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Holland, Cindra Interview For The Miami Valley College Of Nursing And Health Oral History Project, Donna M. Curry, Natasha Clinton, Stacy Harris, Cindra Holland

Wright State University - Miami Valley College of Nursing and Health Oral History Project

Donna Miles Curry, Stacy Harris, and Natasha Clinton interviewed Cindra Holland about the history of the Doctor of Nursing Practice program at Wright State University. In the interview Dr. Holland discusses her education as well as attending the DNP program.

14 Irrefutable Reasons To Eliminate Surgical Smoke, Kay Ball

Nursing Faculty Scholarship

Next time a surgeon challenges your mandatory smoke evacuation policy, have these 14 fast facts at the ready. They’re a mix of evidence- based reasons as well as practical and financial incentives that make eliminating electrosurgery plume from your ORs tough to argue against.

School Of Nursing Newsletter July 2011, Southern Adventist University School Of Nursing

Southern Nursing - School of Nursing Newsletter

The July 2011 issue of the newsletter features articles on the grand opening of Florida Hospital Hall, a visit from Japanese nursing students, mission trips, the nursing honor society, and new nursing faculty.

Perceptions Of Coordination Of Care Between Hospice And Skilled Nursing Facility Care Providers, Kim Martz, Abigail Gerding

Nursing Faculty Publications and Presentations

The number of older Americans who are finding Nursing Homes (NH) or Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) as their final place of care is increasing each year, especially the fastest growing segment of the national population who are 85 years and older ¹. Although the majority of older adults would prefer to die in their homes, the frailty and complexities of advanced age are leading many to the nursing home setting ^{2, 3}. In 2020, it is reported that 40% of deaths of older adults will occur in the nursing home setting ^{4, 5}. Many studies have shown …

Lived Experience: East African Somali Speaking Women Accessing The U.S. Healthcare System, Shukri Adam Phd

Dissertations

Access to prenatal healthcare for East African Somali Speaking Women (EASSW) who are immigrants to the U.S. has been dependent on the availability of a systematic healthcare treatment model. The purpose of this study was to explore EASSW's lived experiences in accessing prenatal healthcare services in the U.S. A descriptive, qualitative phenomenological approach informed by the work of Husserl was used to explore EASSW's experiences, views, and problems encountered while attempting to access prenatal healthcare services in the U.S. Fifteen EASSW of childbearing age (ages 18–45) were recruited for this study. All participants interviewed privately, beginning with a semi-structured, open-ended …

A Retrospective Analysis Of Maternal And Child Outcomes Following An Obesity Intervention Program, Melinda S. Bender Phd

Dissertations

Background: One of the highest risk groups for childhood obesity and associated co-morbidities in the United States are low-income Hispanic preschool children. To reduce obesity, effective interventions are being sought to improve health behaviors among high risks groups. Objectives: To evaluate a subset of data from a larger 9-month promotora facilitated obesity intervention study. The aims were to determine: 1) pre- to post-program differences in health behaviors including: (a) children's consumption of high carbohydrate beverages (HCB); and (b) maternal walking, beliefs, knowledge, self-efficacy, and relationship building regarding nutrition and physical activity; and 2) which covariates were significant for change in …

Experiences Of Faculty And Students Using An Audience Response System In The Classroom, Christine M. Thomas, Cheryl Monturo, Katherine Conroy

Nursing Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

The Flame, 2010-2011, Mennonite College Of Nursing

The Flame (1985-present)

The Flame is a newsletter of Illinois State University's Mennonite College of Nursing

Postpartum Depression And Help‐Seeking Behaviors In Immigrant Hispanic Women, Lynn Clark Callister, Renea Beckstrand, Cheryl A. Corbett

Faculty Publications

Objectives: To describe perceptions of immigrant Hispanic women experiencing symptoms of postpartum depression (PPD) and to identify barriers to seeking mental health services.

Design: Qualitative descriptive.

Setting: Community health clinic.

Participants: Twenty immigrant Hispanic women scoring positive for symptoms of PPD receiving health care at a community health clinic who declined mental health services participated in audiotaped interviews held in their homes.

Methods: Following Institutional Review Board approval and informed consent, interviews were conducted with study participants. Transcribed data were analyzed as appropriate for qualitative inquiry.

Results: Some of the women did not recognize and/or denied their symptoms attributing their …

Staffing Excellence: Moving From Retrospective To Prospective Management Of Risk, Kathryn Rapala

College of Nursing Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Implementation Of A Virtual Journal Club In A Clinical Nursing Setting, Jill Berger, Heather K. Hardin, Robert V. Topp

College of Nursing Faculty Research and Publications

Healthcare practice is increasingly focused on delivering care that is based on published research evidence. Staff development nurses can institute journal clubs to teach nursing staff critical appraisal of research articles and ways to translate research findings into clinical practice. Unfortunately, attending meetings regularly is often a challenge for nurses, and relatively few have the knowledge and expertise to adequately critique research articles. One way to bridge the limitations of accessibility and limited research expertise of journal club members is to establish a virtual journal club. This article describes one hospital's experience with developing a virtual journal club.

Developing A Conceptual (Mosaic) Transcultural Model Of Nursing Care For Use At A Pediatric Inner-City Hospital, Lani Hollenbeck

Theses and Graduate Projects

The purpose of this project is to develop a transcultural model of nursing care for use at a pediatric inner-city hospital located in the Midwestern United States. The experience and outcome for pediatric patients and their families may be negatively impacted when language and culture are different from those of the nurse. Nurses working at the hospital have expressed discomfort when providing care for patients from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds. They feel challenged to provide supportive nursing care without imposing their own ethnocentric viewpoints or nursing practices that may be inconsistent with desires of those from another culture. The …

A Conceptual Framework For Providing Healthy Meals For A Marginalized Population, Hoching Wu

Theses and Graduate Projects

The purpose of this project is to create a conceptual framework grounded in a caring relationship that provides nutritious, economic, and efficient noon meals to 200 to 400 homeless people at an inner city church kitchen. Awareness of the concerns of the church kitchen coordinator and the needs of the homeless population provided the motivation to explore comprehensive and effective solutions through a conceptual framework. The typical menus from the inner city church kitchen and the research articles both showed the meal programs were fairly nutritious but high in total calories and low in dairy products. Creating new menus for …

Creating Community With Homeless And Marginally Housed Women, Judy Schlaefer

Theses and Graduate Projects

The purpose of this project is to create a weekly Drop-In Center where Homeless and Marginally Housed (HMH) women receive support, respite, and respect in a safe, welcoming environment. Homeless and Marginally Housed (HMH) women have unique needs due to daily struggles with disenfranchisement which include barriers to health services, battering, poor transportation, lack of recreation and education, neglect, and institutionalized poverty. The impetus for the Drop-In Center was to offer respite from the harsh environment created by the institutionalized violence against HMH women who deserve significant emotional and social support, nutrition, and respite. The transculrural nurse will be focused …

A Call To Action After A Patient Fall, Lisa D. Bungum

Theses and Graduate Projects

Fall prevention has always been a quality and safety initiative within hospitals. The purpose of this project is to define, develop, and implement an interdisciplinary huddle following a patient fall event so patient specific modifications to the plan of care can be initiated. The huddle will occur soon after the fall event to facilitate collaboration between all the patient's healthcare providers. The number of patients who repeat falls during a single hospitalization is significant and well documented in professional literature. A patient's risk for a repeat fall will be minimized by assessing and modifying interventions to reduce risk through an …

Frequent Users Of The Emergency Department: Guiding Patients To Comprehensive And Coordinated Care, Anne L. Draeger

Theses and Graduate Projects

The purpose of this project is to implement a rural community-based collaborative care network to assist high frequency emergency department users navigate a comprehensive system to access a full range of health care services and decrease reliance on the emergency department. Patients who frequent the emergency department are less apt to receive coordinated treatment of pain and other chronic disease which leads to suboptimal care focusing on symptoms rather than disease management. Nurses who practice in the emergency department identify the pattern of frequent use and lack of care coordination but struggle to provide a connection to preventative services and …

Empowering And Retaining New Graduate Nurses Through A Structured Mentoring Program, Kelly O. Gamble

Theses and Graduate Projects

The purpose of this project is to improve the orientation experience of the new graduate nurse at a metropolitan Minnesota hospital through the development of a structured mentoring program. The transition from student nurse to professional nurse is stressful for new graduate nurses. Stress combined with increased technology and patient acuity in the acute care setting has led to many new graduate nurses leaving the profession, contributing to the anticipated nursing shortage. Literature on new graduate nurse orientation, the nursing shortage, mentoring, and generational differences were incorporated in the development of the structured mentoring program. The importance of nursing leadership …

Creating An Environment That Fosters Feedback Among Nurses, Anne M. Egan

Theses and Graduate Projects

The goal of the project is to provide a voice for the nursing staff by adding their input on potential changes to the unit and to ultimately build stronger relationships among nurses. Involving staff from the beginning, this project started with a communication needs assessment completed in one unit at a small rural hospital in the Midwest. This included session meetings and a ballot survey. A project was designed to strengthen feedback among nurses on the unit, addressing horizontal violence in the workplace, and relating to Watson's nursing care theory. The project's goal is to create an environment that fosters …

The Self- Caring Tree: A Model Of Nursing Self-Care, Cynthia M. Severson

Theses and Graduate Projects

Being a nurse can be physically, emotionally, and spiritually exhausting. Nurses are exposed to sickness, sadness, trauma, suffbring, terminal illnesses, and potentially harmful contagions in their daily work. Nurses tend to care for others more than they care for themselves and can become overwhelmed, lose their resilience, and burnout. Nurses who practice daily self-care benefit by experiencing greater self-esteem, resilience, and ultimately wisdom and compassion. This project focuses on the development of a self- care model for nurses to help nurses learn how to care for themselves. The model is grounded in the work of Dr. Jean Watson and her …

Let Your Life Speak: Exploring The Lived Experience Of Graduate Nurses In An Emergency Department Setting, Mary Margaret Healy

Theses and Graduate Projects

The purpose of this research was to explore the lived experience of graduate nurses (GNs) who made the transition from academic to practice environment in the high-acuity setting of a Level 1 trauma center. These GNs entered clinical practice through a nurse residency program at Truman Medical Center (TMC) emergency department (ED) in Kansas City, Missouri. The researcher interviewed 6 GNs participating in the nurse residency program with IRB approval from the University of Missouri, Kansas City IRB. The method of inquiry was hermeneutic phenomenology. The basic research question for this study was as follows: As a participant in a …

Public Health Nursing And The Community: Partnering To Improve Health By Improving The Environment, Anna Haubrich

Theses and Graduate Projects

Florence Nightingale wrote that the environment is the single most important factor to a person's health. This paper discusses the process of bringing public health nursing together with community members to implement a Healthy Homes primary prevention project that improves the environment for people living in the Rondo Neighborhood of Saint Paul. The Rondo Neighborhood has a high ratio of low-income people. People living in lower socio-economic neighborhoods have poorer health outcomes, partially because of systemic environmental conditions. The framework of this community engagement project is guided by Community Based Participatory Action Research to emphasize the value of community involvement …

The Definition Of Insulin Resistance Using Homa-Ir For Americans Of Mexican Descent Using Machine Learning, Hui-Qi Qu, Quan Li, Anne R. Rentfro, Susan P. Fisher-Hoch, Joseph B. Mccormick

School of Nursing Faculty Publications

Objective

The lack of standardized reference range for the homeostasis model assessment-estimated insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) index has limited its clinical application. This study defines the reference range of HOMA-IR index in an adult Hispanic population based with machine learning methods.

Methods

This study investigated a Hispanic population of 1854 adults, randomly selected on the basis of 2000 Census tract data in the city of Brownsville, Cameron County. Machine learning methods, support vector machine (SVM) and Bayesian Logistic Regression (BLR), were used to automatically identify measurable variables using standardized values that correlate with HOMA-IR; K-means clustering was then used to classify …

Religiosity And Sexual Risk Behaviors Among Latina Adolescents: Trends From 1995 To 2008, Lisa M. Edwards, Kristin Haglund, Richard J. Fehring, Jessica E. Pruszynski

College of Nursing Faculty Research and Publications

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine trends in the influence of religiosity on sexual activity of Latina adolescents in the United States from 1995 to 2008 and to determine if differences existed between the Mexican American and other Latina groups.

Methods: The sample comprised the subset of unmarried, 15–21-year-old (mean 17 years) Latina female respondents in the 1995 (n=267), 2002 (n=306), and 2006–2008 (n=400) National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) datasets. Associations between religiosity (importance of religion and service attendance) and history of ever having sex, number of sex partners, and …

Code Simulations And Death: Processing Of Emotional Distress, Jane D. Leavy, Calvin J. Vanderhoff, Patricia K. Ravert

Faculty Publications

It is important for nursing students to be exposed to critical patient care scenarios because high stress clinical situations, such as patient codes, occur unexpectedly and infrequently in the clinical setting. In addition, it is important for nursing students to be exposed to the reality of patient death in order to help them overcome fears associated with death and to develop effective coping strategies. Students may or may not have an opportunity to deal with patient codes or patient death in the clinical setting, therefore simulation labs provide students with the opportunity to practice important clinical skills and discuss emotions …

Librarians As Partners Of The Nursing Faculty In Teaching Scholarly Inquiry In Nursing To Undergraduates At Brigham Young University, Jane Lassetter, Barbara L. Mandleco, Lynn C. Callister, Elizabeth S. Hopkins, Meagan Astill

Faculty Publications

This paper describes collaboration between the nursing librarian and faculty members teaching Scholarly Inquiry in Nursing (Nursing Research), a course for baccalaureate nursing students. Workshops presented by the librarian enhanced nursing students' information literacy skills, particularly related to accessing evidence-based sources. Student perceptions of the library integration with Scholarly Inquiry in Nursing are presented, and suggest that librarians empower them with knowledge and skills that enhance their ability to integrate evidence into their nursing practice.

Comparison Of Workplace Protection Factors For Different Biological Contaminants, Kyungmin Jacob Cho, Tiina Reponen, Roy Mckay, Alok Dwivedi, Atin Adhikari, Umesh Singh, Rakesh Shukla, M. Susan Jones, Gordon Jones, Sergey A. Grinshpun

Nursing Faculty Publications

This study compared workplace protection factors (WPFs) for five different contaminants (endotoxin, fungal spores, (1→3)-β-D-glucan, total particle mass, and total particle number) provided by an N95 elastomeric respirator (ER) and an N95 filtering facepiece respirator (FFR). We previously reported size-selective WPFs for total particle numbers for the ER and FFR, whereas the current article is focused on WPFs for bioaerosols and total particle mass. Farm workers (n = 25) wore the ER and FFR while performing activities at eight locations representing horse farms, pig barns, and grain handling facilities. For the determination of WPFs, particles were collected on filters simultaneously …

Successful Aging And The Epidemiology Of Hiv, David E. Vance, Teena Mcguinness, Karen Musgrove, Nancy Ann Orel, Pariya L. Fazeli

Gerontology Faculty Publications

By 2015, it is estimated that nearly half of those living with HIV in the US will be 50 years of age and older. This dramatic change in the demographics of this clinical population represents unique challenges for patients, health care providers, and society-at-large. Fortunately, because of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) and healthy lifestyle choices, it is now possible for many infected with HIV to age successfully with this disease; however, this depends upon one’s definition of successful aging. It is proposed that successful aging is composed of eight factors: length of life, biological health, cognitive efficiency, mental health, …

A Teaching Project For The Participants Of The Benton Boys & Girls Club To Optimize Nutritional Health, Karen Milen

Graduate Research Projects

The prevalence of childhood obesity has reached epidemic proportions in the United States. The long-term health problems and co-morbidities that are associated with obesity and increased Body Mass Index (BMI) are numerous and well documented. Recommendations from Healthy People 2020, a government program designed to provide a comprehensive set of disease prevention and health promotion objectives for the nation (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2010) include “Nutrition and Weight Status” as one of the focus areas. Healthy People 2020 also have a list of Leading Health Indicators which will be used to measure the health of the Nation …

Applying Community Participatory Methods To Meet Women's Mental Health Needs In Karachi, Pakistan, Nargis Asad, Judith Mcfarlane, Saima Hirani, Farhana Madhani, Shireen Shehzad

School of Nursing & Midwifery

Poor mental health is a global epidemic with women affected more often compared to men. Compromised mental health jeopardizes women's health and functioning and also the health and wellbeing of their children. To promote women's mental health, principles of community participatory methods were used to design and implement a mental health program, which was predicated on empirical research, sensitive to community culture and needs, and delivered by Lady Health Workers in an urban slum area of Karachi, Pakistan. The sequential steps of community participation, program development, implementation and strategies for sustainability are described.

Persons With Dementia Missing In The Community: Is It Wandering Or Something Unique?, Meredeth Rowe, Sydney S. Vandeveer, Catherine Greenblum, Cassandra N. List, Rachael M. Fernandez, Natalie E. Mixson, Hyo C. Ahn

Nursing Faculty Publications

Background: At some point in the disease process many persons with dementia (PWD) will have a missing incident and be unable to safely return to their care setting. In previous research studies, researchers have begun to question whether this phenomenon should continue to be called wandering since the antecedents and characteristics of a missing incident are dissimilar to accepted definitions of wandering in dementia. The purpose of this study was to confirm previous findings regarding the antecedents and characteristics of missing incidents, understand the differences between those found dead and alive, and compare the characteristics of a missing incident to …