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Anticipators Job Stressors Of Nurses Returning To The Workplace: A Mixed Methodology, Carol Peterson

Learning Showcase 2014

Multifactorial reasons have produced a growing nursing shortage. One possible group that could reverse this shortage in inactive nurses. Many stakeholders wonder about allocating scarce resources to identify, locate, educate, and redeploy this group into active practice. The purpose of this one-phase embedded validating quantitative mixed methodology was to identify the anticipated job stressors of registered nurse (RN) refresher students as they prepare to enter the work force following a career break. The Likert-type Expanded Nurse Stress Scale (French, Lenton, Walters, & Eyles, 2000; Gray-Toft & Anderson, 1981) was used. The independent variables were the job stressors of RNs. The …

Factors That Hinder Underrepresented Minority Adn Students From Initially Pursuing Baccalaureate Nursing Education, Tanika Cherry-Montgomery

Learning Showcase 2014

The lack of minority representation in the nursing profession has been an area of concern for quite some time because of its direct correlation on the health of our nation. However, the lack of minority representation in the nursing workforce and on baccalaureate (BSN) college campuses persists. Students from underrepresented backgrounds comprise 26.6% of entry-level nursing baccalaureate programs (AACN, 2014) and 16.8% of the nursing workforce (HRSA, 2010), yet 32% of the US population is from a racially or ethnically diverse background (U.S. Census Bureau, 2011). The numbers of diverse nurses who are in practice pales in comparison to the …

Building The Future Of Healthcare, Gregory D. Norton

Learning Showcase 2014

The Wexner Medical Center (WMC) at The Ohio State University (OSU) is a non-profit, academic medical center serving central and southern Ohio. WMC is a large system with 6 hospitals and a vast support network of healthcare providers and researcher. This presentation contains an overview of OSUWMC and its strategic plans, key result areas and challenges it will face during its ongoing growth and development as a premiere health system.

Healthcare Expansion Of Scope, Steve Adkins

Learning Showcase 2014

The healthcare system of OhioHealth has a reputation for providing quality care. As with any healthcare system, there are some populations who are underserved. There are several changes OhioHealth can make to enlarge its customer base. Some of the techniques OhioHealth can use involve increasing its scope of practice in these areas: complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), long-term care, men’s bone health, and social media. The need for long-term care will continue to increase as the population ages. OhioHealth can merge with a long-term care company to provide OhioHealth with the facilities. This strategy is more likely to be successful …

Mount Carmel Health System, Peggy Anderson

Learning Showcase 2014

Addresses the following for Mount Carmel Health System:

• Methods
• Organizational Structure
• Existing Plans
• Environmental Assessment
• Leadership Challenges
• Legal & Ethical Challenges
• Performance Challenges
• Operations Challenges
• Financial Challenges
• Recommended Change Strategies

Ohio Department Of Youth Services: Juveniles And Their Mental Health Issues, Danya E. Gregory

Learning Showcase 2014

During the 1960’s, an explosion of interest in child abuse and neglect became prominent and it all came together with the case of Gerald Frances Gault, gained national attention to the plight of juveniles. Gerald and his friend were making obscene phone calls and he was taken to jail without the benefit of is parents being notified, being detained until his hearing and charges being lodged against him, convicted and sent to a juvenile correctional facility until his 21st birthday. Until this case became prominent, many youth were not given legal counsel, and just being sent to away because it …

Ohiohealth: A System Overview, Meghan Parsley

Learning Showcase 2014

The OhioHealth health system is a network of not-for-profit hospitals and healthcare organizations in central Ohio. The growing system is expanding regionally, which leads to a variety of challenges. The major challenges faced by the organization relate to the overall size of the organization, competitive market, external environmental factors such as healthcare reform, and physician alignment. The organization pursues a cost leadership strategy and while still offering state of the art equipment and facilities.

OhioHealth’s central operating location is Franklin County, Ohio. They compete against two major healthcare providers, The Ohio State Wexner Medical Center and Mount Carmel. To build …

The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center Strategic Analysis, Ryan Cottrell, David Meckstroth

Learning Showcase 2014

The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center is a health system located in Columbus, Ohio that provides healthcare services to more than 2.3 Million residents of Central Ohio. OSUWMC is the third largest health system in the region behind OhioHealth and Mount Carmel. Mount Carmel operates four hospitals and two urgent care facilities and employs over 8,000 individuals, of which 1,500 are physicians. OhioHealth is a faith-based health system that contracts more than 2,000 physicians in 17 hospitals and 20 surgical centers. Competing against these two systems will prove to be a challenge that requires the use of strategic analysis. …

The Key Variables Healthcare Executives Consider When Altering Services, David Meckstroth

Learning Showcase 2014

Health care executives face a multitude of challenges and changes on a daily basis. Health care reform and the Accountable Care Act will require executives to increase the value of the services offered by hospitals to insurance companies and patients. The literature search identified 11 key variables executives consider when altering services. The research study conducted a quantitative survey of the entire population of top health care executives in Ohio non-profit short-term acute care hospitals. In addition, qualitative individual depth interviews of 48 top executives at 13 hospitals were conducted by the researcher. A mixed methods approach was utilized to …

Collaborative Model For South Korean Nurses: Education, U.S. Rn Licensure, And Employment, Gail K. Baumlein

Learning Showcase 2014

The purpose of this poster is to describe the collaborative model developed between a private university in the U.S. and constituents in South Korea to facilitate nurses’ attainment of a U.S. registered nurse (RN) license, a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree, and employment in the U.S.

Throughout the world, nurses are being encouraged to increase their educational preparation from an entry level diploma or associate’s degree, to the BSN degree (International Council of Nurses, 2009). In South Korea, the government has recently mandated that nurses attain a BSN degree, and has closed all programs offering only the lower …

Short Term Medical Mission To The Aztecs In The Mountains, Leslie Mathew

Learning Showcase 2014

Introduction: A team of 17 members which included 4 doctors from OH, IL & TX planned a 10-day visit to assess and provide for the medical needs of the Aztec tribal populations living in the mountains near Rio Blanco, Veracruz State, Mexico, altitude varying between 5,000 to 9,000 feet above sea level.

Purpose: With the information provided that there was very little organized medical care for the tribal populations in the mountains, the plan was for 2 medical teams with 2 doctors in each team to visit 12 different villages / small towns Monday through Saturday, each team getting to …

Tai Chi And Stress Reduction In Premedical Students, Joseph G. Weber, Suzanne Coleman, Mark Johannsson, Libby Hill

Learning Showcase 2014

A randomized, controlled pilot study was performed to determine the correlation between the practice of Tai Chi exercise and anxiety scores, among full-time pre-med undergraduate students who reside in college campus housing. The sample (N = 14) was recruited from 70 pre-med students enrolled at Lake Erie College (LEC) located in Painesville, Ohio. Participants included: (a) full-time LEC pre-med students; (b) between 18 and 25 years old; and (c) residents of either on-campus housing or within two miles of the college campus. Participants were randomly assigned to one of two groups: (a) Tai Chi (n = 8); (b) control (n …

The Santa Clara, 2014-11-13, Santa Clara University

The Santa Clara

No abstract provided.

Measuring The Effectiveness Of Interactive Patient Education In Reducing Hospital Readmission Rates Of Patients Diagnosed With Congestive Heart Failure, Melanie Colace, Carly Bongart, Kayla Walker, Alisha Droxler, Yuehhsia Chen, Mary Bouchaud

College of Nursing Posters

Introduction •The leading cause of hospitalization in the United States is heart failure among adults 65 years of age. •One million patients are hospitalized every year with a primary diagnosis of heart failure, resulting in a Medicare expenditure exceeding $17 billion. •For every five patients admitted to a hospital with congestive heart failure (CHF), one patient will be readmitted within 30 days of discharge . •75 percent of early heart failure readmissions are preventable. •Medicare introduced the Hospital Readmission Reduction Program that became effective in 2012. • This program established financial penalties for greater than expected readmissions for primary diagnoses …

The Effects Of A Smart Phone App On Hospital Readmission Rates For Patients Diagnosed With Diabetes, Kevin Abercrombie, Mary Bouchaud

College of Nursing Posters

Abstract

Diabetes has been a growing concern in the United States due to the rapidly increasing incidence of this disease over the past decade. In their 2014 report, the CDC reported there were 29.1 million people diagnosed with diabetes in 2012, comprising 9.3% of the total US population. In addition, according to the CDC, 1.7 million people were newly diagnosed with type I and type II diabetes in 2012 with health care costs at an estimated $245 billion. Moving forward, the most effective approach is to empower and educate these patients to self-manage their own disease to decrease or prevent …

The Relationship Between Pain Sensitivity And Motor Adaptations, Irina Fedulow, Katherine S. Rudolph

Research Report Posters

The perception of pain in patient populations can arise from tissue damage but when pain persists past the point of tissue healing it is thought to relate to abnormal pain processing in the CNS such as persistent central sensitization. Studies have shown that persistent central sensitization occurs in about 1/3 of people with chronic pain from knee OA and this abnormal pain processing can affect motor output and motor adaptation. It is unclear whether individuals with OA and persistent sensitization are predisposed to heightened pain perception or whether they develop heightened pain as a result of the chronic pain from …

What's Happening: November 10, 2014, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

No abstract provided.

On Reporting The Onset Of The Intention To Move, Uri Maoz, Liad Mudrik, Ram Rivlin, Ian Ross, Adam Mamelak, Gideon Yaffe

Psychology Faculty Books and Book Chapters

"In 1965, Hans Kornhuber and Luder Deecke made a discovery that greatly influenced the study of voluntary action. Using electroencephalography (EEG), they showed that when aligning some tens of trials to movement onset and averaging, a slowly decreasing electrical potential emerges over central regions of the brain. It starts 1 second ( s) or so before the onset of the voluntary action1 and continues until shortly after the action begins. They termed this the Bereitschaftspotential, or readiness potential (RP; Kornhuber & Deecke, 1965).2 This became the first well-established neural marker of voluntary action. In that, the RP allowed for more …

The Santa Clara, 2014-11-06, Santa Clara University

The Santa Clara

No abstract provided.

What's Happening: November 3, 2014, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

No abstract provided.

Medical Education Digest, Vol. 16 No. 6 (November/December 2014), Nova Southeastern University

Medical Education Digest

No abstract provided.

Improving Community Health Through Hospital-Public Health Collaboration: Insights And Lessons Learned From Successful Partnerships, Lawrence Prybil, F. Douglas Scutchfield, Rex Killian, Ann Kelly, Glen P. Mays, Angela Carman, Samuel Levey, Anne Mcgeorge, David W. Fardo

Health Management and Policy Faculty Book Gallery

From the introduction:

Health care expenditures in the United States currently consume over 17 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product, a much larger share than other developed nations. Yet, despite this large investment, studies by Commonwealth Fund, the Institute of Medicine, and other organizations show the USA lags behind other developed nations on multiple metrics of population health such as infant mortality and life expectancy. Moreover, there is extensive evidence of disparities in access, cost, and quality of health care services.

Thus, we are confronted by a striking paradox: the USA spends a large and growing proportion of our …

Labrad : Vol 40, Issue 2 - November 2014, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi

LABRAD - Departments of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine and Radiology Archives

• Significance of HLA Typing in Transplant Medicine
• Role of Protocol Renal Biopsies in Transplant Patients
• Blood Product Utilization in Haematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Recipients
• Use of Magic Marker “C4d” in the Diagnosis of Acute Antibody Mediated Rejection in Renal Transplant Patients
• Coagulopathy in Renal Transplantation
• Therapeutic Drug Monitoring of Cyclosporine
• Signifi cance of CMV antigenemia Assay In Renal Transplant Patients
• Pretransplant Serological Evaluation
• Importance of Monitoring Cytomegalovirus (CMV) and BKV (Polyomavirus) Infection in Renal Transplant Patients

Measuring The Affect Of Diabetes On Sleep Disordered Breathing, Angela Hacker, Naima Shifa

Annual Student Research Poster Session

No abstract provided.

Oncolog, Volume 59, Number 11-12, November-December 2014, Bryan Tutt, Sunita Patterson, S. Moreau

OncoLog MD Anderson's Report to Physicians (All issues) Archives

• Striving to Improve Treatments for Uveal Melanoma: Although primary uveal melanoma can be effectively treated with radiation or surgery, patients with metastatic disease-or those at high risk for metastases-have few proven options. But specialists in medical oncology, radiation oncology, ophthalmology, surgery, and traditional research are working to improve those options
• Beyond Diabetes: Metformin May Have Broad Utility in Cancer: Metformin, an inexpensive drug that has been prescribed for diabetes for decades, may also be useful in preventing or treating several types of cancer
• HOUSE CALL: Smoking Cessation-Medications help smokers quit
• INBRIEF: Vaccine Explored to Reduce Risk of HER2-Positive Breast Cancer …

Department Of Surgery Update, November/December 2014, Wright State University Department Of Surgery

Department of Surgery Updates

A four page newsletter created by the Department of Surgery documenting changes to the department. This issue for November and December of 2014 contains a message from the chair, pictures from the ACS Alumni Reception, a list of important dates, committee meetings, a list of presentations and more.

The Scoop, Vol. 1 Issue 8, "Movember" 2014, Health Sciences Library

Volume 1

Latest news and events from the Health Sciences Library in our monthly newsletter for November 2014.

Cama Newsletter - October, 2014, Civil Aviation Medical Association

Browse all Civil Aviation Medical Association Newsletters

A seven page newsletter of the Civil Aviation Medical Association. The newsletter provided news about civil aviation medicine and information related to the organization.

Today - October 31, 2014, Loma Linda University Health

TODAY

Inside this issue:

-- School of Medicine alumni share their stories of being on the front lines of the war against Ebola
-- Heart surgeon Ellsworth Wareham celebrates his 100th birthday with nearly 200 friends and colleagues
-- Paralympics bronze medalist shares personal journey at PossAbilities luncheon
-- Loma Linda University Health recognized for transplantation and organ donation
-- Shark survivor Mike Coots fights to save sharks and help amputees
-- Innovation seminar speaker explains novel approach of spiral thinking
-- 'A Walk to Remember' draws grieving families
-- Loma Linda University Health works to create strong healthcare leaders in …

The Santa Clara, 2014-10-30, Santa Clara University

The Santa Clara

No abstract provided.