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Creativity and Humor: An Investigation of Humor as a Creative Stimulus
Get PDFThis thesis project is based on the belief that humor can be utilized as a creative stimulus within art education. The aim of this thesis project is to prove that humor can be used to promote creativity through an experimental study that tests for creativity before and after humor exposure. This thesis research also analyzes and reflects on a mix of art education literature pertaining to the correlation between creativity and humor. This investigation views humor as a tool used to enhance student creativity. The primary method of investigation for the thesis project is action research (May, 1993). This method of inquiry took the form of developing, administering, evaluating, and reflecting upon tests of student creativity before and after receiving a humor stimulus, in order to demonstrate how humor can be used to enhance creativity in the visual arts. The assembled data provides evidence in support of utilizing humor as a creative catalyst. The information available in this study can assist art educators in recognizing the value of using humor to stimulate student creativity through humor expression and humor appreciation
Nurses’ Knowledge on Delirium Prevention and Detection in Hospitalized Adults: A Quality Improvement Project
Get PDFDelirium, recognized as a medical and psychological emergency, is a symptom of an acute medical condition. Despite the prevalence of delirium in the hospital setting, it continues to be unrecognized, resulting in poor patient outcomes, and exorbitant healthcare cost. Patients with dementia who are chronically ill, as well as patients previously diagnosed with delirium, represent a vulnerable population and require closer surveillance due to their predisposing factors. This quality improvement project goal is to increase nurses’ knowledge and understanding of delirium. This was completed through providing education to medical-surgical nurses on the causes of delirium (predisposing and precipitating factors), prevention, use of the confusion assessment method (CAM) screening tool, and detection of delirium. The change in knowledge was measure through an investigator created, 10-question multiple choice, pretest-posttest measurement model.
Of the 58 nurses, nine responded and completed the pretest (N=9, 15.5%), while seven
completed the educational intervention posttest (N=7, 12%). Results of the quality
improvement project yielded a 22.1% increase in nurses’ knowledge after the educational
intervention. Despite the low participation rate, this project revealed a positive correlation
between the educational intervention and nurses’ knowledge
Eye on Ethics: The Importance of Motives in Ethical Decisions
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Guernica: An Intimate Portrait
No full textThis paper explores the significance of personalized motifs in Picasso’s Guernica to push back on ideas that the mural is propaganda. Despite his newfound interest in 1930s Spanish politics, Picasso interprets the brutal bombings at Guernica through the perspective of a husband and father, particularly disturbed by the events impact on the innocent women of the Basque town
Reflections on a Pandemic School Year
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Reverend William, from England
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Le, from the Dominican Republic
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The History of Henry Barnard School, 1898-2021
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Barbara, from the Austro-Hungarian Empire
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