Anticipators Job Stressors of Nurses Returning to the Workplace: A Mixed Methodology

Multifactorial reasons have produced a growing nursing shortage. One possible group that could reverse this shortage in inactive nurses. Many stakeholders wonder about allocating scarce resources to identify, locate, educate, and redeploy this group into active practice. The purpose of this one-phase embedded validating quantitative mixed methodology was to identify the anticipated job stressors of registered nurse (RN) refresher students as they prepare to enter the work force following a career break. The Likert-type Expanded Nurse Stress Scale (French, Lenton, Walters, & Eyles, 2000; Gray-Toft & Anderson, 1981) was used. The independent variables were the job stressors of RNs. The dependent variable was the anticipated level of stress experienced by the RN refresher students during the refresher course. Forty-five out of 201 refresher students anonymously participated in the online study—a 21.4% response rate. The findings of the study revealed three areas of stress. Uncertainty regarding patient treatment, supervisor problems, and conflict with physicians were ranked as always stressful. Discrimination, peer problems, and emotional preparation were the lowest rated, above occasionally stressed. The four qualitative thematic analysis results were preparedness, age-related concerns, emotions, and employment. Triangulation of the data revealed additional concerns of ageism, stamina, computerized health care, cultural bias, making errors, contracting patient illnesses, and self-confidence from continuing education in nursing.https://fuse.franklin.edu/ss2014/1060/thumbnail.jp

Cave Development in Strata of Ordovician-and Silurian-Devonian-Age in Highland County, Virginia

Picturesque Highland County, Virginia, also known as Virginia\u27s Little Switzerland , is characterized by high mountains, tranquil rivers, and hundreds of caves. This study determines how geologic structures and processes control speleogenesis, or cave development, in the county. Solutional caves in Highland County are found in Ordovician limestones and dolostones and in Silurian- to Devonian-age limestones. Despite the lithologic and structural differences between the strata, caves in both sections tend to be similarly joint-controlled in directions of both regional strike (N40°E), dip (northwest or southeast), or in fractures intersecting at 60 and/or 120 degrees. Brittle failure, including fractures and faults induced by folding, appears to be the most prominent controlling factor of speleogenesis in Highland County. Despite the findings of other studies indicating that branchwork cave patterns dominate most karst aquifers by frequency and total cave length, fissure-type caves are the most frequent pattern in Highland County and maze network caves are the most predominant pattern by total cave length. Fissure-type caves tend to be very short with most occurring up to 20\u27 (6 m) long. Slot fissures are more canyon-like and tend to be longer with most being either 21-40\u27 (6-12 m) long or 101\u27-200\u27 (31-61m) long. Branchwork caves tend to be longer with most ranging from 201\u27-300\u27 (61-91 m) long, while maze networks tend to be the longest, with most ranging from 801\u27-2000\u27 (244-610 m) long. Though cave patterns in Highland County do not entirely reflect predominant cave patterns found worldwide, the overall trend of cave lengths is similar to that found throughout Virginia. In addition to the aforementioned cave patterns found in Highland County, pits and rooms also constitute a large proportion of the cave types in the county, evidence of the vadose recharge that most affects the subsurface dissolution. Approximately 92% of Highland\u27s caves show vadose cave development, while only 4% show active phreatic development, and 5% show characteristics of both active vadose and phreatic development. These observations are consistent with the fact that fissures, slot fissures, pits, and rooms—the types of caves most frequently found in Highland County—all form in areas of vadose recharge

Proton Spectrum at the Jupiter Laser Facility of LLNL

This paper looks at tungsten samples irradiated by beams of protons, gammas, electrons and positrons at the Jupiter Laser Facility of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). The resulting unstable nuclei created are identified using their gamma spectra. These spectra were taken, usually within an hour of irradiation, for periods up to 48 hrs. In several cases there are two isotopes, one of Rhenium and the other of Tantalum, that emit the same gamma lines. These pairs often involve a long-lived and a short-lived candidate. Spectra were taken 80 days after initial exposure and the long-lived candidates are ruled out

Geological Controls on Water Resource Variability in Minnesota, USA

Sustainable management of water resources requires quantitative description of spatio-temporal variability, and the map is a universal medium to reflect the spatio-temporal distribution of water resources. The long history of cartography and the recent digital revolution have culminated in the Google Earth web portal with unprecedented frequency of daily use. System analysis with combination of a cyber model of landscapes, multidimensional methods of data analysis, and GIS cartography of water resources in Minnesota started in 1996 with support from faculty of Department of Geology University of Minnesota-Duluth and has continued ever since. The “Water Resource Sustainability” project, funded by the Legislative Citizens Commission on Minnesota Resources (2007-2009) was the most resent phase of the research. 

Research using river flow monitoring data available from USGS for Minnesota and bordering areas of North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa and Wisconsin was completed for the territory. Analysis of landscapes properties for watersheds taken from maps - Bailey’s Ecological Provinces, Soil Taxonomy Order, topographic characteristics (average altitude, average watershed slope, total, intermittent, and perennial drainage density), thickness of quaternary sediments, and Hydrogeological Hierarchical Regionalization - revealed control of geological conditions on water resource variability. The trends of interannual patterns and seasonality of river runoff depend on bedrock type and presence or absence of thick depositions of quaternary sediments in NE and SE of research territory and also on thickness of quaternary sediments in NW. The same parts of territory have main differences in annual and February monthly yields for interval of observations 1955-1978. The numbers of river discharge yield reach difference from 5 to 20 times. 

The control over water resource distribution and variability belongs to geological boundaries for types of bedrocks, lithology, and thickness of quaternary sediments. Groups of watersheds recognized by mutual landscape properties (geological conditions) with statistically proven influence on hydrologic characteristics provide a basis for regionalization and creation of a water resource map. The regionalization on the water resource map opens the way to study and climate change for regional level

Presentation Sisters in South Dakota, 1880-1976

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Koinonia

The University as a Place of Spiritual Formation, Eugene Peterson and Steve Moore President\u27s Corner Into the Future: Highlights of the 1994 ACSD National Conference CoCCA: Community Service Finds Its Way into the Freshmen Orientation Program Thanks for the Memories & Much Morehttps://pillars.taylor.edu/acsd_koinonia/1034/thumbnail.jp

Sutton's Rule for Writing Centers

On many days, writing centers are wonderlands of collaborative discovery and rich reading and writing of texts.[1] Occasionally, however, the scene is different: Demanding students “tutor hop” for paper fixing rather than learning, inflexible faculty assign the same irrelevant paper 25 years in a row and wonder why tutors don’t keep students from plagiarizing, and the very dean we need to “get it” continues to ask for a report that no one will read. Occasionally, even writing center directors are pretty tough to deal with.University Writing Cente