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NATIONAL "E-EXTENSION" PROGRAMS: FEASIBILITY AND STRUCTURE

Illinois agriculture and natural resource e-Extension programs have exceeded expectations. National e-Extension programs will also succeed given they explicitly help clients make decisions, make available user-friendly decision tools and data, use GIS, reward the programs' interdisciplinary teams, and use the web for seamless integration across states.Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession,

What the Warners Wore: An Archaeological Investigation ofVisual Appearance

Clothing fasteners, jewelry, and several fragmentary accessories were recovered in 18th-century contexts during excavations at the Warner House in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. These artifacts provide insight into the clothing and accessories worn by members of the three households that resided in the Warner House during the 18th and early-19th centuries. The visual appearance of the residents communicates information about gender and class affiliations on an individual basis and also places the individuals as members of larger gender and class groupings

Activities and Strategies for Parents and Teachers to Promote Fluent Reading Acquisition in Emergenct Readers Through the Use of an Internet Web Page and Printed Materials

Research relating to phonics, whole language, and a balanced approach as it relates to fluent reading acquisition was read, evaluated, and summarized. A web page with activities and links to other web sites was designed and installed on the internet to provide parents and teachers with material intended to help them promote fluent reading acquisition in emergent readers

Re-Establishing Food Retail in St. John, Kansas

Presenters lead a session that highlights a case study on developing a new grocery facility in a town of 1200 people. They describe what it took and the lessons learned, such as defining the size of the market; feasibility; and compensating when the market isn’t big enough to justify the investment they want from a public policy/town survival viewpoint. Some perspectives gained during the experience include conducting a market study; the value of a Citizen Committee; the real issue of population decline and job creation; how other businesses can be incorporated into the store (such as fuel, laundromat, liquor store, cell phone provider, etc.); the need for an experienced established operator; and what it takes to build a business and keep grocery stores going

Poster 23: What do Mental Health Nurses think and feel when the service user becomes their student nurse: Is it really ok not to be ok?

Background: Increasing numbers of higher education students declare pre-existing mental health conditions that require support and reasonable adjustments under the Equality Act 2010 (Hubble and Bolton, 2021)). Research with mental health student nurses [MHSN]who have been mental health service users highlights the collective responsibility of programme and practice providers to remove barriers to disclosure and learning for these students (Ramluggan et al, 2020). Mental health nurse practice assessors [MHPAs] may not be adequately prepared to support the needs of this cohort, and we cannot rely on clinical supervision to address this need (Masamha et al, 2022). Aims: To apply an action learning approach to collectively reflect on and learn from student cases where the SMHN has a pre-existing mental health condition and has used services within the practice provider organisation where they are due to be placed.Methods: An email of concern about one student case illustrated the need to focus on practice support for SMHNs - ‘we wonder if there is a conflict of interest with this student attending practice”. The MHPA had nursed the MHSN during a past episode of care, and other members of the placement team had knowledge of their care and opinions about their fitness for practice. We implemented a new collective group meeting process to open dialogue with MHPAs about student cases using a supportive and psychologically safe action learning cycle process. We learned the importance of taking time to explore the fears expressed by the MHPAs and their team and worked to reframe their emotions before they were able to discuss and agree reasonable adjustments for the individual student and negotiate a learning plan with them. Results: A reflection on a specific case enabled our team to consider the needs of MHPAs, alongside student learning needs through a collective action learning cycle approach.Conclusions: Further formal research is required to address the ‘elephant in the room’ of self-perpetuating stigma for MHNSs with pre-existing mental health conditions and use of services that may fuel discrimination in practice, considering the question ‘is it really OK, not to be OK?

A Systems Approach to the Physiology of Weightlessness

A systems approach to the unraveling of the complex response pattern of the human subjected to weightlessness is presented. The major goal of this research is to obtain an understanding of the role that each of the major components of the human system plays following the transition to and from space. The cornerstone of this approach is the utilization of a variety of mathematical models in order to pose and test alternative hypotheses concerned with the adaptation process. An integrated hypothesis for the human physiological response to weightlessness is developed