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When Love Hurts: Confronting William Styron’s Racial Misery in College Composition Classrooms
Get PDFAcknowledging and attending to how professors feel about their students is an often ignored but fundamental component in creating relationship-rich pedagogy. This paper references William Styron’s “This Quiet Dust” to facilitate a transparent discussion about how we truly feel about Black Language, its role and use in the academy, and how these feelings ultimately shape how our Black students experience our encounters with them
Does Your Student Know? Being Intentional With Quality in Designing Online Instruction
Get PDFThis article guides instructors to incorporate intentionality as a communication construct when designing a learning experience, especially online. Intentionality is communication planned around a learning goal by the instructor through cognitive decisions. Based on the research, the author shares the details of a faculty development course she created
Validating the Assessing Student Competence and Knowledge of Social Determinants of Health (ASCK-SDH) Instrument
Get PDFThe impact of the social determinants of health (SDH) on health outcomes is receiving increased attention. Health profession students need to learn about SDH; however, there are no validated tools to measure student competence in assessing SDH. There is a need for a brief, valid instrument to measure student competency and knowledge of SDH. This study is a secondary analysis of data collected pre (N=394) and post (N=387) for an interprofessional learning event. We utilized principal component analysis (PCA) with varimax rotation to determine the internal structure of the tool. The original measure consisted of 11 items; the analysis resulted in two factors. Based on the two factors it was determined the three items from Factor 2 were not contributing to the scale; therefore, they were removed. The final measure, Assessing Student Competence & Knowledge of Social Determinants of Health (ASCK-SDH), consists of eight items rated on a 4-point Likert scale. The measure indicated high internal consistency at pre (Cronbach’s α= 0.81) and post (Cronbach’s α=0.89) tests. The ASCK-SDH tool provides a valid instrument to measure student competence and knowledge about SDH and can be used to assess learning
Occupational Therapy Practitioners’ Perceptions of Their Confidence and Skills When Providing Community and Social Interventions After a Guided Educational Experience
Get PDFBackground: As the population is aging, occupational therapy practitioners (OTPs) are well placed to address the community and social needs of older adults to promote healthy aging. However, OTPs seem to be lacking the resources and guidance to implement community and social interventions routinely.
Purpose: This quantitative non-experimental, pre-, and post-survey design aims to determine the impact of a guided education intervention on how OTPs perceive their skills and confidence when providing community and social interventions.
Theoretical Framework: The Model of Health Promotion (Wilcocks, 2006) and Lifestyle Redesign® (Clark et al., 1997) program were used as the guiding theory and program to support the educational intervention and capstone project.
Methods: Prior to the educational intervention, participants completed a presurvey to determine their perceived skills and confidence when providing community and social interventions. Then, OTPs participated in a two-part educational intervention about community and social interventions. Following the completion of the educational intervention, participants completed a post-survey to determine any change in perceived skills and confidence when providing community and social interventions.
Results: After participating in this educational intervention, OTPs demonstrated an increase in their perceived confidence and skills when providing community and social interventions. 90% of the participants reported that they were “likely” or “significantly more likely” to provide community and social interventions after the educational intervention.
Conclusions: This capstone provided a guided educational experience to OTPs who work with older adults in non-acute settings with the goal of improving their perceived confidence and skills to provide community and social interventions. Analysis of the quantitative data indicates that OTPs reported an increase in their perceived confidence and or skills when providing community and social interventions. This is both clinically and educationally relevant to the field of occupational therapy; however, additional research would be beneficial to determine if these results could be generalized to a larger sample size and if the participants implemented what they learned during this educational intervention
Mock Drills to Improve Inpatient STEMI Performance and Self-Confidence
Get PDFSTEMI care can be challenging for med-surg telemetry nurses to recognize among inpatients because it is a high-risk low volume population. Frequently these patients’ present with atypical acute coronary syndrome (ACS), and not the classic chest pain seen when someone calls 911. However, the same treatment and care out-of-the hospital patients receive when calling 911 should be the same gold standard for in-hospital patients. More studies have been conducted to perfect the out-of-hospital STEMI care versus the in-hospital STEMI care. Mock drills can help improve knowledge, self-confidence, and performance with inpatient STEMI care. This DNP project was an evidenced-based quality improvement using quantitative and qualitative methods. The DNP project implemented an educational program for ACS and simulated mock STEMI drills among a convenience sample (N=11) of med-surg telemetry unit nurses in a small 105 bed community hospital. The implementation framework used was the Institute for Healthcare (IHI) Model for Improvement, known as the PDSA model. The same cohort of nurses participated in both the education and simulated mock STEMI drills. The ACS education was created from the American College of Cardiology (ACC) Chest Pain guidelines for accreditation. A pre-post assessment was done prior to and after the education for ACS. During the Mock STEMI drill a performance checklist was utilized to measure if nurses recognized ACS symptoms, obtained an EKG within 10 minutes, and read by physician, and initiated Cath Lab activation. After the drill, a post survey Quantitative-Likert scale was used from the National League of Nursing to measure satisfaction and self-confidence in learning, as well as a debriefing in which qualitative themes were identified
Security Analysis: A Critical Thinking Approach
Get PDFSecurity Analysis: A Critical-Thinking Approach is for anyone desiring to learn techniques for generating the best answers to complex questions and best solutions to complex problems. It furnishes current and future analysts in national security, homeland security, law enforcement, and corporate security an alternative, comprehensive process for conducting both intelligence analysis and policy analysis. The target audience is upper-division undergraduate students and new graduate students, along with entry-level practitioner trainees. The book centers on a Security Analysis Critical-Thinking Framework that synthesizes critical-thinking and existing analytic techniques. Ample examples are provided to assist readers in comprehending the material. Newly created material includes techniques for analyzing beliefs and political cultures. The book also functions as an introduction to Foreign Policy and Security Studies.https://encompass.eku.edu/ekuopen/1005/thumbnail.jp
An Odyssey: Merging Two Interlibrary Loan Departments into One (Lighting Talk)
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During the 2021/2022 fiscal year, the University of Kentucky Libraries decided to take the opportunity to make service updates while workflow was altered or restricted by the pandemic. The Main Campus and Medical Center Interlibrary Loan/Document Delivery services at the University of Kentucky Libraries merged in order to streamline services and resources for both our patrons and staff. Having assessed this idea in the past, it was determined that this would be a suitable time to implement this change. Some of the highlights include merging OCLC symbols, reorganizing staff responsibilities and workflow, centralizing the patron interface, and reassessing policies. This effort required collaboration with library employees across different departments as well as with vendor support professionals. We will share the experience of planning and implementing this change and what we have learned along the way
A Clinician-Created Art And Activity Workbook For Children And Adolescents Used During The Covid-19 Pandemic
Get PDFThe Covid-19 Pandemic provided a unique need for telepsychology services. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is an evidence-based approach applicable to a variety of populations and referral concerns, applicable both for in-person or telehealth settings. In the literature review presented here, the development and use of CBT as well as the advantages, challenges, and considerations of teletherapy with children and adolescents is examined. After, a proposed supplemental intervention material is explored: an adaptable art and activity workbook for children and adolescents that is rooted in CBT. Designed for use during telehealth sessions, but adaptable for in-person sessions as well, this workbook is created to emphasize adaptability towards an individual’s unique skills, strengths, challenges, and abilities. Evaluation of this workbook as well as limitations and future directions are discussed
Therapeutic dosing and targeting efficacy of Pt-Mal-LHRH towards triple negative breast cancer
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Pt-Mal-LHRH is a newly synthesized chemotherapeutic agent that was designed to selectively target the luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH) receptor expressed by triple negative breast cancer (TNBC). The aim of this study was to evaluate the therapeutic dosing, tumor reduction efficacy, and selective distribution of Pt-Mal-LHRH in-vivo.
Methods and results
LHRH tissue expression levels in-vivo were investigated using western blotting and LHRH was found to be increased in reproductive tissues (mammary, ovary, uterus). Further, PtMal-LHRH was found to have increased TNBC tumor tissue platinum accumulation compared to carboplatin by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry analysis. The platinum family, compound carboplatin, was selected for comparison due to its similar chemical structure and molar equivalent doses were evaluated. Moreover, in-vivo distribution data indicated selective targeting of Pt-Mal-LHRH by enhanced reproductive tissue accumulation compared to carboplatin. Further, TNBC tumor growth was found to be significantly attenuated by Pt-Mal-LHRH compared to carboplatin in both the 4T1 and MDA-MB-231 tumor models. There was a significant reduction in tumor volume in the 4T1 tumor across Pt-MalLHRH doses (2.5–20 mg/kg/wk) and in the MDA-MB-231 tumor at the dose of 10 mg/kg/wk in models conducted by an independent contract testing laboratory.
Conclusion
Our data indicates Pt-Mal-LHRH is a targeting chemotherapeutic agent towards the LHRHmreceptor and reduces TNBC tumor growth in-vivo. This study supports drug conjugation design models using the LHRH hormone for chemotherapeutic delivery as Pt-Mal-LHRH was found to be a more selective and efficacious than carboplatin. Further examination of Pt-Mal-LHRH is warranted for its clinical use in TNBCs, along with, other reproductive cancers overexpressing the LHRH receptor
Functional Headings’ Effects on Selective Attention and Reading Processes
No full textTextual devices such as headings convey both content information and functional information. One type of headings is referred to as functional headings, since they provide functional information but not content information. Headings such as “Introduction” denote the function of a text section but not the content information of that section. The current study included three experiments that investigated the processing of functional information during reading. Experiment 1 investigated the effects of functional information in a timed reading situation. Experiments 2 and 3 looked at the effects of functional information when there was a contradiction in the text. Our results indicated that functional information promoted selective attention during timed reading (Experiment 1). Findings from our contradiction manipulation (Experiments 2 and 3) revealed that readers used functional headings to guide their structural reading process. Implications for cognitive processes during reading and pedagogical practices are described in the general discussion section