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Impact of Music Therapy on Hospice Patients
Get PDFMusic therapy is an adjunct healing modality designed to alleviate symptoms of existential pain and suffering hospice patients may experience as they transition into the final stage of life. The complexity of existential pain and suffering in hospice patients is a challenge for a hospice care team to treat and manage and emotionally testing on the patient’s support system. The purpose of this scholarly project is to evaluate a music therapy program at a local community hospice center as an aid to relieve patients’ existential pain and suffering they incur from their terminal illness and to increase hospice care providers’ knowledge about incorporating music therapy as an adjunct healing modality. Bearing witness to patient experience occurred in collaboration with a board-certified music therapist during patient therapy sessions. Jean Watson’s Theory of Human Caring Science provides a theoretical framework for developing an education session on music therapy to employ with hospice care providers. Participants of the education sessions discussed the physical effects music has on the body, using music as a healing modality for patients, and caregivers incorporating music as a healing modality. Findings of the developmental evaluation of the education sessions offered indicated the audience of nursing students gained the greatest benefit from the education offered. Future integrations of this scholarly project will allow an advanced nurse practitioner to implement music therapy as a healing modality and incorporate education sessions to meet the needs of a diverse patient population throughout life’s transitions
Early Childhood Nutrition Education: Primary Prevention Within Minnesota’s Daycare System
No full textObesity and lifestyle-related illnesses such as type 2 diabetes mellitus impact thousands of individuals in Minnesota and the United States each year. Response to type 2 diabetes has historically followed a tertiary approach, which is costly, both monetarily and physically, with complicated disease states and needless suffering. Type 2 diabetes is non-discriminatory, and recent evidence suggests that this disease, once called adult-onset diabetes, is now impacting children and adolescents. A paradigm shift is needed to provide primary prevention to the vulnerable childhood population, of which many are statistically indicated to receive a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes in their lifetime. Family nurse practitioners and nurses are one of the most trusted professions; known for health promotion and education. It is the responsibility of current and future family nurse practitioners to recognize the need for primary prevention of type 2 diabetes and obesity-related illnesses and provide holistic care, resources, and education to patients, families, and early childcare providers to improve population health and the safety of future generations. Using Pender’s Health Promotion Theory as a guide, this scholarly project proposed an educational presentation for daycare providers in Minnesota as a means for combating future type 2 diabetes statistics in children, adolescents, and adults
Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: Parental Education For An Active Child
Get PDFMild traumatic brain injuries in the pediatric population are prevalent and pervasive. Identification and recognition of concussion symptoms is complicated by variable symptom manifestation and duration. The purpose of this evidence-based DNP project was to implement a concussion education intervention to increase parental recognition and knowledge regarding pediatric concussions. Individualized, in-person education, evidence-based injury prevention, symptom recognition, and collaboration encouraged lifestyle modification to reduce childhood injuries. Evaluation of parental concerns concluded a desire for future health promotion education resulting in bimonthly meetings to further improve personal, familial, and professional health
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Theology, and Political Resistance
No full textIn 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer—a theologian and pastor—was executed by the Nazis for his resistance to their unspeakable crimes against humanity. He was only 39 years old when he died, but Bonhoeffer left behind volumes of work exploring theological and ethical themes that have now inspired multiple generations of scholars, students, pastors, and activists. This book highlights the ways Dietrich Bonhoeffer\u27s work informs political theology and examines Bonhoeffer\u27s contributions in three ways: historical-critical interpretation, critical-constructive engagement, and constructive-practical application. With contributions from a broad array of scholars from around the world, chapters range from historical analysis of Bonhoeffer’s early political resistance language to accounts of Bonhoeffer-inspired, front-line resistance to white supremacists in Charlottesville, VA. This volume speaks to the ongoing relevance of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s work and life in and out of the academy.https://idun.augsburg.edu/monographs/1075/thumbnail.jp
Political Assortive Mating: the Effects of Politics on Mating Choice and Relationships
Get PDFThe current study investigates the theory of political assortative mating, which is the theory that people with similar political preferences are more likely to mate together. The current study broadens the research on political assortative mating by studying potential couples before they actually begin dating, rather than studying married couples as most previous research has done. Participants were asked to look at a fictitious dating profile in which political affiliation was manipulated and rate how likely they would be to contact, respond, and be a good match with the person represented. Results showed that politics do have a significant impact on young adults\u27 mating decisions, in that they are more likely to favor people who have the same political preference as themselves. Knowledge on this topic could make people more aware of their decision making processes. Some research suggests that political homophily in relationships leads to more stable, longer lasting relationships. However, political assortative mating could also lead to more politically homogenous households and decreased tolerance for differing political views
J. S. Mill On Hate Speech in the Canadian Context
Get PDFThis paper examines the legal treatment of hate speech in Canadian society through the lens of John Stuart Mill\u27s Theory of Liberty. In doing so, the core aspects of Mills theory will be teased out so his response to hate speech in modern liberal societies may be better understood. The central argument set out is that hate speech is a violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, but such a violation is saved through application of Mill\u27s Harm Principle . Even with this application, the paper argues ought to be a balance of rights. It will be concluded that Canadian Supreme Court interpretations of the Charter, and for a large part the Charter\u27s drafting itself, lend themselves to be reminiscent of Mill\u27s theory of harm
Transitioning: An Ethnographical Study of Mid-20th Century Transgender Americans
Get PDFThis essay explores a number of historical and anecdotal resources in an attempt to construct an ethnography around transgender individuals of the American 1950s and 60s. Situating my study in the context of a rising national interest in the quasi-scientific field of sexology as well as the nuclear family-centered sociopolitical climate of the post-WWII United States, my analysis seeks to understand the varying lived experiences of transgender Americans and conjecture about the quality of their lives. Because the focus of my study concerns a group living before the use of the term transgender to describe gender identity and, indeed, before the establishment of any cohesive non-heteronormative community-as many historians will accredit the Stonewall Innriots of 1969 withthe inception ofthe Gay Rights Movement inAmerica- this explication, written in the vein of the anthropological ethnography, looks at the proto-transgender community as a kind of diasporic subculture. In particular, my study pays close attention to the ways in which transgenderism was the subject of ambivalent prejudice, a term coined by Irwin Katz that recognizes benevolent (passive) forms of prejudice as well as malevolent (active) forms of prejudice. My brief essay examines a number of spaces, like the portrayal of transgenderism in the media, its treatment in the military and its reception by the public, but recurrently it looks to the entertainment sphere, considering the dissonance between transgender performance as a comedic act and the conduct afforded to transgender individuals in actuality
Objectification of Same-Sex and Opposite-Sex Individuals
Get PDFThe objectifying gaze refers to the tendency to focus on one\u27s sexual body parts, thereby reducing the target of the objectifying gaze to a mere object. This tendency has been shown to be more prevalent among men and directed frequently towards women. The present study investigated the gender differences in male and female gaze patterns towards same-sex and opposite-sex models. It was predicted that (1) males would attend to bodies of all models more than females, (2) the body regions of the female targets would be focused on more than the body regions of male targets, especially by male participants, and (3) appearance-focused participants would focus more on models\u27 bodies than personality-focused participants. Eighty-two college students viewed images of male and female models and rated their appearance or personality, depending on the condition. Participants\u27 eye-movements were tracked, and the amount of time they spent examining the models\u27 bodies was established as the measure of the objectifying gaze. The results indicate that both male and female participants observed the bodies of female and male models for approximately the same time. Additionally, both conditions yielded approximately the same observation times
Powered by Social Energies: A New Historicism Approach to Gone with the Wind
Get PDFGone with the Wind was a runaway bestseller in the 1930s due to Mitchell\u27s ability to pull the circulating social energies of her own time period into a book ostensibly set in the Civil War and Reconstruction Period. Using Stephen Greenblatt\u27s ideas from Shakespearean Negotiations, I trace these in Gone with the Wind with support from multiple sources. These swirling social energies provide a sense of inevitability to the story which underpins Scarlett\u27s frantic survivalism, but they are not transformed. This lack of transformation creates a disturbing reality wherein Scarlett can learn nothing, change nothing and rail against her apparent victimizations, which parallels the situation we as modern readers face in an increasingly complicated and divisive world
Rochester Health Commons: Making Community Connections Through Service Learning
No full textThe Rochester Health Commons is a nurse-led, drop-in center providing a place of belonging for individuals experiencing isolation and marginalization, as well as a place for Augsburg University nursing students to learn transcultural nursing skills in Rochester, Minnesota. Through an academic-community partnership between Bethel Lutheran Church and Augsburg University, the Rochester Health Commons has adapted to the needs of the guests in response to their expressed felt needs based on Watson’s Human Caring Theory. In this nurse-led drop-in center, nurses bear witness to the lives of the guests, provide health consultation, provide personal hygiene items, and complete the basic nursing cares. Since opening on September 24 , 2018, the Rochester Health Commons has become a community. The guests and nurses share their wisdom with each other and together, they have created a place for belonging. Using evaluation methods of post-survey questionnaires by students, examining patterns in recorded numbers of guests, reflecting on feedback from those in the discipline, and ongoing support from community partners, the Rochester Health Commons has been positively received by the community. The Rochester Health Commons will continue to be a place where nurses can accompany guests on their health journey through responding to expressed felt needs, bearing witness to the struggle, and naming capacity