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Conversations on Race
Full text linkMore students of color enroll in U.S. colleges today than in previous decades due to changing demographics and rising aspirations. However, racist incidents on college campuses, persistent achievement gaps, and lack of faculty of color indicate there are race-related problems in higher education.
Research shows that conversations on race increase cultural competency, promote empathy, reduce prejudice, improve relations among conflict group members, and develop critical awareness of privilege and oppression. Yet, educational leaders rarely engage in racial conversations to affect systems change.
This paper examines the growing body of literature on the use of race conversations in schools and colleges. Additionally, it considers how race conversations might be aligned with systems thinking for dismantling structural racism within the higher education system
Educational Leadership: The Discrepancy of Gender Representation in Top Educational Leadership Positions
Full text linkA discrepancy exists between women and men in educational leadership roles. Presently desired leadership traits, stereotypes of women in leadership and mentoring specific to women in leadership are explored. Current research indicates that desired leadership traits are non-gender specific such as honesty, innovation, creativity, empathy, and collaboration. As well, that today’s effective educational leaders will need to focus on leadership that values practices of Mindfulness, Growth Mindset, participation in Professional Learning Communities, and awareness of Radical Inclusion. Stereotypes of women’s abilities to lead are investigated through a systems thinking lens. By using this lens, changes to the complex problems that have caused the discrepancy between men and women in educational leadership can begin to materialize
The Role of Treating Musculoskeletal Disorder and Stress in Dental Hygiene Students
No full textThis feasibility trial examined the potential of a 10-week adapted yoga intervention protocol for pain and stress management among dental hygiene students. Yoga has demonstrated to be effective in the prevention and treatment of pain and stress, both of which have been implicated as significant negative moderators of student performance and experience. Students self-selected into a yoga treatment or control condition. They completed stress and pain measures at the beginning, midpoint, end, and 1-month following treatment. Results suggested that a yoga intervention was feasible for this population and that active yoga practice can lower stress across multiple domains. A X-week yoga protocol appears to be an accessible option for dental hygiene programs that seek to support their students in improving their overall wellbeing
The Impact of Familial Ethnic Socialization on Parenting
No full textResearchers have identified the important influence family has on ethnic socialization. Most of the existing research focuses on the influence that family has on children but does not expand into adulthood. This study addresses the gap in the literature by examining whether the way in which one has been parented impacts one’s parenting style with regard to ethnic socialization. This question is examined for current and prospective parents. In this study, we first found that parental ethnic socialization did not significantly differ between current and prospective parents. Second, we found that greater familial ethnic socialization is significantly correlated with a stronger parental ethnic socialization for both current and prospective parents. These findings suggest that parents can consciously incorporate aspects of their ethnic background(s) into childrearing in order to encourage stronger ethnic socialization in their children and even further generations. This is especially relevant for anyone who may be concerned with how acculturation may impact future generations
The Effect of Acupuncture on Pain in Inpatient Medicine
Full text linkBackground: Pain management has become a controversial topic. Opioids, which once held the promise of improving quality of life for millions of Americans, have resulted in an epidemic of addiction. As a result, national organizations are investigating alternative methods to treat pain, including acupuncture. The purpose of this review is to investigate the effect of acupuncture on the general symptom of pain, within the context of the controlled environment of inpatient medicine.
Methods: An exhaustive search of MEDLINE-Ovid, CINAHL, and Web of Science was conducted using the search terms acupuncture, inpatient, and pain. Included studies measured pain scores before and after acupuncture treatments in U.S. inpatient medical settings. Additional inclusion criteria were study design (interventional studies, and cohort studies), English language, and publication type (peer-reviewed journals). Studies were excluded if they compared acupuncture treatment to sham, due to controversy surrounding sham. Studies were also excluded if they did not analyze effects of acupuncture separate from other alternative health modalities. Quality of publications were assessed using GRADE criteria.
Results: Seven studies were included in this systematic review, meeting the inclusion and exclusion criteria: two pre-post studies, four cohort studies, and one randomized control trial (RCT). All included studies showed acupuncture significantly reduced immediate pain in an inpatient setting, regardless of the underlying cause of pain. However, overall quality of evidence was low as a result of lack of control groups, lack of blinding, loss to follow up, reporting bias, and small sample size.
Conclusion: Every study that met criteria for this review showed data promising for acupuncture’s capacity to decrease pain in an inpatient setting. However, study design flaws limited confidence in the data. Ultimately, further research is needed