448 research outputs found
Fostering the Development of Emotional Intelligence among Health Science Students: Empowering Students to Impact Institutional Culture
Objectives:
Identify challenges of navigating institutional culture for students interacting in a variety of clinical settings
Discuss the importance of integrating concepts of emotional intelligence throughout curricular plans of study
Consider contemporary research findings in the health science literature regarding emotional intelligence among students.https://jdc.jefferson.edu/nursingposters/1000/thumbnail.jp
Reflecting on Student and Novice Nursesâ Clinical Decision-Making at the Bedside: Considering a Gen Z Influence
Introduction: The relationship between nursesâ decision-making and healthcare outcomes is a high priority in nursing research today. Prior studies and nursing theory have indicated that students and novice nurses rely primarily on formal procedures and concrete evidence to make clinical decisions, but with the passage of time and through meaningful experience, decision-making becomes more intuitive in nature. Increased awareness of the decision-making processes among students and novice nurses is needed to improve health outcomes.https://jdc.jefferson.edu/nursingposters/1027/thumbnail.jp
A Teaching-Learning Initiative with Tablet Computing
Mobile computing and electronic books are the top emerging technologies to impact higher education.1 The rapid expansion of technology in the health care setting has created a growing recognition that there is a need for adoption of a sound set of innovative teaching-learning strategies related to information management and technology applications in undergraduate nursing curriculum. Success in these technology-related strategies will rest on the degree to which schools comprehensively integrate technology with teaching-learning strategies in the undergraduate nursing curriculum.
Tablet computing has the potential to enhance educational experiences by providing a delivery option for teaching and learning practices that enable learners to interact with content, and each other, in immediate and seamless ways.2 The literature that exists on integrating tablet computers in the health professions focuses on the use of tablet computing for teaching medical students and enhancing resident clinical rotations.3-6 This paper describes the stages of a tablet computing integration initiative in a school of nursing including: 1) creating the infrastructure; 2) planning technology requirements; 3) designing faculty development sessions focused on curricular integration; and 4) building ongoing communication and support for students
Interprofessional Patient/Family Education during Student Clinical Rotations
Learning Objective
1.Describe the rationale for providing patient/family education on medication self-management through nursing and pharmacy student collaboration.
2.Explain the benefits of teaching students a standardized, interprofessional patient/family education instructional strategy for use in the clinical setting during the delivery of patient-centered care
JSN iPad2 Intergration Project: Sharing Strategies
Podium presentation at Thomas Jefferson Universityâs Fourth Annual Faculty Days, Philadelphia, PA.
24 PowerPoint slides
Planning and integrating tablet computing in an accelerated nursing curriculum.
Podium presentation at Rutgers Thirtieth Annual International Interprofessional Technology Conference, New Brunswick, NJ.
32 PowerPoint slides
Clusterin/Apolipoprotein J immunoreactivity is associated with white matter damage in cerebral small vessel diseases
Aim: Brain clusterin is known to be associated with the amyloidâβ deposits in Alzheimer's disease (AD). We assessed the distribution of clusterin immunoreactivity in cerebrovascular disorders, particularly focusing on white matter changes in small vessel diseases. Methods: Postâmortem brain tissues from the frontal or temporal lobes of a total of 70 subjects with various disorders including cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL), cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) and AD were examined using immunohistochemistry and immunofluorescence. We further used immunogold electron microscopy to study clusterin immunoreactivity in extracellular deposits in CADASIL. Results: Immunostaining with clusterin antibodies revealed strong localization in arterioles and capillaries, besides cortical neurones. We found that clusterin immunostaining was significantly increased in the frontal white matter of CADASIL and pontine autosomal dominant microangiopathy and leukoencephalopathy subjects. In addition, clusterin immunostaining correlated with white matter pathology severity scores. Immunostaining in axons ranged from fine punctate deposits in single axons to larger confluent areas with numerous swollen axon bulbs, similar to that observed with known axon damage markers such as nonâphosphorylated neurofilament H and the amyloid precursor protein. Immunofluorescence and immunogold electron microscopy experiments showed that whereas clusterin immunoreactivity was closely associated with vascular amyloidâβ in CAA, it was lacking within the granular osmiophilic material immunolabelled by NOTCH3 extracelluar domain aggregates found in CADASIL. Conclusions: Our results suggest a wider role for clusterin associated with white matter damage in addition to its ability to chaperone proteins for clearance via the perivascular drainage pathways in several disease states
Letâs Create a Culture of Emotional Intelligence
At the conclusion of this session participants will be able to:
⢠Identify challenges of navigating institutional culture for students interacting in a variety of clinical settings.
â˘Discuss the importance of integrating concepts of emotional intelligence throughout curricular plans of study.
â˘Consider contemporary research findings in the health science literature regarding emotional intelligence among students
Phonon-assisted radiofrequency absorption by gold nanoparticles resulting in hyperthermia
It is suggested that in gold nanoparticles (GNPs) of about 5 nm sizes used in
the radiofrequency (RF) hyperthermia, an absorption of the RF photon by the
Fermi electron occurs with involvement of the longitudinal acoustic vibrational
mode (LAVM), the dominating one in the distribution of vibrational density of
states (VDOS). This physical mechanism helps to explain two observed phenomena:
the size dependence of the heating rate (HR) in GNPs and reduced heat
production in aggregated GNPs. The argumentation proceeds within the
one-electron approximation, taking into account the discretenesses of energies
and momenta of both electrons and LAVMs. The heating of GNPs is thought to
consist of two consecutive processes: first, the Fermi electron absorbs
simultaneously the RF photon and the LAVM available in the GNP; hereafter the
excited electron gets relaxed within the GNP's boundary, exciting a LAVM with
the energy higher than that of the previously absorbed LAVM. GNPs containing
the Ta and/or Fe impurities are proposed for the RF hyperthermia as promising
heaters with enhanced HRs, and GNPs with rare-earth impurity atoms are also
brought into consideration. It is shown why the maximum HR values should be
expected in GNPs with about 5-7 nm size.Comment: proceedings at the NATO Advanced Research workshop FANEM-2015 (Minsk,
May 25-27, 2015). To be published in the final form in: "Fundamental and
Applied NanoElectroMagnetics" (Springer Science + Business Media B.V.
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