Impact of therapeutic human touch on older adults

The importance of this topic is to hope for better patient outcomes in the geriatric population. Human touch may be an effective way to provide comfort and care, with a deeper purpose/goal to older patients who may be struggling with mental health conditions. Older  individuals that are struggling through illness or mental distress are in desperate need of human touch and how it is crucial it is in the role of caregiving (Pedrazza, 2018). Research presentationFaculty Mentor: Dr. Kathy Andrese

Towards UAV-based post-disaster damage detection and localization: Hurricane Sally case study

In this study, we investigate the feasibility of detecting post-disaster damages through camera images obtained onboard an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). Aerial footage from the University of West Florida (UWF) campus after being hit by hurricane Sally in 2020 is used in our study. Our goal is to automatically locate and identify all the roof damages caused by Sally on the university campus using a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based object detection approach. We utilize a TensorFlow Object Detection API model retrained on images hand annotated by our team to demonstrate the damage detection capabilities of CNN. The aim of this study is to propose a framework towards UAV-based post-disaster damage detection and localization to aid the effort of damage recovery after hurricanes.Conference PaperPublishe

Riddell, Heather

Assistant Professor PhD Communications, George Mason University, 2018 MA, Professional Communication, Clemson University, 2010 BA, Rhetoric and Public Address, Bob Jones University, 2006 Dr. Riddell’s research interests have focused on organizational uses of social media to implement crisis communication. She has also investigated issues of identity and social media communication. Through her academic and professional experiences, she has examined the various uses of social media, developed and implemented organizational social media strategic plans. ORCiD: 0000-0002-1089-7048 ResearcherID

University of West Florida Pressbooks

As part of our continuing commitment to provide the University of West Florida community with quality, open-access resources, the UWF Libraries provide access to Pressbooks for UWF faculty publishing. Pressbooks seeks to drive the open publishing movement by partnering with institutions of higher education around the world to get accessible educational content into the hands of students. To learn more about how you can use Pressbooks to adopt, update/revise, or create a brand new online open-access book, go to https://pressbooks-uwf-edu.ezproxy.lib.uwf.ed

Diagnoses and charges of patients with ICD-10-CM environmental pollution exposure codes in Florida

Purpose: Pollution affects both health and climate change. There is no published research on the use of four environmental pollution exposure codes new to ICD-10-CM. The purpose of this research is to provide a baseline use of the four codes in Florida, the most frequent related principal diagnoses, demographics of patients exposed to environmental pollution, total charges, and associations of total charges that are related to environmental pollution. Principal Results: There were 341 patients in Florida who visited an ED due to environmental pollution exposure from 2016 to 2019 and 159 patients in Florida who were hospitalized. The total charges for all patients with a documented exposure to environmental pollution were $1,379,217 for ED patients and$9,933,752 for inpatients. The independent variables that were statistically significant in the ED regression model of total charges were other insurance (-0.361 parameter estimate, 0.017 p-value, -30.3% decrease to charges); and for-profit ownership (0.376 parameter estimate, 0.0005 p-value, 45.7% increase to charges). For the inpatient regression model, the independent variables that were statistically significant were Medicare (0.317 parameter estimate, 0.027 p-value, 37.3% increase to charges); LOS (0.091 parameter estimate, <0.0001 p-value, 9.5% increase to charges); exposure to other pollution (0.407 parameter estimate, 0.002 p-value, 50.3% increase to charges); and for-profit hospital ownership (0.292 parameter estimate, 0.012 p-value, 33.9% increase to charges). Major Conclusions: Patients exposed to air pollution frequently were diagnosed with asthma or other chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Patients with water pollution exposure frequently had open wounds or infections stemming from open wounds. For both ED and inpatient visits, $11,312,969 was charged to patients over the four year period. Due to the challenges of documenting it clinically, the true charges of healthcare due to environmental pollution are probably much higher. Education may be needed for pollution codes to be understood and used more frequently by clinicians and coders.Journal ArticleFinal article publishe

Book review of We the women: The unstoppable mothers of the Equal Right's Amendment

Book ReviewFinal article publishe

Staffing-ratios and nursing burnout

Mental health can affect many different aspects in the nursing profession. In this project, we are focusing on how staffing ratios, adequate and inadequate, affect occupational stress and burnout of nurses over time. These factors not only affect the mental health, but also the patient outcomes, patient safety, and number of errors made. It is identified that there is a significant relationship between insomnia, burnout and mental health among nurses (Cheng et al., 2020).Research presentationFaculty Mentor: Dr. Kathy Andrese

Mohlmann, Nicholas

Assistant Professor PhD, English, Purdue University, 2014 MA, English, University of Maine, 2008 BA, English, George Mason University, 2005 Dr. Mohlmann’s academic interests include American poetry and poetics, corporate speech, corporate aesthetics, promotional literature, life writing, and theories of form. His current work focuses on the intersection of form and agency in colonial America, particularly Virginia. ORCiD: ResearcherID

Andresen, Kathy

Assistant Professor of Clinical Practice DNP, Rush University College of Nursing, 2011 MS, Nursing, University of Iowa College of Nursing, 2008 BS, Health Arts, University of St. Francis 2002 Dr. Andresen has a passion for public health and has practiced nursing care in a variety of settings within the community including a substance abuse treatment center, WIC program, public health department, school health, home health, and a federally qualified health care clinic. Her primary clinical expertise is community-based nursing care within school settings, where she has served as a consultant in regional, state, and national roles working to inform policy based upon best practices for school nurses. As a nurse educator with public health expertise, Dr. Andresen's research interests include system enhancement related to innovative educational strategies and healthcare disparities. ORCiD: ResearcherID