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eHana Database in the Operations Department
No full textElectronic health records systems are essential to keep patients' and clients' information safe and secure from identity thieves and scammers. It is necessary to know the steps to navigate into the eHana (electronic health records) system to serve people better. The operations department at Bridgewell uses eHana to manage and upload files and documents from clients they serve. This project investigated how to navigate into eHana to help secure sensitive information for staff, faculty, and clients. It also considered how effective it is to use electronic health records, what can be included in the database, and how it works with the eHana database
Ultimate Kronos Group System: New Hire Aid
No full textThis project focused on the New Ultimate Kronos Group (UKG) system. This healthcare employee based digital program gives employees access to personal functions such as self-scheduling, timecard punches, time off requests, shift swaps, and shift pick-ups. Through the UKG tool staff members can do things on their own time and correct discrepancy between their personal schedule and information. This poster contains information on the importance of high performing digital tools such as UKG to ensure employee engagement and performance. UKG will facilitate employees providing better care to the public. Included in the poster is an overview of the implementation process with some of the recurring issues staff members had. A survey was also conducted to measure the efficacy of the implementation materials and to receive any suggestions
Changing the System While You Are in the System Is Not Easy: Creating Cultural Safety for Native American Students on Campus
Full text linkAs a Native American social work student and practicum supervisor, we describe a program evaluation at a campus Native American student services site and share insights on integrating Indigenous ways of knowing, cultural practices, and a justice orientation into identities and practices. We describe disseminating findings and student efforts to work within systems to make policy changes; however, changing a system—that constantly tells you that you (and who you are) are not meant to be there—while you are in the system is not easy. We describe key engagement concepts including microaggressions, stereotype threat, tokenism, resiliency, and survivance. We—as decolonizing social work scholars—provide a vision for how to move forward together in creating culturally safe classrooms, campuses, communities, and social work practices grounded in Indigenous ways of knowing and being
A Little Spice: Reflections on a First Visit After the Lockdown
Full text linkYounger persons living in long term care often come to care due to a lack of support, including social support from family and friends, which is a result of frail, fragmented and fractured relationships. My dissertation explored the experiences of socially isolated younger residents—defined as persons under the age of 65—who lived in long term care, where policies and procedures focus primarily on caring for older persons. My connections to these residents was abruptly cut off during the early lockdowns, associated with COVID-19. When the nursing homes reopened, I began to visit again. The qualitative data from these visits were the foundation for a poetic inquiry. This poem is one of the results
Coco Alinsug
Full text linkConstantino A., “Coco” Alinsug was born and raised in a political family in Cebu City in the Philippines. He is Lynn’s first openly gay city councilor. He comes from a family with a strong political and community tradition of service. Coco was the first Executive Director from Lynn of the North Shore Alliance of GLBTQ+ Youth, NAGLY. Coco came to the US in 1996 and has been a resident of Lynn since 2003, where he lives with his husband Peter. His November 2023 interview discusses growing up in the Philippines, family, religion, moving to America, volunteer work, relationships, 47 Central, chosen family, and community. Interview carried out by Andrew Darien
Daniel Bell
Full text linkDaniel Bell is the Protestant chaplain at Tufts University. He was born in 1986 and grew up in what he describes as a loving family in the suburb of Setauket, Long Island, NY. Reverend Bell is a graduate of Gordon College, where he studied history, biblical studies, and theology and completed a divinity degree at Yale University. In 2015, Daniel helped start a youth community group at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church supporting LGBTQ+ teens known as “Be You.” His October 2023 interview speaks about his faith community, reconciling his faith with his queer identity, coming out, finding support, community organizing, Be You, generational changes, and liberation for all. Interview carried out by Andrew Darien
From so simple a beginning: the Darwin Festival at 44
No full text“From so simple a beginning…” traces the origin and development of Salem State’s Darwin Festival over 44 years, by examining the role of mentors, networking, technology and unexpected contingencies, both in Darwin’s life and in the Festival
Reconstructing Environments of the Past: In what conditions did our ancestors survive and thrive?
No full textFrom the earliest primates to modern humans, our history as a species has been characterized by environmental change and variability. Through studying the geological record we can reconstruct the past environments associated with fossil primates and hominins. This allows us to build and test hypotheses about how climatic and tectonic processes shaped the eastern African ecosystems in which our species evolved and ultimately migrated from to colonize the globe
Penguins, Past and Present
No full textPenguins evolved more than 60 million years ago. The rich fossil record of these birds has revealed unexpected forms such as giant (300lb+) penguins, spear-billed penguins, and penguins with red and grey feathers. These fossils provide a window into how penguins lost flight and adapted to changing environmental conditions such as drifting continents, reorganization of Southern Ocean currents, and the onset of glacial-interglacial cycles. Increasingly, scientists are combining fossil data with observations from living penguins to gain a synthetic understanding of penguin evolution. Just this year, the complete genomes of all living penguins were sequenced, providing once unimaginable insight into species boundaries, aquatic adaptations to everything from vision to metabolism, and even population expansions and crashes during the last Ice Age
Factors Impacting Dental Health Disparities In Children In U.S.A.
Full text linkOne of the most chronic preventable childhood diseases is Dental caries; a major serious public health concern from infancy to age 18 in the USA. The two most common socio-economic factors cited for lack of dental caries treatment are lifetime poverty and low health literacy. Other factors include food insecurity, lack of nutritious foods, increased consumption of processed sugars, obesity, chronic health conditions, low-income status, lack of health and dental insurance, lack of affordable housing, lack of access to care, racial discrimination, decreased exposure to fluorides, and language barriers. Caries prevention and treatment programs in schools could help reduce the gap of untreated children. Private dental practices could attempt to improve this situation with free screening and referral programs