Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Medicine and Health Sciences Commons

Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Articles 1 - 2 of 2

Full-Text Articles in Medicine and Health Sciences

Sepsis, John Bell Jul 2018

Sepsis, John Bell

Nursing Student Class Projects (Formerly MSN)

The pathophysiology of sepsis is related to the patient’s immune response. It involves an imbalance between pro-inflammatory and antiinflammatory responses, causing damage by a variety of mechanisms (Keegan & Wira, 2014).


Diversity In Nursing To Transform Diversity In Academia, Jehdeiah C. Maitland Apr 2018

Diversity In Nursing To Transform Diversity In Academia, Jehdeiah C. Maitland

Undergraduate Distinction Papers

This project endeavors to use the nursing process as a framework to assess and synthesize information around diversity and inclusion in healthcare and particularly nursing. The paper is formatted in an intentional way looking at Otterbein University as a type of ‘patient.” Using this as a model provides research and information geared towards dynamic interventions and goals. It also looks at barriers to success in higher education to recruit diverse and minority faculty members. The focus is to show how literature points to the best practices in the realm of creating an organization that is intrinsically diverse and inclusive. There …