Value-based Nursing Education

Curriculum guidelines from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing ( [ AACN], 1998) espouse that baccalaureate programs facilitate the development of professional values. The five core nursing values include human dignity, integrity, autonomy, altruism, and social justice. Behaviors that reflect these values characterize the caring, professional nurse (AACN, 1998). Teaching attitudes and actions that facilitate caring is a curriculum challenge. Caring is a multi-dimensional nursing concept that can be actualized through purposeful teaching and student-centered learning of core nursing values. This scholarly paper presents an innovative and integrative approach to value-based education in the baccalaureate nursing program at South Dakota State University (SDSU)

The <i>Castalia</i> mission to Main Belt Comet 133P/Elst-Pizarro

We describe Castalia, a proposed mission to rendezvous with a Main Belt Comet (MBC), 133P/Elst-Pizarro. MBCs are a recently discovered population of apparently icy bodies within the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, which may represent the remnants of the population which supplied the early Earth with water. Castalia will perform the first exploration of this population by characterising 133P in detail, solving the puzzle of the MBC’s activity, and making the first in situ measurements of water in the asteroid belt. In many ways a successor to ESA’s highly successful Rosetta mission, Castalia will allow direct comparison between very different classes of comet, including measuring critical isotope ratios, plasma and dust properties. It will also feature the first radar system to visit a minor body, mapping the ice in the interior. Castalia was proposed, in slightly different versions, to the ESA M4 and M5 calls within the Cosmic Vision programme. We describe the science motivation for the mission, the measurements required to achieve the scientific goals, and the proposed instrument payload and spacecraft to achieve these

The Castalia mission to Main Belt Comet 133P/Elst-Pizarro

We describe Castalia, a proposed mission to rendezvous with a Main Belt Comet (MBC), 133P/Elst-Pizarro. MBCs are a recently discovered population of apparently icy bodies within the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, which may represent the remnants of the population which supplied the early Earth with water. Castalia will perform the first exploration of this population by characterising 133P in detail, solving the puzzle of the MBC's activity, and making the first in situ measurements of water in the asteroid belt. In many ways a successor to ESA's highly successful Rosetta mission, Castalia will allow direct comparison between very different classes of comet, including measuring critical isotope ratios, plasma and dust properties. It will also feature the first radar system to visit a minor body, mapping the ice in the interior. Castalia was proposed, in slightly different versions, to the ESA M4 and M5 calls within the Cosmic Vision programme. We describe the science motivation for the mission, the measurements required to achieve the scientific goals, and the proposed instrument payload and spacecraft to achieve these

Preterm Birth Prevention Program Analysis

The major objectives of this study are as follows: 1. To determine the sociocultural, socioeconomic, and obstetrical history characteristics of women identified to be at risk for preterm labor. 2. To determine what characteristics of women identified to be at risk for preterm labor differ from the characteristics of all the women participating in the preterm labor birth prevention project in five rural South Dakota communities

The evaluation of empathy, autonomy and touch to inform the design of an environmental monitoring robot

This paper reports the application of results from human- social agent interaction experiments to inform the design of a social robot to monitor levels of pollutive gasses in the air. Next to licensed environmental agents and immobile chemical sensors, mobile technologies such as robotic agents are needed to collect complaints and smell descriptions from humans in urban industrial areas. These robots will interact with members of the public and ensure responsiveness and accuracy of responses. For robots to be accepted as representative environmental monitoring agents and for people to comply to robot instructions in the case of a calamity, social skills will be important. In this paper we will describe the intelligent environment the environmental robot is part of and discuss preliminary work on the effects of robot empathic and touch behaviors on human responses to robots. These and future findings will inform the design of social monitoring robot behaviors in public settings

Soziodemografische Aspekte und therapiebezogene Faktoren von Patienten mit Mundhöhlenkarzinomen bei der Teilnahme an einer Rehabilitation

Objectives: After resection of an oral carcinoma, patients are faced with physical, psychological, and socioeconomic challenges. Rehabilitation plays an essential role in patients' reintegration into their social and professional environment. This study evaluated whether socioeconomic aspects affect oral cancer patients' participation in rehabilitation treatment. Materials and methods: A retrospective analysis was conducted with 1,532 patients following surgical treatment of oral cancer during an international multicenter rehabilitation study of the German-Swiss-Austrian Cooperative Working Group on Maxillofacial Tumors using a questionnaire comprising disease-related and psychosocial items postoperatively and at least 6 months after surgery.Results: Only 35.4% of patients participated in rehabilitation. Age (p<0.001), sex (p<0.001), and marital status (p<0.05) significantly influenced participation in rehabilitation. Postoperative impairment (p<0.05) as well as quality of life (p<0.01) were significantly worse in patients who participated in rehabilitation. Nevertheless, this group of patients returned to work significantly more often, although later, than those who did not participate in rehabilitation (p<0.05). Conclusions: The findings show social inequalities and suggest a general undersupply of rehabilitative follow-up treatment in patients with oral cancer. More patients, especially older people and women should be referred to rehabilitation.Ziele: Nach Resektion eines Mundhöhlenkarzinoms stehen Patienten vor körperlichen, psychischen und sozioökonomischen Herausforderungen. Die Rehabilitation spielt eine wesentliche Rolle bei der Wiedereingliederung der Patienten in ihr soziales und berufliches Umfeld. In dieser Studie wurde untersucht, ob sozioökonomische Aspekte die Teilnahme von Mundkrebspatienten an einer Rehabilitationsbehandlung beeinflussen.Material und Methoden: Im Rahmen der internationalen multizentrischen Rehabilitationsstudie des Deutsch-Österreichisch-Schweizerischen Arbeitskreises für Tumoren des Kiefer-Gesichtsbereichs wurde mittels eines Fragebogens eine retrospektive Analyse von 1.532 Patienten mindestens 6 Monate nach operativer Behandlung eines Mundhöhlenkarzinoms durchgeführt.Ergebnisse: Nur 35,4% der Patienten nahmen an einer Rehabilitation teil. Alter (p<0,001), Geschlecht (p<0,001) und Familienstand (p<0,05) beeinflussten die Teilnahme an der Rehabilitation signifikant. Die postoperative Beeinträchtigung (p<0,05) sowie die Lebensqualität (p<0,01) waren bei Patienten, die an der Rehabilitation teilnahmen, signifikant schlechter. Dennoch kehrte diese Patientengruppe signifikant häufiger, wenn auch später, in den Beruf zurück als diejenigen, die nicht an der Rehabilitation teilnahmen (p<0,05).Schlussfolgerungen: Die Ergebnisse zeigen soziale Ungleichheiten und deuten auf eine generelle Unterversorgung bei der rehabilitativen Nachbehandlung von Patienten mit Mundhöhlenkarzinomen hin. Mehr Patienten, insbesondere ältere Menschen und Frauen, sollten zu Rehabilitationsmaßnahmen angeleitet werden

The Castalia mission to Main Belt Comet 133P/Elst-Pizarro

We describe Castalia, a proposed mission to rendezvous with a Main Belt Comet (MBC), 133P/Elst-Pizarro. MBCs are a recently discovered population of apparently icy bodies within the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, which may represent the remnants of the population which supplied the early Earth with water. Castalia will perform the first exploration of this population by characterising 133P in detail, solving the puzzle of the MBC’s activity, and making the first in situ measurements of water in the asteroid belt. In many ways a successor to ESA’s highly successful Rosetta mission, Castalia will allow direct comparison between very different classes of comet, including measuring critical isotope ratios, plasma and dust properties. It will also feature the first radar system to visit a minor body, mapping the ice in the interior. Castalia was proposed, in slightly different versions, to the ESA M4 and M5 calls within the Cosmic Vision programme. We describe the science motivation for the mission, the measurements required to achieve the scientific goals, and the proposed instrument payload and spacecraft to achieve these