated with nursing burnout and turnover, and targeted interventions to enhance nurses’ perceptions of mattering may be useful for making systemic changes to the nursing work environment. 3,4 To-date there are no studies that explore how nurses perceive they matter at work.

Purpose: To explore aspects of the health care work environment that influence nurses’ perceptions of mattering and identify workplace changes that can be made to …

Nurse Advocacy: Elevating The Voice Of Nurses From The Bedside To The Capitol, Judy Ong Ho

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

Background: Workplace violence and nursing shortages are challenges for nurses. Studies have listed insufficient staffing and workplace violence as contributory factors to nurses leaving their jobs. This presentation aims to demonstrate how a healthcare system empowers, enables, and engages their nurses to collaborate with their Government Affairs team to advocate for resources and solutions through legislative efforts. Nurses use their professional expertise, knowledge, and experience to effectively communicate the challenges to the legislators.

Method: To prepare the nurses, training sessions, supplemented by FAQs were provided. Our healthcare system sponsored 80+ nurses to attend the 2023 Nurses Day at the Capitol …

System For Generating Immersive Experiences Via An Ai Pipeline And Sensory Protocol, Gaurav Umeshkumar Gupta

Defensive Publications Series

Current virtual reality (VR) content creation is complex, and the resulting sensory feedback from haptic devices relies on proprietary, pre-programmed effects. This limits the availability of personalized, deeply immersive experiences and creates a fragmented hardware ecosystem. The disclosed technology describes a method for generating multi-sensory VR experiences from user prompts. It uses an artificial intelligence pipeline to generate a narrative, visual assets, and a corresponding synchronized sensory track. A key component is an open communication protocol that enables standardized communication between any VR content and various haptic hardware devices. This approach facilitates the on-demand creation of cohesive and immersive experiences, …

Foldable Device Support Plate Configured To Reduce Inner Display Failure From Impact, Pj Wang

Defensive Publications Series

This publication describes a novel support plate bending structure for foldable devices that addresses the problem of inner display damage due to Z-axis movement during impacts. The inner display may be damaged from hitting internal structures upon being dropped. This invention introduces a bending structure engineered into the support plate which automatically inserts into the gap between the arm and bracket when the device is in the closed configuration. Acting as a critical stopper, this feature mitigates system Z-axis movement, thereby reducing the chances of inner display failures caused by relative motion during Z-direction impacts. This technique requires no extra …

Identifying Conversation Segments Of An Audiovisual Stream, Tongzhou Chen, Kartik Audhkhasi

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure describes lightweight techniques to determine segments of an audio or audiovisual stream that include conversations. Per the techniques, a voice activity detector (VAD) isolates super-segments, e.g., segments of relatively long duration. Super-segments are split into smaller segments and mapped into an embeddings space. The embeddings obtained from the smaller segments are clustered. A chunk of video is determined to include a conversation if its length exceeds a certain threshold T and the number of segments it includes exceeds a certain threshold S; it has at least a certain number N of major clusters; and at least a certain …

The Power Of Wellness And Self-Care: Transforming Transition To Practice Programs, Vanessa Lopez, Grace Sekayan, Ghada Dunbar

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

In alignment with literature findings and program data, RNs transitioning into a new specialty experienced heightened levels of stress and anxiety related to role transitions and changes in workplace settings. The integration of a structured, evidence-based wellness program would prioritize the mental health, well-being, and self-care of experienced nurses entering a new practice setting. NPD Practitioners collaborated with organizational subject matter experts to develop resources & curriculum for the Transition to Practice Specialty RN Program to reduce stressors and enhance a positive experience & transition. Wellness Huddles were designed and integrated into the TTP program to support RN personal and …

The State Of Nursing Student Mental Health And Wellness Support As Perceived By Nursing Faculty, Catherine A. Stubin

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

Nursing education has consistently been associated with stress, anxiety, and depression among students (Fauzi et al., 2020; Milić et al., 2019). Demanding course loads, rigorous examinations, and continued pressure to attain a high-grade point average result in greater stress, anxiety, and depressive symptoms among nursing students (Kim et al., 2021). Identifying key traits and manifestations of negative mental health wellness, as well as resilience-building strategies and supportive behaviors to assist students, are critical. Nursing faculty must have the knowledge to identify when symptoms are overwhelming, as well as provide necessary support, before students experience unhealthy symptoms and academic failure (Kells …

Living The Healthy Nurse Definition: Development And Personal Stories, Holly Carpenter

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

This session will describe how a national nurses association developed and updated the definition of a healthy nurse. The need for the updated definition as well as the methodology behind the development will be explored. Inspiring true-life stories of nurses exemplifying the new definition will be highlighted.

Impact Of Care And Retention Rounds On Turnover Rate, Josephine D. Bodino, Jason Gruia, Deanna Kearney

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

Stay interviews, a cost-effective tool, enable employers to identify and address potential issues, increasing employee satisfaction and reducing turnover rates. The average cost of turnover for one Registered Nurse, as per various data sources, ranges from [$46,100 to $ 61,100]. By implementing Stay Interviews, an increase in hospital savings can underscore the financial benefits of this strategy in the competitive landscape of employee engagement and retention.

A shared governance structure, alongside our commitment to true collaboration, addressed the organizations turnover issue. Nurses from the Healthy Work Environment and Staffing Committee and a diverse interprofessional team comprising of nursing leadership, clinical …

Advocating For Nurse Engagement: Cultivating Leadership And Resource Availability, Kasey Duffie Chance, Jacquelyn Smith, Brandy Simpler

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

Background: Approximately three million nurses report to work daily across the United States (Alexander et al., 2021). Despite this number, there is a critical nursing shortage that must be addressed (Bong, 2019). Nurses work in a high-demand profession that affects their ability to acquire or conserve resources to stay engaged and avoid burnout (Contreras et al., 2020; Paustian-Underdahl et al., 2023). Healthcare organizations must focus on retaining nurses by providing them with resources and tools to be engaged and provide quality care (Bong, 2019; Contreras et al., 2020; Othman & Nasurdin, 2019).

Methods: A review of literature was …

Discrimination Among Healthcare Professionals During The Covid-19 Crisis: A Phenomenological Study, Marjorie Fay Paredes Sta. Maria

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

This phenomenological research capture the phenomenon of discrimination among the nurses in the initial six months of the COVID-19 outbreak. Participants of the study comprised fifteen registered nurses from different government and private hospitals in the Philippines with the criterion sampling technique used in the selection of participants. The participants in the study were interviewed and responded to a series of semi-structured questions and the data thus collected were analyzed in a manner that was quite consistent with Colaizzi’s seven-stage phenomenological data analysis and reduction technique to be able to get to the very core and essence of the participants’ …

Faculty Newsletter Fall 2024, University Of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries

Library Publications

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Photography: Capturing Culture And Unifying People, Amina Yussifova

Language Study as a Gateway to the Humanities

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Perspectives On Poetry, Sabrina Grossman

Language Study as a Gateway to the Humanities

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Proceedings Of The 2025 Berry Summer Thesis Institute, University Of Dayton. University Honors Program, Dorian Borbonus, Nicholas J. Canfield, Triet M. Cao, Thomas Crossman, Jeffrey Huettemann, Aung Myat Khaung, Chase Kinder, Elizabeth Krahe, Anh Duc Nguyen, Quynh Anh Nguyen, Anna M. Petre, Kayden G. Rothery, Anna M. Schmitz, Rachel Zeller

Proceedings of the Berry Summer Thesis Institute (2013-Present)

Thanks to a gift from the Berry Family Foundation and the Berry family, the University Honors Program launched the Berry Summer Thesis Institute in 2012. The institute introduces students in the University Honors Program to intensive research, scholarship opportunities and professional development. Each student pursues a 12-week summer thesis research project under the guidance of a UD faculty mentor. This contains the product of the students' research.

In Tensile // In Between, Corinna Di Niro

Staff Scholarship - Australia & Dubai

"In Tensile // In Between" operates as both artistic artefact and theoretical critique, demonstrating how creative practice can embody and extend academic discourse. This creative-critical work examines shifting perceptions of course delivery within creative tertiary education, arguing that project-based learning enables the seamless embedding of socio-cultural discourse and theories within practical making processes.

The poem interrogates how educational environments can cultivate critical thinking through what I term "tensile pedagogy"—an approach that maintains productive charge between opposing forces rather than seeking synthesis or resolution. This concept builds upon King's (2017) work on pedagogy as tension, which argues that "tension and incompleteness …

Creating A Sense Of Belonging Through University Archives, Kelly Rovegno, Katie Strand, Katie Luder

Library Faculty & Staff Presentations

Creating a Sense of Belonging

Can University Archives be used to create a sense of belonging on university campuses?

What avenues were/could be available to connect students to campus history and university archives?

How do you assess a sense of belonging and impact of university archives?

Personality As A Moderator Of The Relationship Between Casual Sex Behavior And Psychopathology, Dean J. Harris

Theses and Graduate Projects

Prior research has evaluated the impact of casual sex on mental health outcomes; however, there is a lack of research on the possible moderating effects of personality traits on this relationship. Thus, the purpose of this study was to clarify whether personality traits -specifically extraversion and neuroticism- are protective or risk factors for symptoms of anxiety and depression among individuals who engage in casual sexual behaviors, particularly in college-aged individuals. Using a cross-sectional design, 108 participants who met survey criteria completed self-report measures assessing casual sex behavior, the PHQ-9, the GAD-7, the International Big-Five Mini- Markers, and demographic questions. Moderation …

Air And Space Law, University Of Mississippi. Center For Air And Space Law

University Website Migration from WordPress

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How Can We Learn English Through Movies And Tv Shows, Bianca Lobato

Language Study as a Gateway to the Humanities

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Gradual Activism In The Poem, "Mujer Negra", By Nancy Morejón, Leila Adelstein

Language Study as a Gateway to the Humanities

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English Study As Agateway To Philosophy, Laura Drescher

Language Study as a Gateway to the Humanities

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Exploring Culture Through Language: A Journey In The Humanities, Tetiana Zinchenko

Language Study as a Gateway to the Humanities

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Molecular Mechanisms Of Iron Metabolism And Overload, Aditi Tayal, Jasmeen Kaur, Robert W. Maitta

Faculty Scholarship

Iron represents an essential element required for normal physiologic processes throughout organ systems. A vast network of transporters is involved not only in uptake of this element but in processing, oxidation, and recycling to maintain it in a tight balance to avoid excess storage. This complex network of transporters, including heme and ferroportin, among many others, are responsible for facilitating inter-organ tissue iron exchange and availability, contributing to overall heme homeostasis. However, exposure to high levels of iron can overwhelm compensatory mechanisms that result in its accumulation and toxicity. This is the case of patients with genetic diseases such as …

From Darkness To Light, Manuel Gomez

The Main Thing Devotional

A light has dawned. Not a flicker. Not a passing spotlight. A new beginning. A new day.

Rotunda - Vol 105, No 1 - Aug 25, 2025, Longwood University

Rotunda

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