Strategies That Prepare Nurse Educators for Teaching Cultural Competence: A Review of the Literature

Higher education has called for the transformation of how students are being educated across the board. Unique challenges exist for schools of nursing as they strive to fluidly meet the quickly changing landscape of healthcare and the standards that are required from accreditation standards for both the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) and their accrediting bodies. Not only do Nurse Educators (NE) face the task of educating the future workforce to be safe practitioners, they must do so through the creation of significant and rich learning experiences. An area of increasing importance in nursing education is the concept of cultural competence. For many schools of nursing, curriculum is designed to achieve the outcome of cultural competence through significant learning experiences such as study abroad and immersion opportunities. Research indicates that study abroad and immersion opportunities in nursing allow for students to gain a firsthand view of different cultures and how culture shapes our perceptions of health and wellness. Further, study abroad and cultural immersion opportunities allow nursing students to experience nursing practice, health care delivery models, grow personally and professionally, and gain a global perspective of health and wellness (Kent-Wilkinson, Leurer, Luimes, Ferguson, and Murrary, 2015). While these rich cultural learning experiences are prominent in baccalaureate nursing programs, programs are lacking for graduate students. More specifically, programs are lacking for the NE student who will need to be able to assure cultural competence in the students they engage with and potentially lead global immersion experiences in their future practice. In the following paper, the historical timeline of how the nursing profession came to understand the need for cultural competence, the influence that a provider\u27s cultural competence has on patient outcomes, methods for preparing nursing students to be culturally competent in a variety of environments, and identification of areas that would improve the preparation of NE graduate students to teach cultural competence will be explored

City networks in cyberspace and time : using Google hyperlinks to measure global economic and environmental crises

Geographers and social scientists have long been interested in ranking and classifying the cities of the world. The cutting edge of this research is characterized by a recognition of the crucial importance of information and, specifically, ICTs to cities’ positions in the current Knowledge Economy. This chapter builds on recent “cyberspace” analyses of the global urban system by arguing for, and demonstrating empirically, the value of Web search engine data as a means of understanding cities as situated within, and constituted by, flows of digital information. To this end, we show how the Google search engine can be used to specify a dynamic, informational classification of North American cities based on both the production and the consumption of Web information about two prominent current issues global in scope: the global financial crisis, and global climate change

Scheduling Pipelined, Multi-Threaded Programs in Linux

A process causes latency when it performs I/O or communication. Pipelined processes mitigate latency by concurrently executing multiple threads--- sequences of operations--- and overlapping computation, communication, and I/O. When more than one thread is ready to run, the scheduler determines which thread in fact runs. This paper presents techniques for scheduling pipelines, with the following three findings. First, using Linux kernel version 2.6 and the NPTL threads package, we observe a 3-6% performance improvement over kernel version 2.4 and the LinuxThreads package. Second, we test techniques that both take advantage of prior knowledge about whether a program is I/O-bound or compute-bound and raise and lower priorities before the pipeline begins working. These techniques, referred to as fixed scheduling, further improve performance by 5% in the case of the compute-bound columnsort algorithm. In the I/O-bound algorithm, fixed scheduling failed to yield better performance than the default scheduling. Third, we test simple, adjusting methods that do not take advantage of prior knowledge about whether a program in compute-bound or I/O-bound but rather adjust scheduling as the pipeline progresses. These techniques, called adjusting scheduling, fail to yield better performance than the default scheduling in any of our test cases. In addition, we suggest new scheduling calls and other operating-system improvements

Theological Observer. - Kirchlich-Zeitgeschichtliches

Theological Observer. – Klrchllch Zeitgeschichtliches (Theological Observer. – Of course contemporary history

Geo-emotions: Research, Challenges, and Mapping

Una tendencia emergente en el mundo académico es discutir conceptos y teorías que cruzan líneas disciplinarias, como el cambio climático, la COVID-19 y el bienestar humano. Otro ejemplo son las emociones humanas, que atraen cada vez más intereses transdisciplinarios e internacionales. Estos mundos se exploran introduciendo el concepto de geo-emociones que cruza la investigación más allá de la psicología del comportamiento, con geografía, sociología, antropología, estudios de ocio, impactos de desastres, conservación, así como científicos ambientales, cartógrafos y especialistas en SIG. Se abordan los desafíos de la investigación, como la importancia de mapear las emociones a escala local, comunitaria, nacional y global.One emerging trend in scholarly worlds is discussing concepts and theories that cross disciplinary lines, such as climate change, COVID-19, and human welfare. Another example is human emotions, which are increasingly drawing transdisciplinary and international interests. These worlds are explored by introducing the concept of geo-emotions that intersects research beyond behavioral psychology, with geography, sociology, anthropology, leisure studies, disaster impacts, conservation, as well as environmental scientists, cartographers, and GIS specialists. Research challenges are addressed such as the importance of mapping emotions at local, community, national, and global scales

Universality of Brunnian (NN-body Borromean) four and five-body systems

We compute binding energies and root mean square radii for weakly bound systems of $N=4$ and $5$ identical bosons. Ground and first excited states of an $N$-body system appear below the threshold for binding the system with $N-1$ particles. Their root mean square radii approach constants in the limit of weak binding. Their probability distributions are on average located in non-classical regions of space which result in universal structures. Radii decrease with increasing particle number. The ground states for more than five particles are probably non-universal whereas excited states may be universal