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Spiritually Influenced Health: Results Of A Health Promotion Initiative In Houses Of Worship, Crystal C. Shannon

International Journal of Faith Community Nursing

Promoting health within communities is a primary responsibility for nurses and other healthcare professionals. This involves the active incorporation of spiritual and faith-based approaches to health. Challenges remain in the delivery of effective health delivery that incorporates faith for at-risk communities. This is a retrospective descriptive study designed to explore the effects of faith-based health promotion sessions on existing health habits within local faith organizations from 2015-2018. The protocol utilized nursing students as project developers in collaboration with faith leaders and subject matter experts in the delivery of health education on nutrition, cardiac health, and physical activity. Findings suggest positive …

Hallucinogenic And Sedative Drug Treatment And Its Impact On Mental Health Nursing, Meredith Cherry

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

Mental health nursing is a complex and radically changing discipline that must continuously adapt to evidence based practices, including the use of alternative options for the treatment of mental illness. There has recently been increased research into the use of hallucinogenic and sedative drugs for the treatment of mental illness. Hallucinogenic and sedative drugs were examined as potential treatment options for a variety of mental illnesses in the 1960s, although these trials were ceased by the government due to human safety concerns. The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recently approved trials to study the use of hallucinogenic …

Improving Evidence-Based Practice Skills Of Practicing Registered Nurses, Lora K. Moore

Doctor of Nursing Practice Technical Reports

This study evaluated the effect of an educational intervention on improving evidence-based nursing practice (EBP) skills of practicing nurses. In addition, the effects of educational preparation and years of nursing experienced were examined. Using a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest design, the Evidence Based Practice Questionnaire (EBPQ) was administered to a convenience sample of registered nurses from a large regional hospital. The experimental group completed an online EBP educational intervention, the first control group completed an alternate unrelated educational intervention, and the second control group was not provided any type of educational intervention. No significant differences were noted in EBPQ subscale scores of …

Healthcare And Its Impact On Nurses: The United States Vs. The United Kingdom, Alexandria Colovos

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

Currently, in the United States, the topic of healthcare reform is in the back of everyone’s mind. What will come of our healthcare system? Will the cost of healthcare decrease? Will patients have better access to care? With this Capstone Experience/Thesis, I wanted to explore the differences between the current healthcare system that we have in the United States, to the nearly seventy-year-old National Health Service (NHS) in the United Kingdom, which provides healthcare to all. The NHS is free at the point of care and is funded by taxation. To understand if such a system would work in the …

Integration Of E&A Into Nurs 102 Introduction To Professional Nursing – A Colonnade Explorations Course, Lorraine B. Bormann

Natural and Health Sciences

NURS 102 Introduction to Professional Nursing is a Colonnade Explorations course and enrolls approximately 230 students per semester. The project objective is to build upon the ENG 100 and COMM 145”revised first-year writing and communication experience” to further develop NURS 102 students’ performance with 1) Evidence-Gathering, 2) Sense-Making, and 3) Argumentation.

Students write an APA paper in the NURS 102 course where they compare/contrast the US health care system and nursing education system with that of another industrialized country. The CHHS library liaison visits the classroom and provides library support for the students.

This project proposal would allow me to …

The College Of Health & Human Services [Annual Report], Western Kentucky University College Of Health And Human Services, Dr. John Bonaguro, Dean

College of Health & Human Services Publications

No abstract provided.

Predicting The Use Of Personal Respiratory Protection Among Workers In Swine Confinement Buildings, M. Susan Jones

Nursing Faculty Publications

The purpose of this study was to identify the variables that influence the frequency of personal respiratory protection (PRP) use by workers in swine confinement buildings (SCBs). The study was designed to answer four research questions: 1). What is the validity and reliability of the Personal Respiratory Protection Survey (PRPS)? 2). How frequently do workers in SCBs wear PRP? 3). How do demographics, occupational histories, and self-reported respiratory health histories influence the use of PRP in SCBs? and 4). What are the relationships of the constructs (benefits, barriers, susceptibility, severity, norms) to the use of PRP by workers in SCBs? …

Gates, Robert J. (Fa 168), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 168. Interviews on cassette tape with accompanying documentation that WKU student Robert J. Gates had with Alice Ruth and Shella Procter, concerning their aunt Ora Porter, Warren County, Kentucky's first registered nurse.

Ua61/1 Wku Nursing Class 1967, Wku Nursing

WKU Archives Records

Members of the 1967 nursing class: Michael Baker, Beth Birchett, Merry Buckles, Brenda Bush, Jo Ann Carson, Tery Davis, Mae Edmonds, Alice Forgy, Judith Hanes, Leanna Hogan, Jennifer Jones, Sharon Kirby, Jerry Mercer, Michael Meyer, Sandra Patterson, Sarah Penick, David Reams, Rosemary Snow, Susan Thornton, Francisco Velasquez, Carol Wilburn and Annette Williamson.