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Bibliography of Prior Literature Relevant to Research Development
Get PDFThis document contains references that were included in the original Mendeley citation library established by Holly J. Falk-Krzesinski, added by NORDP members after the library was established, or included by the task force as a result of either personal knowledge or bibliographic tracing. While not exclusive, this bibliography represents a nucleus of the extant literature relevant to research development, and can serve as a resource for RD professionals going forward
S18, E08: Unoccupied Territories (Aired 2/28/2025)
Get PDFIn the sixth and final episode in this series, Nia and Aughie talk about the unoccupied, but still interesting, US territories.https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/civil_discourse/1263/thumbnail.jp
Utilizing EPIC to Improve Efficiency of Pre-anesthesia Evaluations for Surgical Patients
Get PDFBackground: Preoperative anesthesia evaluations of elective procedures are important to anesthesia care and imperative to prevent postoperative complications and unnecessary surgical cancellations¹. Triaging cases are complex, requiring clinical skills to facilitate the process. Triaging is cumbersome and, in most organizations, done manually. In 2021, our healthcare institution transitioned to EPIC² and formed a team of anesthesiologists, surgeons, informaticists, and EPIC analysts to automate the triage process which was nonexistent.
Purpose: Utilizing EPIC logic and a surgical risk classification (SRC) (Table 1) developed by the team cases are triaged as high, medium, or low. The SRC is based on blood loss, length of procedure and potential for hemodynamic instability and assigned upon case request. In turn, a 30-day surgical case report is generated for in-person scheduling of high-risk cases. For medium and low risk, a score is calculated based on the SRC and specific risk factors based on SNOMED³ CT (Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms) codes (Table 2). These risk factors are analyzed based on the problem list and questionnaire. An Advanced Practice Provider (APP) triage report is generated in EPIC for low and medium-risk cases. Medium-risk with a score of one or above are auto-assigned an in-person visit. An APP triages the low-risk and medium-risk (score of 0) to either a phone screen or in-person visit after a comprehensive chart review. In addition, high-alert medications such as anticoagulants, Glucagon-like Peptides, and Sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 Inhibitors are displayed on the triage report to facilitate early triaging, so medications can be held in a timely manner.
Results: Automation of the triage process has been effective at reducing the manual work. There was an increase in the number of APP triages completed (Table 3) from 200-300 to 500-800 range.
Conclusion: This triage process is not without flaws and has required ongoing enhancements with the latest being collaborating with medical colleagues to ensure medical histories are up to date
Tunnel Rat - Part 1
Get PDFA combat medic serving in Vietnam watches three POWs turn into one, and struggles to understand how.
Articles, stories, and other compositions in this archive were written by participants in the Mighty Pen Project. The program, developed by author David L. Robbins, and in partnership with Virginia Commonwealth University and the Virginia War Memorial in Richmond, Virginia, offers veterans and their family members a customized twelve-week writing class, free of charge. The program encourages, supports, and assists participants in sharing their stories and experiences of military experience so both writer and audience may benefit
The Good Guys
Get PDFA routine patrol around the Tallil air force base takes a sharp turn when our narrator is confronted by a grieving mother, screaming in a language she cannot understand.
Despair transcends language, and guilt sticks around like desert gnats on tape.
Articles, stories, and other compositions in this archive were written by participants in the Mighty Pen Project. The program, developed by author David L. Robbins, and in partnership with Virginia Commonwealth University and the Virginia War Memorial in Richmond, Virginia, offers veterans and their family members a customized twelve-week writing class, free of charge. The program encourages, supports, and assists participants in sharing their stories and experiences of military experience so both writer and audience may benefit
Hauntings of Transnational Art Learning and Teaching: A duo-ethnography of Two Asian Art Educators’ Transformative Experiences
Get PDFReflecting on lived experiences as art learners in South Korea and professional practices in the United States as art educators, the authors draw from Derrida’s (1994) “hauntology” and present how their transnational experiences continue to conjure up and affect the everyday lives of Asian women junior faculty today in the US through duoethnographic approaches. Posing the question “how might personal lived experiences of an educator foster art pedagogy and research?” and interviewing each other on aesthetics, education, and identity, this article seeks to: 1) inform others about how Korean art educators navigate matters of transnational education experience and colonization and in their professional practice, 2) explore the effects of “transformative learning” (Mezirow, 1991), and 3) to discuss the possibilities of a better future, particularly for more of an inclusive classroom in educational spaces and the importance of mutual support from the peers and students in the field of art education
Fuel to the fire: Experimenting with care ethics in museum education
Get PDFThis article suggests museum theory and practice needs to shift its ideological foundation from storage, preservation, restoration, exhibition making, and learning, to one of radical care. Responding to the questions posed by the Journal of Social Theory in Art Education and drawing focus around the theme of (re)activating theory to envision an alternative educational model, I engage with Dana Carlisle Kletchka’s (2023) introduction of care ethics to art museum education. I suggest that care ethics, as a growing theory in museums, is interdisciplinary and should include contemplative scholarship and practices to embody its guiding tenants. I then take up Kletchka’s provocation for museum educators to reflect on their guiding frameworks through two approaches, first, a contemplative arts-based inquiry, followed by applying contemplative practices to a museum program. By building care skills, contemplative practices can be applied not only to cultivate personal well-being, but also the well-being of museum staff and the communities they serve
Untreated Hyperthyroidism and a Mediastinal Mass: To Remove or Not To Remove?
Get PDFCASE PRESENTATION: J.W. was seen by the PACE (Preoperative Assessment, Communication and Education) Center prior to a mediastinal mass resection. Medical history includes well-controlled rheumatoid arthritis, anxiety and a recent diagnosis of hyperthyroidism. Labs were significant for TSH DISCUSSION: Untreated GD is rarely correlated with thymic hyperplasia; however the pathogenesis is not well understood. Regardless of the association, contextualization of this patient\u27s history and lab values prompted the provider to seek specialized management. This finding was then communicated with the surgical team, who often rely on PACE providers to screen patients with the ultimate goal of risk reduction and optimization of clinical outcomes. Unfortunately, there is minimal literature documenting evidence of patients who are poorly optimized prior to surgery. CONCLUSIONS: Preoperative screening from a provider with high clinical acumen and a high index of suspicion resulted in appropriate referral and timely intervention for this patient with an unoptimized comorbidity. An appointment with PACE prevented this patient from undergoing surgery and developing a life threatening complication (Thyroid Storm) from an elective procedure. Despite a recent shift against preoperative screening, this case report highlights the importance of a comprehensive evaluation and multidisciplinary approach ensuring appropriate standard of care and patient safety
The Boondocks
Get PDFHonorable mention in the 2025 Jurgen Banned Art Comics Contest.
A controversial and over-the-top parody of the racist character trope, The Story of Jimmy Rebel became the only episode of the television show The Boondocks excluded in a 2020 streaming run.https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/jurgen/1030/thumbnail.jp
Parallel Punishments: The School-to-Prison Transgender Pipeline
Get PDFWith increasing criminalization of transgender people, especially legislation targeting youth, researchers need to consider more closely the historical and continuing criminalization of gender non-normativity. We suggest in this article that closer attention to queer criminology in relationship to transgender and gender-related social justice education can help shape research agendas and school practices and disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline for transgender youth. Our focus is specifically on how disciplinary practices requiring identification as well as those that ignore identification both contribute to the growth of punitive responses to gender diversity, especially in relationship to race and ethnicity