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Flyer for The COVID-19 Pandemic And Healthcare Disparities
No full textFlyer for the webinar The COVID-19 Pandemic And Healthcare Disparities: Contemprary Perspective, Historical Context. Speakers were Bisola Ojikutu and Samuel K. Roberts. Co-sponsored by the Maguire Meservery College Of Health And Human Services, the Department Of Healthcare Studies, the Department of Nursing, and the School Of Social Work
Flyer for Towards Climate Justice
No full textFlyer for the webinar Towards Climate Justice: Centering Wabanaki Tribal Nations In Adaptation To Climate Change. Speaker was Darren Ranco
Does Kinesio Tape Improve Motor Function for Occupational Participation of Adults who have had a Stroke?
No full textMy presentation focuses on strokes and how individuals are impacted by spasticity, pain and difficulty with range of motion of the upper extremity which are common side effects of a stroke. Kinesio tape is a therapeutic tape used by occupational therapy practitioners applied to the upper extremity to lessen pain, reduce swelling and improve performance. The objective of this presentation is to find if kinesio tape improves motor function in order to participate in occupation
Examining the Effectiveness of an Online Training Program: Training Behavior Technicians to Implement a Task Analysis
No full textProposal describing how authors plan to evaluate the effectiveness of an online hybrid training program to teach behavior technicians to implement a Task Analysis. Online hybrid training program will be asynchronous and synchronous
Is the Lewis (LEW) Rat an appropriate control for the Spontaneously Hypertensive Rat (SHR) on a delay discounting task?
No full textThe Spontaneously Hypertensive rat (SHR), the most widely accepted rodent-model of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), is compared with its normotensive control the Wistar Kyoto (WKY) rat looking for between strains differences in impulsive choice. But the WKY is not a proper control for the SHR when the procedure requires locomotion to choose. The SHR has deficiencies in dopamine activity in nucleus accumbens causing lower tolerance to delayed outcomes than the WKY. Locomotion and anomalies in dopamine in the Lewis (LEW) rat are like those in the SHR, suggesting that the LEW is a good control for the SHR. This possibility was analyzed with SHRs and LEWs responding to concurrent-chains procedures. Choice was measured in the initial link where two random interval schedules arranged entries to two terminal links, one delivering 1-food pellet immediately and the other delaying 4-food pellets 0.1, 5, 10, 20, 40, or 80 s. Impulsive choice increased with increasing training, but the SHRs shown faster changes in preference making more impulsive choices than the LEWs. The hyperbolic-decay model and the generalized matching law fitted the data well. Positive correlations between discounting rate and sensitivity of choice to the immediacy of reinforcement suggest compatibility between models of choice
Lack of Utilization of Nutrition Services Among Community-Dwelling Elders and Reasons for Underutilization
No full textAs the elderly population grows, the need for services to help in the care of elders in the community expands. This poster provides evidence-based recommendations and emphasizes the key role primary care providers play in the education and initiation of referrals to the use of community-based nutrition services for eligible elderly patients
What Intervention Approaches Are Used By Healthcare Professionals to Address Sexual Function and Satisfaction in Adults With Physical Disabilities?
No full textThe exploration of sexual function and satisfaction interventions for adults with physical disabilities and next steps in research
Mechanical Control
No full textThis project researched the different points of view between a dance film and a live dance performance. I examined how camera angles can capture a different perspective by guiding the audience's eye. In a live performance, the audience is able to see the whole dance and self select what they focus on. This is not true for film because the director chooses what the audience sees. The camera may capture only some of the dancer's body, for example a hand or a foot
The Medicinal Value of Endophytes in Prunus serotina, the Wild Cherry Tree
No full textThe Prunus serotina otherwise known as the wild cherry tree has been used in herbal medicine for years. This research aimed to explore the connections between the isolated fungal endophytes of the tree with their potential medicinal uses
Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infection Reduction: Using Evidence to Inform Practice
No full textCentral line-associated bloodstream infections or CLABSIs cause major life-threatening illnesses that have a high prevalence rate within our healthcare industry today. CLABSIs not only cause potentially fatal consequences for patients, but also cost hospitals a substantial amount of money to treat these infections. CLABSIs can result from not only the insertion of the central line from a healthcare provider, but also in the central line care by nursing staff. Therefore, hospitals have implemented standardized “bundles” for central lines to try to reduce the overall amount of CLABSIs. However, many hospitals are not seeing a significant decrease in the number of infections from the time that they adopted these practices. A systematic review of literature was conducted using the CINAHL Plus database to investigate the efforts of trying to reduce the overall occurrence of CLABSIs and the success rates of these practices. Major themes include the implementation of bundles for central lines are not being consistently applied by those working at the bedside. Inconsistency with the implementation of bundles of care for central lines can be attributed to incomplete knowledge of what needs to be done; while the presence of written policies do not ensure policy compliance. Nurses are at the frontline to ensure patient safety and reducing patient risk for acquiring CLABSIs. It is important that nurses identify the barriers to compliance and collaborate to create effective strategies to promote patient safety and lower the overall occurrence of these life-threatening infections