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Occupational Therapy Practitioners\u27 Expectations of Entry-Level Doctorate Versus Master\u27s Graduates
Get PDFThe dual-entry nature of occupational therapy has been a point of discussion for many years with explorations into the profession’s support for the different degree programs and definitions of entry-level practice being the primary foci in the literature. There has been no comparison of the expectations of occupational therapy educators and practitioners of entry-level doctorate and master’s students upon graduation despite differences in curricula and emphasis on advanced skills. This study utilized a descriptive quantitative survey to ask current educators and practitioners (n=124) to indicate their level of expectations of the two types of graduates for sixteen different clinical and professional skills and the level of expected mentorship upon graduation. Practitioners held the two groups of new graduates to the same expectations in all categories and anticipated they would need the same level of mentorship upon graduation. Despite equal expectations in all categories, there were six categories where at least 30% of participants indicated they held higher expectations of entry-level doctorate new graduates. These categories aligned with the doctoral capstone areas of foci. These results can set the foundation for further studies examining the congruence between expectations and new graduate readiness for the field and inform current curricula to prepare students to meet the professional expectations of their supervisors and colleagues
Educational Interventions for Managing Ethical Problems in Occupational Therapy: A Survey
Get PDFLittle is known about how to mitigate moral distress within occupational therapy, but ethics education may reduce its impact by providing practitioners with tools for managing ethical problems. This study aimed to explore the impact of ethics education on managing ethical problems among occupational therapy practitioners within the first five years of practice using a pre-existing survey dataset collected in the spring of 2020. The investigators examined the formats and types of ethics education practitioners reported they received and how helpful they found that education. Investigators analyzed correlations between education and confidence with ethical problem-solving using Spearman’s rho. Results included significant but weak correlations between ethical problem-solving confidence and classroom discussions, case studies, fieldwork mentorship, continuing education, and informal discussions with colleagues. This study adds to the current literature by identifying which types of ethics education new practitioners reported as most helpful, and which types correlated with ethical problem-solving confidence. The results of this study provide educational strategies to address ethical problems and mitigate moral distress. Future research is needed to provide further evidence for interventions to reduce moral distress
The Core Collapse of the Rising Sun
Get PDFThere are many different types of literature in the world so it is no surprise that some gets overlooked in the sheer volume. This is more so seen in Western literature overpowering Eastern literature’s importance. One such place overlooked is Japan. There is plenty to unpack in Japanese literature, but one such area is the changes it has due to cultural events. Using well known events can make Japanese literature more accessible for other audiences. One of these events is WWII because of Japan’s incredibly active role in it. WWII changed Japanese literature from Romanticism and Naturalism to a more Modernist approach specifically leaning into Western ideas. With this all in mind I created a poetry book based on fourteen Japanese authors\u27 works pre- and post-WWII. Poetry gives accessible means to learn more about these authors, while also allowing readers to become more interested in their works and each author’s ideas and feelings
The takeover Tango: Unraveling the impact of state-owned enterprise acquisitions on American competitors
No full textWhen foreign state-owned enterprises (SOE) enter the United States (US) market by acquiring domestic targets, they increase competition in the targeted industry and pressure domestic competitors. Competitors should respond to such acquisitions by changing their behavior. Using acquisition data from 2010 to 2018, we examine the impact of acquisitions by foreign SOEs on the US competitors of acquisition targets. We analyze the initial response to acquisition announcements, the attempts of industry incumbents to increase their political connections, and the change in profitability and efficiency of such incumbents. Investors respond most negatively to SOE acquisitions when the domestic competitor is politically connected, implying such firms have the most to lose from such acquisitions. The US target firms can access resources from SOEs to offer better and cheaper products and thus increase their market share. Our analysis shows that competitors’ profitability and lobbying activity decrease while efficiency increases after SOE acquisitions. These results indicate that SOE acquisitions force domestic competitors to adapt to a changing competitive environment
The Impact of Videoconferencing on Social Participation in Entry-level Occupational Therapy Students
Get PDFVideoconferencing was heavily utilized as an online learning tool at universities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the high utilization, few studies have examined students’ perspectives on their health, social interaction, and preferences in using specific videoconferencing features for online pedagogy and campus participation. This study surveyed 275 occupational therapy students from six class cohorts regarding the use of videoconferencing during the 2020-2021 academic year. Students reported physical changes in fatigue, eye, and back discomfort from the use of videoconferencing for extended periods, in addition to increased stress and anxiety during this period. Students reported lower class engagement during videoconferencing, as indicated by less frequency of asking/answering questions, paying attention, participating in breakout rooms with unfamiliar peers, and less motivation to attend classes. While students preferred in-person versus videoconferencing for overall classroom engagement and knowledge retention, preferences were equivocal for use of videoconferencing in meeting with professors, peer tutoring, group projects, and office hours. A benefit to videoconferencing availability was the ability to maintain social communication with friends and family, particularly for undergraduates. Comparisons among class cohorts are presented
Occupational Therapy Student Characteristics Influencing Level II Fieldwork: An Exploratory Study of Mental Health, Confidence, and Mindful Self-Care
Get PDFLevel II fieldwork serves as a critical component of occupational therapy (OT) student education during which students develop and refine skills to become practicing clinicians; however, research on student characteristics that influence the fieldwork experience is limited. The purpose of this study was to explore student mental health, confidence, and mindful self-care practices throughout Level II fieldwork. Ten OT students completing Level II fieldwork participated in this study by completing surveys during the first week, midpoint, and final two weeks of their second Level II fieldwork experience. Each survey contained Cohen’s Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10), the Student Confidence Questionnaire, and the Mindful Self-Care Scale (MSCS)-SHORT to investigate student stress, confidence, and self-care respectively. Kruskal-Wallis H tests revealed that stress was highest during the first two weeks of fieldwork, confidence increased significantly from the beginning to the end of fieldwork, and self-care practices remained stable over time. Additionally, correlation analyses revealed a positive relationship between confidence and self-care (rs = 0.78, p \u3c 0.01), a negative relationship between stress and confidence (rs = -0.78, p \u3c 0.01), and a negative relationship between self-care and stress (rs = -0.69, p = 0.03). These results have implications for OT students, educators, and fieldwork supervisors as stress reduction techniques and confidence building may be beneficial for student outcomes before and during Level II fieldwork to maximize success through this transitional period from student to clinician
Media Consumption and Educations Effect on the Perception of Forensic Science
No full textForensic Science is a subject that has been popularized since the 1990’s in Cop Dramas and its variants, as well as a large resurgence with the rise of True Crime. This led to non-faithful reconstructions of what forensic scientists are and what they do to process evidence. I looked at how the impact of education relating to criminology affects the perception of forensic science in comparison to how many hours of criminological related media was consumed on a weekly basis. The results found that the number of hours of criminological-related media had little effect on the perceived reliability of forensic evidence; however, the number of courses taken within criminological related fields wildly changed the responses between a low number of courses taken and a high number of courses taken. This was then related to other studies done on similar topics and similar age groups considered
The Gendered Room and the Lock on the Door: Women Writers and the Patriarchy in Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One\u27s Own
Get PDFThis thesis analyzes the life of Virginia Woolf and her foundational feminist text, A Room of One’s Own (AROO) to understand women’s need for control in their journey to become Authors through Woolf’s requirements of “500 a year and a room with a lock on the door.” It discusses the significance of becoming a capital A Author and how authorship impacted women’s lives in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and even twentieth centuries. Through a summary of Woolf’s historicizing of women writers’ struggles this thesis investigates the impact these struggles had on how women wrote—often resulting in anger and anonymous authorship. Through an examination of Woolf’s historicizing, the implications of Woolf’s requirement of both the Room and the Lock and how it relates to gender, control, and autonomy becomes clear. This evolved to a discussion of the solutions Woolf envisioned in A Room of One’s Own and how women’s struggles, while improved, still impact women writers today in their efforts to become an Author—as seen by the struggle of women to work uninterrupted during the pandemic as well as the negative reputation of romance literature perceived by contemporary readers
Measuring Student Perceptions on Online vs. Traditional Learning
Get PDFDuring the time of the global pandemic, COVID-19, there was a rapid transition in learning environments for schools across the country. During this transition, online based education was viewed extremely poorly by students, educators and even parents. Both students and educators thrived on human interaction in the classroom because it had been familiar to them their entire lives. This familiarity with human interaction was a very important factor for schools when designing learning plans and creating learning objectives. When the pandemic was at its peak, it was unsafe for schools to continue the traditional face-to-face learning methods, so the government made a mandatory switch to everything virtual. Morale was at an all-time low for everyone because of how different the education system had become, and the learning curve experienced as well.
Available research on online learning during the pandemic revealed negative student perceptions. Now that online courses have improved, and students are more acclimated to the virtual learning environment it is important to take another look at student perceptions and their preferences for online or in-person learning environments. The goal of this research is to examine how contributing factors such as mental health, time management skills, course engagement, information retention and preference play a role on how students perceive the different learning environments. Better policy suggestions can be gathered to better benefit the student in hopes they will feel happier and intellectually available in the courses they are enrolled in. The results of this analysis will provide critical insights about student learning preferences to academic institutions as they continue to improve both online and in-person learning environments
Drip Water Chemistry Response to Human Activities at Diamond Caverns in Park City, Kentucky
Get PDFThis research aims to give insight into factors contributing to seasonal variation of karst cave drip water hydrochemistry relative to surface condition. The study area is a small show cave, Diamond Caverns, located just outside the boundary of Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky. Various water chemistry parameters, such as chloride, pH, and temperature were monitored. A YSI EXO2 was deployed to measure the aforementioned parameters at one-hour intervals in a drip water pool starting in November 2023. To discern significant changes in solute concentrations, daily averages were calculated based on the hourly data. Daily averages were then compared to outside air temperature and rainfall depths. The drip water pool has a slow yet constant drip of water feeding into it, and the water flow rate is observed to increase with any recent rain events. All three parameters showed changes in concentrations after rainfall events. Drip water pH approaches 8.3 equilibrium conditions dictated by calcite solubility. A drop in pH occurs in response to low pH levels of rain water. Similarly, both temperature and chloride tend to increase in response to rain events. Continued monitoring of the drip water chemistry into the following season will help ascertain the patterns