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Designing the Implementation Plan for Success and Sustainability
No full textThis is the eighth article in a new series designed to provide readers with insight into educating nurses about evidence-based decision-making (EBDM). It builds on AJN\u27s award-winning previous series-Evidence-Based Practice, Step by Step and EBP 2.0: Implementing and Sustaining Change (to access both series, go to https://links.lww.com/AJN/A133). This follow-up series on EBDM will address how to teach and facilitate learning about the evidence-based practice (EBP) and quality improvement (QI) processes and how they impact health care quality. This series is relevant for all nurses interested in EBP and QI, especially DNP faculty and students. The brief case scenario included in each article describes one DNP student\u27s journey. To access previous articles in this EBDM series, go to https://links.lww.com/AJN/A256
Spectrum, Volume 55, Issue 9
No full textHighlights include: Remembering Kristallnacht: Annual Commemoration -- Understanding the Meal Plan Changes on Campus -- 50 Years of Professor Domenick Pinto -- Women in STEM: Finding Strength in Community -- Sleepless Students -- Rothenberg Shines as Pioneers Close Fall Season -- Editorial: Athletes Crisis on Mental Healt
Critical Approaches to Crisis Communication in the Classroom and Higher Education Contexts
No full textBuilding on the frameworks of critical communication pedagogy and critical/social constructionist approaches to crisis communication, contributors to this volume demonstrate the critical importance of communication in the higher education context, a particularly ripe breeding ground for these crises. Contributors address a broad range of topics relating to higher education divided into three major categories - interpersonal and community crises; social, political, and institutional crises; and the development of pedagogical strategies and technologies in response to crises - in order to provide a thorough, well-rounded examination that will be of interest to a widely interdisciplinary audience. This book is not just about weathering crises; it\u27s about reimagining higher education as a space where crises become opportunities for transformative learning and systemic change
Addressing Crises Through Interdisciplinary Education: A Critical Service-learning Project in Public Relations and Womens Gender and Sexuality Studies
No full textThe Power of Joy in Education: Exploring the Impact of Joyous Pedagogy on Exclusionary Discipline at a Diverse Middle School
No full textEducators’ emotional well-being plays a crucial role in shaping classroom environments, student-teacher relationships, and disciplinary responses; yet it remains an often-overlooked factor in addressing school inequities. This study emphasizes the importance of joyous pedagogy as a key element of educator well-being by examining whether cultivating joy could positively impact teachers’ responses to student behavior, enhance classroom relationships, and decrease their reliance on exclusionary discipline practices that disproportionately affect Black and Hispanic students. Guided by the principles of improvement science and grounded in the PERMA model of well-being, this mixed-methods correlational study was conducted as a six-week professional learning intervention aimed at evaluating the impact of educator joy on student behavioral practices at a diverse middle school. Quantitative data included daily ecological momentary assessments of joy, discipline referral records, and a PERMA Profiler, while qualitative data were collected through focus groups, participants’ journal entries, and exit interviews. Quantitative findings revealed a statistically significant negative correlation between educator joy and exclusionary discipline incidents (r = –0.786, p \u3c 0.001), indicating that increases in educator joy were associated with decreases in exclusionary discipline incidents. The PERMA Profiler results showed significant growth in the areas of positive emotion, meaning, and accomplishment, with smaller or inconsistent changes in engagement and relationships. Qualitative findings highlighted factors that impacted educator joy, including student behavior, student-teacher relationships, collegial support, personal factors, and workload. The results revealed that joy, often classified as a positive emotion within the PERMA framework, is a uniquely powerful and transformative force in advancing educational equity and should be integrated across all dimensions of PERMA. This study contributes to the growing body of research on joy in education by demonstrating its ability to enhance educator well-being while offering a pathway from exclusionary discipline practices toward more equitable learning environments
Strengthening Educators\u27 Metacognitive Instructional And Assessment Practices To Support The Academic Achievement Of Juvenile Justice-Involved Youth
Get PDFThis mixed methods Improvement Science Dissertation in Practice (ISDiP) explored the impact of strengthening educators’ use of metacognitive instructional and assessment practices on lesson planning and delivery to support the academic achievement of juvenile-justice involved youth (JJ youth) in a Juvenile Detention Center School (JDC). During an eight-week intervention, the teaching staff of the JDC participated in professional development (PD) sessions, individual coaching, and classroom observations. The resulting data included exit slips following PD sessions, researcher field notes, the metacognitive observation support rubric, and feedback from a focus group. The results indicate that the JDC educators strengthened their capacity to plan lessons to incorporate metacognitive practices by writing student-facing learning targets using “I” statements. Educators intentionally planned lessons to demonstrate metacognitive skills by identifying which learning skills to model and showcasing the Planning, Monitoring, and Evaluating metacognitive element Skill steps. Educators credited their changes in lesson planning to their enhanced capacity to predict and meet student needs, develop effective lessons, and emphasize student learning. Educators preferred the metacognitive elements of Modeling, Prompting, and Monitoring in classroom use, and identified metacognitive practices as a strategy to deepen student learning, add value to learning, improve student motivation, and build student self-awareness. Last, most educators identified the support provided by coaching as a primary lever for strengthening their capacity; some educators reported that the combination of coaching and professional development provided the individualized support and knowledge necessary to improve their understanding and use of metacognitive practices
Riot, Resistance, and Revolution: The Stonewall Riots and the Progression of the Queer Movement in the 1970s
No full textThe mid-20th century was a period of activism across both the political and social landscape of the United States, ranging from racism to sexism and homophobia. The 1960s were especially pivotal for these groups and this paper provides context on the movements of the LGBTQ+ community and the effects of the Stonewall Riots of June 1969 in lower Manhattan. Giving context to what life before the Stonewall Riots was like in the United States sets the stage for an accurate account of the Riots and events. Highlighting who was involved and the legacies that they left, such as Craig Rodwell and Martha P. Johnson, and their bouts of activism through this historic time for the community. This paper allowed me to question the purpose and cause in which so many people struggled and why change was needed at that very moment. Moving on from the accurate accounts, the paper moves into the progression of the Queer Movement in the 1970s and how the Stonewall Riots ignited something within thousands of people across the nation. From covering the emerging activist groups such as the GAA and GLF to college protests and even the Briggs Initiative, the 70s was a significant point in history for the LGBTQ+ community and paved the way for what was to come in the 1980s up until today. The rights of almost all members of the LGBTQ+ community currently fall on the line at the Capitol and I thought that this is an important topic to highlight and dive deeper into to educate others on the importance and acceptance of others. Having the ability to write this paper has reminded me to live life to the fullest and not ever let anyone tell you who you are supposed to be
Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) Protocol Impact
No full textThe Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) Model works to improve post-operative care for patients in all hospital settings. This presentation will identify the impacts this model can provide with a select set of pre-operative, intra-operative, and post-operative interventions. Evidence-based protocols are utilized in the ERAS model to offer better quality, patient-centered care. Healthcare systems are always looking to refine cost reduction strategies and limit complication outcomes. This model defines an intervention to change current standards and improve these care efforts for all patients undergoing surgery
The Use of Thermal Imaging For Pressure Injuries
Get PDFStage three and four pressure injuries are the most prevalent hospital acquired injuries throughout the entire state of Connecticut despite the fact that approximately ninety-five percent of all hospital acquired pressure injuries have been determined to have been preventable (Díaz-Caro & García Gómez-Heras, 2020). This illustrating that despite meticulous efforts to implement preventative measures, such as frequent turning and positioning, proper skin care and nutrition and pressure alleviating mattresses they are not being implemented fast enough to prevent injury or injury progression. The integration of thermal imaging upon admissions to all medical -surgical hospital units has been proven beneficial in preventing pressure injury development and progression. As health care providers it is important that the implementation of technology such as this is advocated for as it allows us to develop more efficient plans of care for our patients. In potentially eliminating or limiting a negative influence on our patients care we are helping to limit preventable injury, pain, and mortality for patients as well as excessive cost for both patients and health care facilities. According to research it is important to note that “In a world of increasing needs for cost-effectiveness and efficiency, it is necessary to use a new intelligent method to reach a faster and more objective clinical judgment of patients at pressure injury risk” (Cai et al., 2021). This recognizing that the use of thermal imaging in pressure injury identification and prevention can be a tremendous improvement upon current standard skin assessments which consist of partially subjective visual interpretations that do not allow for time efficient and beneficial plans of care to be established