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Jane McCarthy Interview, October 9, 2020
No full textDr. Jane McCarthy served in Vietnam as a nurse in the 95th Evacuation Hospital in Da Nang. Prior to her deployment to Vietnam, Dr. McCarthy worked as a nurse in the Intensive Care Unit’s recovery staff at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington DC. Prior to enlisting in the Army as a nurse, Dr. McCarthy grew up in Cohasset, Massachusetts. The interview spans the story of Dr. McCarthy’s life immediately before the war in Vietnam, during her time in Vietnam, and immediately after her return home from the war.
Interview conducted virtually via TheirStor
Obesity and the University Environment: Assessment of the Campus and Intervention in the Student Health Services
No full textOne of the most substantial challenges facing colleges and universities today remains the creation of a healthy campus environment. With more than one-third of college students classified as overweight or obese by body-mass index (BMI) and the known negative health consequences associated with obesity, campuses have a deliberate responsibility to help mitigate this sobering statistic. A significant movement from The American College Health Association (ACHA) to address campus health, Healthy Campus 2020 (HC2020), provides a framework to support campuses in improving the health of their students, staff, and faculty. This project first sought to assess, explore and understand one campus community’s level of engagement in promoting healthy behaviors and creating a healthy environment with respect to the HC2020 objectives. Second, this project introduced and evaluated the impact of a 5As behavioral model training intervention on obesity management for providers in the Student Health Services (SHS). Methods included structured interviews across campus departments, and pre- and post-electronic health record (EHR) reviews to evaluate the SHS intervention as well as a focus group with SHS providers to explore their experience with implementing the 5As intervention.
Results from the campus interviews demonstrated that university leaders were cognizant of, and focused on, the campus community and voiced the desire to create a healthy campus environment that accommodated students’ health needs. Despite a number of healthy initiatives existing on campus, and the university’s membership in ACHA, the university did not formally participate in the Healthy Campus 2020 initiative.
Results from the SHS included a sample of 786 pre-intervention EHR records and 1233 post-intervention EHR records of students aged 18 to 24, approximately two-thirds of whom were female. Documentation of BMI by providers demonstrated a small but significant decline from pre-intervention (82.6%) to post-intervention (78.8%). Documentation of overweight and obese diagnostic codes by providers improved from 0.7% pre-intervention to 8.1% post-intervention showing a small but statistically significant increase.
Overall, results from the 5As training intervention with providers to improve consistent documentation of overweight and obese students showed minimal success. Providers voiced support for continuing use of 5As but cited time, patient acuity level, and student’s lack of willingness to change as a barriers. Nonetheless, these results open conversation and opportunities for further improvement, for example, initiating SHS protocols to document BMI at all student visits, and configuring electronic health records to facilitate consistent documentation of diagnosis and counseling. Despite evidence of some movement towards a healthier campus and membership in the ACHA, the university falls short of a full commitment to the HC2020 initiative and the resultant healthy campus environment. To ensure success, the university needs to develop a collaborative team prior to committing to the initiative, and ensure involvement of students, faculty, and staff.Nursing5A's Model, Healthy Behaviors, Healthy Campus, Obesity, Student Health Services, University environmentNursingDegree Awarded: D.N.P. Nursing. The Catholic University of Americ
Art Grau Interview, October 22, 2020
No full textArt Grau served in the US Army during the Vietnam War. He served with the 1st Air Cav unit and worked in Army Intelligence. He arrived in Vietnam during the Tet Offensive and speaks about his time in Vietnam and his return to civilian life after his tour of duty
Passover Seder table setting
No full textA table is set with table cloth, place mats, two candles, a stemmed glass, and a plate. A keyboard and monitor sit on the far ends of the table. The monitor screen reads 'COVID-19 Coronavirus.' A laptop balanced on books atop another table reads the same
A person wearing mask rides a bicycle
No full textA black and white profile shot of a person wearing a mask and helmet riding a bicycle
Original Instagram caption for Children playing at the US Navy Memorial Plaza
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"Claude Lorrain: Acuity in Art-Making"
No full textResearch paper submitted to American University in partial fulfillment of the Degree of Master of Arts; approved as thesis optio
The Pomp and Circumstance of the Sala di Constantino: Exploring the Mannerist Innovations of Raphael and his Workshop
No full textResearch paper submitted to American University in partial fulfillment of the Degree of Master of Arts; approved as non-thesis optio
Morphological differences among eyeless amphipods in the genus Stygobromus dwelling in different subterranean habitats
No full textPublished in: Journal of Crustacean Biology, Volume 30, Issue 1, 1 January 2010, Pages 68–74.The amphipod genus Stygobromus occurs in a variety of subterranean habitats in North America, including caves, phreatic (groundwater) lakes, and superficial subterranean habitats (seeps and epikarst). The habitats share the absence of light but differ in other features, such as pore size of the habitat, available food, and degree of seasonality. Measurements of body size, antennal size, and antennal segment number of type specimens were compared for 56 species occurring in the eastern United States. Except for differences in body size, differences among species in the four different habitats were not significant. Body size was related to relative pore size of the habitat, e.g., epikarst, with the smallest spaces, had the smallest species. However, in all habitats, there was one very large species (> 15mm); these enigmatic species apparently occupy a distinct ecological niche, perhaps being more predatory. Differences in relative antennal size showed no significant differences among habitats, and differences in number of antennal segments were marginally significant (P=0.06) among habitat types and not in the predicted pattern. Differences among habitats in seasonality and available food seemed to be a minor part of the selective environment; absence of light seemed to be a major part of the selective environment