Are children really different from adults in critical care settings?

Four years ago a Nursing Standards Generating Body (SGB) was established to gather wide input and formulate national educational standards for nursing. Possibly for the first time in South Africa this process offered a platform to consider how paediatric critical care is different from adult critical care. During the course of the 3-year SGB process, the Critical Care Society of South Africa (CCSSA) coordinated an exceptional response after having garnered wide participation from South African critical care nurses, educators and clinicians. It was an excellent opportunity to contribute to the issues around the nature and length of education programmes as well as the outcomes. The recommendations were thoroughly debated and offered a unique opportunity to influence policy and standards of critical care nursing education. This debate could also challenge assumptions, and it was in this process that the often misunderstood question of the differences between adult and child critical care could be tackled

Making the Rollins College Archaeology Lab Accessible through Digital Technologies

From classrooms to museums, and even private collections, 3D digital models of artifacts can pave the way for a more inclusive and accessible future for archaeology. This thesis looks specifically at how photogrammetry and digital modeling can increase the accessibility and utility of artifact collections housed at the Rollins College Archaeology Lab. It focuses on how we can best preserve these collections while also increasing access to academics, researchers, and the general public alike. By digitizing over 50 models, I created an online repository for these artifacts on Sketchfab (https://sketchfab.com/rollins_archaeology), as well as a step-by-step guide to photogrammetry. Through interviews with local cultural heritage stakeholders, I weighed the pros and cons of the digital models in public outreach, education, and preservation. Finally, I concluded that digital models of artifacts are helpful for public engagement, preservation, and visibility, especially for the Rollins College Archaeology Lab’s collections

Effects of the individualized case management approach to rehabilitation of adult probationers, Brazos County, Texas

Due to the character of the original source materials and the nature of batch digitization, quality control issues may be present in this document. Please report any quality issues you encounter to [email protected], referencing the URI of the item.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 19-20).The causes of criminality and how society should best deal with the criminal element have been popular topics of public discourse for the past 30 years. The Brazos County, Texas Community Supervision and Corrections Department provides rehabilitation programs for adult probationers in alcohol/drug education, substance abuse counseling, anger management, and women's issues. The purpose of this study is to evaluate these programs. The files of 109 adult probationers who participated in one or more of these programs during 1997 were selected at random and were used to complete a survey developed to record demographic information, life history, and criminal history both at sentencing and after receiving probation services. Descriptive statistics were used to study the data. Specifically, pre- and post-treatment data were compared to identify trends in the following areas predictive of quality of life: (1) Personal relationships (marital status), (2) Educational status, (3) Employment (stability and wage history), (4) Physical and mental health, and (5) Criminality

Capturing the psychological well-being of Chinese workers and understanding its relationship with factory performance.

Capturing the psychological well-being of Chinese workers and understanding its relationship with factory performance Media reports of workers losing their lives in factory disasters indicate the failure of audit-based regimes to protect even physical well-being in global supply chains, while distress has been seen to lead to workers’ suicides, yet there is neither clear guidance nor even consensus on how factories should be monitored to facilitate the urgently needed change. Workers themselves are excluded from the social sustainability debate. The lack of knowledge about what impacts Chinese factory workers’ well-being led to a first research question: What are the factors that influence well-being for Chinese factory workers? To persuade stakeholders of the value of making changes, evidence of how that may affect factory performance was also sought. A link would provide an extra incentive for businesses to prioritise these workers’ well-being. This led to the formulation of a second research question: How does workers’ well-being influence factory performance? Going to the heart of the matter by asking the workers, fieldwork set out to discover what life is really like for workers in these factories. A novel research method using workers’ daily digital diaries was developed. A brief pilot in 2017 was followed by a 12-month study across four factories in 2019. Potential well-being interventions were also designed and tested in an operating factory environment to produce the empirical data required. The fieldwork identified three interdependent aggregate dimensions impacting these workers’ well-being: 1) social displacement, struggles with factory life and the trade-offs with long-term life goals; 2) frustration and demotivation due to operational problems and 3) work relationships impacting self-worth. Operational problems causing loss of remuneration were understood to impact workers’ life goals, which in turn undermined working relationships. The first research question was answered: Workers’ inability to influence operational issues led them to lose all hope of achieving their longer-term goals, damaging their eudaimonic and social well-being in the factories. This suggested two training interventions to address some identified operational and interpersonal problems in the work environment. Comparing pre- and post-intervention data indicated that these interventions had influenced both well-being and performance. Most significantly, post-intervention diaries indicated a reduction in negative sentiment. Factory-level metrics, supplied by factory management, indicated that the training had improved factory performance. Worker attrition also appeared significantly reduced after training. The second research question was answered: There were indications that interventions had positively impacted both workers’ sentiment and some aspects of factory performance. This work achieves transparency for the first time into the concerns of workers in Chinese factories, indicating that eudaimonic factors impact their well-being more than the hedonic factors now typically monitored. Unlike most Sustainable Supply Chain Management (SSCM) literature, which focuses on physical conditions, it highlights workers’ complex relationships with colleagues and line leaders. This brings empirical evidence and detail to a discussion long overdue, creating a basis for further theory development in supply-chain social sustainability, specifically around workers and impacts on their well-being. It also contributes to the Psychological Capital (PsyCap) literature, which had mainly focused on western workplaces and relied on surveys, by allowing for a more reliable well-being assessment. By measuring these workers’ well-being longitudinally over an extended period it allowed the researcher to infer causality, while using the factory’s performance metrics avoided data-integrity issues. This novel research connects SSCM with workplace well-being theory. It advances the knowledge with both an understanding of the well-being of workers in Chinese factories, hitherto missing from SSCM literature, and a more nuanced approach to the theory on workers’ well-being. It changes how these factories and their workers are seen by presenting the picture from a new and more relevant perspective

SUBMITTING RESEARCH GRANT APPLICATIONS TO FUND A STUDY EXAMINING THE EFFECT OF EQUINE-ASSISTED THERAPY ON COMPASSION FATIGUE IN CAREGIVERS

Caregivers are expected to provide the best care possible to their patients, no matter the circumstances. Depending on the need of the individual being cared for, a caregiver’s job can cause an abundance of stress at various levels and can even lead to decreased mental health. This is often accompanied by a lack of self-care, poor health, and overall diminished wellness, otherwise known as compassion fatigue. Occupational therapists can address poor mental health due to compassion fatigue in caregivers by introducing a variety of important skills, habits, routines, and activities that patients need or want to engage in on a daily basis. Equine-assisted services (EAS) involve equine activities that can be combined with therapy professions, such as occupational therapy, by incorporating horses to address both the mental and physical health of individuals through occupational function, activity, and participation (Palsdottir et al., 2020). Occupational therapy in the EAS environment provides an animal-assisted therapy (AAT) approach that can address and improve mental health conditions by incorporating occupation-based horse activities into therapy sessions. While researchers have linked AAT to improved occupational engagement and decreased mental health disparities in other populations, they have yet to examine the impact of occupational therapy in the equine environment on caregivers experiencing compassion fatigue. Animal-based research foundations, such as the Horses and Humans Research Foundation (HHRF) and the Human Animal Bond Research Institute (HABRI), offer grant awards for research studying the effectiveness of AAT services on individuals who struggle with significant mental health illnesses (HHRF, 2022; HABRI, 2022). This scholarly project has utilized the 2023 HHRF Innovation Grant Applicant Guidelines and Information, and the HABRI 2023 Proposal Guidelines, to format grant applications introducing a proposed research project studying the effects of EAS on caregivers experiencing compassion fatigue

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Gauging Uniqueness: Assessment in Special Collections

This paper examines the Special Collections (SC) book holdings of De La Salle University Libraries, which aims the following: 1) to profile the book holdings of the SC; 2) to identify the strength and weakness of the collection; 3) to examine the utilization of the collection, and; 4) to determine the uniqueness and rarity of the book collection by comparing the SC book titles to the online catalog of University of the Philippines. The results of this study will provide statistical data that may be used in crafting guidelines for acquisitions, weeding and budget allocations for special collections. This study uses collection assessment through collection-centered techniques by counting the holdings of the SC book collections. Google curling was used to gauge the uniqueness of the book collection