101 research outputs found
Wendy Nehring, PhD, RN, FAAN
No full textIllinois Wesleyan University\u27s School of Nursing will name Wendy Nehring, class of 79, the 2005 Distinguished Alumna for Nursing Excellence at the School of Nursing Homecoming brunch on Saturday, Oct. 8, 2005. Nehring will receive a framed certificate recognizing the honor and speak about Choosing a Road Less Traveled: Nursing in the Field of Developmental Disabilities. In addition to authoring a book, The History of Nursing in the Field of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, Nehring has written or contributed to more than 5O published articles and book chapters and also reviewed material for a number of books and medical journals. Prior to her work in education, Nehring gained nursing experience at the Madison Convalescent Center in Madison, Wis., Kishwaukee Community Hospital in DeKalb, Ill., and Evanston Hospital in Evanston, Ill.https://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/nursing_awards/1015/thumbnail.jp
Stacked Credentials Pathways: Accelerated LPN-BSN Program
No full textDr. Wendy Nehring, Dean of the College of Nursing, explained that the idea to establish a LPN-BSN Program came about after a statewide tour of all the Community Colleges and Tennessee Colleges of Applied Technology (TCAT) to promote the RN-BSN Program. Students said they wanted a LPN-BSN Program that is accessible and that they get through as quickly as possible. ETSU worked with THEC to develop a hybrid program with 23 hours of articulation credits that takes four semesters to complete. ETSU is currently the only public university in Tennessee to offer a LPN-BSN Program, Dr. Nehring said.
The LPN-BSN Program started at three sites in fall 2018 and has quickly expanded to seven sites, with five additional sites planned across the state. Last summer, the program received 1,000 inquiries per week. In fall 2019, 94 students enrolled, which is close to the enrollment in the BSN Program on ETSU’s main campus. Spring 2020 enrollment is estimated to be just over 100 students. At this time, Dr. Nehring said the highest interest is coming from Crossville and Nashville, and students at the Memphis TCAT petitioned their President to offer the LPN-BSN Program. The state is experiencing a nursing shortage, especially in rural areas, so this program is one way TSU is working to meet workforce needs
Historical Perspective and Emerging Trends
No full textBook Summary: Nurses play a key role in high-quality health care for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD)--and now this up-to-date textbook fully prepares them to provide patients with the best possible services across the lifespan. The most comprehensive text available for nurses who specialize in IDD, this essential book clarifies evidence-based practices and gives readers an integrated, interdisciplinary approach to care that meets each person\u27s individual needs.
Cecily Betz and Wendy Nehring--authors of the respected text Promoting Health Care Transitions for Adolescents with Special Health Care Needs and Disabilities--gather the latest research and wisdom of 18 diverse authorities in the medical field. Together, they give pre- and in-service nurses the foundation of knowledge they need to help ensure equal access to health care for people with IDD choose from today\u27s models and philosophies of carepromote their patients\u27 psychosocial developmentprovide effective physical careconduct health assessments and develop individualized plans of caremaintain successful interdisciplinary collaboration with other professionals address the issues associated with specific disabilities, including autism, Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, fragile X, sensory impairment, and medical and behavioral health problems support developmental transitions across the lifespan expand their knowledge of genetics and apply it to nursing practice skillfully manage ethical and legal issuesunderstand the service agencies used by individuals with IDD Enhanced with clinical practice guidelines to support effective work with individuals who have IDD, this textbook lights every nurse\u27s path to person-centered, evidence-based care that improves their patients\u27 lives
Down Syndrome
No full textBook Summary: Nurses play a key role in high-quality health care for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD)--and now this up-to-date textbook fully prepares them to provide patients with the best possible services across the lifespan. The most comprehensive text available for nurses who specialize in IDD, this essential book clarifies evidence-based practices and gives readers an integrated, interdisciplinary approach to care that meets each person\u27s individual needs.
Cecily Betz and Wendy Nehring--authors of the respected text Promoting Health Care Transitions for Adolescents with Special Health Care Needs and Disabilities--gather the latest research and wisdom of 18 diverse authorities in the medical field. Together, they give pre- and in-service nurses the foundation of knowledge they need to help ensure equal access to health care for people with IDD choose from today\u27s models and philosophies of carepromote their patients\u27 psychosocial developmentprovide effective physical careconduct health assessments and develop individualized plans of caremaintain successful interdisciplinary collaboration with other professionals address the issues associated with specific disabilities, including autism, Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, fragile X, sensory impairment, and medical and behavioral health problems support developmental transitions across the lifespan expand their knowledge of genetics and apply it to nursing practice skillfully manage ethical and legal issuesunderstand the service agencies used by individuals with IDD Enhanced with clinical practice guidelines to support effective work with individuals who have IDD, this textbook lights every nurse\u27s path to person-centered, evidence-based care that improves their patients\u27 lives
Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
No full textBook Summary: Nurses play a key role in high-quality health care for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD)--and now this up-to-date textbook fully prepares them to provide patients with the best possible services across the lifespan. The most comprehensive text available for nurses who specialize in IDD, this essential book clarifies evidence-based practices and gives readers an integrated, interdisciplinary approach to care that meets each person\u27s individual needs.
Cecily Betz and Wendy Nehring--authors of the respected text Promoting Health Care Transitions for Adolescents with Special Health Care Needs and Disabilities--gather the latest research and wisdom of 18 diverse authorities in the medical field. Together, they give pre- and in-service nurses the foundation of knowledge they need to help ensure equal access to health care for people with IDD choose from today\u27s models and philosophies of carepromote their patients\u27 psychosocial developmentprovide effective physical careconduct health assessments and develop individualized plans of caremaintain successful interdisciplinary collaboration with other professionals address the issues associated with specific disabilities, including autism, Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, fragile X, sensory impairment, and medical and behavioral health problems support developmental transitions across the lifespan expand their knowledge of genetics and apply it to nursing practice skillfully manage ethical and legal issuesunderstand the service agencies used by individuals with IDD Enhanced with clinical practice guidelines to support effective work with individuals who have IDD, this textbook lights every nurse\u27s path to person-centered, evidence-based care that improves their patients\u27 lives
Nauczanie języka polskiego na Uniwersytecie Wrocławskim w czasach Władysława Nehringa
No full textTeaching of Polish at the University of Wrocław in Władysław Nehring’s timesThe article examines the teaching of the Polish language at the University of Wrocław in the second half of the 19th century, when the Department of Slavic Literatures and Languages was chaired by Władysław Nehring. The author lists and briefly describes language teachers working there at the time Jan Mikołaj Fritz, Wincenty Kraiński, Rafał Löwenfeld and Rudolf Abicht as well as the conditions in which they worked. She also presents language textbooks used at the university, pointing to their characteristic features and interesting methodological solutions. The textbooks included J. Popliński’s Grammatik der polnischen Sprache nach Kopczyński, Cassius, Bandtke und Mroziński, several editions of which were published. Two editions were by Władysław Nehring, who incorporated into them more recent developments in 19th-century linguistics. Under Nehring’s leadership the teaching of Polish developed, though it was constantly plagued by staff- and funding-related problems.Teaching of Polish at the University of Wrocław in Władysław Nehring’s timesThe article examines the teaching of the Polish language at the University of Wrocław in the second half of the 19th century, when the Department of Slavic Literatures and Languages was chaired by Władysław Nehring. The author lists and briefly describes language teachers working there at the time Jan Mikołaj Fritz, Wincenty Kraiński, Rafał Löwenfeld and Rudolf Abicht as well as the conditions in which they worked. She also presents language textbooks used at the university, pointing to their characteristic features and interesting methodological solutions. The textbooks included J. Popliński’s Grammatik der polnischen Sprache nach Kopczyński, Cassius, Bandtke und Mroziński, several editions of which were published. Two editions were by Władysław Nehring, who incorporated into them more recent developments in 19th-century linguistics. Under Nehring’s leadership the teaching of Polish developed, though it was constantly plagued by staff- and funding-related problems
Yield Of Dreams: Marching West And The Politics Of Scientific Knowledge In The Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa)
No full textOver the past forty years, Brazilian agriculture has rapidly industrialized elevating the country as one of the world's largest exporters of key commodity crops such as corn, soybeans and cotton. Much of the credit for this transformation has gone to the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) for their work in the center-west region of the country. This area, known as the Cerrado, industrialized rapidly starting in the early 1970s with the introduction of chemical fertilizers and new seed varieties to fix its acidic soils. This paper historicizes the political and social relations behind the industrial transformation of the Cerrado by focusing on the establishment of Embrapa. I argue that U.S. political relations and corporate interests helped to lay the scientific and institutional groundwork for public research in Brazil to ensure longterm industrialization of the Cerrado. This research is based on interviews conducted at Embrapa headquarters and field research sites in Brazil as well as historical archives in both Brazil and the U.S. ii
Techno-tropicalismo: Public Agricultural Research and the Brazilian Green Revolution
No full text262 pagesThis dissertation analyzes the social formation and political development behind the production of scientific knowledge at the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, known by its Portuguese acronym Embrapa (Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária). Embrapa was established as a public company under Brazil’s authoritarian military regime in 1973 with the goal of modernizing Brazilian agriculture and is credited as the technological engine behind the emergence of “the world’s first tropical agricultural giant.” However, in recent years, Embrapa has endured political uncertainty, internal conflict and a reduction in its budget, leading to an institutional crisis. The technocrats who helped design and manage Embrapa were convinced of the need to send scientists abroad for postgraduate education and apply scientific expertise to industrial commodity production in the countryside. It was during these early decades when Embrapa gained currency as an effective institutional model for public agricultural research. I use the concept Techno-tropicalismo to show how the institutional and scientific hybridization of Western and Brazilian agronomic knowledge at Embrapa subsumed tropical ecologies into a vision of industrial order and progress in Brazil. Drawing on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Brazil, I argue that the effectiveness of public research isn’t due to the institutional model, but rather the alignment between state development goals, a continuity in financial support and internal social cohesion. The chapters in this dissertation provide a detailed ethnographic and historical analysis of public agricultural research in Brazil. Each of them focus on different scales around the development and deployment of agricultural research in Brazil, from the transnational and national, and from the institutional and local. They also address distinct moments and components of Embrapa. While the chapters are not presented chronologically, they do follow a general timeline that weaves from the past and up to the present. Taken together, the chapters utilize Embrapa as a productive lens to understand how and why national agricultural research systems produce particular forms of knowledge and technologies. In the case of Embrapa, I show how the transmission of generalized and embedded knowledge from the global to the local is uneven, contested and shaped by economic, political, cultural, and environmental interests
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