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A Program Evaluation of a Clinic’s Breast Cancer Screening Process
Full text linkBackgroundBreast cancer is the most common cancer across all ethnic groups with 270,000 women in the U.S. diagnosed yearly (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2023). Breast cancer is the second causative factor of death in women with mortality estimates greater than 42,000 annually. Screening and early referral is essential. Mammography is the gold standard for detecting early, non-palpable, and preventable cancers. Primary care clinics can impact screening efforts by creating policies and utilizing electronic health records (EHR) to identify, track, and notify adult female patients who meet recommendations for breast cancer screening (BCS).
PurposeThe purpose of this Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) project was to evaluate the use and satisfaction of the critical note header (CNH) and its impact on (BCS) rates.
MethodsThis project was a program evaluation of screening rates pre- and post-CNH implementation in a primary care clinic using the CDC evaluation framework. Results/Findings: Use of the CNH, at an Eastern Washington clinic, had a significant effect (p=.02) in identifying females meeting eligibility recommendations for BCS. Screening rates increased 4.75% post-CNH implementation.
ConclusionsRoutine BCS is critical in preventing or reducing a woman’s breast cancer risk, late-stage diagnosis, and the improvement of overall breast cancer morbidity and mortality rates. Utilization of the CNH electronic reminder was shown to improve BCS rates at this clinic, enhanced practice, and reduced missed screening opportunities
Keynote
No full textPete Neeley, S.J., of the Kino Border Initiative, will be the keynote speaker for the event. Fr. Neeley, a Jesuit and GU alumnus, spends time at the U.S./ Mexico border completing advocacy and service work. He helps run the Center for Community Engagement’s Justice In January program.
Fr. Neeley\u27s work will inform the conversation of the conference:
“[At the] heart of his work is a resolve to restore humanity to the immigration conversation, which he advocates, ‘is more complex than what is portrayed by statistics in news stories, he seeks to engage in respectful dialogue with people from the US Border Patrol tasked with enforcing immigration law, but also with those who are directly impacted like immigrants and community members who are supporting migrants who are being deported from the U.S.” See more at Kaya Crawford\u27s article for the Gonzaga Bulletin
Know Your Rights
No full textBreakout Session #2This presentation would give students the tools to know and exercise their rights in the current political and social environment. Topics that will be covered include: people\u27s rights when interacting with law enforcement (including immigration/border enforcement agencies), but we will also discuss people\u27s rights when protesting and how to be civil advocates. The goal is to make sure students are aware of their voice and know how to use it to the greatest effect for the purpose of enacting change in their community at the local and federal level
Native Nations’ Social Enterprise: A Tribal Critical Race Theory Model
Full text linkThis study applies Tribal Critical Race Theory in the Native business domain to analyze six distinct Native Nations’ approaches to for-profit enterprises by and through Native stories and voices. Specifically, Native management and legal scholars conducted a qualitative study asking Native American business leaders 24 open-ended questions pertaining to their experience in Native Nations Social Enterprise in order to critically analyze legal, organizational, business, social and cultural practices in this unique setting. Based on our findings, we build a model for Native Nations’ Social Enterprise as embedded in and affected by dominant culture’s legal, organizational and business norms, and through Native cultural values toward social and environmental sustainability. Framed using the tenets of Tribal Critical Race Theory, the model challenges Nation building as filtered through a non-Native legal, organizational and business economic lens, as assimilative forces that constrain Nation building. It conveys the root concerns toward interconnectedness of the People, Native culture, the environment, past and future generations, but these are not evidenced by creative Native adaptations. By exposing contradictory structures, norms and values, our analysis may enable greater transformation to enhance honoring past generations and encourage adaptive alternative Native enterprises
Coyote Learns Indigenous Academic Writing
Full text linkThe Indigenous Business and Public Administration journal, IBAPA, strives to be a space where Native and Indigenous authors can de-colonize themselves from academic constraints and have a place where they can share their work to the greater Native and Indigenous community who could immediately benefit from their research. To accomplish this, IBAPA strongly encourages its authors to write in conversational styles, appropriate for their communities, while still retaining high standards for scholarship rigor. IBAPA’s expectations for its contributors is described through a Native-style Coyote story
Working with Families of Individuals with Disabilities
No full textChildren will disabilities often have deficits in social communication and can engage in repetitive or restrictive behavior. Additionally, individuals with disabilities can engage in problem behavior such as aggression, self-injury, and tantrums. These behavioral deficits and behavioral excesses can cause challenges for families. This poster will review literature discussing the impact of autism on family members, the selection of interventions for in-home-based services, the effects of autism over the lifespan of the individual, and ways to support family members of children with ASD
Importance of Culturally Responsive Assessments for Kids with Disabilities
No full textAssessments play a critical role in identifying and supporting children with disabilities; however, traditional assessment practices may not always account for diverse cultural, linguistic, and socio-economic backgrounds of students and their families. This poster will evaluate research discussing the importance and impact of using culturally responsive assessment practices to ensure effective and appropriate interventions are utilized in teaching students with disabilities where decisions are made considering student diversity
Normalizing Period in Women’s Sports
No full textThis poster reports the findings of female dropout rate in sports as it relates to periods and uniforms. Nuffield Health published a study in 2023 revealing that an alarming 84% of girls quit sports after their first period. It\u27s mainly due to the stigma around periods. Young female athletes should be focusing on their sport and not the fear of menstruation that society has created. Society’s negative perception of periods diminishes the dignity of women. It is especially detrimental to athletes because at every level they are performing on a local or world stage with people scrutinizing their every move. It is important that women feel empowered as they play through their period versus demoralized by society. For this change to happen we need to work as a society to normalize periods and make them as common as a nose bleed. We want to inform coaches, athletic trainers, mentors, as well as the athletes themselves about menstrual cycle issues that are being faced throughout sports and bring more awareness among these groups. The goal of this poster is to educate and destigmatize periods as well as help girls and women feel more confident in their sport as they play through periods
Using Technology to Help Adolescents Achieve Diabetic Management
No full textResearch Question: How does lifestyle affect the prevalence of Type 2 DM among the youth
A Reconceptualization of Servant-Leadership and Measurement
No full textServant-Leadership (SL) has been gaining traction as an evidence-based leadership theory and there are a range of existing measurement tools focused on self-report attitudes, beliefs, opinions, and behaviors. Concordia University Irvine has embedded a SL framework throughout all programs of study offered by the School of Education in order to encourage current and future education professionals in their understanding of servant-leadership as an effective way to lead. It was determined that a published instrument did not exist for measuring knowledge growth as a pre- and post-test focused on increased understanding. Work to define SL in terms of four specific virtues (i.e., honesty, compassion, humility, and courage) has preceded the development of an instrument to assess program effectiveness in teaching about SL virtues. The Rasch measurement model, one of the family of Item Response Theory models, was employed as the means for providing findings that align with the goal of measuring students’ before-and-after knowledge base as well as information useful for gauging program effectiveness. A research agenda is presented as a call for future steps necessary in order to turn the definitions, as described in this paper, into items and a validated measurement instrument with virtue subscales that can be used to generate research-based data regarding students’ knowledge of SL and the effectiveness of programmatic efforts in that direction