Organizational Communication Commons^™

Patient Care News: December 2006, St. Cloud Hospital

Patient Care News

Holiday Letter

National Recognition: Donor Program Trauma Coordinator

Level I and II Trauma Code Pages Trauma Standing Order Sets

Trauma Code Activation Criteria Trauma Order Forms: ICU and All Patients

Injury Prevention Education Sheets

Practice Change: Red Arm Bands

Nutrition Services: Focus on Patient Satisfaction

Magnet Force 6: Quality of Care Holiday Schedules and Cut/Call Reminder

Professional Education Clinical Ladder

Comparison Of Distributed Versus Collocated Command Group Collaboration Performance, Christopher Van Fultz

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The transformation of the United States Army to a combat force capable of operating successfully on future battlefields requires the leveraging of digital communication capabilities to support distributed battle command. The purpose of this study is to investigate collaborative command group planning performance in traditional face-to-face (collocated) and geographically dispersed group (distributed) conditions. The Reactive Planning Strategies Simulation (REPSS) system was developed to provide a realistic group planning task supporting empirical estimates of planning process and performance outcome success, measured in this context as delivery rate of humanitarian supplies. Results indicate that synchronization scores were not significantly different between conditions; …

Patient Care News: November 2006, St. Cloud Hospital

Patient Care News

Magnet Force 5: Professional Models of Care

Look-Alike/Sound-Alike Medications ETC Access Scanned Pharmacy Orders

Chart Thinning Guidelines Contact Hours (CEUs)

Care Windows (CDR) Login Deactivation Recovery Plus Program Changes

Oncology Uniform Change Mid-Minnesota Name Change

PCW Long Range Planning Educational and Professional Development Programs

EpicCare News

Clinical Ladder

Patient Care News: October 2006, St. Cloud Hospital

Patient Care News

Informed Consent for Operative/Invasive Procedures CentraCare Health System Accredited

Health Care Directive Information New Hospitalists

Cultural Diversity and Medication Safety Article

Literature Review: Emotional Distress and Prenatal Attachment in Pregnancy after Perinatal Loss

The Bronchiolitis Ship CentraCare Goes Tobacco Free

Imaging Services and Procedures Educational and Professional Development Programs

Clinical Ladder

Ua61/5 Social Work Newsletter, Wku Social Work

WKU Archives Records

Social Work newsletter includes articles:

• Rural Crossroads
• Note from the Department Head
• Time to Celebrate – Accreditation
• Meet Our New Faculty & Staff – Emily Gouvas, Amy Cappiccie, Mimi Sodhi, Eileen Arnold, Carol Robey
• Focus on Field: Field Supervisor Patty Alford

Patient Care News: September 2006, St. Cloud Hospital

Patient Care News

Holiday Requests

First Choice Vacation Planners Insulin Pens

Literature Review: Hand Hygiene in Pediatric Setting

Literature Review: Stroke Centers

Notarization Requests Over the Counter Meds for Visitors

10 Years of Subacute at St. Benedicts Senior Community Accuracy of Health Care Directives Educational & Professional Development Programs

Clinical Ladder

Ua3/9/5 Faculty-Staff Convocation, Wku President's Office

WKU Archives Records

Speech delivered by WKU president Gary Ransdell at fall convocation. He discusses achievements, donations, athletics, WKU centennial, budget cuts, enrollment, tuition, commercialization of intellectual property, physical plant and construction.

Patient Care News: August 2006, St. Cloud Hospital

Patient Care News

SBAR Information: Hand Off Communications

Magnet Force 1: Quality of Nursing Leadership St. Cloud Hospital: One of the best in two specialties

Licensure and Continuing Education

Effects of Preoperative Teaching of the Use of a Pain Scale with Patients in the PACU

Literature Review: Advances in How Clinical Nurses Can Evaluate and Improve Quality of Life for Individuals with Cancer

Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy “As I Go On” Booklet Solicitation Guidelines

Insulin Pens Stroke Center Recognized by American Stroke Association High School Internships

St. Scholastica Bachelor of Arts Degree in Nursing

Clinical Ladder Educational and Professional Developmental Programs

Understanding Employees' Willingness To Contributeto Shared Electronic Databases: A Three-Dimensional Framework, Guowei Jian, Leo Wayne Jeffres

Communication Faculty Publications

Work organizations increasingly adopt shared electronic databases. However, employees' unwillingness to contribute to shared resources undermines the utility of such technologies. Current research is limited to either a utilitarian or normative perspective. To advance understanding in this area, this study proposes a three-dimensional framework. It includes the utilitarian and normative perspectives as two complementary dimensions in addition to a third collaborative dimension. Based on this framework, the study identifies three key organizational processes and advances an additive model to predict employees' willingness to contribute to shared electronic databases. An empirical test was conducted to assess the model in a large …

Patient Care News: July 2006, St. Cloud Hospital

Patient Care News

Power Injection of Contrast Media through Vascular Access Devices

Nurses Week Poster Contest

End of Life Education

Clinical Ladder Educational and Professional Developmental Programs

Patient Care News: June 2006, St. Cloud Hospital

Patient Care News

Pandemic Influenza Preparation

Vaccinations Micromedex: PMIs & IV Compatibility

Acute Response Team 8 Nursing Research Award Winners

Surgery Delays Clinical Ladder

Ua12/8 Annual Report, Wku Police

WKU Archives Records

Statistical report of crimes reported to and services rendered by the WKU Police Department during the fiscal year 2005-2006. Includes some five year comparisons.

Do We Stand On Common Ground? A Threat Appraisal Model For Terror Alerts Issued By The Department Of Homeland Security, Augustine Pang, Jin Yan, Glen T. Cameron

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

The fabric and faces of threat, and the expediency and efficiency in the communication of threat, are examined with a threat appraisal model. This model is empirically tested on an ongoing communication challenge, the issuance of terror alerts by the United States' Department of Homeland Security (DHS), focusing on how threat is appraised by both the conservative and liberal audiences. Findings showed a shared view by the DHS and conservative audiences on the levels and nature of threats; liberal audiences thought otherwise. Though there appeared to be a consensus between the conservative and liberal audiences on the efficacy of threat …

Patient Care News: May 2006, St. Cloud Hospital

Patient Care News

Nurses’ Week Letter

Order Protocol for Endoscopic Procedures Gallup Survey

ResQPOD During CPR Milestone Validations of the EMR

Top 100 Hospital Heart Center Opens Women’s Cardiac Program

Clinical Ladder Educational/Developmental Programs

Managing Conflict To Build Consensus, Christine G. Springer

Public Policy and Leadership Faculty Publications

The article discusses views on dealing with conflict to build consensus in strategic management. Fostering conflict to improve decision making while building consensus so essential to effective implementation demands the stimulation of debate, keeping conflict constructive, ascertaining that the process is fair and legitimate and being able to reach closure.

Patient Care News: April 2006, St. Cloud Hospital

Patient Care News

St. Cloud Hospital Earns 100 Top Hospital Status

Health Care Directives: Where are these located in the CDR?

CDR Changes Are On The Horizon

14 Forces of Magnetism

Ua61/5 Social Work Newsletter, Wku Social Work

WKU Archives Records

Social Work newsletter includes articles:

• BSW Scholarship: Engaging Students for Success in a Global Society
• Note from the Department Head
• Graduate Student Organization
• Meet Our New Faculty & Staff – Melanie Randolph
• Departmental Faculty: Scholarly Activities – Suzie Cashwell, Muh-Bi Lin, Cindy Snyder, Saundra Starks
• Phi Alpha Honor Society Inducts New Members
• Save the Date! – National Institute on Social Work & Human Services in Rural Areas
• Thank You . . . & Best Wishes – Serena Britt
• Focus on Field: Field Supervisor, Todd Hazel

Patient Care News: March 2006, St. Cloud Hospital

Patient Care News

St. Cloud Hospital Joins National Patient Safety Effort

Healthcare Directives

Magnet Force # 13 - Interdisciplinary Relationships

Magnet Force #14 – Professional Development

St. Cloud Hospital Magnet Re-designation Practice Story Form

Ua3/9/5 House & Senate Budget Subcommittees, Wku President's Office

WKU Archives Records

Card of talking points used by WKU president Gary Ransdell while lobbying state legislators to increase WKU's budget.

Ua3/9/5 Budget Remarks, Wku President's Office

WKU Archives Records

Remarks delivered by WKU president Gary Ransdell regarding the budget process in 2006. It includes a list of critical needs for 2006 to 2008.

Patient Care News: February 2006, St. Cloud Hospital

Patient Care News

Magnet Force #11 – Nurses as Teachers

Magnet Force #12 – Image of Nursing

Cold Sores

St. Cloud Hospital Implements Rapid Response Team ART/CART: A Second Pair of Eyes, Helping to Save Lives

Coming Soon: Computerized Medical Record

Annual Report: 2006, Centracare Health

Annual Report

CentraCare Health Systems. Statistics of conditions treated at St. Cloud Hospital in 2006

Annual Report: 2006, Centracare Health Foundation

Annual Report

CentraCare Health Foundation. Statistics of conditions treated at St. Cloud Hospital in 2006

Patient Care News: January 2006, St. Cloud Hospital

Patient Care News

Translated Patient Education Materials

Magnet Force #9 – Autonomy

Magnet Force #10 – Community and Hospital

New “Medical/Critical Care Admission Orders” and “Evidence - Base” Protocols will be Implemented

Pertussis and the Healthcare Setting

Cancer Report 2006, Coborn Cancer Center

Annual Cancer Report

• Cancer Registry
• Analysis of 2006 activity report
• Chairperson's report
• Hematopoietic Cancer Report

Turning Points In Relationships With Disliked Co-Workers, Jon A. Hess, Becky Lynn Omdahl, Janie M. Harden Fritz

Communication Faculty Publications

Although most people begin their employment with the education and on-the-job training to handle the tasks their jobs entail, few long-term employees boast that they feel competent in dealing with all the difficult people they encounter in the workplace. Unpleasant coworkers range from annoying nuisances to major sources of job frustration and career roadblocks. Given that periodic preoccupation with unlovable coworkers is nearly a universal feature of organizational life, it is not surprising that such relationships are given due attention in the media and popular press (e.g., Bramson, 1989; Topchik, 2000). What is surprising is how little scholarly attention has …

Ua77/1 Wku Spirit, Wku Alumni Relations

WKU Archives Records

WKU alumni magazine. Contents:

• Society of 1906 Honor Roll
• Wilkerson, Martha. Thank You Gretchen Niva!
• Special Needs Trust Commits $750,000 for Clinical Education Complex
• 2 WKU Students Win Hearst National Championship – Will DeShazer, Brenna Gallegos
• WKU Regents Approve Move to Division I-A Football
• McDaniel, Sue. A Century of Academics
• A Quarter of a Century for the Center for Gifted Studies
• 100 Hours of Life on the Hill, September 6-10, 2006
• Newton, Tommy. A Century of Campus Planning
• A Century of Gifts: 100 Gifts WKU Gave the World
• Centennial Timeline
• One Century, One Vision – Henry Cherry, Gary Ransdell
• Adventures …

Ua3/9/5 Legislative Priorities, Wku President's Office

WKU Archives Records

Legislative priorities talking points card used by WKU president Gary Ransdell when meeting with state legislators in 2006.

Citizen Participation In Rulemaking: Past, Present, And Future, Cary Coglianese

All Faculty Scholarship

Administrative law scholars and governmental reformers argue that advances in information technology will greatly expand public participation in regulatory policy making. They claim that e-rulemaking, or the application of new technology to administrative rulemaking, promises to transform a previously insulated process into one in which ordinary citizens regularly provide input. With the federal government having implemented several e-rulemaking initiatives in recent years, we can now begin to assess whether such a transformation is in the works—or even on the horizon. This paper compares empirical observations on citizen participation in the past, before e-rulemaking, with more recent data on citizen participation …