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Adverse Childhood Experiences and School Productivity: What is the Role of Social Networks and Religion
Get PDFAdverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are traumatic events children experience that can have lifelong impacts (Blodgett & Lanigan, 2018). These traumatic events may include verbal, physical, or sexual abuse, as well as family stress or dysfunction, such as the loss of a parent, incarcerated family members, substance use, economic hardships, community violence, and natural disasters. Research shows ACEs are associated with negative psychological impacts such as anxiety and depression (Zare et al., 2018). While previous research emphasized an examination of negative mental and other health outcomes, the current study sought to examine further how ACEs are associated with negative educational outcomes. This study attempted to answer the following question: What is the correlation between ACEs and school productivity? The study also looked at four potential moderators or protective factors against ACEs (neighborhood network, high school network, religious networks, and religious faith).
The findings supported the hypothesis that ACEs negatively correlated with GPA and academic success. Further partial support was found for the hypothesis suggesting social network connections and religious faith could buffer the negative relationship between ACEs and academic success. Specifically, religious faith moderated the relationship between ACEs and GPA and between ACEs and academic success in the predicted direction. The relationship between ACEs and negative educational outcomes was stronger in students with low religious faith. Other factors (neighborhood, high school, and religious network strength) did not function as moderators, however, contrary to hypotheses
Early vs Late Referrals to Nephrology and its Effect on Patient Outcomes in End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Patients Who Are on Renal Replacement Therapy (RRT) a Retrospective Chart Review
Get PDFEnd-stage renal disease may greatly affect a patient’s overall health and outcomes. This project aimed to look at early versus late nephrology referrals. A retrospective chart review of patient’s demographic and health outcome data was reviewed through a patient’s electronic health record. The patient data from the chart review, along with the evidence obtained from the review of the literature has been utilized to describe findings and develop evidence-based practice-guided recommendations for nephrology referrals in clinical practice. This project has been completed at a dialysis center in rural Ohio. The patient population included around 60 patients who had dialysis at the clinic within the past year. Excluding patients with a genetic or an acute kidney disease. This project has taken place from August 2022 to March 2023. The model of the project was a retrospective quantitative chart review. The patient’s charts were reviewed looking for demographic information, stage of chronic kidney disease at initial contact with a nephrologist and lab values. Information was then collected on time to start dialysis, fistula placement, lab values including, potassium, phosphorous, hemoglobin, blood urea nitrogen, mortality, and hypertensive control. The information was organized in a data collection sheet. The information was then organized into an excel spreadsheet which was password protected to keep information private. Barriers to this project included missing medical history from electronic health records (EHR), patient compliance with treatment plans and available patient population. The data collected showed a clear correlation between earlier nephrology referrals and improved patient outcomes. Improved outcomes included blood pressure control, decrease in potassium levels, decrease in time prior to having to start HD. Given the evidence presented patients should be referred to a nephrologist when a patient is approaching a stage 3a. Providers should be referring patients earlier prior to a significant decrease in kidney function. This project will improve clinical practice, health, and the life expectancy of patients with ESRD
Otterbein Aegis Spring 2023
Get PDFContents; Editors\u27 Introduction, Editorial Board Members, Aesthetic Disinterestedness and a Clockwork World: Influence of Natural Philosophy on Literature , Alexander Hamilton\u27s Governmental Philosophy and its Impact on the Whiskey Rebellion , On the Complexity of Consequence: Spike Lee\u27s 25th Hour , Paradise and Queer Utopia , Reworking the Western: Zinneman\u27s High Noon , The Little Rock Nine Integration Experience: Was it Worth it? , The New York Age and Women\u27s Suffrage , An interview with Dr. Matthew Strohl Book Reviews; Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Convenience Store Woman, Devotion, Fake Accounts, Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol, Groundskeeping, How to Stand up to a Dictator, Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times, Motherthing, Queer Voices in Hip Hop: Cultures, Communities, and Contemporary Performance, The Pianist from Syria, The Testaments, The Trees, The Undocumented Americans, Unwieldy Creatures, Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black Americahttps://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/aegis_humanity/1022/thumbnail.jp
2023 Great Expectations Spring Faculty Conference: Education for Humanity
Get PDFThe 2023 Great Expectations Spring Faculty Conference featured a speech by keynote speaker, Tamara Bilous, Professor of English, Rivne State University, Ukraine.
Professor Tamara Bilous is Educator in Residence at Otterbein University for spring semester (2023). While affiliated with Otterbein, she has engaged in professional development opportunities in the areas of multicultural education and ESL instruction with support from Professor Diane Ross and Erin Johnson.
She joins Otterbein while continuing her teaching and research responsibilities as a Professor of English at Rivne State University of the Humanities, in Rivne, Ukraine. Dr. Bilous is fluent in English, Ukrainian, and Russian, and she is an expert in philology (linguistics). Her teaching and research interests are in intercultural communication, intercultural competence, teaching English as a foreign language (EFL), tolerance and intercultural dialogue, and values in education. Her PhD thesis was completed in 2004 and was titled: Upbringing Tolerance in the Students of Higher Educational Establishments in the Process of Learning English.
After the speech, various groups and departments set goals for programs like Integrative Studies, FYE/SYE, and the Honors Program. A panel discussing the upcoming Common Book, Call Me American, a Memoir by Abdi Nor Iftin, closed out the day.https://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/spring_faculty_conference/1000/thumbnail.jp
Paris Merriss
No full textDaguerreotype of Paris Merriss, brother to Lucinda Lenore Merriss Cornellhttps://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/cornell_images/1020/thumbnail.jp
Herbert, Cornell, and Jon Bradrick (Side Two)
No full textBackside of image of Herbert, Cornell, and Jon Bradrick.
It reads Herbert, Cornell, & Jon Bradrick
Herbert Bradrick
John Cornell Bradrick
Jon Bradrickhttps://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/cornell_images/1034/thumbnail.jp
Children of John and Lucinda Cornell (Side One)
No full textBlack and white photograph of the six Cornell children taken in a studio against a plain backdrop.
It reads Otto Bishop Cornell
Alice Blanche
Honori May
Paris Royal
Frank Holland
Alrri Genevahttps://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/cornell_images/1062/thumbnail.jp
Unidentified Group
No full textPhoto of an unidentified group of people.https://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/cornell_images/1069/thumbnail.jp
Merriss\u27 First Grade Class (Side Two)
No full textBackside of a photograph of Merriss\u27 first grade class.
It reads Merriss\u27 first grade class
1. Merriss Cornell
2. Bob Lint
3. Boyd P. Doty jr.
4. Rusell Johnson
5. Lester Zartman
6. Harriet Jones (sister by Rachel Muller)
7. Sammy Miller
8. Nathan Gorsach
9. Lucien Adamshttps://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/cornell_images/1071/thumbnail.jp
Abbie Geneva Cornell
No full textFormal close-up photograph of Abbie Geneva Cornell. The photo is part of a series taken by Pfeifer and Mulligan Bros. The front is labeled Abbie Geneva Cornell .https://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/cornell_images/1083/thumbnail.jp