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New York State Prison Visit Guide, Carla Canning

Capstones

Visiting a prison facility requires a person to know a lot of information and follow many rules, they must do this while navigating complex emotions around seeing their loved one and interacting with corrections officers.

This project is a website guide to visiting New York State prison facilities, drawing upon information from family members who visit loved ones frequently and have experience with the system and documents from the department of corrections.

www.nysprisonvisitguide.com

The Devotees To Disconnection, Keith Paul Medelis

Capstones

The richest and most connected people are paying to log offline, leaving the rest of us tethered to our devices. We want in on their secret. But at what cost?

Venezolanos En New York, Mariel V. Lozada

Capstones

The process of developing a website with information about the bureaucratic process for the immigrants in the city, especially focusing on the Venezuelans and a five steps guide with the most basic information a newly arrived immigrant may need. The idea behind is to deliver useful content that would live in their inbox so they can revisit it easily anytime they want, even without having an internet connection, and, if the reader wants to deepen their knowledge, can visit the website for more in-depth coverage of these topics.

Poetic Self Expression, Impact, And Activism, Mariah Thomas

Capstones

Poetic Self Expression, Impact, and Activism revolves around Black women activists and how they used poetry to fight against racial and social injustice.

Link: https://medium.com/@mariaht/poetic-self-expression-impact-and-activism-a98c7f3385b2

Femicides: The Other Growing Epidemic We Don’T Want To See, Natalia Gutierrez

Capstones

This report analyzes how gender-based killings is a growing topic within the feminist community of New York and Mexico City and how the use of the right terminology is essential to understand the scope of the problem. I worked for 18 months with the feminist community in both cities and the term ‘femicide’ came over and over in the interviews Femicide, how it is referred in the rest of the world, is the intentional killing of women or girls because they are female, and it is a growing epidemic in the U.S. and in Mexico. I interviewed more than 40 …

An Online Hub For Queens Parents, Abe R. Levine

Capstones

I sought to build a common hub for parents across District 28 in Queens to connect with one another. I did this by creating a bilingual newsletter called the Queens Boletín. The goal of the Boletín was for parents to share and find resources, to advance the conversation on equity, and to build community.

Black Gold, Natalie Peart

Capstones

Jae Lee is an urban farmer and keeper of New York City soil. Lee spends her time working across gardens throughout New York City. At Phoenix Community Garden in Ocean Hill, Brooklyn, she devises a community composting plan and picks up food scraps from local cafes. She then takes those food scraps to Phoenix Community Garden where she and some of the garden members process those food scraps and turn it into "black gold" or compost. Lee believes that a large part of her role on earth is nourishing the soil. However, New York City gardens are not only inhabited …

Teens Vulnerable To Online Shopping Scams, Studies Say, John R. Honan

Capstones

This piece looks how one Australian teen used Tik Tok to get her money back after being scammed online.

https://johnhonancapstone.wordpress.com/

De La Discriminación A La Descriminalización: El Camino De Las Mujeres Transgénero De Queens Por Sus Derechos Laborales Como Trabajadoras Sexuales, Bruce Gil, Sara Herschander, Juanita Ramos

Capstones

Una mirada a la legislación propuesta que despenalizaría el trabajo sexual en la ciudad de Nueva York a través de las historias de las trabajadoras sexuales inmigrantes transgénero que se están organizando en Queens, Nueva York.

http://trabajadorxssexuales.tilda.ws

The Healthcare Changemakers Podcast And Existing Conditions .Press, Emily Lowinger

Capstones

A podcast made from live interviews with healthcare changemakers.

http://existingconditions.press/podcast

Caught In A Whirlwind: How A 17-Year-Old Received 50-To-Life For An Arson He Claims He Did Not Commit, Anna Deen

Capstones

Shortly after turning 17, Robert Webster was arrested for firebombing a drug witness’s home in Jamaica, Queens at the height of the crack epidemic in 1987. Convicted as a juvenile, he was sentenced 50-to-life for causing minor burns and property damage after the arson was linked, in the public eye, to the subsequent assassination of a young police officer.

Having maintained his innocence since the day of his arrest, Webster is now seeking clemency.

https://annadeen2.github.io/capstone/

Birthing Without Fear, Jessica Brown

Capstones

Birthing Without Fear is a 15 minute documentary that follows Ijeoma Hassan, a pregnant woman from New Jersey, her doula, and OB as they plan for a safe delivery of her son.

Full Project: https://youtu.be/Urk_IMyLpIY

Dear Maliha,, Na-Eela Djemil

Capstones

Dear Maliha is a short documentary film exploring the complexities of spiritual abuse through Maliha Fairooz. Spiritual abuse is a form of abuse that uses spiritual or religious beliefs to control or manipulate others. In some cases, spiritual abuse can be used to describe a religious leader who abuses their platform. But in Maliha’s story, we explore the concept of parental spiritual abuse. However, we learn more about this through Maliha Fairooz and the creative use of her journal.

For Maliha journaling is a form of therapy she uses to process her feelings and days. She also uses it as …

A Perfect Storm For Slashing Athletic Budgets - Covid, Coaches Salaries, And Nil, Patrick L. Elliott

Capstones

Just when college athletes were beginning to see progress with landmark NIL legislation, a new threat emerged in college athletics. After years of fighting for the right to earn compensation from their athletics talents, more college teams than ever before are being eliminated due to budget concerns with universities and athletic departments.

This has been further amplified as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and the loss of revenue from shutdowns and cancellations in 2020. Athletes in non-revenue earning sports account for well over 90% of all NIL and they are now at risk of losing the opportunity to compete …

The Pandemic Changed The Face Of Retail. Here’S How Center City, Philadelphia — The State’S Leading Job Market — Is Faring On The Road To Recovery, Francisco O. Velasquez-Turcios

Capstones

The pandemic changed the face of retail. Here’s how Center City, Philadelphia — the state’s leading job market — is faring on the road to recovery.

Link to capstone project: https://franvela033.github.io/Capstone/

Young People More Optimistic About Climate Crisis, Syed U. Haq

Capstones

This is story on how the youth today is feeling more ambitious about rectifying the mistakes the previous generation has made regarding climate. It takes the reader through a poll done by Generation Lab, about the optimism in the younger generation to tackle the climate crisis and what factors are in play in making them feel that way. It also provides three brief audio pieces from student activists, Anna Kathawala, from the local Fridays for Future, Mars Vazquez-Plyshevsky, who comes from a family of climate deniers, and Aderinsola Babawale, a local activist with Brownsville Green Justice. And of course, their …

Chosen Family: One Woman’S Fight To Become Her Best Friend’S Next Of Kin, Yessenia M. Moreno

Capstones

Nearly 70,000 people have died of COVID-19 in the state of New York. For the queer community, this time of death and mourning has highlighted how complicated things can get at the end of someone’s life.

This audio documentary, “Chosen Family, ”is the story of one woman’s fight to overcome the legal system and become her best friend’s health care proxy in the final battle of his life .

Link to capstone project: https://medium.com/@yessimoreno/7b3d96691b9f

Examining The Recovery Of The Mta In Nyc, Angel Adegbesan

Capstones

My capstone project involved writing codes to scrape and analyze data that isn’t readily available in the format we want. I scraped and analyzed turnstile data and metro card data from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority from the periods of Jan 01, 2021 to April 30, 2021 and Jan 01, 2022 to April 30, 2022. The purpose of the analysis is to determine how public transit ridership has changed in New York City and whether the MTA was on track to pre-pandemic levels. For my capstone, I wrote about my findings from the data analysis and did some interactive work to …

An Industry Under Construction, Hannah Fullmer

Capstones

A growing number of entrepreneurs (often young, frequently queer or people of color) are trying to change a restaurant industry from within by opening up their own businesses. HAGS, an upcoming queer-focused fine-dining restaurant and Daughter, a community-focused cafe in Brooklyn are just the newest of these socially-minded ventures popping up across the country. These spaces are committed to creating equitable spaces, addressing toxic restaurant and workplace cultures and are frequently tied to larger social issues like food insecurity, zero-waste initiatives or in the case of HAGS, queer representation. But these new business owners are fighting an entrenched system and …

The Impacts Of Speculative Investments On New York City’S Rent Stabilized Tenants, Olivia J. Bensimon

Capstones

Landlords who bought buildings with rent stabilized apartments for much more than they were worth are now faced with the risk that their investment will not pay off, often at the expense of tenants. https://olivia-bensimon.com/capstone

Relationships Between Dress And Gender Identity: Lgbtqia+, Alyssa Dana Adomaitis, Diana Saiki, Kim K. P. Johnson, Rafi Sahanoor, Arsha Attique

Publications and Research

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Diabetic Education In An Uninsured Patient Population, Amanda Whistler

Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects

Abstract

Patient education is an important factor in the management of Type 2 Diabetes. Successful outcomes can be causally related to proper patient education. Many times, patients are left with more questions than answers about their newly diagnosed condition. Some groups of patients are affected by prediabetes and diabetes more than other groups. Differences in health status or access to health care among racial, ethnic, geographic, and socioeconomic groups are referred to as health disparities. This is a major concern in the United States for health care providers.

A spreadsheet was used to record the blood glucose levels of each …

Implementation Of A Risk Assessment Tool To Increase Screening For Extragenital Gonorrhea And Chlamydia In Men Who Have Sex With Men, Andrew P. Tharp

Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects

INTRODUCTION: Gonorrhea and chlamydia account for the majority of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the United States and are often thought to infect only the urogenital tract. Infections can also be harbored at extragenital sites (rectum and oropharynx), and these infections can increase susceptibility to HIV. Extragenital screening recommendations exist for populations deemed high risk, including men who have sex with men (MSM); yet, routine screening is not consistently completed.

PURPOSE: To improve screening rates for extragenital gonorrhea and chlamydia in MSM within a primary care setting by using an STI risk assessment tool.

METHODS: Clinicians completed a baseline knowledge …

Short Term Medical Mission Antibiotic Protocol, Greg Jennings

Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects

Background/Introduction: Short term medical mission trips are growing in popularity and with this growth the level of care provided must remain evidenced based. Mission groups traveling to developing countries consist primarily of volunteers. And while many of those serving on mission trips are medically trained, some have minimal healthcare knowledge. Pharmacists are not always available to dispense medications on mission trips and therefore it is common for registered nurses in the pharmacy to dispense the medications prescribed by the providers. Because the medications available on mission trips are limited, often times substitutions must be made, especially when it comes …

Improving Access To Reproductive Life Planning Following Implementation Of One Key Question® In Practice, Ashley Wittler

Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects

Abstract

Inadequate reproductive life planning (RLP) education is a widespread problem for women in the United States. This deficit leaves women without necessary guidance regarding contraceptive choices and maximizing pre-conception health. Use of RLP is endorsed by the American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists (ACOG) and the Center for Disease Control (CDC). Lack of use of an RLP tool in a large, multi-site obstetrical and gynecological practice located in the Metro East is an issue that greatly impacts the patient population. The goal was to initiate the use of an evidence-based RLP tool, known as One Key Question®. The use …

Inpatient Observation Safety Assistant Practices, Jennifer Knight

Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects

Abstract

Introduction. Sitter usage is a patient safety practice used across healthcare organizations and the world. Sitters go by many other names, such as patient safety assistants, patient care assistants, care partners, and observation partners. There is literature that supports different variations of practices in healthcare facilities. A scoping review of the literature revealed multiple initiatives to reduce sitter cost and observation through nurse empowerment.

Purpose of Root Cause Analysis. The purpose of this root cause analysis is to determine why personnel inconsistently use the sitter policy. The appraised data will be used to improve the sitter process at this …

Probing The Role Of Astrocytes In The Pathology Of Fragile X Syndrome With Human Stem Cells, Baiyan Ren

Theses & Dissertations

Fragile X syndrome (FXS) is an X-linked neurodevelopmental disorder related to intellectual disability and the most common monogenic cause of autism spectrum disorder. FXS is mainly caused by an expansion of CGG repeats in the 5’-untranslated region of fragile X mental retardation 1 (FMR1) gene, leading to the loss of expression of fragile X mental retardation protein (FMRP). Astrocytes are the most abundant glial cells in the central nervous system (CNS). Loss of FMRP in astrocytes has been found to contribute to structural and functional synaptic deficits in the Fmr1-KO mouse model. The contribution of human astrocytes, however, to the …

Immunological Factors Associated With Siv/ Shiv Persistence In Diverse Tissue Niches, Omalla A. Olwenyi

Theses & Dissertations

The significant challenge towards a successful HIV cure lies in eradicating persistent viral reservoirs across diverse tissue niches. As a result, HIV-infected individuals have to resort to lifelong antiretroviral therapy. Recent news of supposed HIV eradication in a second patient has further re-invigorated the fields of HIV cure. However, a few barriers remain, such as the lack of currently available assays to accurately quantify viral reservoirs, limited information on cellular factors associated with persistence, and varied dynamics of the viral reservoir in various body compartments. Lastly, HIV-infected individuals live different lifestyles stemming from comorbid substance abuse including consumption of morphine, …

Riding The Wave Of Information: Library Professionals’ Opinion Towards Information Literacy (Il) Program In Academic Libraries Of Pakistan, Shahzadi Humbhi, Munazza Jabeen, Shabbir Tareen, Alia Humbhi

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The present study investigated status, strategies to promote the IL programs, contribution of social media, and challenges to provide IL programs in the academic libraries of Pakistan. A concurrent mixed-method technique was used and a structured questionnaire was designed to collect the data and in-depth interviews from 12 academic librarians of the capital cities of four provinces of Pakistan. A systematic sampling technique was used to collect the data from library professionals. The results reveal that academic libraries took imitative to launch IL programs at academic libraries of Pakistan but there is a need for improvement and revamp them. The …

Mdma And Mouth Ulcers, Y Lin

Peninsula Dental School

Sir, 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), otherwise known as ecstasy, is an illicit drug which is consumed for recreational use. In addition to systemic complications, it can also present with a variety of oral side effects. Patients may first present to their primary care practitioners before being referred acutely onwards to an oral and maxillofacial surgery or oral medicine department for further investigations and management, which has been our experience here in a secondary care setting. I would like to raise awareness about these oral manifestations and the management options that can be provided.Xerostomia can occur which should subside after approximately 48 hours. …