About Discount Houses

About walk into a store and ask the dealer How much are your portable radios? He shows you some models, and then quote s you the list price. Then when you hesitate, he says, but I can give it to you at wholesale for five dollars less. You know he has to make a profit, so it isn\u27t really wholesale. But what about this business of discounts? How do discount houses operate

Imagination + Independence Encouraged By Honors Program

Scholastically superior students may meet the challenge of individual study and research as a part of the Home Economics Honors Program

People Without a Country

Ladislav is 10 years old. He is a promising and intelligent boy who ordinarily would have a bright future. Yet Ladislav\u27s future doesn\u27t look very bright, for he was born and lives in a refugee camp

The Prairie House a Dean Calls His Home

Nearly a century ago, a large red brick house served as stage coach stop in the middle of Iowa\u27s prairie. Today, the same building, now covered with gray stucco, serves as the home of Iowa State\u27s dean of agriculture

A phenomenological study investigating faculty developing as scholarly writers

This presentation discusses a hermeneutic phenomenological study with 12 nursing faculty that uncovered their experience developing as scholarly writers. Five themes of scholarly writing development emerged and will be shared

Addressing leadership challenges

Session presented on Saturday, July 25, 2015: The Institute of Medicine (IOM) report, The future of nursing: Leading change, advance health has recommended the following changes to improve health care quality: 1) fostering professional collaboration of the healthcare team, 2) increasing the percentage of nurses with baccalaureate degree, 3) doubling the number of nurses with doctorates by 2020, and 4) advocating nursing leadership at every level of the profession (IOM, 2010). This call for leadership exists across a variety of health care settings including clinical practice, education, and administration. Nurse leaders struggle with continuous uncertainty, change, and chaos (Grossman & Valiga, 2013) regardless of their practice setting. Many of their daily challenges often surround concepts such as values, integrity, failure, attitude, adversity, and criticism. Nurse leaders need to understand how these principles influence their professional role and decision making process, and make appropriate decisions to foster positive outcomes. This presentation will discuss common challenges in nursing leadership. Evidence-based principles that can be incorporated into daily activities to promote leadership success will be shared. The presentation will focus on assisting nurse leaders to use reflection and deliberative practice to make the right character, action, and investment choices to be successful in their personal and professional roles

More and More Pancakes

There\u27s a new fad in restaurant eating... it\u27s pancakes and more pancakes. Restaurants which serve pancakes exclusively are aptly termed Pancake Houses. Last year hundreds of newly built Pancake Houses across the nation served over 100 million pancakes. They featured many new varieties along with the traditional hot buttered pancake with maple syrup

Positive interaction between work and home, and psychological availability on women’s work engagemen t: a ‘shortitudinal’ study

Abstract: Orientation: Women’s work engagement is affected by how well they balance their work and personal life, and their level of confidence in their capability at work. Research purpose: Determine whether women’s daily psychological availability mediates daily positive work-home interaction and daily positive home-work interaction on daily work engagement. Motivation for the study: Research into negative work–home and home–work interaction is in abundance. Limited studies focus on the positive effects on women’s experiences at work (i.e. work engagement). Little is known about women’s psychological availability and how it affects their work. Furthermore, little research provides us insights into the day-level experiences of women at work. Research approach/design and method: A quantitative, shortitudinal design was used. Data analyses accounted for multilevel structure in the data (within-person vs. between-person differences). Female employees (n = 60) from various industries in Gauteng, completed electronic diaries in the form of a survey for 10 consecutive working days. Main findings: Daily psychological availability mediates between daily positive work-home interaction and daily work engagement. Daily positive home-work interaction did not predict daily work engagement, but had a significant effect on daily psychological availability. Practical/managerial implications: Examining systems and structures that promote opportunities for women to become more psychologically available at work impacts their sustainable retention. Contribution/value-add: This study found significant relationships between day-level uses of personal resources and spillover effects of home-work and work-home on day-level work engagement. The study further contributes to the literature on positive work–home and home–work interaction