Conflict can have detrimental effects on team interaction, performance, and member satisfaction, so research on tools and techniques aimed at reducing or resolving conflict is crucial. This study trained the leaders of teams...
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...
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...
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...
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 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: 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...
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....
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 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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
Patients with class three obesity, formerly defined as morbid or extreme obesity, presenting for anesthesia come with an increased risk of experiencing complications. The oxygen storage capabilities and the functional residual...
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...
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...
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...
This essay examines the online game of fantasy football as a collection of rhetorical procedures that present a particular ideology through how the game is played. Unlike traditional forms of rhetoric, Ian Bogost argues that...
With his 2006 film Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others), writer and director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck asserted that he had created a GDR that is truer than the real thing, that is realer than the actual GDR. In...
In his book, Music Education in an Age of Virtuality and Post-Truth, Woodford presents a welcomed discussion of the aims of music education in a time of political unrest. This timely text is needed due to the stresses of the...
Two members of Marian University's Department of English, Marcia Eppich-Harris, Ph.D., and Diane Prenatt, Ph.D. gave a presentation entitled Bodies in Play: Shakespeare's Depiction of Illness. The presentation explored medicine...