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Ending ‘Period Poverty’: A Holistic Proposal to Address Menstrual Hygiene Management for People Experiencing Homelessness in Denver, Colorado.
Full text linkThis proposal is for a holistic, community-based approach to MHM, with a specific focus on people experiencing homelessness in Denver, Colorado. The proposal culminates in a holistic set of recommendations, including both actionable items and systems- and policy- level suggestions, to improve access to clean and dignified MHM for the intended beneficiaries.
The goals of this proposal are to: 1) Increase community collaboration on addressing MHM; 2) Provide equitable access to MHM products for all people experiencing homelessness; 3) Reduce the stigma associated with MHM; 4) Provide safe, private, and clean spaces for dignified MHM in Denver; and 5) Create systems-level change that will sustainably improve access to MHM. Recommended activities to meet these goals include creating barrier-free systems to distribute menstrual products, increasing street outreach efforts, securing grant funding, training staff working with people experiencing homelessness on equitable access to MHM, and improving public restroom facilities. Additionally, systems-level recommendations include passing legislation to include menstrual products in public assistance programs, eliminating taxation on menstrual products, and addressing the root cause of the issue through a housing-first model
Increasing SheCanCODE-Rwanda Graduates\u27 Employability
No full textThere has been a gender gap in different fields, including the technology industry. The government of Rwanda, the African Development Bank and other international organizations demonstrated a need to reduce the gap in the sector. Igire Rwanda has been working to reduce the gap through the SheCanCODE Program. Through the feedback received from Igire Rwanda’s SheCanCODE employment partners, the organization is proposing improvements for the program to turn graduates into more employable personnel in Rwanda. IRO will continue to offer computer programming courses and will partner with other institutions to deliver other important skills to produce quality (female) computer programmers, as recommended by employment partners. A preparatory bootcamp will ensure that every participant has the basic knowledge required to start coding classes. IRO will use learner centered teaching methodologies and avail learning resources to allow participants to practice whenever they want, in order to make the learning self-paced, contextualized and provide individualized support
The New Solar Kiosk Model: A Sustainable Solution to Address the Uptake and Access of Renewable Technologies to Create Energy Kiosks That Improve Women’s Income in Kiryandongo Refugee Settlement, Kiryandongo District, Northern Uganda.
Full text linkThis thesis was carried out in the Kiryandongo Refugee Settlement in Northern Uganda to test a new model to improve access to clean energy technologies in the refugee settlement. The settlement hosts more than seventy-five thousand refugees, including the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) from the Bududa landslides in Eastern Uganda. The literature review shows the challenges faced in the humanitarian sector. The challenge is met in providing lighting and improved cooking technologies to all refugees in settlements and camps globally. The refugees tend to cut down trees in the surrounding forest, and the wood is used for firewood to cook and lighting up their homes. The solar kiosk model has improved access to affordable briquettes, which is a replacement for charcoal and firewood, while solar products provide clean light. The four installed solar kiosks have contributed to the distribution of 577 Solar Home Systems, 843 improved charcoal stoves, and 18480.37 Kilograms of briquettes, and two purifiers were purchased. In terms of accessibility, the time to buy the technologies has dramatically reduced because the clean energy technologies are closer to the community members. The sale of water purifiers is low, having sold only two pieces in a population where over 90% drink unsafe water from wells and boreholes in the settlement. For the model to be sustainable, this study established that there is a need for continuous product education for both the kiosk operators and the masses in the community to live a more sustainable life
Bonobo rights for all: Using a primatological approach to secure gender equity
Full text linkWestern patriarchy sustains male-dominance and perpetuates gender inequity. While there have been great achievements toward gender equity, women are burdened to navigate a society that upholds male success. Equality offers individuals the same opportunities, but often falls short in delivering equal outcomes because of historic and systemic male privileges conserved by patriarchy. Equity, on the other hand, ensures that fair opportunities effect equal outcomes to rectify systemic injustices. To reconstruct women’s role in society, our closest living relatives, patriarchal chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and matriarchal bonobos (Pan paniscus), allow humans to compare the role of females in diverse primate social systems. Female-dominant bonobos utilize female coalitionary power to actively suppresses male dominance. Ultimately, female power allows these “hippie apes” to maintain peace. Using an inter-disciplinary approach of primatology and feminist theory, I argue that female-dominance – as observed in bonobos – promotes relational feminism, whereby women, whose perspectives are shaped by patriarchal oppression, hold significantly more power to foster equitable treatment of people regardless of their gender. Increased rates of sociosexual behavior, female coalitionary support, and affiliative intersexual relationships in matriarchal bonobos should encourage Western people to consider an imperative transformation toward female dominance
Using Client and Supervision Feedback to Improve Supervision in Health Care
Full text linkThis paper seeks to establish a conceptual model of client and supervisee feedback that can be used to improve supervision processes and outcomes in health and social care settings. Supervision is a beneficial practice development endeavor that practitioners find rewarding for various reasons. However, the impact of supervision on client outcomes in health and social care settings is scant and not all supervision is helpful; indeed, harmful and inadequate supervision is also prevalent. Using supervisory measures of the alliance between supervisor and supervisee may be one method to help improve processes and outcomes. In addition, providing client feedback to practitioners in health and social care settings has been established as an evidence-based method to improve psychosocial outcomes. Using this feedback data during supervision may help the supervisory process to focus on practitioner development objectively, and limit the extent of negative client experiences in systems of care. A conceptual model describing bidirectional feedback based on objective assessment is articulated; client to practitioner/practitioner to supervisor. A lack of primary data poses limitations to this review. Thus, future research may like to establish whether integrating these processes together as a conceptual model provides added value
Early Labor Management: A Quality Improvement Project
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The purpose of this quality improvement project is to safely reduce early labor admission rates through the implementation of evidence-based nursing triage management protocol focused on patient education and labor support for spontaneous early labor management in a community hospital setting. This initiative is part of a bundle of care intended to safely reduce primary cesarean birth rates.
Methods
A paired sample t-test was used to compare the following: early admission rates of NTSV patients before and after the study intervention: a pre and post knowledge survey taken by labor and delivery nurses; pre and post ELEQ survey results taken by postpartum patients prior to discharge.
Results
Strategies implemented in this project did not positively impact early admission rates which slightly increased from 9% to 11%; mean score decreased from 1.84 to 1.76 (p.322). Overall, the total aggregate score of staff knowledge related to care of this patient population increased slightly from 4.03 to 4.09 (p 0.438). Nurse willingness to implement new techniques and provide patient education in early labor increased: staff confidence with the new techniques declined. The overall ELEQ mean score increased from 2.68 to 3.05, an increase of 7.4%. Mean scores for 24 of 26 questions increased.
Conclusion
This early labor management project had mixed results; while early labor admission rates did not decrease, the interventions enhanced nurse involvement in early labor support. There was also an overwhelming increase in patient satisfaction scores related to their early labor experience
Navigating the Newfangled Nature of Non-Fungible Tokens
Full text linkThe marketplace for NFTs or non-fungible tokens has exploded with insurmountable popularity generating billions of dollars in revenues when it first received mainstream adoption by the general public in early 2021. As one of the largest applications of blockchain technology, NFTs are tradable rights to digital assets. Ownership of an NFT is recorded in a smart contract on a blockchain and is similar to possessing an artwork with a one-of-the-kind digital signature of authenticity. All NFTs on OpenSea, the world’s largest NFT marketplace, are transacted through the underlying cryptocurrency Ethereum (ETH), an open-source and decentralized blockchain. My thesis investigates the current digital capacity that NFTs now encompass given its rise in popularity, consequential effects in the pricing of Ethereum, key features that OpenSea offers as the go-to NFT marketplace, and a step-by-step overview for the entire process of creating, minting, buying, and selling an NFT on OpenSea. The controversial debate with regards to the environmental impacts from the energy consumption and ecological costs used to mine cryptocurrency and mint NFTs is addressed. Furthermore, the environmental effects are discussed when shifting from a proof of work (PoW) model that Ethereum and Bitcoin currently operate on to a more eco-friendly proof of stake (PoS) model. Because the hype over NFTs continues to grow, now is the time more than ever to understand how these concepts have become so relevant and prominent in a brand-new digitized chapter of the 21st century
MS Environmental Biology Capstone Project
Full text linkChapter 1. Birds and butterflies as surrogate indicators for urban ecological health
Chapter 2. Effectiveness of IUCN protected area categories for the conservation of North American alpine plant communities
Chapter 3. Rocky Mountain alpine plant communities respond dynamically to environmental change
Chapter 4. From conflict to collaboration: Preventing future wild horse gathers at Sand Wash Basi
A Humanistic, Culturally Sensitive Approach to Telesupervision: A Case Study
Full text linkIn this case study, the unique features of providing telesupervision in a humanistic, systematic approach that takes in cultural issues are discussed.With the COVID-19 pandemic, therapists who supervise students have not only moved to various online platforms to supervise students, but also had to adjust to the uniqueness of telesupervision and to issues brought into supervision such as culture. In this case study a strong working alliance start to develop with this student prior to starting telesupervision. It allowed trust to develop by getting to know the student, looking at what the student wanted in during supervision and the requirements of the student’s school. All of this was done to by using a client-centered/collaborative approach while finalizing a supervision contract. As this trust started to build and supervision moved to telesupervision, the writer helped the student explore self with genograms and cultural issues. As this was occurring, as the supervisor, it was important to keep account of myself and how that affected the supervisor relationship
The Socratic Method and The Alienation of Women in Philosophy
Full text linkThe Socratic Method has been the choice way to do philosophy for as long as philosophy has existed as a discipline. This method is aggressive and hierarchical, two traits that due to the semantics of engendered language alienate and exclude women. This alienation happens inevitably when the choice is presented to play the “game” that is the argumentative discipline of philosophy or not. When women chose to play the game, they are alienated from themselves. Philosophy is a highly universal and analytical discipline, that often does not allow for first-person narrative or philosophy done through the body, which is something that empowers most women. This means that women must do work they may not value, and in a Marxist sense are alienated from the product of their labor. If women do not play “the game” they are often excluded from the discipline through a lack of interaction with others and diminished opportunities due to the nature of their work. I proffer that this can be solved by changing how we define philosophy and philosophical success within the discipline