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Volunteering For Medically Underserved Children: Clinic With A Heart–Back-To-School Clinics, Isabella Marie Kerby Kessinger

Honors Program: Senior Projects (Public)

Medically underserved children, often from low-income families or areas with limited healthcare resources, face significant barriers in accessing essential medical services and represent a fundamental challenge to equity and social justice. School physicals and back-to-school clinics play a crucial role in addressing these healthcare needs, serving as a gateway to educational and extracurricular opportunities.

Clinic With a Heart (CWH), a non-profit medical and dental clinic in Lincoln, Nebraska, serves as a model for addressing healthcare disparities. In 2023, CWH provided 3,109 visits to 1,846 unique patients, with 83% lacking health insurance and 63% having household incomes below $16,000 annually. The …

Graphic Medicine, Leesha Coleman, Rachel F. Fenske, Quincy Roundtree

Creative Arts & Storytelling for Health and Wellness Summit

Attendees will get an overview of graphic medicine, hear about the history of graphic medicine at the Charles M. Baugh Biomedical Library, learn about the artistic process of creating comics, and hear about uses for graphic medicine in educational and clinical settings.

The Art Of Medicine: Healing The Heart, Body And Soul, T. J. Hundley, Peyton Mcelroy

Creative Arts & Storytelling for Health and Wellness Summit

In this session, we will explore the various ways in which literary, visual, and performing arts serve within medical communities to create meaning and understanding from the profound human experiences associated with illness, healing, and health. We will discuss the relationship between the creative arts, reflective practice, and professional identity. Furthermore, we will demonstrate how the creative arts can be effectively utilized to promote reflective practice.

The "Ableism'' Behind Mental Health Professionals' Perceptions Of Support, Hideki Muramatsu

Patient Experience Journal

This paper presents the personal narrative of the author, an individual who has experienced personal and clinical recovery from mental health difficulties. Diagnosed with a mental disorder (NEUROTIC; ICD-10) during my university years, I endured cognitive dysfunction, panic disorder, derangement of ego, suicidal ideation, and depression. Despite these challenges, I have actively engaged in social skills training, supervised virtual reality content, led self-help groups, and published papers on my experiences. I will discuss my own experiences as an expert-by-experience and describe the tendencies of professional ableism consciousness that I encountered during my journey of recovery. Through the lens of my …

Invasive Squamous Cell Carcinoma Arising After Digit Amputation: A Case Study, Thy Nguyen, Leon Liu, Yin Kan Hwee, Mohammadali Shoja, Gary Schwartz

HCA-NSU MD Research Day

INTRODUCTION Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC), a malignant skin tumor, is commonly associated with osteomyelitis. Although an unusual occurrence, it is speculated that the tumor can spread along the tendon sheaths of the hand. The risk of malignant transformation is considerably increased in patients with a history of amputation. This may necessitate additional screening, amputation, or surgical repair of the defect. CASE PRESENTATION We present a patient with a progressively enlarging mass in his left hand following a prior finger amputation, which was later diagnosed as invasive SCC with concurrent osteomyelitis. Initial surgery involved mass excision and ray amputation of the …

Caracterización Lingüístico-Discursiva De Los Mecanismos De Despersonalización Y Posicionamiento Del Autor En El Género Médico Ficha Clínica, David Sanchez-Jimenez, Paulina Meza

Publications and Research

El dominio de géneros especializados es una competencia que representa gran dificultad para los estudiantes en formación. Su falta de dominio puede impedir o retrasar el proceso de enculturación de un individuo en una comunidad. Para formar adecuadamente a los estudiantes en las prácticas discursivas disciplinares, son necesarios datos empíricos sobre las características lingüístico-discursivas de los textos que deben producir. El objetivo de esta investigación cualitativa es describir los recursos lingüístico-discursivos de despersonalización y posicionamiento del autor en el género médico Ficha clínica. El corpus está constituido por 52 Fichas clínicas producidas por estudiantes de medicina de una universidad chilena. …

Implementing Online Educational Modules To Introduce Specialty Disability Care To Students In Undergraduate Nursing Programs, Keegan Brunner, Molly Helton

James Madison Undergraduate Research Journal (JMURJ)

In 2016, 1 in 4 adults reported living with a disability in the United States; however, few nursing schools include education about how to best care for these individuals in their curricula. Studies have found that when nurses and other healthcare workers have better attitudes toward patients with disabilities, it leads to better health outcomes. The literature suggests that education and exposure are the most effective ways to increase positive attitudes toward disabled communities. This study offered Equity Access modules titled “Disability and Healthcare” and “Accessibility” developed by Duquesne University to pre-professional health students planning on pursuing Nursing degrees at …

Challenges Of Conceptualizing, Creating, And Researching The History Of South Louisiana Hospitals, Chandler D. Smith, Jennifer K. Lloyd

Library Faculty Publications

Objective: To create a resource guide on closed and relocated historical hospitals in the southern region of Louisiana, documenting rural and urban hospitals with their address, years open, interesting facts, and photographs if available.

Methods: A reference question about a historical hospital in the area prompted the idea, as when doing research for information about the hospital, it was more challenging than initially thought it would be to find photos and other information. Information was collected from a wide range of sources such as directories, newspaper and magazine articles, government reports, etc. Using this information, we have built a public …

Demographic Characteristics, Perinatal Smoking Patterns, And Risk For Neonatal Health Complications Among Pregnant Smokers In The United States Who Begin Using Electronic Cigarettes During Pregnancy: A Descriptive Study Using Population-Based Surveillance Data., Hui Nian, Rachel Odland, Samantha Mindlin, Lin Ammar, Hilary Tindle, Angela M Miller, Kelli K Ryckman, Ethan Xie, Tina V Hartert, Brittney M Snyder, Steven M Brunwasser, Pingsheng Wu

Rowan-Virtua School of Osteopathic Medicine Departmental Research

INTRODUCTION: Health agencies have called for research evaluating e-cigarette (EC) use in supporting prenatal smoking cessation. This study aimed to describe (1) the characteristics of smokers who begin using electronic cigarettes (ECs) during pregnancy, (2) how frequently smokers reduce or eliminate pre- and post-natal combustible cigarette (CC) use, and (3) the risk for neonatal health complications among smokers who initiate ECs during pregnancy.

AIMS AND METHODS: Pregnant women using CCs exclusively during prepregnancy, who participated in a U.S. surveillance study, were classified by their reported late-pregnancy smoking behavior as CC-exclusive users, EC initiators, or quitters. EC initiators were further subclassified …

“Ups And Downs, Joys And Sorrows” – Assessment And Clinical Relevance Of Patient Priorities In An Interdisciplinary Parkinson’S Disease Clinic, Esme D. Trahair, Allison M. Allen, Sneha Mantri

Journal of Patient-Centered Research and Reviews

Purpose: Barriers to communication and inaccurate provider assumptions about patient priorities limit the delivery of comprehensive, high-quality, patient-centered care (PCC) to people with Parkinson’s (PWP). This study aimed to analyze priorities of PWP using a qualitative, unstructured single-question survey and to test associations with validated quality of life (QOL) measures.

Methods: During appointments at a subspecialty, interdisciplinary clinic, PWP (n = 139) provided written responses to the prompt: “What is important for your care team to know about you?” Patient Health Questionnaire, Montreal Cognitive Assessment, and Hoehn and Yahr scales were obtained through retrospective chart review. Key qualitative themes were …

Predisposing, Enabling, And Need Factors Influencing Health-Related Quality Of Life Among People With Metabolic Syndrome, Olajide Adekunle, Yun Wang, Ismaeel Yunusa, Marc L. Fleming, Enrique Seoane-Vazquez, Lawrence M. Brown

Pharmacy Faculty Articles and Research

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Finding The Right Mentor & Maintaining The Relationship Through Key Conversations, Adebisi Alli, Ankita Sagar, Eliza Lo Chin, Paulina Awuah-Saadiq, Susan Thompson Hingle

Journal of Wellness

No abstract provided.

Ghost, Caroline Tourgee

Narrative Medicine: Essays on Health and Care

No abstract provided.

Is Compassion The Ultimate Medicine?, Colleen Dorrian

Narrative Medicine: Essays on Health and Care

No abstract provided.

Him Again?, Alex Beauchene

Narrative Medicine: Essays on Health and Care

No abstract provided.

How Well Do You Know Your Insurance?, Kate Lindquist

Narrative Medicine: Essays on Health and Care

No abstract provided.

My Journey With Tinnitus, Jack Curtain

Narrative Medicine: Essays on Health and Care

No abstract provided.

Coordinated Care, Catherine Terminello

Narrative Medicine: Essays on Health and Care

No abstract provided.

Language Barriers And The Quality Of Care, Vanessa Colina

Narrative Medicine: Essays on Health and Care

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Lost In Translation, Demiana Boutros

Narrative Medicine: Essays on Health and Care

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