Implementation of a Diabetes Education Program in the Correctional Setting: A Project Proposal

Diabetes is a chronic disease requiring patient responsibility to ensure good control and reduced morbidity and mortality. Incarcerated diabetic adults suffer from poor control and complications associated with their disease partly due to their limited health literacy. Arming diabetics with knowledge related to diabetes improves disease control and healthcare outcomes. The proposed final scholarly project involves the implementation of a diabetic education initiative to assess the effects of diabetic-specific education on self-care activities. The proposed quality improvement project will be framed with the Plan-Do-Study-Act and Nola Pender\u27s Health Promotion Model. The proposed final scholarly project involves obtaining a baseline assessment, implementing an educational intervention, and determining if the intervention improves glycated hemoglobin and diabetic self-management as measured by the Diabetic Self-Management Questionnaire (DSMQ). A convenience sample of diabetic incarcerated adults will be offered the opportunity to participate in an educational initiative that includes four one-hour and one individual counseling sessions. The proposed project will use multiple tools to collect data, including the DSMQ, a demographic survey, and a post-test questionnaire. Data from the pre-intervention and post-intervention DSMQ and self-reported glycated hemoglobin will be collected anonymously and aggregated. A paired t-test will determine if the educational initiative positively affects the data. Positive outcomes on this DNP project could lead to implementing a diabetic education curriculum within the correctional setting. Future research could explore alternative, cost-effective methods to implement diabetic education in the correctional setting

Bauhausian Rhapsody 4.0: Mein Erbe, (My Heritage and Legacy) Design Thinking and Creativity in the Spirit of the Bauhaus

This honors thesis is a continued exploration of my Adrian Tinsley Program Summer Grant titled “Bauhausian Rhapsody, Uncle Chester went to Cambridge: An Adventure with Walter Gropius and The Architects Collaborative”. The Bauhaus was a school in Germany created in 1919, which for the first-time combined art education with applied arts and new technology. Today’s maker movement, and makerspaces, follow through with that idea and encourage creative problem solving, design thinking, craftsmanship, and technology. My ATP summer research focused on my great-uncle Chester Nagel, an architect who studied under Walter Gropius at Harvard from 1939-1940, and later became a professor of architecture from 1946-1984. Nagel spoke often and wrote essays and memoirs about the teaching style and philosophies of Walter Gropius regarding creativity, collaboration, and design. It is interesting to compare Gropius’s views as I research contemporary trends of design education, materials, and practice

A House Fit for a Bee: Historic Apiary Typologies and Technologies

This thesis defined historic apiary typologies and technologies including: bee houses and honey houses, bee shelters, stands, and hives. Because of a strong beekeeping tradition in Philadelphia and its influential role in the advancement of apiculture, this paper researched apiary typologies beginning in Philadelphia and its region. The Rev. L.L. Langstroth, a Philadelphian, experimented with beekeeping methods and technologies, inventing the moveable-frame hive in 1851, which would later make the bee house and other forms of protection unnecessary. Bee manual authors provided various structural forms to protect the hives, produce valuable honey, and aid the beekeeping process. These vernacular structures were either decorative and playful as an architectural folly in the landscape, or simply utilitarian and unadorned. A bee house and honey house remain intact in Madison, Indiana and stand as rare tangible evidence of the type. Other regions developed their own typologies, but common themes emerged. The typological defining features are; protecting the beehive from weather and temperature fluctuations, providing ample forage, utilizing trees as wind breaks, and locating the apiary near a frequented dwelling. This thesis reveals a once common but now obscure outbuilding type that has largely disappeared from the American cultural landscape and rescued the bee house form from near total obscurity

Community-Based Organizations\u27 Role in Combating Human Trafficking

Presentation Materials from Dr. Lengel\u27s November 15th lecture. Brought to you by the Institute for the Study of Culture and Societyhttps://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/ics_fellow_lectures/1107/thumbnail.jp

Editing Military History in the Twenty-First Century

Military historians are not usually accused of worrying about trendiness. More typically they seem like stodgy traditionalists, scoffing at postmodernism and its various spin-offs and fantasizing about putting Foucault in the path of a cannonball at Gettysburg and shouting, Deconstruct this! At academic conferences and in university departments, military historians are outsiders: stubbornly following tales of great battles and dead white males while their presumably more relevant colleagues don red berets and scribble manifestos in smoke-filled rooms. Documentary editors who work in military history are, if anything, doubly outsiders: fearing either to venture into social history, or to join traditional scholars in interpreting source material by writing articles and monographs. Yet times are changing. Among military historians, one of the hottest topics nowadays is the social history of warfare. This blanket term covers: studies of the behavior of men in battle; examinations of trends in wartime societies via statistics; research in newspapers, letters, and diaries on propaganda and popular perceptions, as well as feisty postmodernist tracts that deconstruct warfare, dismember the male, and tell us that World War II didn\u27t really exist. Study of these topics has completely changed the way scholars understand the history of warfare. A further step in the transformation of military historical scholarship, the integration of documentary editing into the mainstream scholarly endeavor, will come when documentary editors wake up to realize that they are not just blue-collar academics -a term that makes them seem like glorified office drones-but historians too. With that realization will come the understanding that they are historians with especially valuable training and tools of a sort that qualify them to understand and explain their topics better than many other scholars

Veterinary Medicine and the COVID-19 Pandemic: An International, Interdisciplinary Study of a GlobalWicked Problem

Building on field research in Costa Rica and Belize, this study analyzes environmental and endangered animal protection policies, rights, and practices in Central America, and assesses impacts of veterinary science and conservation biology on animal welfare concerns. Informed by the recent surge in awareness regarding the spread of zoonotic diseases, given COVID-19, the study analyzes Manis javanica and the impact of illegal trafficking of this critically endangered animal. The project theorizes if awareness of zoonotic disease transmission, especially during a global pandemic, could be key to reducing sales, legal or illegal, of wild animals in order to mitigate zoonotic infection spread. Given nearly sixty percent of all emerging infectious diseases are zoonotic in nature, and seventy-one percent of those zoonotic diseases originate in wildlife, the project argues the current global pandemic could be instrumental in raising awareness of and encouraging policy development on reduction of illegal trafficking of critically endangered species

Radical Crusaders and a Conservative Church: Attitudes of Populists toward Contemporary protestantism in Kansas

Money damages can operate to restore the dignity of a person who has been injured in tort or deprived of property. A financial award or settlement conveys an acknowledgment of the wrong and signals the reestablishment of equity between defendant and plaintiff. Whether the award is seen as adequate to fully restore dignity is influenced by context, especially comparison cases. And financial compensation directly provided by the defendant holds greater promise for dignity restoration

The Collaborators Draw the Circle

The mystical appeal of a circle reverberates throughout the practice of theatre: from the story circles of our ancestors echoing through the caves and across the ancient savannahs to the modern-day arena palaces that allow playwrights, directors, actors, producers, designers, craftspeople, and, ultimately audiences, to engage and embrace our retold truths, we face each other in circles. This writing references academic instruction and professional experiences in live theatre, documenting various appearances of the circle metaphor as the rehearsal core drives through the production process. It is an endorsement of the circle’s power to the initial table read and beyond: this focus highlights the production core, that combination of director, stage manager and actor that circles the playwright’s initial spark, and, through the daily rehearsal process, stimulates the concentric circles of the producing staff, designers, and, ultimately, the audience