Improving Discharge Planning In the NICU

The birth of a child is an exciting time for parents. They spend months preparing for the arrival of their baby, but parents aren’t prepared for complications that can occur at birth. Events such as early arrival or respiratory issues can result in a newborn being admitted to the NICU. This can create stress and anxiety for parents. Once a child is admitted to the NICU, it is important that discharge planning and education begin promptly, to alleviate parental distress, prepare them to care for their child upon discharge, and improve patient outcome, but some NICUs struggle to provide and communicate a consistent discharge plan and education to parents. Research suggests that implementing clear discharge planning protocol that begin upon admission and keeps parents informed and involved does decrease parental stress and increase readiness to care for their infant after discharge. To improve discharge planning, a NICU should consider implementing the following action items. Create a paper ‘road map to discharge’ that is kept at the baby’s bedside, to encourage parental involvement and to keep them informed of planning. Create an education platform that can be accessed through a patient portal. This can be highly effective, as nurses can assign specific learning material in specific language formats to effectively introduce standardized education topics as well as specialized ones. Nurses can then track progress and provide further education bedside as needed. Create a review committee of nurses, providers and graduate NICU parents, to review compliance to protocol, effectiveness of protocol, and adjust as appropriate based on their findings. To evaluate, follow up calls will be scheduled for two weeks post discharge. Standardized questions will be developed to gather parental feedback regarding their stress levels and preparedness after discharge as related to the planning and education received prior to discharge

African Americans respond to stigmatization: the meanings and salience of confronting, deflecting conflict, educating the ignorant and ‘managing the self’

Drawing on interviews with 150 randomly sampled African Americans, we analyse how members of a stigmatized group understand their experience of stigmatization and assess appropriate responses when asked about the best approach to deal with stigmatization and about responses to specific incidents. Combining in-depth interviews with a systematic coding of the data, we make original contributions to the previous literature by identifying the relative salience of modalities and tools for responding. We also examine closely through qualitative data the two most salient modalities of response, ‘confronting’ and ‘deflating’ conflict, the most salient tools, teaching out-group members about African Americans, and ‘the management of the self’, a rationale for deflating conflict that is largely overlooked in previous studies. We find that ‘confronting’ is the more popular modality for responding to stigmatization among African Americans.African and African American StudiesSociolog

A Brief History of Archaeology at Ole Miss (Mississippi Archaeological Association Newsletter, 58.2, August 2022)

A summary of the archaeologists holding faculty positions in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Mississippi from 1949 (Fall) through 2022 (Spring) based on the University\u27s annual catalogue. Also includes a selected bibliography of faculty publications, a list of M.A. theses in Anthropology from 1963-2022, and archival photographs

Responses to Discrimination and Social Resilience Under Neo-Liberalism: The United States Compared

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Maternal Mortality: Related to Obstetric Service Availability in Rural Settings versus Urban Settings

Maternal Mortality: Relationship of Obstetric Service Availability in Rural Settings versus Urban Settings Abstract Background: Women in rural areas continue to experience life-threatening complications during pregnancy and childbirth, despite advances in medicine and technology. Access to regular prenatal care and obstetric services during delivery are important aspects to a non-life-threatening delivery. We sought to further the knowledge and comprehension of the increasing maternal mortality rates linked to accessible obstetric services and rural versus urban locations. Methods: We conducted a systematic review by using EBSCO and PubMed databases and using search terms such as “maternal mortality or maternal deaths or pregnancy related deaths”, “rural areas or rural communities”, “urban areas or cities or urban communities.” We appraised various sources of evidence and compiled diverse findings. Results: The research yielded twelve articles that suggested a strong relationship between maternal mortality rates being higher in rural areas with less obstetric services than in urban areas with greater obstetric services. Conclusion: Women in rural areas lack access to prenatal care and obstetric services. Additionally, maternal mortality rates are higher in rural areas than urban areas. Improving access in rural communities will reduce disparities in care delivery and maternal outcomes for childbearing women. Keywords: maternal mortality, rural communities, urban communities, obstetric services, prenatal care, pregnanc

The Identification of Resident Bacteria and the Comparison of the Gut and Skin Microbiome in Bat Rays (Myliobatis californica)

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Educational Practices in Kinesiology Inaugural Editorial

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Mouse maternal systemic inflammation at the zygote stage causes blunted cytokine responsiveness in lipopolysaccharide-challenged adult offspring

These results demonstrate for the first time that the preimplantation embryo in vivo is sensitive to maternal systemic inflammation, with effects on blastocyst cell lineage allocation and consequences for behaviour, adiposity and innate immune response in adult offspring. Critically, we identify a novel mechanism mediated through maternal-embryonic interactions that confers plasticity in the development of the innate immune system, which is potentially important in setting postnatal tolerance to environmental pathogens. Our study extends the concept of developmental programming of health and disease to include maternal health at the time of conceptio

Interrogating the technical, economic and cultural challenges of delivering the PassivHaus standard in the UK.

A peer-reviewed eBook, which is based on a collaborative research project coordinated by Dr. Henrik Schoenefeldt at the Centre for Architecture and Sustainable Environment at the University of Kent between May 2013 and June 2014. This project investigated how architectural practice and the building industry are adapting in order to successfully deliver Passivhaus standard buildings in the UK. Through detailed case studies the project explored the learning process underlying the delivery of fourteen buildings, certified between 2009 and 2013. Largely founded on the study of the original project correspondence and semi-structured interviews with clients, architects, town planners, contractors and manufacturers, these case studies have illuminated the more immediate technical as well as the broader cultural challenges. The peer-reviewers of this book stressed that the findings included in the book are valuable to students, practitioners and academic researchers in the field of low-energy design. It was launched during the PassivHaus Project Conference, held at the Bulb Innovation Centre on the 27th June 2014

The effect of advertising on children and adolescents

In 100 years, marketing to children went from a severely frowned upon practice to an integral part of growing up as companies came to realize that investing in marketing to children and adolescents provides excellent immediate and future dividends. Each year, enormous sums of money are spent to reach this valuable audience because children and adolescents spend billions on their own purchases, influence family decisions about what to buy, and promise a potential lifetime of brand loyalty. The channels to reach youth have grown, and marketers are increasingly using them, often blurring the distinction between entertainment and advertising. Because advertising to children and adolescents has become ubiquitous, researchers who study its influence raise significant concerns about the practice, especially as it relates to dietary behavior, family conflict, marketer tactics, and children's potential vulnerability as an audience. In this review by the Workgroup on Marketing and Advertising, we highlight the state of the research in this area and suggest that more research needs to be conducted on understanding the following: the effects of advertising exposure, how psychological development affects children's responses to marketing, the problems associated with advertising in newer media, and how researchers, parents, and practitioners might be able to mitigate the most deleterious advertising effects. We then present avenues of future research along with recommendations for key stakeholders.</p