The Relationships Among Nursing Students’ Stress, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and Caring Behaviors During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Background: Among the challenges that higher education faces, students’ mental health issues have become prominent. This study aimed to examine nursing students’ current state of mental health, including stress and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and the relationships among students’ caring behaviors, stress, and PTSD. Methods: This is a cross-sectional descriptive survey study conducted in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic. Instruments included the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS), Caring Behavior Inventory student version, the PTSD Checklist-5, and a demographic survey, including five one-question items about students’ perceptions of satisfaction of instructor teaching, impact of faculty caring on confidence level in learning, faculty support, students’ self-rated stress, and impact of faculty caring on the ability to practice with empathy. Results: Ninety-five students participated in the study. Over 90% of the students reported moderate to high levels of stress. Forty-three students (45.3%) scored over 31 points on the PTSD checklist, a cutoff value indicating PTSD symptoms. Students’ stress scores were positively correlated with the PTSD checklist scores but were not significantly associated with students’ caring behaviors. Students’ perceptions of faculty support had significant and negative correlations with students’ PSS and PTSD checklist. Conclusions: Most students reported moderate-to-high-level stress, which was positively associated with PTSD symptoms. There were no significant correlations among students’ stress, PTSD, and caring behaviors. Students’ perceptions of faculty support may offset students’ stress and PTSD symptoms

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Law Deans in Jail

A most unlikely collection of suspects – law schools, their deans, U.S. News & World Report and its employees – may have committed felonies by publishing false information as part of U.S. News’ ranking of law schools. The possible federal felonies include mail and wire fraud, conspiracy, racketeering, and making false statements. Employees of law schools and U.S. News who committed these crimes can be punished as individuals, and under federal law the schools and U.S. News would likely be criminally liable for their agents’ crimes. Some law schools and their deans submitted false information about the schools’ expenditures and their students’ undergraduate grades and LSAT scores. Others submitted information that may have been literally true but was misleading; for example, misleading statistics about recent graduates’ employment rates. U.S. News itself may have committed mail and wire fraud. It has republished and sold for profit data submitted by law schools without verifying the data’s accuracy, despite being aware that at least some schools were submitting false and misleading data. U.S. News refused to correct incorrect data and rankings errors and continued to sell that information even after individual schools confessed that they had submitted false information. In addition, U.S. News marketed its surveys and rankings as valid although they were riddled with fundamental methodological errors

NEARING THE END: REEF BUILDING CORALS AND BIVALVES IN THE LATE TRIASSIC AND COMPARING CORALS AND BIVALVES BEFORE AND AFTER THE END-TRIASSIC MASS EXTINCTION USING A TAXONOMIC DATABASE

One of the most important tenants in geology is that the present is the key to the past, but it can also be said that the past is the key to the present. The five great extinction events are some of the key events that can help us to understand how changes in climate and sea chemistry can cause great changes in the ecology of our planet. Today the increase in atmospheric CO2 is causing ocean acidification, which has also been proposed as part of the system that caused the end-Triassic mass extinction. Ocean acidification can be greatly detrimental to the skeletal structures of marine invertebrate such as reef building corals and bivalves. During the Norian and Rhaetian (Late Triassic), corals and bivalves had high diversity and abundance, but like many organisms involved in the mass extinction, quickly disappeared at the end of the Triassic. In the early Jurassic, very few surviving species of corals can be found, and almost no reefs. If this ‘reef gap’ was caused by a change in ocean chemistry, then how did these few species of corals survive? Were bivalves also affected by the changes? On Vancouver Island, rock units containing corals and bivalves can be found that represent both Norian and Rhaetian time intervals, but early Jurassic sedimentary units are found rarely, if ever. This creates a difficulty in looking for patterns in changes that happened after the mass extinction, but does allow for analysis of what reef communities looked like shortly before the end of the Triassic. In addition, by building upon data from the Paleobiology Database, changes in the global reef communities after the end-Triassic mass extinction can be examined

Using Groupware in a Classroom Environment

As the use of project teams and work groups continues to grow, employers are beginning to value and to recruit those students who understand how to perform well in groups. This interest creates the logical opportunity to introduce both the concepts and practical applications of groupware (Group Supports Systems (GSS), Group Decision Support Systems (GDSS) and Electronic Meeting Systems (EMS)) into business school courses. This introduction provides students with the conceptual understanding, basic skills and fundamental knowledge about working and being productive in teams. This article describes several tips on how to use groupware in a classroom to help meet this demand for team-oriented education

The Materiality of Information System Planning Maturity to Project Performance

Research for this paper suggests that there is still an alarming lack of success of IS projects in industry today. Two critical success factors that have been examined to date are project manager performance and IS planning maturity. However, the previous studies have bypassed the relative impact of the two factors in combination. This study proposes and empirically tests a model that examines the relationships between project manager performance and IS planning maturity and their relationship to project success. The results indicate that IS planning maturity is empirically linked positively to project success and to project manager performance. Additionally, the performance of the project manager is also positively related to project outcome. The implication for practitioners is that project management is not an activity limited only to the duration of the development of the IS product but project management must have broader implications for organization management

Strategic Sales Conversations As A Foundation For Effective Partnership Selling

This paper presents a new sales organization tool, strategic sales conversations, that can be used to enhance relationships with customers. Strategic sales conversations are an adaptation of strategic conversations in an inter- and intra- organizational context in which the selling firm is attempting to utilize open and honest communication to better understand the long-term needs of the buying organization.  A process model of strategic sales conversations is developed and its implications are discussed.&nbsp

Preventing violence-related injuries in England and Wales: A panel study examining the impact of on-trade and off-trade alcohol prices

Objective To examine the influence of real on-trade and off-trade alcohol prices and socioeconomic and environmental factors on rates of violence-related emergency department (ED) attendances in England and Wales over an 8-year period. Methods Anonymised injury data which included attendance date, age and gender of patients aged over 18 years who reported injury in violence were collected from a structured sample of 100 EDs across England and Wales between 1 January 2005 and 31 December 2012. Alcohol prices and socioeconomic measures were obtained from the UK Office for National Statistics. Panel techniques were used to derive a statistical model. Results Real on-trade (β=−0.661, p<0.01) and off-trade (β=−0.277, p<0.05) alcohol prices were negatively related with rates of violence-related ED attendance among the adult population of England and Wales, after accounting for the effects of regional poverty, income inequality, youth spending power and seasonal effects. It is estimated that over 6000 fewer violence-related ED attendances per year in England and Wales would result from a 1% increase in both on-trade and off-trade alcohol prices above inflation. Of the variables studied, changes in regional poverty and income inequality had the greatest effect on violence-related ED attendances in England and Wales. Conclusions Small increases in the price of alcohol, above inflation, in both markets, would substantially reduce the number of patients attending EDs for treatment of violence-related injuries in England and Wales. Reforming the current alcohol taxation system may be more effective at reducing violence-related injury than minimum unit pricing