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Making Waves with Critical Literacy
Get PDFA qualitative study undertaken in 2007 that explores the application of critical literacy pedagogy within English language arts classes of an upper middle class public high school. Results demonstrate that when students recontextualize their own modalities, literacies, and cultures as part of their learning experience, they begin to understand the concept of social justice for all
Map of Providence neighborhoods
No full textStreet map and neighborhood districts in Providence.https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/smolski_images/1037/thumbnail.jp
Napping to Reduce Sleepiness, Fatigue and Improve Reasoning for Nursing Shift Workers
Get PDFShift work outside the normal working hours of 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. is a requirement in acute and chronic care facilities that provide nursing care on a 24-hour basis. Slightly more than 30% of full-time health care workers are shift workers. Shift work sleep disorder, defined as a primary complaint of insomnia and excessive sleepiness, has been diagnosed in almost ten % of shift workers. The excessive sleepiness and fatigue nursing shift workers experience often lead to performance impairment and diminished attentiveness that may affect job productivity and patient safety. Napping is the most natural countermeasure against sleepiness. This quasiexperimental study was performed to detemine whether a 20 minute nap during the niight shift could reduce sleepiness and fatigue and improve cognitive functioning among nursing shift workers in an acute care setting. Ten study participants were randomly assigned to participate in both the control (no nap) and the intervention (nap) within the two week study. Self-testing of fatigue and sleepiness, and a timed reaction test programmed into a personal digital assistant (PDA) were performed throughout the two shifts. Results showed a trend toward a reduction in sleepiness and fatigue were reduced when nursing staff took a 20 minute nap during shift work, that was sustained through the remainder of the shift. The Advanced Practice Nurse is critical to advancing napping for shift workers because she/he can interpret, evaluate, and participate in research, create evidence-based policy, and collaborate with key stakeholders
A Policy Analysis of the Nursing Shortage in Selected Sub-Saharan African Countries
Get PDFThis paper will begin with a comprehensive literature review of the nursing shortage in the sub-Saharan African region. The global nursing crisis is explored with a focus on the economics of nursing, challenges presented by the nursing shortage, interventions to increase nursing capacity, and partnerships that have been implemented to achieve this goal. The nursing shortage in selected sub-Saharan African countries is analyzed from a policy perspective using Fawcett and Russell’s Conceptual Model of Nursing and Health Policy (2005). Then, McLaughlin and McLaughlin\u27s Policy Analysis Process (2008) is used to identify, analyze, evaluate, and make recommendations to create health policy. The primary thrust is to advocate for sustainable interventions that will assist in alleviating the nursing shortage in selected sub-Saharan African countries
Baìa das Gats
No full textView from the top of Monte Verde to the coast of São Vicente. Mounte Verde is the highest point on São Vicente. This view, looking north/north-east shows Baía das Gatas on the horizon, a bay with a natrual barrier that makes it as popular for swimming as it is for fishing.https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/baxter_gallery/1265/thumbnail.jp
A Program Evaluation of a Nurse-led Interdisciplinary Heart Failure Clinic
Get PDFHeart failure (HF) is a major health disparity that accounts for a vast number of hospitalizations as well as re-hospitalizations. In 2006. the estimated direct cost of HF in the United States (US) was 29.6 billion dollars (American Heart Association [AHA], 2005). HF is not only costly but it also accounts for approximately 287,000 deaths in the US each year (AHA). Significant improvements in patient outcomes are evident when patients are referred to HF clinics. From the literature it appears that referred clients have less frequent re-hospitalizations in addition to improved quality of life. Nurse-led outpatient HF clinics offer behavioral specific knowledge necessary to engage in health promotion. Due to the complexity of the disease, it is appropriate to refer clients diagnosed with HF to nurse-led outpatient HF clinics. The purpose of this project was to validate and possibly expand knowledge about specific aspects of the nursing role in particular that contribute to improved outcomes in nurse-led HF clinics. A nurse interview and nurse-client observations were performed with specific emphasis on the role of the nurse. Scores were assessed on five clients using the Minnesota Living with Heart Failure questionnaire. Each demonstrated improvement on questionnaire responses during the six month period, with scores varying in improvement from I 0-12 points at the six month mark. Statistics related to re-hospitalization rates and ER visits were provided for the program evaluation by the clinic. The HF clinic demonstrated a 30 day re-hospitalization rate less than the national average of 24o/o, with a percentage of 18.6o/o. Components of a successful program were observed during an evaluation of the program. Recommendations and implications for advanced practice are discussed
Kindness: Two Stories
Get PDFPresents two stories that, while differing in style, share themes of identity and loss and explore grotesque characters at critical points of change and acceptance in their lives. I Go There Too is a bildungsroman piece; Did I Live is a work of historical fiction, set in 1865 at the scene of the burning of the Barnum Museum and featuring Anna Swan, the giantess of Nova Scotia
Commencement Program 2010
Get PDFThis commencement program is for baccalaureate and advanced degrees.https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/commencement_programs/1123/thumbnail.jp
y = mx + b(eauty)
Get PDFA collection of twenty poems that are thematically concerned with family dynamics and history, childhood, relationships, addiction and rehabilitation, wanderlust, mortality, and the concepts of ugliness and beauty. These motifs and themes are framed by a speaker who is coming of age in contemporary America. While largely informed by the free verse narrative, this collection attempts to form a synthesis of contemporary American poetic styles
Imagining Sri Lanka
Get PDFAnalyzes the works of three Sri Lankan expatriates, the writers, Shyam Selvadurai and Michael Ondaatje, and the artist, M.I.A., giving particular attention to Selvadurai\u27s Funny Boy and Ondaatje\u27s Running in the Family, Anil\u27s Ghost, and The Cinnamon Peeler. Though all three have been charged as inauthentic due to their dislocated positions, uncovers the various productive and complicated ways Sri Lanka has been configured by those outside its shores