Spring Beginning Painting Project 1: Environment

This painting was digitized and uploaded to DLynx by the Visual Resources Center in Spring 2018.This is a painting created by Elizabeth Sommerkamp. It was submitted as part of the first project assigned to the Beginning Painting class of Spring 2018 taught by Carl Moore. This assignment, titled "Environment," required students to complete 20 paintings on a 9 x 12 inch cold press illustration board and two color charts. The "Environment" subject could reference objects from everyday life or a still life that was set up in the studio

Spring Beginning Painting Project 1: Environment

This painting was digitized and uploaded to DLynx by the Visual Resources Center in Spring 2018.This is a painting created by Elizabeth Sommerkamp. It was submitted as part of the first project assigned to the Beginning Painting class of Spring 2018 taught by Carl Moore. This assignment, titled "Environment," required students to complete 20 paintings on a 9 x 12 inch cold press illustration board and two color charts. The "Environment" subject could reference objects from everyday life or a still life that was set up in the studio

Spring Beginning Painting Project 1: Environment

This painting was digitized and uploaded to DLynx by the Visual Resources Center in Spring 2018.This is a painting created by Elizabeth Sommerkamp. It was submitted as part of the first project assigned to the Beginning Painting class of Spring 2018 taught by Carl Moore. This assignment, titled "Environment," required students to complete 20 paintings on a 9 x 12 inch cold press illustration board and two color charts. The "Environment" subject could reference objects from everyday life or a still life that was set up in the studio

Spring Beginning Painting Project 1: Environment

This painting was digitized and uploaded to DLynx by the Visual Resources Center in Spring 2018.This is a painting created by Elizabeth Sommerkamp. It was submitted as part of the first project assigned to the Beginning Painting class of Spring 2018 taught by Carl Moore. This assignment, titled "Environment," required students to complete 20 paintings on a 9 x 12 inch cold press illustration board and two color charts. The "Environment" subject could reference objects from everyday life or a still life that was set up in the studio

Spring Beginning Painting Project 2: Human Figure

This painting was digitized and uploaded to DLynx by the Visual Resources Center in Spring 2018.This painting was created by Elizabeth Sommerkamp. It was submitted as a part of the second project assigned to the Beginning Painting class of Spring 2018 taught by Carl Moore. This assignment was focused on "the human figure" and required students to complete 2 paintings on a 16 x 20 canvas panel. The "human figure" subject included portraitures and/or the human body

Implementing standardized patient handoff procedures for interdepartmental transports between inpatient and OR

Presentation by Ellie Sommerkamp ('19) delivered at the Rhodes College Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Symposium (URCAS) as part of the St. Jude Summer Plus Fellowship.One of the most vulnerable areas patient care is during patient handoffs and transfers, and The Joint Commission reported that communication failures are the leading contributing factor in medical errors that result in severe harm. Standardizing handoff communication formats can reduce errors and patient harm. The use of one mnemonic handoff system, IPASS, has demonstrated a 30% reduction in preventable patient harm and emerged as a best practice. This quality improvement project adapted the IPASS for patient transfers between the operational room (OR) and inpatient care units. Project leaders have collaborated with OR staff to successfully revise the method in respect to the details of inpatient to OR handoffs. Sustainment of IPASS use will be enforced by OR project collaborators conducting direct observations of their peers delivering handoffs and provide immediate feedback of handoff performance. Using a validated data collection tool, staff will document observed handoff performances and these data will inform continuous improvement efforts. Development of IPASS for OR to inpatient unit handoffs is nearing completion, and data from other interdepartmental handoffs that have been using IPASS will be analyzed to visualize how IPASS data will be similar for this new setting