Are You Personally Liable? What Student Affairs Professionals Should Know

Understanding an institution’s policies and laws of the state where the institution is located, student affairs professionals can better protect themselves against personal liability. The purpose of this chapter is to provide a description of potential sources of liability, background on immunity and relevant cases, and suggestions on how institutional employees may protect themselves from personal liability suits

Social Justice and Inclusion as Competency: a Content Analysis of Syllabi in Student Affairs Master’s Programs

This dissertation seeks to explore and discovers how the social justice and inclusion competency set forth by American College Personnel Association (ACPA) and National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) in 2015 is achieved in student affairs master’s programs. The idea of an individual being able to achieve competency in social justice and inclusion is problematized. A competency-based approach sets up social justice and inclusion as an attainable skill set instead of an ongoing and lifelong approach of challenge injustice with and for minoritized communities. The literature review provides an overview of the development of student affairs. The overview of the evolution of student affairs is discussed beginning in the idealist years, through the diversification and shifting idealism years, to realism and the seed years of student affairs, followed by pragmatist thought and student development, to the continuation of pragmatism to present day. A pragmatist and postmodern perspective with a content analysis method is used to respond to the research questions. The research questions were, how do master’s level graduate preparation programs in student affairs communicate social justice and inclusion in curriculum and how are the competencies of social justice and inclusion conveyed in required coursework? Through the collection and analysis of 49 syllabi from faculty and program directors across 21 institutions in the U.S. who identified syllabi as having a social justice and inclusion focus, this dissertation analyzed syllabi course titles, learning outcomes, and required coursework/assignments. Using content analysis, the findings represent how course titles communicated the value of social justice and inclusion within master’s programs. The analysis of syllabi learning outcomes reveled four themes including: (a) the top seven, a common set of words found in the analyzed syllabi including and in no particular order, multicultural, diversity, equity, inclusion, culture, role of social justice, and oppression; (b) the development of self, (c) student development, and (d) the development of student affairs and counseling. Using an active learning framework, the analysis of required coursework of the syllabi brought to light two themes, uninvolved and involved, which spoke to how coursework was completed. These findings are significant to the field of student affairs as they provide a snapshot on social justice and inclusion in the classroom. From my findings three key implications were identified, (a) the 49 syllabi represented primarily followed a metanarrative of keeping SJI as a process and a goal grounded in self-awareness; (b) findings represented that course titles did not represent SJI and learning outcomes focused primarily on a grouping of concepts to represent an SJI approach; (c) assignments did not have an emphasis on experience. This dissertation concludes with recommendations for graduate students, student affairs professions (both faculty and staff), and the field of student affairs to move away from a competency approach of social justice and inclusion towards an approach of social justice and inclusion as a process, goal, vision and, education as analysis and action

Collectivists’ Decision-Making: Saudi Arabian Graduate Students’ Study Abroad Choices

The authors in this qualitative study explored how Saudi Arabian students Saudi Arabiaselected a teaching focused research institution by examining Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and U.S. national influences, institutional factors, and personal influencers. Despite the continued rise in Saudi Arabian students studying at U.S. universities, limited published research exists on this unique student population. This study on Saudi graduate students reconceptualizes the homogenous perspectives on international student mobility. It demonstrates that study abroad decisions are not made from just push-pull or economic factors but through culturally specific social processes involving various actors both in and beyond their home country as well as intermediaries that is indicative of a more collectivist society

Experiencia del uso del ureterorenoscopio flexible en pacientes con litiasis en el Centro Médico Docente La Trinidad octubre 2022- julio 2023

El uso de la ureteroscopia flexible, se ha convertido en un procedimiento mínimamente invasivo, eficiente y seguro para la exploración de la vía urinaria superior; asociada al uso del láser como método de fragmentación, alcanzando altas tasas libres de cálculos. Objetivo: Presentar la experiencia clínica en la Efectividad del uso del ureterorrenoscopio flexible de unsolo uso en pacientes con litiasis en el Centro Médico Docente La Trinidad año 2023. Métodos: Serealizó un estudio descriptivo retrospectivo, unicéntrico, como una investigación transversal con datos de octubre 2022 a julio del 2023, en el Centro Médico Docente la Trinidad con una población de 31 pacientes distribuidos en sexo masculino y femenino, lo cual se realizó cirugía intrarenal retrograda. Resultados: La media de edad fue de 47 años, mínimo 20, máximo 72, y un promedio de 51. El tamaño promedio de los litos fue de 8,31 mm, máximo 30mm, y el sito más frecuente el riñón 48,39%. La tasa libre de litiasis de 90%. Doble J intraoperatorio se colocó en el 100% de los pacientes. Se presentó una complicación del (3%) y 15 reintervenciones (48%). Conclusiones: El uso de ureterorenoscopio flexible y láser en el tratamiento de la litiasis renal , con diámetros mayores hasta 20 mm logró TLC (tasa libre de cálculos) equiparables con las reportadas en la literatura, con un porcentaje bajo de complicaciones, por lo tanto por ser el primer trabajo en nuestro país recomendamos su uso por los beneficios ofrecidos, menor tasa de complicaciones, infecciones y menos tiempo de hospitalización

Experiencia del uso del ureterorenoscopio flexible en pacientes con litiasis en el Centro Médico Docente La Trinidad octubre 2022- julio 2023

El uso de la ureteroscopia flexible, se ha convertido en un procedimiento mínimamente invasivo, eficiente y seguro para la exploración de la vía urinaria superior; asociada al uso del láser como método de fragmentación, alcanzando altas tasas libres de cálculos. Objetivo: Presentar la experiencia clínica en la Efectividad del uso del ureterorrenoscopio flexible de unsolo uso en pacientes con litiasis en el Centro Médico Docente La Trinidad año 2023. Métodos: Serealizó un estudio descriptivo retrospectivo, unicéntrico, como una investigación transversal con datos de octubre 2022 a julio del 2023, en el Centro Médico Docente la Trinidad con una población de 31 pacientes distribuidos en sexo masculino y femenino, lo cual se realizó cirugía intrarenal retrograda. Resultados: La media de edad fue de 47 años, mínimo 20, máximo 72, y un promedio de 51. El tamaño promedio de los litos fue de 8,31 mm, máximo 30mm, y el sito más frecuente el riñón 48,39%. La tasa libre de litiasis de 90%. Doble J intraoperatorio se colocó en el 100% de los pacientes. Se presentó una complicación del (3%) y 15 reintervenciones (48%). Conclusiones: El uso de ureterorenoscopio flexible y láser en el tratamiento de la litiasis renal , con diámetros mayores hasta 20 mm logró TLC (tasa libre de cálculos) equiparables con las reportadas en la literatura, con un porcentaje bajo de complicaciones, por lo tanto por ser el primer trabajo en nuestro país recomendamos su uso por los beneficios ofrecidos, menor tasa de complicaciones, infecciones y menos tiempo de hospitalización

International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortiu (INICC) report, data summary of 43 countries for 2007-2012. Device-associated module

We report the results of an International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC) surveillance study from January 2007-December 2012 in 503 intensive care units (ICUs) in Latin America, Asia, Africa, and Europe. During the 6-year study using the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) U.S. National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) definitions for device-associated health care–associated infection (DA-HAI), we collected prospective data from 605,310 patients hospitalized in the INICC's ICUs for an aggregate of 3,338,396 days. Although device utilization in the INICC's ICUs was similar to that reported from ICUs in the U.S. in the CDC's NHSN, rates of device-associated nosocomial infection were higher in the ICUs of the INICC hospitals: the pooled rate of central line–associated bloodstream infection in the INICC's ICUs, 4.9 per 1,000 central line days, is nearly 5-fold higher than the 0.9 per 1,000 central line days reported from comparable U.S. ICUs. The overall rate of ventilator-associated pneumonia was also higher (16.8 vs 1.1 per 1,000 ventilator days) as was the rate of catheter-associated urinary tract infection (5.5 vs 1.3 per 1,000 catheter days). Frequencies of resistance of Pseudomonas isolates to amikacin (42.8% vs 10%) and imipenem (42.4% vs 26.1%) and Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates to ceftazidime (71.2% vs 28.8%) and imipenem (19.6% vs 12.8%) were also higher in the INICC's ICUs compared with the ICUs of the CDC's NHSN

NEOTROPICAL CARNIVORES: a data set on carnivore distribution in the Neotropics

Mammalian carnivores are considered a key group in maintaining ecological health and can indicate potential ecological integrity in landscapes where they occur. Carnivores also hold high conservation value and their habitat requirements can guide management and conservation plans. The order Carnivora has 84 species from 8 families in the Neotropical region: Canidae; Felidae; Mephitidae; Mustelidae; Otariidae; Phocidae; Procyonidae; and Ursidae. Herein, we include published and unpublished data on native terrestrial Neotropical carnivores (Canidae; Felidae; Mephitidae; Mustelidae; Procyonidae; and Ursidae). NEOTROPICAL CARNIVORES is a publicly available data set that includes 99,605 data entries from 35,511 unique georeferenced coordinates. Detection/non-detection and quantitative data were obtained from 1818 to 2018 by researchers, governmental agencies, non-governmental organizations, and private consultants. Data were collected using several methods including camera trapping, museum collections, roadkill, line transect, and opportunistic records. Literature (peer-reviewed and grey literature) from Portuguese, Spanish and English were incorporated in this compilation. Most of the data set consists of detection data entries (n = 79,343; 79.7%) but also includes non-detection data (n = 20,262; 20.3%). Of those, 43.3% also include count data (n = 43,151). The information available in NEOTROPICAL CARNIVORES will contribute to macroecological, ecological, and conservation questions in multiple spatio-temporal perspectives. As carnivores play key roles in trophic interactions, a better understanding of their distribution and habitat requirements are essential to establish conservation management plans and safeguard the future ecological health of Neotropical ecosystems. Our data paper, combined with other large-scale data sets, has great potential to clarify species distribution and related ecological processes within the Neotropics. There are no copyright restrictions and no restriction for using data from this data paper, as long as the data paper is cited as the source of the information used. We also request that users inform us of how they intend to use the data