Improving Nurse Self-Efficacy Regarding Depression among Cardiovascular Disease Patients: An Education Intervention

Depression is a principal cause of increased morbidity, mortality, and decreased quality of life for cardiovascular disease patients. Low levels of nurse confidence have been the outcomes of several studies and anecdotal reports regarding providing care for and approaching patients with acute and chronic illnesses in conjunction with behavioral and mental health issues. Current literature suggests that improving nursing education on the prevalence and impacts of depression improves nurse confidence. Depression screening tool education provided to nurses, with detailed disease information, empowers nurses in their attitudes, knowledge, and behaviors regarding patient depression. By improving depression screening rates among cardiovascular disease patient adverse short-term and long-term outcomes can be reduced or evaded. This Doctor of Nursing Project aims to improve nurses’ confidence in patient depression identification/screening. To accomplish this in an inpatient medical unit, nursing staff completed an informal nursing depression education. The training focused on altering attitudes, knowledge, and practices associated to patient depression. The predicted outcomes are an improved self-efficacy after completion of the education. A sample of 23 paired nursing participants analysis revealed an improvement of 11% in total in the completed survey scores after the education intervention. Further development and recognition are needed to close healthcare personnel’s gap in caring for chronic disease patients with comorbid behavioral health problems

Can Machines Garden? Systematically Comparing the AlphaGarden vs. Professional Horticulturalists

The AlphaGarden is an automated testbed for indoor polyculture farming which combines a first-order plant simulator, a gantry robot, a seed planting algorithm, plant phenotyping and tracking algorithms, irrigation sensors and algorithms, and custom pruning tools and algorithms. In this paper, we systematically compare the performance of the AlphaGarden to professional horticulturalists on the staff of the UC Berkeley Oxford Tract Greenhouse. The humans and the machine tend side-by-side polyculture gardens with the same seed arrangement. We compare performance in terms of canopy coverage, plant diversity, and water consumption. Results from two 60-day cycles suggest that the automated AlphaGarden performs comparably to professional horticulturalists in terms of coverage and diversity, and reduces water consumption by as much as 44%. Code, videos, and datasets are available at https://sites.google.com/berkeley.edu/systematiccomparison.Comment: International Conference on Robotics and Automation(ICRA) 2023 Ora

MITES ASSOCIATED WITH NEW WORLD PASSALID BEETLES (COLEOPTERA: PASSALIDAE)

Over 200 specíes of mites heve been coliected from passalíd beetles (Passalidae). Thís representa collections from oniy a small portion of the kno\A/n passaiids. The mites are distributed among 21 families and 68 genera. Six of these famiiies occur oniy in associatíon \A/Íth passaiids. The largest number of mítee associated \A/ith passaiids belong to the taxonomic group Mesostigmata, supercohort Trigynaspida. Species of t\A/o míte families live on the beetle in a parasitic orcommensal relatíonship. The remaining families have a phoretic associatíon \A/íth the beetles, using the beetles for transportation to new habítats. Specíes of nine of these mite families are not common on passaiids, and are probably opportunitíc phoretics on the beetle. Studies suggest that \A/hen oniy the female disperses these mites reproduce parthenogenetically, but \A/hen both sexes disperse mating takes place after díspersal. Various methods of holding onto the beetle have evolved among the different míte groups. Mites partition riding space on the beetle and reproductiva areas of the beetle tunnel, thus reducíng or elíminating competition. Data suggests that mite-beetle host specíficity is rarely a 1:1 relatíonship. Specificity is possibly beetle habitat relatad, e.g., beetles \A/hich live under the bark versus beetles v\/hich live deeper in the log. Mitas of 17 families have been coliected from Ne\A/ World passaiids. Taxonomic keys to these families and genera, characters for family recognition, tha number of species kno\A/n from passaiids, and comments on these specíes are ínciuded for mites from New World passatid beetles.Más de 200 especies de ácaros se han colectado asociadas a escarabajos pasólídos (Passalidae). Estos registros representan colectas de solamente una pequeña porción de los pasálidos conocidos. los ácaros están distribuidos en 21 familias y 68 géneros. Seis de estas familias ocurren solamente en asociación con pasálidos. El mayor número de ácaros asociados con pasálidos pertenece al grupo taxonómico Mesostígmata, supercohorte Trigynaspida. las especies de dos familias de ácaros viven con ios escarabajos en una relación parásita o comensal. las familias restantes tienen una asociación forética con los escarabajos, usándolos para transportarse a nuevos habítats. Especies de nueve de estas familias no son comunes en pasálidos y son probablemente pasajeros oportunistas en el escarabajo. Algunos estudios sugieren que cuando solamente la hembra se dispersa estos ácaros pueden reproducirse partenogenóticamente, pero cuando ambos sexos se dispersan la cópula se lleva a cabo después de la dispersión. Varios métodos para sujetarse al escarabajo han evolucionado entre los diferentes grupos de ácaros. la selección de sitios de transportación en los escarabajos por ios ácaros así como la selección de áreas reproductivas en el túnel del escarabajo, reduce o elimina la competencia entre los ácaros. los datos sugieren que la especificidad al huésped entre ácaro-escarabajo raramente es 1:1. Posiblemente la especificidad este relacionada con el habitat, e.g., escarabajos que viven bajo la corteza versus escarabajos que viven mée profundamente en el tronco. Acaros de 17 familias han sido colectadas de pasálidos del Nuevo Mundo. Se incluyen claves para las familias y los géneros de los ácaros asociados con pasálidos del Nuevo Mundo, así como los caracteres para el reconocimiento de las familias, el número de especies conocidas y comentarios sobre ellas. Palabras Clave: Passalidae, ácaros, asociaciones de ácaros, foresia