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Evaluation Of Safety Related To Current Patient Mobility Practices, Karissa Bright, Logan Callahan, Sarah Saunders

Spring Showcase for Research and Creative Inquiry

A major practice that may be overlooked in the nursing field is how to move patients. Since nurses care for a diverse patient group, some patients may have limited to no mobility. In these cases, the nursing team must decide how to move the patient to provide care while still maintaining a safe environment. The purpose of this project is to evaluate current evidence on the safest ways to move and ambulate patients, while still maintaining the effectiveness that must be present in the medical environment. Hopefully, through this research, effective and safe ambulating practices can be determined.

Effectiveness Of Ted Stockings On Circulation And Blood Clotting, Ashley Webb, Karlie Walter, Jessica Overby, Ashlyn Hall, Meghan Griffin

Spring Showcase for Research and Creative Inquiry

Circulatory issues can stem from many disease that cause blood clots specifically in the legs, adding compression is known to help reduce blood clotting. The goal of this research project is to better understand the purpose and effectiveness of TED stocking on circulation and blood clotting and whether it is still an effective practice. The outcome of this research project is to improve our practice through the use of TED stockings for circulation and blood clotting.

Pressure Ulcers, Kelly Jeter, Courtney Frazier, Jimmy Mcdonell

Spring Showcase for Research and Creative Inquiry

During this research project, we are investigating if repositioning an immobile patient every two hours would reduce the risk of pressure ulcers forming. Pressure ulcers are caused by increased pressure or friction on bony prominences and are most likely found on immobile patients. Pressure ulcers are a major infection risk for the patient and a huge cost factor for the hospital. When the patient is immobile it becomes the nurses job to identify the risk of pressure ulcers and help prevent them from occurring. With constant repositioning every two hours, these factors could be reduced or stopped all together.

Volume 11, Jacob Carney, Ryan White, Joseph Hyman, Jenny Raven, Megan Garrett, Ibrahim Kante, Summer Meinhard, Lauren Johnson, William "Editha" Dean Howells, Laura Gottschalk, Christopher Siefke, Pink Powell, Natasha Woodmancy, Katharine Colley, Abbey Mays, Charlotte Potts

Incite: The Journal of Undergraduate Scholarship

Table of Contents:

Introduction, Dr. Roger A. Byrne, Dean

From the Editor, Dr. Larissa "Kat" Tracy

From the Designers, Rachel English, Rachel Hanson

Synthesis of 3,5-substituted Parabens and their Antimicrobial Properties, Jacob Coarney, Ryan White

Chernobyl: Putting "Perestroika" and "Glasnot" to the Test, Joseph Hyman

Art by Jenny Raven

Watering Down Accessibility: The Issue with Public Access to Alaska's Federal Waterways, Meagan Garrett

Why Has the Democratic Republic of the Congo outsourced its Responsibility to Educate its Citizens? Ibrahim Kante

Art by Summer Meinhard

A Computational Study of Single Molecule Diodes, Lauren Johnson

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