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Stronger Together Newsletter, November 2024
Get PDFLGBTQ+ History Month, What Happened in the Office for Inclusive Excellence, Multicultural Center, Departmental Spotlight: College of Health Professionals, Building Pathways Physician Assistant Careers for Minority Youth, Pioneer Spotlight: Tara Ettienn
Stronger Together Newsletter, May 2024
Get PDFWhat Happened in the Office for Inclusive Excellence, Multicultural Center Updates, Pride Night Collab/Kyle’s Article, End of Year Celebration, S.A.G.E. Center Updates, Lavendar Graduation, 11 Inclusive Excellence Departmental Spotlight, Inclusive Excellence Individual Spotligh
Bridging the gap in health literacy: A Quality Improvement Project
No full textBackground: Health literacy is an important factor for healthcare outcomes. Measuring healthcare outcomes continues to be traditionally performed after implementation of interventions, however, the aspect of healthcare literacy pertaining to these outcomes is not always measured or evaluated. Understanding the patient’s health literacy can assist the provider to create and include individualized education at the patient’s knowledge level to increase comprehension, compliance, medication adherence and ultimately increase positive health outcomes.
Project Goals
1. Assess baseline literacy for the patients who appear in the practice for a visit over a three-month period.
2. Implementing the measurable METER tool which can provide a literacy score
3. Identify which patients score in the “low health literacy” after collecting data.
4. Provide tailored education to patients based on their health literacy scores from the METER tool to improve outcomes and level of comprehension, utilizing teach-back method.
Methods: The Health Belief framework (Janz & Becker, 1984) utilizes four dimensions; perceived susceptibility, perceived severity, perceived benefits and perceived barriers, to guide this projects implementation and evaluation of comprehension, with the completion of a health literacy assessment tool to measure the patients’ level of comprehension prior to the start of their visit.
Results: Survey results indicate 76% of patients demonstrate functional health literacy, 17% of patients demonstrate marginal health literacy, and 7% of patients demonstrate low health literacy.
Conclusion: Health literacy assessment may improve compliance, medication adherence, comprehension, ultimately leading to improved healthcare outcomes
Reclaiming Sacrifice: Integrating Girardian and Feminist Insights on the Cross
No full textMany Christians profess that Jesus died as a sacrifice for sins. The Catholic Mass is even understood as a “sacrifice.” Some take issue with this language, for it seems to put forward an idea of God that is implicated in vengeance and violence. Why would God accept the murder of an innocent man as a sacrifice for sin? As important as this question is, there is a more fundamental question: What does it mean to say that Jesus dies as a sacrifice for sin
Illumination and sonic synesthesia : present and absent ornamentation in Hildegard von Bingen
No full textPersonal Traits and Formalization of Entrepreneurial Ventures: Insights From a Developing Country
Get PDFPurpose– The purpose of this study is to explore how the personal traits of the informal entrepreneurs influence their formalization decisions.
Design/methodology/approach– This study adopted a qualitative approach using a multicase design in which 28 informal entrepreneurs situated in Kampala district, Uganda, were engaged. An interview guide, recorders and note books were used in data collection.
Findings– The results indicate that the traits of informal and semiformal entrepreneurs are distinct. Informal entrepreneurs have been noted to be more courageous and resilient, while their semiformal counterparts have greater passion for their businesses. It is thus observed that the formalization prospects are higher for the semiformal entrepreneurs than for their informal counterparts. Entrepreneurs that would be willing to formalize their businesses are discouraged by distance, technology and the cost of involving middlemen. Whereas the resilient entrepreneurs are noted to work through these challenges, the passive ones in both the informal and semiformal categories will not formalize their businesses by giving such excuses.
Originality/value– This study contributes to the extant literature on informal entrepreneurship by providing initial empirical evidence on how the personal traits of the entrepreneurs influence their formalization decisions specifically
Faculty Peer Coaching in Higher Education: Opportunities, Explorations, and Research from the Field
No full textPeer coaching is a collaborative, reciprocal practice where faculty members observe, reflect, and improve their instructional practices with the goal of improved learning for all students. This edited book includes chapters describing faculty peer coaching initiatives in universities world-wide. Section one includes chapters that give an overview of what faculty peer coaching is and what the benefits of faculty peer coaching can be. The second section of the book explores the theoretical and practical implications of engaging in faculty peer coaching and the trust and vulnerability that comes along with opening up your instructional practices to a colleague. Section three of the book includes several examples of peer coaching initiatives across various disciplines in higher education settings. Section four situates peer coaching in the broader institutional framework. This book is a must for leaders of faculty development initiatives, directors and staff from teaching & learning centers, department chairs, faculty, graduate students, deans, student services staff, chief academic officers, and educational consultants
Circulation Desk Summer 2011
No full textCirculation desk during summer 2011 construction.https://digitalcommons.sacredheart.edu/libraryhistoryphotos/1028/thumbnail.jp