Reflection: Judy Gray Holcomb

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Supporting allied health professionals in their role as practice educators

Aim: To find out what continuing professional development (CPD) and support Allied Health Professions’ practice educators felt would be beneficial to their role to support good learning experiences for students during practice placements. Background: For the first time, representatives from the four universities that run AHP pre-registration education programmes in Scotland, and NHS Education for Scotland (NES) collaborated to design and distribute a questionnaire to student practice educators across all sectors in Scotland. Method: An electronic questionnaire was designed and piloted. It consisted of closed questions using 5-point likert scales and open questions about different aspects of AHP Practice Educator preparation and ongoing CPD and support. The questionnaire was circulated by email three times through university, NES, and professional body networks. Respondents:1127 responses were received from 12 professions. 1082 responses were received from NHS Scotland educators (11% of the regulated AHP workforce), 45 were from AHPs providing practice placements in other sectors. The majority of responses were from experienced Practice Educators. Outcomes: The universities and NES now have a ranked list of CPD needs for practice educators. Key messages from the open questions have been identified about how educators prefer to access CPD and broader support issues both within the practice setting and from universities

Faculty Artist Recital: Judith Schwenzfeier, Soprano; Peter Schuetz, Baritone; Harold Gray, Piano; October 9, 1972

Centennial East Recital HallMonday EveningOctober 9, 19728:15 p.m

Additional Examples of Cold Autoagglutinins with M Specificity

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Extracellular signal-regulated kinase 5 promotes acute cellular and systemic inflammation.

Inflammatory critical illness is a syndrome that is characterized by acute inflammation and organ injury, and it is triggered by infections and noninfectious tissue injury, both of which activate innate immune receptors and pathways. Although reports suggest an anti-inflammatory role for the mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) extracellular signal-regulated kinase 5 (ERK5), we previously found that ERK5 mediates proinflammatory responses in primary human cells in response to stimulation of Toll-like receptor 2 (TLR2). We inhibited the kinase activities and reduced the abundances of ERK5 and MEK5, a MAPK kinase directly upstream of ERK5, in primary human vascular endothelial cells and monocytes, and found that ERK5 promoted inflammation induced by a broad range of microbial TLR agonists and by the proinflammatory cytokines interleukin-1β (IL-1β) and tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α). Furthermore, we found that inhibitors of MEK5 or ERK5 reduced the plasma concentrations of proinflammatory cytokines in mice challenged with TLR ligands or heat-killed Staphylococcus aureus, as well as in mice that underwent sterile lung ischemia-reperfusion injury. Finally, we found that inhibition of ERK5 protected endotoxemic mice from death. Together, our studies support a proinflammatory role for ERK5 in primary human endothelial cells and monocytes, and suggest that ERK5 is a potential therapeutic target in diverse disorders that cause inflammatory critical illness

KSU Holiday Concert 2017

Kick off your holiday season with the School of Music as we celebrate the season and present holiday favorites performed by the KSU Symphony Orchestra, Wind Ensemble, and choirs. This performance will feature carols sung by KSU choirs, a special Christmas at the Movies medley performed by the KSU Symphony Orchestra including music from Home Alone, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Polar Express, and more.https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/musicprograms/1992/thumbnail.jp

The religious element in the works of Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Religion in the widest sense is acknowledged to be a fundamental element in Hofmannsthal's writings, but an account of the nature of the beliefs underlying his works as a whole is still needed. Chapter I concentrates on his essays, letters and notes and examines his usage of certain religious words and concepts: faith; Christianity, the Bible and the Church; revelation; the concept of an "other reality"; myth; religion; God; and spirit. The central concept discovered is that of a spiritual dimension both underlying and transcending the phenomenal reality of everyday experience. The nature of this dimension and the ways in which it can be apprehended are explored.Chapter II seeks to establish a definition of mysticism and to show that Hofmannsthal's emphasis on the unity of all things has its roots in personal experience of a mystical nature, expressed in his early poetic works and in the essays of the succeeding decade. His later, more socially oriented works express the desire for a realisation in the external world of the truths intuited. His eclecticism in seeking illumination of his experience in a wide variety of religious, mystical and psychological writings is examined, together with the absence of any specific framework of interpretation, and the implications of this are explored through an analysis of Der Turm. Chapter III deals with Hofmannsthal's search for lasting values and for an understanding of the problem of evil, and explores the ideas of the highest good as a full involvement in life, with its constant process ofinterrelation and renewal; and evil as the obstruction of this process, through blindness to the true nature of reality, or as a flaw in the overall harmony. The co-existence of Hofmannsthal's concern for moral issues and his mystical belief in the unity of all things is discussed.<p

Landscape of Maine Patient Safety Activities: A Report to the Dirigo Health Agency’s Maine Quality Forum

The purpose of this report Landscape of Maine Patient Safety Activities is to provide the Maine Quality Forum and the Dirigo Health Agency with baseline information that identifies the scope and depth of current patient safety initiatives in Maine. The State Health Plan identified the need to document the current patient safety efforts and compare Maine’s patient safety efforts to similar efforts in other states. The landscape review of patient safety activities in Maine includes data collected through three different lenses. First, the team completed an environmental scan of patient safety activities in other states and explored the various configurations of formal organizational patient safety activities. Second, a convenience sample online survey was conducted with Maine healthcare stakeholders to gather specific information about activities and needs for additional efforts. Finally, follow‐up interviews were conducted with key informants to gain a deeper understanding of the Maine landscape of patient safety activity

Observational cross sectional pilot study of adherence with antipsychotic medication in people with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorders in prisons

This pilot project has aimed to: • Estimate the point prevalence of non-adherence to (typical/atypical) antipsychotic medication in population of people with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder in prison. • Determine prisoners’ satisfaction with and beliefs and attitudes towards antipsychotic medication. • Determine predictors of adherence in prisoners with schizophrenia or schizo-affective disorder. • Compare the prevalence of adherence with a community sample of individuals with schizophrenia. • Explore patients’ current and previous subjective experiences of medication (embedded qualitative element of project