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Creation and Evolution: Darwin and God Today
No full textDr. Elizabeth Johnson, Distinguished Professor of Theology at Fordham University, will explore the idea that God creates by empowering the evolving world of species to make itself, all the while accompanying this world through its suffering and emergence into endless forms most beautiful. This lecture is co-sponsored by the Nicholas and Bernice Reuter Professorship in Science and Religion, The Saint John’s School of Theology/Seminary, and the Koch Chair in Catholic Thought and Culture
The Usefulness of Bridging Inferences and Elaboration Strategies in Comprehension
Get PDFReading is an essential part of everyday life. Within reading, there has been a noticed deficit in the ability to comprehend science texts (McNamara, 2017). The self-explanation reading strategy training (SERT) is a training program that provides strategies to help with the comprehension of texts (McNamara, 2017). SERT has six strategies that assist in reading comprehension, and allow a reader to go beyond a text to make connections. Of the strategies, we focused on bridging inferences and elaborations (making relevant connections to prior knowledge) that the readers generated as a way to comprehend the text in this study. We found that SERT increased the accuracy, apparent relationships and contribution averages for elaborations and increased accuracy for bridging. In conclusion, the process and process-product instructions led to the best comprehension processing. These results speak to the importance of focusing on particular strategies during reading and not just the end product
Predictors and Effects of E-Cigarette Usage
Get PDFThis panel presentation will address Juul\u27s e-cigarette marketing campaign and the Truth Initiative\u27s counter campaign. In addition, our Communication 346 Capstone class will discuss overall e-cigarette usage on campus, known predictors of usage, general attitudes toward e-cigarettes, and potential health related outcomes. We will conclude with suggestions for an upcoming health promotion campaign addressing the information needs of students regarding the effects of e-cigarette usage
Pain Evaluation In Patients with Dementia at Saint Benedict\u27s Senior Community
Get PDFThis project addressed the increased rate of pain levels in a long term care facility in
St. Cloud Minnesota. The facility was ranked in the 98th percentile for pain when comparing this
site to all other long term care facilities in Minnesota. The facility had implemented a new pain
assessment guide within the last five years and had education sessions with staff, yet residents
were still ranking their pain high on the 0-10 pain scale. Our project was focusing on a specific
group of patients in long term care which include dementia patients. A survey was conducted
that asked a variety of questions in regard to their current pain scale and presented new
questions that the newest literature found effective when assessing pain levels in dementia
patients who are not able to communicate to staff themselves. An education brochure was
handed out to RN’s and LPN’s who conduct pain assessments in this facility. The first brochure
included a new type of pain scale- The Abbey Pain Scale and a new advancement of
technology is called the Point-of-Care Technology (ePAT). A second brochure was handed out
in regard to general information about dementia patients that included behaviors associated with
pain and nurses perception on pain assessments with dementia patients. A second survey was
conducted to assess the knowledge gained by nurses from this new study of pain scales in
comparison to the one this facility is using now. The goal of this project will be to educate nurses
in long term care about the more recent research and literature in regard to the advancement
and effectiveness of new pain scales and technology for dementia patient