Stress management and the challenge of balance (2016)

"Families and relationships. "Revised 04/16/1M

Developing a new undergraduate pharmacology core curriculum: The British Pharmacological Society Delphi Method

The British Pharmacological Society (BPS) developed a new core curriculum for undergraduate pharmacology degrees. To do this, a modification of the Delphi Process was used. Initially, a pharmacology educator workshop was hosted to explore the core attributes expected of pharmacology graduates. We then developed these discussions into knowledge, skills, and attitudes statements and sent them, in the form of a questionnaire, to our Expert Group, which included pharmacology professionals from across academia and industry. In an iterative process, the Expert Group were asked to rank each statement according to how much they agreed it was a core graduate attribute. Where there was disagreement, statements were modified according to feedback. After three rounds of questionnaires, we had a draft core curriculum which was then finalized through a discussion workshop with the education community. In this workshop, practical aspects of curriculum implementation were discussed and the potential for the Society to develop resources to support it considered. The revised core curriculum is freely available on the Society website: https://www.bps.ac.uk/media-library-assets/library/undergraduate-pharmacology-core-curriculum. Several examples exist of the curriculum making an impact within and beyond the United Kingdom, where it has been utilized in a quality assurance context, as a tool for curriculum review and also to guide building new programs. Through a series of further expert workshops, the BPS Education and Training committee is currently developing more granular learning outcomes to accompany the core curriculum alongside recommended resources to enable delivery. In addition, this expanded curriculum is also being reviewed and updated to ensure it is fully inclusive and represents the diversity of pharmacology educators and learners worldwide

The Impact of Nursing Staff Responsiveness on Patient Satisfaction: A Pilot Project

Timeliness of healthcare staff responsiveness to patient requests is multifactorial. Inadequate responsiveness to patient requests may lead to increased patient injury, increased cost, and patient dissatisfaction which may impact stakeholders and profit margin. Evidence supports that proactive, timely, staff responsiveness to patient requests and call lights may lead to improved patient safety, higher patient satisfaction, and better healthcare outcomes. Bundled staff responsiveness interventions may be implemented to improve patient safety, patient and staff satisfaction. Examples of interventions include engaging staff project buy-in with formation of a patient experience team, hardwiring hourly safety rounding, providing staff education on the importance of prompt response to patient call light requests and instructions how to implement the “no pass zone.” The purpose of the project was to implement a bundle of evidence-based nursing interventions which included forming a patient experience team, hardwiring hourly safety rounding, and implementing the “no-pass zone.” The project educated staff about the nurse call light system, the importance of timely staff responsiveness, increasing patient/family satisfaction, safety, and outcomes. The pilot unit was a 48-bed medical/surgical unit in a Magnet- designated hospital. Improvement in staff responsiveness to patient requests may increase patient and staff satisfaction, optimize organizational profit margin, and improve patient outcomes. Keywords: staff responsiveness, call lights, healthcare outcomes, patient satisfactio

Attitudes of parents and teachers toward the integration of severely and profoundly handicapped students.

This study investigated the attitudes of teachers and parents toward the integration of severely and profoundly handicapped students. A five group, single observation study was conducted to determine if teachers and parents with varying amounts of contact with handicapped people would have significantly different attitudes toward the handicapped population. The parents chosen for this study had children who attended one of two schools within a middle sized city in the Midwest. The teacher chosen were assigned to these two facilities. One facility was integrated and had severely and profoundly handicapped students enrolled. The second facility chosen for this study had special education students, however, their handicaps were not obvious and for the purposes of this study was considered a nonintegrated facility. The sample included 33 regular education teachers and 126 parents. The Attitudes Toward Disabled Persons Scale-Form A was the instrument utilized to assess the attitudes of the different groups. In addition, a demographic information sheet was also developed and used to collect data. One hundred ninety five surveys were sent out with a return rate of 82% (N 159). All returned surveys were utilized due to the small sample size of each group. Analysis of variance was the statistical method used to analyze the data. Results indicated significantly more positive attitudes in the teachers assigned to the nonintegrated facility than the teachers assigned to the integrated facility

Creating A Veteran Centered Wellness Treatment Model For Successful Reintegration

In today\u27s society the issue of reintegration following combat deployment among American Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) and Operation Iraq Freedom (OIF) veterans has been met with significant barriers. The purpose of this study was to examine current wellness models and to create a model that will assist veterans with reintegration into society. The current models will be examined to identify if the needs of the veterans are being met who are returning from combat and to examine community agencies, Department of Veteran Affairs and the Department of Defense programs and services essential to meeting their needs. A grounded study was conducted by utilizing existing data on the subject matter. The research study gave a voice to veterans who are reintegrating back into society and particularly veterans of combat tours of duty, and provided clinicians with insights that will enable them to improve their clinical services for this population. This study also aided the researcher in creating a wellness model that will assist the veteran and their family with reintegration within the community. This study will add to the body of knowledge and potentially contribute to a future blueprint for the successful wellness treatment approach for reintegration for returning veterans

Turnaround time and market capacity in contract cheating

Contract cheating is the process whereby students auction off the opportunity for others to complete assignments for them. It is an apparently widespread yet under-researched problem. One suggested strategy to prevent contract cheating is to shorten the turnaround time between the release of assignment details and the submission date, thus making it difficult for students to make arrangements with contractors. Here, we outline some characteristics of the current market for contract cheating and demonstrate that short turnaround times are unlikely to prevent contract cheating because requested turnaround times for university-level assignments completed via contract cheating are already short (average 5 days). In addition, for every contractor awarded a job, there are an average of 10 others offering to complete it within the specified time suggesting that there is abundant excess capacity in the market

Helping preteens and adolescents adjust to divorce (2016)

"Families and relationships. ""Focus on kids."This guide is part of a series aimed at helping families in which parents are separated or divorcing and who share parenting responsibilities for children. We will use the terms divorce and separation interchangeably to describe parents who are separated from each other.New 4/16/1M

History of the Women\u27s Studies Program at Denison, 1990

A detailed history of the Women\u27s Studies department at Denison, written by G. Wallace Chessman, University Historian, with counsel from past and current faculty, written for the 10th anniversary of the minority/Women\u27s Studies general education requirement

A New Perspective on Aggression in the Schools: Exploring Parental Aggression Towards Teachers

While a substantial amount of research has been devoted to identifying the causal influences and perpetrators of delinquency and victimization among students in the public school setting, similar literature focusing on aggression against teachers is typically concerned only with those instances where the students are the perpetrators. In an exploratory effort to add to that literature, we use data collected from a sample of 544 public school teachers in Kentucky to examine teacher perceptions of the prevalence, predictors, and consequences of problematic parental behavior in schools. Our results suggest, within the limitations of the sample under study, a substantial minority of teachers had been victims of verbal abuse and threats from parents, but only a small percentage of teachers had experienced any physical aggression from parents. In other words, while the problem of parental aggression was present for many of the teachers under study here, it was a problem of verbal aggression, not physical aggression, and resulted primarily from issues surrounding disciplinary actions. Additionally, many of the respondents agreed that both the school board and the criminal justice system were reluctant to prosecute parents who violate the law on school grounds and disagreed that policies at their school adequately punished parents who create conflict