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Impact of Diabetes Self-Management Education on Hemoglobin A1c Levels in the Rural Patient Population
Get PDFThe global prevalence of type 2 diabetes is one of the greatest health threats in society, especially in the rural population. Rural healthcare data analysis has proved a need for type 2 diabetes control education. Despite the existence of helpful diabetes control interventions, rural diabetes patients still struggle to maintain healthy behaviors, with about 60% of the patients recording hemoglobin A1c levels above 9. Many suffer severe conditions (e.g., stroke, kidney failure, and heart attacks) because of poor management of the condition. The project examined the impact of diabetes self-management education on hemoglobin A1c levels in the rural patient population. This research involved educating the clinical staff to better educate their type 2 diabetes patients with Hgb A1c levels above 9 using the CDC DSMES program. The project implemented nurseled DSMES toolkit surveys before and after the implementation, and information was collected within 3 months to determine the change in hemoglobin A1c levels pre- and postsurvey (see Appendix C). It utilized a quantitative quasi-experimental research design. This design was effective because of the comparative nature of the research and surveys were the primary data collection method. The sample on the research’s scope was a group of 40 patients with type 2 diabetes whose Hgb A1c was at 9 or above and were on oral medications. The participants were involved in an interactive DSMES program led by nurses at the clinic. After 3 months, participants Hgb A1C levels and a survey were conducted to assess the patients’ improvements (see Appendix C). The analysis indicated a 0.3% reduction in the mean hemoglobin A1c levels of the patients. The mean Hgb A1c levels improved from 10.1% (0.61) to 9.8% (0.58) after the DSMES intervention. The project concluded that more personalized nurse-led DSMES interventions were more impactful than most contemporary DSMES type 2 diabetes management strategies
A Teacher-Development Curriculum: Encouraging Community Discipleship through Faith and Learning Integration at Bracken Christian High School
Get PDFThe title of this project is “A Teacher-Development Curriculum: Encouraging Community Discipleship through Faith and Learning Integration at Bracken Christian High School.” The purpose of the project was to create a seven-part curriculum that would empower educators to form an interconnected teaching community centered upon the practice of faith and learning integration. The development team hoped our work would articulate good practices and equip teachers to engage in faith conversations with their students. We utilized Parker Palmer’s classic, The Courage to Teach, as the scaffolding for our curriculum. The development team modeled faith and learning integration by creating a curriculum that maintained a Christocentric orientation and applied biblical literacy to deepen the wisdom of Palmer’s work for our context.
The theological foundations for this project dissertation are rooted in discipleship, theosis, and the fellowship that flows through a rightly ordered spiritual body. God reveals the imago Dei (God’s image) in individuals so that each person can take his or her place in the missio Dei (God’s mission). In conforming to the image of Christ, we necessarily find ourselves devoted to the collective care of one another. I suggest that a new word—tableship—should be considered as a replacement for the word fellowship because tableship better expresses the meaning of the Greek word koinonia, a word related to community, communion, and that which believers hold in common. Through theosis—participation in God’s divinity via conforming to the image of Christ—educators can discover the loving work of tableship in the context of vocational teaching
A Phenomenological Study of the Lack of Preparedness of Recent Graduates in Sports Management Businesses in the Northeastern United States
Get PDFThis study sought to facilitate a better understanding of the competitive nature of private sports management businesses that provide coaches and sports programming for school systems and townships. The problem investigated by the study involved how the significant lack of preparedness of recent sports management/education graduates in the northeastern United States impacts professional development and the ability of organizations to compete, reduce undesirable turnover, and retain talent. The purpose of the study was to understand why recent sports management/education graduates were unprepared in three critical areas: leadership capability, managing interpersonal conflict, and effectiveness in working on diverse teams. A qualitative approach was utilized in the research design and method, and qualitative interviews were the research tool. The findings centered on how the three crucial areas of leadership capability, interpersonal conflict, and diversity were vital aspects of developing and maintaining a sustainable employee base to be competitive in the current marketplace. As a result, this study’s findings and proposed solutions ought to matter to human resources practitioners and organizational leaders alike. Keywords: diverse teams of employees, interpersonal conflict, leadership development, sports managemen
A Phenomenological Study of Hispanic First-Generation High School Graduates Who Do Not Pursue Higher Education
Get PDFThis phenomenological study identified why only 47% of Hispanic first-generation studentspursue college after high school graduation. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the highschool graduate enrollment rate was down about 4% compared to the 66.2% rate in October2019. The data collection and analysis procedures included qualitative interviews over Zoomwith the participants, with recording devices. High schools should provide opportunities forstudents to explore various career paths through internships, job shadowing, career fairs, andvocational training programs. This helps students make informed decisions about their collegemajor and career goals.Keywords: first-generation student, Hispanic, Latino, leadership, persistence, school leadership, transformational leadershi
Developing a Resource Guide for the Texas Occupational Therapy Entrepreneur
Get PDFThis capstone experience aimed to develop a resource guide for the Texas Occupational Therapy (OT) entrepreneur under the mentorship of a Texas OT private practice owner. Private practices in OT bring unique value to the field by providing greater flexibility with treatment approaches and enhanced patient autonomy in plans of care. Unfortunately, small business failure is common in the first year of operation. Occupational Therapy Practitioners (OTPs) who aspire to launch a private practice face many barriers to small business success, primarily due to a lack of training in administrative and business management skills. However, a wealth of small business support resources exists to assist this population. Interviews with various Texas OT entrepreneurs, combined with a survey of this population, provided data highlighting the common challenges of starting an OT small business and identifying valuable resources to include in the guide. This capstone experience revealed that despite the abundance of resources available to the public, they are often difficult to locate. Additionally, it was revealed that pertinent information on the basic requirements for starting a business is also difficult to access for OTPs without a background in business education. This capstone project was created to streamline access to useful resources for the Texas OTP entrepreneurial community and to ensure that all essential steps for starting a business in the OT field are accessible to readers. This project aims to raise awareness of the challenges of launching a small business while empowering OTPs to become successful entrepreneurs
Reading in Frames: A Guide for Homiletics
Get PDFThe past thirty years have witnessed an explosion in volume of work produced within Homiletics. The sheer variety of topics, questions, themes, orientations, and points of emphasis can make it intimidating for a working preacher to engage in these resources or know where to begin. The options seem too broad; the approaches, issues, and resources so diverse as to become unwieldy. Said differently, those of us within the field of Homiletics are prone to look upon this expansion as a form of “Pentecost” in which the diversity is a gift that can lead one to better preaching. Yet the question remains of how to help working preachers – those who engage in the practice while perhaps not participating in the conversations about the practice to the same degree – orient themselves to this diversity so that they too can experience it as a Pentecost and not a Tower of Babel. This article intends to help with just this issue; offering both a heuristic way of organizing the literature one finds within the field of Homiletics and an annotated bibliography of representative works from which one might launch an exploration