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Prescribed Reading: May 2010, Centracare Clinic

Prescribed Reading

• Health Care Matters: Doing what I do best
• The case for service: Patient feedback
• Welcome to our new provider
• Welcome to these new employees
• Kudos to . . .
• Condolences to. . .
• Monitor your HRA claims on CentraNet
• Recognition for years of service
• Reaching out to the community
• Women’s Health 101 wrap-up
• CentraCare Health System Reward Program
• Make a difference –volunteer
• Fidelity Investments one-on-one consultations
• Skin cancer screenings increase awareness
• Shining the spotlight on skin health

Demonstrating Library Value In A Period Of Retrenchment, Jeanne M. Brown

Library Faculty Presentations

Approaches
- What users want
- What users like
- Worth
- What users value
- Presenting your case to the PTB
- Plan Bs

The Beat: April 2010, Centracare Health

The Beat

• "Health care reform doesn’t change our commitment"
• April is Donate Life Month
• Organ, tissue and eye donation facts
• Operating room open house
• Give the gift of independence and safety
• Women & Children receives $7,500 grant
• St. Cloud Hospital again ranked in top 100
• Let’s move together
• Garden party blooms at SBSC in St. Cloud
• Kudos to . . .
• Sartell Apple Duathlon
• Employee Campaign ends April 30
• A benefit for Clara’s House
• Shining the spotlight on skin health
• Caring for your loved one and caring for yourself
• Performance to benefit NICU

Patient Care News: April 2010, St. Cloud Hospital

Patient Care News

Armband Changes

National Donate Life Month

Nurses Week: May 3-7, 2010

Student Schedule Changes/Contact Information

Use of the FlexiSeal

Pressure Ulcer Alert

CPN/PPN Orders Going Electronic

Article Review: Work Interruptions During Med Admin

Research Article Review: Use of Trendelenburg Position

C-Diff Update & Bleach Mixture Update

Hot Info Product Information

Linking Evidence to Practice: Translational Science in Nsg

Upcoming Educational & Professional Programs

Prescribed Reading: April 2010, Centracare Clinic

Prescribed Reading

• Health Care Matters: Equipped
• High expectations and great opportunities
• Current patient satisfaction scorecard
• Welcome to these new employees
• What is a health care home and why is it different?
• Condolences to …
• Kudos to . . .
• Women & Children’s receives $7,500 grant
• Recognition for years of service
• PTO time tracking reminder
• Medical expense/dependent care reminders
• Reaching out to the community
• Pediatric Walk-in Clinic patient feedback
• Central MN Heart Center Earth Day run is April 16-17

Social And Community Media In Poor And Marginalized Urban Communities: A Study Of Collective Action In Kiber, John Perkins

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

Traditional media is often thought of as a space for resourced storytellers to inform a passive and silent audience. In the Kibera informal settlement, this paradigm has allowed large commercial media houses to misrepresent the realities of everyday life. Community media houses have the opportunity to correct this misrepresentation and redefine who we perceive to be the storyteller. By striving to highlight news and issues affecting the community, media houses such as Pamoja FM radio station and the Kibera Journal have given a voice to Kibera. Yet with the introduction of innovative media technologies, the distinction between the storyteller and …

A Social Network Based Study Of Software Team Dynamics, Subhajit Datta, Vikrant S. Kaulgoud, Vibhu Saujanya Sharma, Nishant Kumar

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Members of software project teams have specific roles and responsibilities which are formally defined during project inception or at the start of a life cycle activity. Often, the team structure undergoes spontaneous changes as delivery deadlines draw near and critical tasks have to be completed. Some members -- depending on their skill or seniority -- need to take on more responsibilities, while others end up being peripheral to the project's execution. We posit that this kind of ad hoc reorganization of a team's structure can be discerned from the project's bug tracker. In this paper, we extract a social network …

The Beat: March 2010, Centracare Health

The Beat

• Share your blessings to help those we serve
• Employee campaign begins
• Become a ‘Fan’of the Employee Campaign on facebook
• Care packages provided for employees in the military
• DIAMOND program expands
• Long Prairie extends hours
• Nursing alumni scholarship offered
• Home, Health & Family Expo set in Melrose
• Have you registered for MyChart?
• Have some fun at Women’s Health 101!
• New linear accelerator comes to radiation oncology clinic
• Earth Day runs planned
• Walk-in Care is going strong
• Sister Susan Rudolph receives caregiver award
• Hall recognized for service
• St. Cloud Start! Heart Walk
• Pediatric tours offered

Patient Care News: March 2010, St. Cloud Hospital

Patient Care News

CentraCare Health System’s New Vision

Labeling Bedside Solutions

Easter Cut/Call

New Fall Management policy

Nursing Research Day

Research/EBP Article: Decreasing Health Disparities

Clinical Ladder

Contingency Theory Of Strategic Conflict Management: Unearthing Factors That Influence Ethical Elocution In Crisis Communication, Augustine Pang, Yan Jin, Glen T. Cameron

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Despite the advances made offering a viable perspective in strategic conflict management, the contingency theory has not addressed a prevailing question: How can the theory inform organizations to communicate ethically with its publics, especially during crisis? The only guidance the theory offers is through its proscriptive variables, which prohibit either communication or more accommodative communication. However, given the exigency and dynamism of many situations along the life cycle of an issue, non-communicating may not be an alternative offered to organizations. This study aims to unearth a new set of factors called ethical variables that influence the organization’s stance by reviewing …

The Beat: Febuary 2010, Centracare Health

The Beat

• "CentraCare welcomes all"
• Short Stay program features onsite physician
• Long Prairie, Melrose hospitals change names
• St. Cloud Hospital recognized as distinguished hospital
• 7th Annual Spring Fling
• Physician receives excellence award
• Congratulations to...
• United Way campaign results
• Shirley Loehr wins Living the Mission award
• Get counted!
• Drive-thru colon cancer screening offered in March

Patient Care News: February 2010, St. Cloud Hospital

Patient Care News

Nursing Research Day: April 23, 2010

Alcohol Withdrawal Update

Delirium Prevention Education

Gorecki Guest House

Research/EBP Article: Mindfulness-Based Interventions

Upcoming Education/Professional Development

Clinical Ladder

Prescribed Reading: February 2010, Centracare Clinic

Prescribed Reading

• Health Care Matters: Everyone and every action matters
• Welcome to these new employees
• Recognition for years of service
• Kudos from Anne Spanier, Business Office
• Jain receives SCH Physician of Excellence award
• Donate to Haiti
• Congratulations to employee of the quarter winners
• United Way campaign results
• Medications and supplements: harmony or hazard?
• Drive-thru colon cancer screening in March
• Congratulations to…
• Mini-medical school for caregivers
• Day of Dance - Feb. 25
• Condolences to…
• Pediatric Walk-In Care success

Volume 12, 2010, Ellen Hazelkorn, Nora French, Wolfgang Truetzschler

Issues

No abstract provided.

Organizational Communication (Com 317) City As Classroom Project Report, Andrea Pampaloni Phd

City as Classroom Projects

Organizational Communication focuses on the study and implementation of effective communication within various types of organizations, including corporations, nonprofits, and institutions. It examines how communication acts as the foundation of all organizations by considering major schools of thought about organizations and communication networks, functions, and practices. It also explore significant issues in organizational settings including leadership, conflict, power, ethics, culture, and technology.

Students in this class are required to interview a (non-family member) professional in a field they may be interested in pursuing to see how various aspects of organizational communication are used in the workplace. As a result of …

Annual Report: 2010, Centracare Health

Annual Report

• Letter from Terry Pladson to the community Pg. 4
• Year end financial information Pg. 5
• Community Spotlight Pg. 6
• CentraCare organizational structure Pg. 8
• List of new services offered by the organization Pg. 10
• List of donors Pg. 20

The Beat: January 2010, Centracare Health

The Beat

• "We’re striving to be the best"
• CentraCare offers cancer services at rural hospitals
• Medication and supplement safety presentation offered
• Take the 2010 Health Assessment
• Know someone with spirit?
• Worried about an elderly loved one?
• MyChart lets you view medical record online
• Book drive deemed a success
• Pediatric Walk-In Care off to great start!
• Dance for your health

Patient Care News: January 2010, St. Cloud Hospital

Patient Care News

Hovermatt Mattress Reminders

Palliative Care

Upcoming Education/Professional Development

Research/EBP Article: Comparing Ibuprofen and Acetaminophen

Clinical Ladder

Prescribed Reading: January 2010, Centracare Clinic

Prescribed Reading

• Health Care Matters: Everyone and every action matters
• Recognition for years of service
• Welcome to our new physician
• Welcome to these new employees
• Kudos to. . .
• Congratulations to . .
• Condolences to:
• Reaching out to the community
• Annual PTO Payout scheduled for February 2010
• Medical expense/dependent care reminders:
• Take the 2010 health assessment and earn 250 reward points!

Dialectic Tensions Experienced By Resettled Sudanese Refugees In Mediating Organizations, Sarah Steimel

Department of Communication Studies: Faculty Publications

An increasing number of global migrants are refugees who have fled religious, racial, ethnic, or other political persecution. As these refugee populations have grown, governmental and nonprofit organizations have emerged to help mediate the resettlement experience. The current study explores the dialectical tensions Sudanese refugees face in communicating with the organizations designed to make their resettlement successful. Sudanese refugees participated in semistructured interviews about their experiences communicating with mediating organizations. Four dialectical tensions emerged from participants’ stories about their communication in and with mediating organizations: (a) dissemination and dialogue, (b) emancipation and control, (c) empowerment and oppression, and (d) integration …

Refugees As People: The Portrayal Of Refugees In American Human Interest Stories, Sarah Steimel

Department of Communication Studies: Faculty Publications

This study combines discourse analysis and narrative analysis (Yin 2007) to examine top US newspapers’ coverage of refugees in American human interest stories. I find that the refugees are presented (a) as prior victims; (b) as in search of the American Dream; and (c) as unable to achieve the American Dream. As human-interest features, the stories provide a largely positive portrayal of individual refugees and their families. However, the human interest stories also depict refugees as current victims of the American economic crisis; deeply frustrated by their inability to achieve the American Dream. Together these discourses represent a narrative of …

Theorizing The Transcendent Persona: Amelia Earhart’S Vision In The Fun Of It, Robin Jensen, Erin Doss, Claudia Janssen, Sherrema Bower

Faculty Research and Creative Activity

In this article, we define and theorize the ‘‘transcendent persona,’’ a discursive strategy in which a rhetor draws from a boundary-breaking accomplishment and utilizes the symbolic capital of that feat to persuasively delineate unconventional ways of communicating and behaving in society. Aviator Amelia Earhart’s autobiography The Fun of It (1932) functions as an instructive representative anecdote of this concept and demonstrates that the transcendent persona’s persuasive force hinges on one’s ability to balance distance from audiences with similarities to them. Striking such a balance creates a platform for rhetors to promote transformative visions of society. Earhart utilized the transcendent persona …

Facilitators And Obstacles Of Intercultural Business Communication For American Companies In China: Lessons Learned From The Ups Case, Hongmei Gao, Penelope Prime

Faculty and Research Publications

This article analyzes how the execution of business strategy for global enterprises is shaped by the dual challenges of communicating in a different national culture and working in a changing economic environment. The article develops a framework from the UPS case in China to illustrate the key components of strategy for US companies operating businesses in China. The article proposes that Chinese-American communication effectiveness can be achieved through overcoming five obstacles: cultural multiplicity, relationship/ task orientation, time concept, business style difference, and language use, while utilizing five facilitators:pragmatism, gender equality, English, American pop culture, and a "big country mentality."

The Situated Production Of Stories, David Greatbatch, Timothy Adrian Robert Clark

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

At a general level storytelling is a pervasive feature of everyday discourse both within and outside organisations. Existing research on organisational stories indicates that they are not simply frivolous diversions that seek to amaze and entertain the recipients. Rather they may serve a number of important functions for organisations, which include socialising new organisational members by articulating the culture of an organisation; assisting with the development and verbalisation of visions and strategies; helping develop points of similarity within disparate and dispersed organisational groups; sustaining and legitimating existing power relationships as well as providing opportunities for resistance against them; and acting …

Ua12/8 Annual Report, Wku Police

WKU Archives Records

A statement of current campus policies regarding procedures for students and others to report criminal actions or other emergencies occurring on campus and policies concerning the institution's response to such reports.

Theorizing The Transcendent Persona: Amelia Earhart’S Vision In The Fun Of It, Robin E. Jensen, Erin F. Doss, Claudia Irene Janssen, Sherrema A. Bower

Faculty Research and Creative Activity

In this article, we define and theorize the ‘‘transcendent persona,’’ a discursive strategy in which a rhetor draws from a boundary-breaking accomplishment and utilizes the symbolic capital of that feat to persuasively delineate unconventional ways of communicating and behaving in society. Aviator Amelia Earhart’s autobiography The Fun of It (1932) functions as an instructive representative anecdote of this concept and demonstrates that the transcendent persona’s persuasive force hinges on one’s ability to balance distance from audiences with similarities to them. Striking such a balance creates a platform for rhetors to promote transformative visions of society. Earhart utilized the transcendent persona …