Ferric citrate (FC) is an approved therapy for chronic kidney disease (CKD) pa-
tients as a phosphate (Pi) binder for dialysis-dependent CKD, and for iron de-
ficiency anemia (IDA) in non-dialysis CKD. Elevated Pi and IDA...
Klotho is a regulatory anti-aging protein that is significantly expressed in the choroid plexus, plays an important role in regulating the immune response in the CNS, and diminishes with age. It is known that a decline of...
Practitioners of course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) often evaluate student learning through journal article style lab reports. In our biology department, CUREs are used in multiple required and elective...
Context: Regional conservation efforts should incorporate fine scale landscape genetic and habitat suitability data for management decisions. This information permits conservation measures to be tailored to a specific...
Transposable elements (TEs) are sequences that replicate and move throughout genomes, and they can be silenced through methylation of cytosines at CpG dinucleotides. TE abundance contributes to genome size, but TE silencing...
"This volume collects over 200 poems from out-of-print books, literary journals, and those left in typescript and notebook form hidden away in university archives. The lost Etheridge attempts to serve as a companion to The...
The US Department of Labor cites that while the United States has over 4 million registered nurses, many of them are no longer practicing. This statistic existed pre-pandemic, yet, is augmented in this current pandemic climate....
•Waiting for Course Evaluations does not help the students currently in the class
• Using in-semester assessments allows instructors to make adjustments quickly and best serve their students
--> Shows the students that the...
Background: Throughout the last decade simulation education has become an integral part of healthcare education. Designing simulation training for educational programs takes careful consideration and thought to plan an...
Precedex is a common sedative used for procedural sedation and as an adjunct in general anesthesia. This project uses a retrospective chart review to determine if intraoperative Precedex boluses increase the length of stay in...
The use of perioperative opioids for pain management can come with great consequences as the opioid crisis is more prevalent than ever. In the US, nearly 70% of all opioid tablets prescribed after surgery become problematic as...
Reductions in skeletal muscle mass and function are often reported in patients with cancer-associated weight loss and are associated with reduced quality of life, impaired treatment tolerance, and increased mortality. Although...
A significant amount of attention has been brought to the endocrine-like function of skeletal muscle on various tissues, particularly with bone. Several lines of investigation indicate that the physiology of both bone and...
We offer this micro-edition as an opportunity to consider how an agent of violent European colonialism in the Americas came to be held up as an embodiment of American exceptionalism and a justification for US imperialism. More...
Context: Regional conservation efforts should incorporate fine scale landscape genetic and habitat suitability data for management decisions. This information permits conservation measures to be tailored to a specific...
This article is an invitation to Christian youth and young adult educators and ministers to be more understanding of queer theology and to discern its place within ministry to and for young people. The article examines the term...
COVID-19 is an infectious respiratory illness that has taken hundreds of thousands of lives and infected millions more in the United States. Unfortunately, Black Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) communities are...
Context: During the COVID-19 pandemic, many clinicians quickly adapted their way of practicing patient care by offering telehealth and virtual office visits while simultaneously having to minimize direct patient care. The...
The world surrounding Paul and the assemblies comes vividly to life here. Documents and Images for the Study of Paul gathers representative texts illustrating Jewish practices, Greco-Roman moral exhortation, biblical...
A selection of sources for the cultural and political context of the early Roman Empire and the New Testament writings, this book includes public speeches, official inscriptions, annals, essays, poems, and documents of veiled...
In 1966, David Baker, a Black man and esteemed jazz musician and composer, created and developed the Jazz Studies program at Indiana University (IU). The purpose of this study was to investigate how David Baker came to join the...
Background and Review of Literature: Intravenous (IV) catheter-associated bloodstream infections (CABIs) are a substantial problem in healthcare. Recently, intraoperative care was identified as a risk factor for the development...
This project is submitted to the faculty of Marian University Leighton School of Nursing as partial fulfillment of degree requirements for the Doctor of Nursing Practice, Nurse Anesthesia track. Enhanced Recovery After Surgery...
Background and Review of Literature: The ability to manage a patient's airway is a critical skill an anesthesia provider must possess. Poor airway management can result in inadequate ventilation, which can lead to brain damage...
Creating a focused simulation design promotes an essential structure needed to support SRNA confidence and performance success on GA inductions. Additionally, the successful completion of simulation designs is consistent with...
Background and Review of Literature: The presurgical anesthesia machine check is a critical procedure that all anesthesia providers must be capable of performing. Failing to perform an anesthesia machine check increases...
The difficult airway algorithm is a necessary technique that must be mastered by all student nurse anesthetists. Students in Marian University’s Nurse Anesthesia Program are taught the potentially life-saving skills included in...
This project was submitted to the faculty of Marian University Leighton School of Nursing as partial fulfillment of degree requirements for the Doctor of Nursing Practice Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist Track. The...
Background and Review of Literature: Post-operative nausea and vomiting remains a constant threat to patients undergoing anesthesia. As such a myriad of drug compounds are utilized in the practice of anesthesia to prevent and...
The stress levels experienced by student registered nurse anesthetists (SRNAs) make them excellent candidates to experience the benefits of peer mentoring. Many students assigned as mentors lack the necessary skills to support...
Background: Simulation based training continues to be a growing element of healthcare education. Simulation training allows student registered nurse anesthetists (SRNAs) to practice critical skills in a low stress environment....
The gene CHEK2 is located at 22q12.1 and codes for the protein checkpoint kinase 2, a protein that functions in cell cycle regulation and is a known tumor suppressor. CHEK2 is activated due to DNA damage generating a cascade of...
50% improved maximal aerobic capacity (VO2max) and enhanced skeletal muscle health (size, function, as well as metabolic and communicative properties) compared to non-exercisers at a similar age. By taking a reductionist...
Declining fitness (˙VO2 peak) is a hallmark of ageing and believed to arise from decreased oxygen delivery and reduced muscle oxidative capacity. Physical activity is a modifiable lifestyle factor that is critical when...
We argue that one of the best ways to improve equity and diversity in the plant sciences begins in the undergraduate
classroom. Our classrooms are the first stop for the next generation of plant scientists, and we must engage...
Gender dysphoria (GD), a conflict between one's self-perceived gender identity and the biological sex has been a wholly enigma
and a source of contention between experts of various disciplines since long. This is a narrative...
COVID-19 was primarily identified as a respiratory illness, but reports of patients presenting initially with cardiovascular complaints are rapidly emerging. Many patients also develop cardiovascular complications during and...
Abstract
The patellar ligament (PL) is an epiphyseal ligament and is part of the extensor complex of the knee. The ligament has gained attention due to its clinical relevance to autograft and tendinopathy. A variety of...
Abstract
The online environment poses a number of challenges, including creating
opportunities for students to interact and get to know each other. I propose
adding online discussions that can allow students to explore the...
ART 341 Design for Social Impact is a studio graphic design course with a mission to activate students’ awareness of social issues on their journey to becoming citizen designers. Through studio projects, students learn to apply...
Online instruction poses challenges including creating opportunities for student interactions. This discussion format combines real-world implications and classroom community building. Students explore instructor-provided...
Efforts to increase the diversity among healthcare providers may help close the gap of health disparities, combat inequities, and address medical access in underserved populations. In response to the need for more healthcare...
This presentation showcases the community engaged learning from Publishing and Print Culture, ENG 480. Working with local residents and authors, students assembled and published chapbooks highlighting stories, recipes, and...
Teacher candidates explore themselves more deeply than ever before through community engaged critical service learning paired with ongoing
self-reflection and examination of critical consciousness. Students are challenged to...
Inclusive excellence is important for student learning. To learn, it is important to be engaged, be welcomed, and be considered during instructional design and assessment. Here, I share activities at Marian University as part...
Come hear undergraduate and graduate students from Psychological Sciences and the Master's of Counseling program discuss counseling and school interventions provided at The Crossing, a downtown Indianapolis alternative school...
Chemistry 100 is a survey chemistry course tailored to students in the health sciences. This course provides an excellent opportunity for tailoring course content to student interest, while simultaneously posing the challenge...
The use of a buzzer system and game-based learning after delivering clinical-based medical content effectively take a student-learner from remembering and understanding medical knowledge to applying it to an immediate task. The...
Among young musicians, there is an emerging language barrier between those who can read hand-written notation and those who cannot. There are two main reasons for this- the commercialization of music publishing and the...
This session will provide participants with hands-on ideas to implement in organizing their classes. How can we use course objectives and key outcomes to realign our syllabi and class plans to ensure that students are more...
Accurate scientific communication is of chief importance. The ability to understand complex biomedical content and describe it in accurate simplistic terms is a skill that needs practice and refinement. The Kindergarten...
Practicing empathy and listening skills are not traditionally components of a graduate-level biomedical science curriculum, however incorporating an opportunity for students to refine both can be given using “patient” podcast...
Engineering is about understanding how things work, and exploring the ways to engineer them for the benefit of society. A solid foundation of STEM knowledge can open a student endless opportunity in various fields. An...
My innovative land acknowledgement project asks students to engage with Native American pasts, presents, and futures. In this multi-step research assignment, students expand their historical and cultural awareness by...
Students in my sections of THL 105 Introduction to Theology learn actively toward several course outcomes through a field trip to the colonnade near the Allison Mansion. Overlooking the natural landscape of the Ecolab, the...
A wiki is a collection of pages that allow collaborative modification and management (e.g., Wikipedia). Medical students designed a wiki that outlined the major concepts covered in Immunology during the Foundations class. The...
Clinical medicine courses often attempt to develop skills in applying biomedical sciences instruction to clinical situations. This goal can be accomplished in many different ways, but such techniques often require the learner...
Recently, Marian University acquired a virtual dissection tool, the Anatomage Table. As the anatomy course director for the Biomedical Science Master’s program, I aim to integrate this expansive resource into the curriculum,...
Nursing students, enrolled in the NSG427 Bereavement and Loss elective, were joined by others in the Marian University community to participate in
a Death Cafe' Fire Pit Experience. The Death Cafe' is an international...
Marian partnered with the Bard Women's Collaboration Project at the Indiana Women's Prison beginning in 2019. Classes continued to be offered through COVID with distance learning and returned to in-person sessions this past...
During the undergraduate Nursing Research and Informatics course, a question is posed and students are asked to submit a picture with caption that answers the question. All pictures are de-identified, printed, and given to...
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for additional health precautions in medically fragile populations. COVID-19 is a respiratory virus demonstrating increased mortality in individuals with risk factors such as...
Hiatal hernias are a very common medical condition and present as the pathologic passage of the foregut through the esophageal hiatus. While most hiatal
hernias are asymptomatic, presenting symptoms can easily progress to...
Osteoporosis is a disease of low bone mass that places individuals at enhanced risk for fracture, disability, and death. Hospitalizations for osteoporotic fractures exceeds those for heart attack, stroke, and breast cancer...
Strabismus “squint eyes” is a common disorder presenting in about 2% of children born each year. While there are several causes to this presentation, we demonstrated presentation caused by Peripheral nerve neuropathies,...
Obesity and metabolic dysfunction negatively impacts many tissues, including the skeleton. Calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase kinase 2 (CaMKK2) is a serine/threonine protein kinase and key regulator of whole-body...
There is a need for anabolic therapies to treat degenerative bone
diseases. Mechanical loading stimulates anabolic and inhibits
catabolic pathways of bone leading to increased bone formation.
Osteocytes are the bone cell...
Purpose: Partial nephrectomies by their nature are associated with renal volume loss. Our goal from this study is to examine renal volume loss over time post partial nephrectomy.
Material and Methods: Fifty patients were...
Correlations exist between undergraduate GPA,
MCAT, and COMLEX-USA Level 1 scores as well as
between course grades and overall COMLEX score
(Wong et al. 2009 & Sefcik et al. 2003).
• Longitudinal reports on ProgressIQ...
Background: A patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) is a common diagnosis among
extremely preterm infants. Unfortunately, this left to right shunt may result in
significant complications including pulmonary edema, pulmonary...
Why do neurocognitive disorders persist in people living with HIV while taking combination antiretroviral therapy
(cART)?
• The brain is a known reservoir for HIV.
• HIV can act on myeloid cell populations like...
Atlantoaxial instability (AAI) is a term that is used to describe instability at the atlantoaxial joint of the cervical spine. This is often from alar ligament instability causing the dens of the axis to be prone to move...
Ticks have been widely studied for their importance in disease transmission. In
Pennsylvania, four different ticks (associated with human diseases) are commonly
encountered: (1) Dermacentor variabilis (Rocky Mountain Spotted...
The dramatic increase in the prevalence of antibiotic resistant (AR) genes
in numerous bacterial species has been a heavily discussed topic within
the scientific community. Antibiotic resistant bacteria pose a serious
threat...
Menopause, an age-related loss of sex hormone production in women, is one of the most common causes of osteoporosis. Previous work has established that this loss of sex hormones, in particular estrogen, causes dramatic loss of...
1.5 million reported traumatic brain injuries (TBI) per year with varying degrees of severity that inflict injury at the cellular level. The Choroid Plexus (CP) plays a significant role in brain homeostasis. The CP has also...
The United States Preventative Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommends initiating colorectal cancer screening for asymptomatic, average-risk individuals at age 45, which is a new update to the previous recommendation of age 50....
Background: Many patients seek the advise from their primary care providers (PCPs) to provide insight into alternative treatment options, however, little is known about the practices of primary care providers (PCPs) and the...
Background: A child’s pain is different from pain experienced as adults. Different emotional and psychological factors can affect the child’s pain comprehension and stimulate their response to pain. Procedural pain can have...
Background and Review of Literature: A surgical site infection after posterior instrumented spinal fusion can negatively affect the patient and increase healthcare costs. Spinal fusions are becoming increasingly common as a...
In 1984, Ultrasound-Guided (USG) Intravenous (IV) access was first used to place central venous catheters (CVC) in real-time. This led to increased success rates, reduced procedural times, decreased site associated...
Traditionally, the acute wrist radiograph series is comprised of
posteroanterior (PA), oblique, and lateral projections. There is controversy within the field of Orthopedics, however, over the value of the oblique view in...
• Myroides spp. are non-motile, aerobic, gram-
negative bacilli that are traditionally
opportunistic pathogens1.
• P. stuartii is a urease-producing, gram-negative
bacillus2.
• Myroides infections have been reported
60...
Calcitriol is a vitamin critical in regulating calcium
homeostasis, maintenance of musculoskeletal
integrity, and both a commonly prescribed medication
and over the counter supplement.
• However, the incidence of vitamin D...
Children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia
(ALL) suffer a litany of therapy induced side
effects. Methotrexate is a common chemotherapy agent
administered for the treatment of ALL. Failure to clear methotrexate from the body...