Mission Statement: MU Grocery Delivery is here to help the students of Marian University change the way they get their groceries by offering a low cost grocery delivery service that will save students time and effort that they...
Advances in radiology and imaging technologies and the emergent scope of practice have led to the capacity to provide services to a growing population of high-acuity patients with comorbid conditions. These procedures are often...
Background: In order to become safe, effective professionals, nursing students must have a working knowledge of academic and professional integrity principles. However, nursing students have knowledge gaps in these areas, which...
In the rapidly evolving world of medical education and content, professional development is not just a choice, it is an obligation. Despite the rising popularity of podcast use over the last 10 years, there is still...
The transition from the operating room to the postoperative care unit is a critical time in the perioperative period for patients. Patients are physically transferred from one location to another and critical information...
Uncontrolled postpartum pain has been linked to increased opioid use, increased risk for opioid dependency, depression, and the development of persistent pain (Bateman et al., 2016). The purpose of this project is to assess the...
Educational approaches are constantly evolving due to of influences from technology and improvements in the resources that are available to educators as well as learners. Current literature suggests that utilizing podcasts in...
It is a requirement of perianesthesia nurses to be competent in caring for patients who are sedated or anesthetized for procedures in a hospital setting. Oftentimes, when patients are sedated, they are unable to maintain their...
Research shows that the addition of extended reality (XR) in healthcare education is advantageous as it enhances the learning experience and improves students’ knowledge and motivation to learn. Its use has been documented in...
Background: Respiratory compromise is one of the most common complications that occur in the Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) and accounts for half of the closed claims involving death in the PACU. However, with appropriate...
Background and Review of Literature: Neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) is becoming an increasingly complex problem across many facilities. The use of standardized assessment is vital to ensuring that infants are properly...
Background: Outpatient hemodialysis (HD) requires patient compliance and adherence to their prescribed treatment, including fluid and dietary restrictions. Without compliance and adherence, patients are at an increased risk of...
Educational techniques are constantly evolving because of influences from technology and improvements in the resources that are available to educators as well as learners. An educational adjunct, such as a podcast, may help...
Background: Hospitals have experienced nursing shortages and high rates of turnover for years. Healthcare organizations have sought answers to these problems, such as stressful work environments, lateral violence, perceived...
Throughout the country, Student Registered Nurse Anesthetists (SRNAs) are experiencing stress at an alarming rate. While stress is unavoidable, it tends to upset academic and clinical performance and overall health. This...
Background and Review of Literature: Renal transplantation has a significant survival benefit over dialysis and is the recommended treatment modality for ESRD in the eligible HIV infected candidate. However, there are multiple...
Background: The lack of palliative care (PC) services poses a significant risk for PC patients. Research indicates that patients' needs often go unmet when PC referral processes are not well established within a health system....
Background and Review of the Literature: In the United States, the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) has increased. The term CAM refers to a variety of alternative therapies and techniques usually not part of...
The Tools for Teaching Conference is an opportunity for faculty to start their semesters with a chance to learn about research done by their peers as well as focus on new pedagogy skills and tools to enhance their teaching and...
Faculty Con is an event designed to to inspire and support teaching excellence, encourage collaboration, and promote professional growth among the faculty at Marian University. The day includes keynote presentations and...
Marian University's first, official student newspaper. This publication spanned the years 1938-1981. Being a brief successor publication as well as alternative title of the publication, The Knight Times has been included here...
To recognize and celebrate faculty efforts and excellence in teaching, faculty will showcase the innovative and interesting assignments, activities, and/or approaches they are using in their classrooms. in six different...
The CTL introduces, supports, and encourages Marian faculty to use research-based best practices in teaching and learning to educate their students. We support online and face-to-face teaching strategies through one-on-one...
MU-COM Research Day is an annual showcase of the the research engagement of the students within the College of Osteopathic Medicine. Content on display are typically poster presentations along with faculty-led discussions of...
Inspired by the knowledge that the most pressing and enduring societal challenges of today and tomorrow are global in nature and the fundamental belief that integrative global learning is the essential heartbeat of a meaningful...
The vision of Marian University is to provide an education that profoundly transforms lives, society, and the world. In the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS), we execute this by providing our students with personalized faculty...
As a complement to the more professionally aspirant <i>Phoenix</i>, <i>The Carbon</i> served as the unofficial publication of Marian College, with the contributors and editors being solely the students of the college....
When the Sisters of St. Francis of Oldenburg founded Marian College in Indianapolis in 1937, they realized their vision of a rigorous, exemplary liberal arts education for women focused on empowering its students to effect...
The Fioretti is a literary journal consisting of original submissions and editing from contributing students at Marian University, Indianapolis spanning the years 1943-2012. The Fioretti de S. Francesco d' Assisi, or Little...
Cancer cells have shown to exhibit enhanced potential to metastasize via increased actin-myosin crossbridge formation, which requires increased Ca2+ influx via the voltage-gated calcium channels. This then leads to the...
Traditional medical education has recently seen major changes due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. New pedagogical methods, including augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR), are on the rise as alternatives to...
The unique conditions of microgravity and radiation exposure in space have a substantial impact on human tissue function, resulting in extreme bone loss. The goal of this project is to synthesize the current knowledge on bone...
•Head and neck squamous cell carcinomas (HNSCCs) have remained one of the common and lethal cancers around the world. •HNSCC rapidly spread via the lymphatics system, leading to a higher percentage of initial late-stage...
Interprofessional education or IPE involves bringing individuals from two or more professions together to learn and communicate to improve future teamwork and collaboration. IPE research has shown that exposing future...
The DNA dependent protein kinase (DNA-PK) is a validated target for cancer therapeutics that drives the DNA damage response (DDR) and plays a critical role as a primary sensor in the non-homologous end joining (NHEJ) DNA double...
The United States spends well over $100 billion for millions of people affected by Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) and for their family caregivers. Most people with ADRD have multiple chronic comorbid...
Paraspinal inhibition is an osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT) purported to work via the sympathetic nervous system and aid in restoring autonomic homeostasis. Despite clinical anecdotal evidence, the mechanism of action...
Introduction: Externally added survival/growth factors are essential for the survival of healthy cells, however cancer cells are believed to be self-sufficient in supporting their auto-proliferation without the need of...
Introduction: It is well documented in the literature that Bitter Melon Extract (BME) inhibits the growth and proliferation of MCF-7 breast cancer cells. While the exact mechanism of this inhibition is unknown, it is possible...
Osteocyte (Ot)-derived Sclerostin (Scl) has local actions in bone mediated by Lrp 4/5/6 receptors, inhibiting bone formation and stimulating bone resorption by antagonizing Wnt signaling. Emerging evidence suggests that Scl...
Context: Skeletal muscle is essential for proper bodily functions by playing key roles in strength and movement, and it accounts for roughly 50% of our total body mass. Decreases in total muscle mass or mass-specific function...
A historical analysis and comparison between rubella and zika reveals that neither virus became prominent until their respective congenital syndromes were classified. Rubella was first described in the 1750s but took until 1941...
Postpartum preeclampsia refers to hypertension and proteinuria after delivery, and the occurrence of a seizure within six weeks after delivery is called postpartum eclampsia. Etiology is unknown but theorized to involve...
Introduction: The Catholic medical ethic is supported by a rich intellectual tradition and remains foundational to the practice of medicine, especially within Catholic hospitals. In the US, the United States Conference of...
Sarcopenia is a disease characterized by degeneration of muscle and strength that puts individuals at increased risk of functional impairment, physical disability, and mortality. The risk of disability is 1.5 to 4.6 times...
Coxiella burnetii is an obligate intracellular Gram-negative bacterium that causes Q fever in humans. While acute infection manifests as self-limiting flu-like illness, chronic Q fever presents as non-culturable endocarditis,...
300 targets using very small quantities of protein. This revealed decreased activation of the mTOR pathway in tibiae of Nmu knock-out mice compared to controls, with reduced activity-associated phosphorylation of mTOR and the...
Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPARs) are important nuclear receptors in regulating macrophage lipid metabolism and modulating cellular inflammatory responses. In recent years, host cell PPARs have been linked to...
Osteoporosis is a silent, dangerous, pathology frequently undiagnosed until patients experience a major fracture. Fractures from osteoporosis lead to a 20% increase of mortality, revealing a need for novel anabolic therapies....
Introduction: OPTIMISTIC is a project funded by the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) that is aimed, in part, at the reduction of unnecessary hospitalization of nursing facility residents. Data from the initial...
INTRODUCTION: Cold limb immersion, a form of cryotherapy, can cause cardiovascu-lar changes due to cold-pain induced autonomic reflex. OBJECTIVE: This cryotherapy treatment side-effect has received less attention, and could...