Compassion Fatigue in Medical Surgical Nurses

Often nurses are consumed by providing care to others and forget to care for themselves. The lack of self-care can lead to compassion fatigue in the nurse\u27s life. The purpose of this thesis was to assess the level of compassion fatigue within medical surgical nurses, and determine the correlation between years of experience as a registered nurse and compassion fatigue. The Professional Quality of Life (ProQOL-5) was used to identify the existence of compassion fatigue in medical surgical nurses. Data was collected and analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) software. Seventy-five medical surgical nurses working in an acute care hospital completed the survey. Each participant\u27s survey results provided a score for compassion satisfaction, burnout, and secondary traumatic stress. The results showed that years of experience had a positive correlation with burnout and secondary traumatic stress, and a negative correlation with compassion satisfaction. However, these correlations were not significant. Keywords: compassion fatigue, burnout, secondary traumatic stress, compassion satisfactio

FABRICATION OF AN EPITHELIAL CELL-BASED ION-SELECTIVE ELECTRODE AND ITS APPLICATION FOR USE AS ALTERNATIVE TUMOR ANGIOGENESIS ASSAY

Previous studies have provided evidence that endothelial cell-based potassium ion selective electrodes possess the ability to quantify substances that have permeability-altering effects on those endothelial cells. The capability of these so-called biosensors to detect elevated concentrations of certain chemical agents found following tumor formation make them useful in the application as an alternative tumor angiogenesis assay. In this study an epithelial cell line, human colon adenocarcinoma epithelial cells (Caco-2), was used to fabricate membranes that were used to test concentrations of these chemical agents, known as cytokines, mimicking the concentrations that have been observed in the serum of healthy individuals as well as the higher concentration found in individuals with cancer. Additionally background information is provided related to the development of whole cell-based biosensors, metabolic pathways related to tumor angiogenesis and the subsequent increase in cytokine concentration, properties of the Caco-2 cell line that make them useful for the application in cell-based biosensors, and the ultimate effect the cytokines have on the permeability of the cells

Innovation and Access to Justice: Addressing the Challenge of a Diverse Justice Ecosystem

Despite having been a mainstay topic of conversation for many years in the fields of business, technology, public administration and other specialized service sectors such as medicine, ‘innovation’ has only recently begun to infuse conversations in the justice sector. With the widespread recognition that globalization is disrupting traditional legal roles and organizational structures, that technology is poised to radically reconfigure how legal services are delivered, and that despite best efforts, the access to justice gap continues to grow in Canada, innovation – as both a noun and a verb - has become a talisman, poised to help address the challenges pushing at the door of the legal profession. While conversations about disruptive innovation in law seem to flow more easily when discussing legal technology or the changing nature of “big law”, the discussions around innovation have been more hesitant in dialogues on access to justice. This hesitation may be due in part to an unfortunate history of the term being equated with doing more work with less money – a situation that has often been foisted upon already stretched publically funded legal service providers (like, for example, community legal clinics, or other not-for-profit legal information sources). However, recently, a more nuanced and crossdisciplinary conversation about innovation has emerged. Legal practitioners, academics and access to justice advocates have begun to explore how the theories, methods and tools of innovation in adjacent sectors can be applied to meet the complex access to justice challenges presenting in Canada. This special edition, focused exclusively on exploring innovation through an access to justice lens, is an exciting opportunity to join a burgeoning scholarship on the topic of innovation and access to justice

Parental Involvement in College Application Decisions of Low-Income Students

Nearly 27% of free and reduced-priced meal (FARM) high school students in an eastern state graduated in 2016–2017. Of these students, about 50% enrolled in college within one year after high school graduation. The purpose of this quantitative nonexperimental correlational design study was to explore a possible reason for low college enrollment for FARM students by examining the relationship between parental involvement, FARM status, and low college application rates. The research question addressed the relationship between parental involvement, students’ FARM status, and the number of college applications. The theoretical framework was Epstein’s model of parental involvement, which is about how parental involvement influences students’ education. Archival FARM status data were collected from 229 FARM public high school students, and a regression analysis was used to examine the relationship among parental involvement, students’ FARM status, and application to college. The results showed no statistically significant relationship between FARM status and the number of college applications (F(1,229) = 1.802, p = 0.181), no statistically significant relationship between FARM status and parental involvement (F(1,229) = 0.033, p = 0.855), and no statistically mediating effect of parental involvement (F(2,228) = 0.913, p = 0.403). The project study is a 3-day professional development for teachers of FARM high school students to better support parents in helping students with college applications. The content of the professional development may help teachers to better support FARM high school students with the college application process. Positive social change will occur when more FARM high school students enter college

Prospectus, September 13, 2005

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Perceptual Differentiation of African American and European American Children Based on Gender and Ethnicity of Listeners

Thomas and Reaser (2004) demonstrated that adult speakers can be perceptually differentiated by listeners with respect to gender and ethnicity. They presented data from various studies with respect to adult speakers, but no data for child speakers. It follows that there are cues in the acoustic signal that support making distinctions amongst adult speakers. Following the onset of puberty, these acoustic parameters begin to emerge, enabling listeners to reliably identify speaker characteristics in adulthood (Berger, 2008). The question remains, at what point across the pubertal transition does perceptual accuracy meet the level for adult speakers? The goal of our research is to examine how the gender and ethnicity of the listener affects the accuracy with which they are able to identify these same aspects of a child speaker. Undergraduate students completed a language background questionnaire and then listened to audio recordings of European American and African American children producing /h-vowel-d/ words and sentences. The participants listened to four blocks of recordings: forward words, reverse words, forward sentences, and reverse sentences, containing items spoken by children of each ethnicity, age, and gender. The listeners identified which ethnicity and gender they believed the speaker to be, as well as how confident they were of their choice. We expect that minority (African American, Hispanic, Native American, Pacific Islander, and Asian American) and female participants will have greater accuracy for all speakers. We also anticipate that accuracy of identification will improve as the age of the speaker increases due to the changing of the voice as a result of puberty. The study will provide greater knowledge of how the age of a child speaker impacts the ability of the listener to identify the speaker’s gender and ethnicity. The implications can be informative for individuals who work with children and in speech-related professions

Prospectus, September 30, 2004

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Prospectus, October 28, 2004

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