The Relationship between the Number of Hours Taken in a Senior Practicum Course in Prelicensure Nursing Education and the Score of Preception of Professional Competence by the Newly Graduated Nurse

This study determined whether there is a relationship between the number of direct acute care hours completed in a senior practicum course during pre-licensure nursing education and the scores of perception of Nurse Professional Competence (NPC) in newly graduated nurses between the third and sixth month of employment. A sample of new hires of newly graduated nurses within a large, nonprofit healthcare system was used. Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval was obtained from Liberty University’s IRB and the healthcare organization’s IRB prior to the survey being sent out to prospective participants and data collected. A non-experimental, correlational design was used to examine the relationship between the number of acute care hours within a senior practicum course in pre-licensure nursing programs on the newly graduated nurses’ perception of NPC and the individual categories within the NPC. Descriptive statistics was used to report the central tendency of the participants as it relates to the number of direct acute care hour groups within a senior practicum course in pre-licensure nursing education and the scores for perception of professional competence of the newly graduated nurse. A Pearson product-moment correlation was used to look at the grouped number of direct acute care hours within a senior practicum course in pre-licensure nursing education and the relationship this may have on perception of professional competence scores of the newly graduated nurse. The research failed to reject the null hypothesis. The research concluded that there is a positive correlation between the number of direct acute care hours within a senior practicum course in pre-licensure nursing education and the perception of professional competence scores of the newly graduated nurse

Strontium Exchange Characteristics of Soils from the Ogotoruk Creek Watershed in Alaska

Author Institution: Department of Agronomy, Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, and The Ohio State University, Columbus 1

Microclimatological, Pedological, and Geomorphological Studies in the Western Tasersiaq Area, Greenland During Summer 1964

Final Report - 30 April 1964 -29 July 1965During the summer 1964, personnel of The Ohio State University Institute of Polar Studies conducted a field program in the Sukkertoppen Ice Cap area of southwest Greenland. The program included studies of soil and mass wasting in the Tasersiaq area immediately east of the ice cap, and studies of the microclimatology across the eastern edge of the ice cap. The results of this research program are contained in four parts. Part I, by Adolph Kryger, discusses the microclimatological (excluding radiation) results of observations taken at four stations, one at the base of the slope below the eastern edge of the Sukkertoppen Ice Cap, two intermediate ones on the slope, and one at the edge of the glacier. Part II, by Fritz Loewe, discusses the radiation observations. Both have related their observations to those at other permanent stations along the western Greenland coast. Part III, by K. R. Everett, presents the results of studies of mass-wasting and patterned ground phenomena. Part IV, by N. Holowaychuk and K. R. Everett, contains most of the results of the pedological studies. The report herein includes the discussion of soil morphology,chemistry, and classification.U.S. Army Natick Laboratories, Contract No. DA-19-129-AMC-301(N