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Beauvais Honored By The Connecticut Nurses Association, Audrey M. Beauvais

Audrey M. Beauvais

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Nursing Faculty Partner On Book: Role Development For The Nurse Practitioner, Julie G. Stewart

Julie G. Stewart

Sacred Heart University Professors Susan DeNisco and Julie Stewart recently published a textbook for nursing practitioners titled, Role Development For the Nurse Practitioner.

How To Reduce Obesity, Hirdyesh Kumar Singh

Hirdyesh Kumar Singh

Obesity is a medical condition in which excess body fats has accumulated to the extent that it may have an adverse effect on health, leading to reduced life expectancy and also increased other health problems, viz. heart disease, type 2 diabetes, obstructive sleep apnea, certain types of cancer, and osteoarthritis Obesity increases the risk of many physical and mental conditions. These co morbidity are most commonly shown in metabolic syndrome, a combination of medical disorders which includes: DM diabetes mellitus type 2, High BP high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol, and high triglyceride levels. People is consider as Obese when …

Beauvais Receives 2013 Ruth M. Olson Excellence In Nursing Education Award, Audrey M. Beauvais

Audrey M. Beauvais

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Dowry Practices And Their Negative Consequences From A Female Perspective In Karachi, Pakistan., Tazeen Saeed Ali Dr, Gunnhildur Árnadóttir Dr, Asli Kulane Dr

Tazeen S Ali Dr

Aim: To assess the pattern, demand and opinion of dowry among women in urban Karachi, Pakistan and their perceived negative consequences of dowry. Setting: Pakistan is a low income country, predominantly Muslim, with around 190 million inhabitants. Karachi is the biggest city with roughly 13 million inhabitants. Method: Qualitative study, using content analysis of five focus group discussions with women. Results: The theme “Dowry practices and their consequences” emerged, along with five categories and 14 subcategories, describing the “burden of dowry”, “dowry in society”, “dowry problems created by parents-in-law”, “negative consequences of dowry practice” and “good intentions”. Conclusion: Problems due …

Emotional Intelligence And Spiritual Well-Being Among Nursing Students (Abstract), Audrey Beauvais, Susan Denisco, Julie G. Stewart

Julie G. Stewart

Purpose: To examine the relationship between emotional intelligence and spiritual well-being among nursing students. Conclusion and Implications: The significant relationship between emotional intelligence (Branch 4-managing emotions) and spiritual well-being as well as existential well-being in this study supports the statements in the literature that spirituality is related to both emotions and the rational application of those emotions. Emotional intelligence may aid in spiritual development, well-being, and education as emotions are a basis of awareness and engagement within humanity. Research is needed to examine if strategies to enhance emotional intelligence can facilitate the process of increasing spiritual well-being with a test-retest …

Crossing That Bridge We Have Come To: Teaching Students How To Manage Qualitative Data. A Conversation With Professor Julie Mcleod And Susan Childs About Datum For Health And Datum: Research Data Management At Northumbria University (Uk), Andrew T. Creamer

Andrew T. Creamer

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Research Data Management Teaching Case: Studying Vitamin D As An Augmentation Of Treatment For Bipolar Depression, Andrew T. Creamer Maed Mslis, Wendy K. Marsh Md

Andrew T. Creamer

OBJECTIVE: The Lamar Soutter Library of the University of Massachusetts Medical School aims to develop Teaching Cases to support its institution’s researchers’ data management (RDM) practices. Developed by a librarian and a physician/researcher in psychiatry, the objective of this Teaching Case was to help learners identify challenges managing health data in a double blind, experimental versus placebo, multi-stage research study.

METHODS: The librarian conducted a semi-structured data interview of a physician/researcher conducting a double blind, experimental versus placebo investigation. The librarian transcribed and coded the interview using a validated RDM planning instrument to categorize the project’s RDM challenges. The librarian …