Evaluation of a School Based Disaster Preparedness Program

This study evaluated a school based intervention designed to better prepare teachers and staff members in an elementary school to improve their knowledge and confidence of disaster preparedness. Participants included 19 teachers and I 0 staff members of an elementary school in San Mateo County, CA. With hundreds of schools scattered in the communities and the recent disasters in our country there is a growing awareness of the need for disaster preparedness in schools. A pretest-posttest was administered to measure changes in knowledge and confidence following a school based intervention of disaster preparedness education. There was a significant improvement in scores that appeared in the paired t tests which demonstrated that the school based disaster preparedness intervention increased their knowledge and confidence. This school based intervention provides a framework for other school nurses to implement similar interventions that address the disaster preparedness needs of the school, staff and student\u27s safety

A family of multiple harmonic sum and multiple zeta star value identities

In this paper we present a new family of identities for multiple harmonic sums which generalize a recent result of Hessami Pilehrood et al [Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. (to appear)]. We then apply it to obtain a family of identities relating multiple zeta star values to alternating Euler sums. In such a typical identity the entries of the multiple zeta star values consist of blocks of arbitrarily long 2-strings separated by positive integers greater than two while the largest depth of the alternating Euler sums depends only on the number of 2-string blocks but not on their lengths

Global Media and Soft Power Representation: A Comparative Analysis of Indian Tourism as Experienced Individually and as Represented in The New York Times and Travel Channel

RQ: “How does India’s soft power as represented in international media, compare with India’s soft power as a visitor? Critical thematic analysis exploring Indian soft power and its representation in international media, specifically in articles from the Travel Channel and New York Times, combined with personal experiences in India

INCREASED COMMUNICATION BETWEEN NURSES AND DOCTORS ON AN ACUTE MEDICAL UNIT

Background: Nurse-physician rounding is crucial to safe, effective care and to maintain open communication between the multidisciplinary healthcare team. Currently there is no protocol that encourages nurses to attend physician rounds. The lack of nurse-physician rounding is a potential area for medical error due to lack of communication and collaboration among the healthcare team. Purpose: The focus of this study is to increase communication between the nurses and doctors on an acute medical unit by increasing nurse attendance and participation at physician rounds. Methodology: Surveys were a key component in the methodology of this project. Surveys were distributed to the entire RN staff on the acute medical unit prior to implementing a structured rounding process. Surveys were also distributed post-implementation. Results: Post survey results indicated that of those who responded, 58% agreed or strongly agreed that communication with the attending physician(s) and teams increased. The remaining 42% neither agreed nor disagreed. 50% of the nurses worked at least 3 shifts within the past week. When asked if the nurses feel less likely to page the physician(s) when they attend physician rounds, 75% chose no. Conclusion: Results confirm that nurse-physician rounding increases communication between the nurses and doctors. Attendance and communication has increased since the team rounds have been implemented, however paging the physician is still a part of care that occurs on a regular basis