A common theme among Student Registered Nurse Anesthetists is an impact on their mental and physical wellbeing during didactic and clinical education. This DNP project is aimed for the current Marian University graduate nursing...
Modern technology has allowed for countless improvements in access to mental health resources. One way in which this has been improved is through the use of smart phone applications that allow for tracking of symptoms,...
Background: The most common causes of morbidity during general anesthesia in pediatrics are airway and respiratory complications that commonly occur in both healthy children and infants. The high stress environment of...
The Marian University Nurse Anesthesia program offers two pharmacology courses prior to students entering the clinical setting. The pharmacology I course provides students with foundational knowledge of medications used daily....
Background and Review of Literature: Laparoscopically assisted vaginal hysterectomy (LAVH) is a minimally invasive surgical procedure commonly performed to remove the uterus. While the LAVH technique offers many advantages,...
The Flipped Classroom Model (FCM) is a virtual classroom in which the didactic lecture material is presented in a recorded lecture before the in-person class. The in-person class, whether online or physical, is a time provided...
The United States is experiencing a paradox related to the care and support of individuals with developmental and intellectual disabilities. As diagnoses of these disabilities increase, there are not enough people to provide...
Black males are underrepresented in the teaching profession at all levels, but especially at the elementary level. The low number of Black male teachers can be attributed to low salary, low regard for the profession, perception...
Background and Review of Literature: Laryngoscopy is one of the most important skills that an airway provider performs, and recent technological advances through video laryngoscopes have changed the canvas for performing this...
Antibiotic resistant (AR) bacteria pose a serious threat to an individual’s health, and the presence of AR genes can lead to the development of “superbugs” that are resistant to currently used antibiotics. Identifying local...
The kidneys remove waste, produce hormones, and control blood pressure (BP). CKD is a disease spectrum, with stage one being least severe and stage five being the most severe often requiring dialysis.
In CKD, the kidneys...
The future and strength of the nurse anesthesia profession starts here, with this generation of doctoral nurse anesthesia students. Setting up a foundation of healthy coping skills is key to the longevity of a healthy nurse...
Neuraxial blocks are widely used by anesthesia providers in primarily orthopedic and obstetric populations. In many anesthesia programs, education surrounding regional blocks is limited to the classroom setting without thorough...
Description: A fire disaster in the hospital is anything resulting in a fire. This could result from heat-producing equipment, flammable chemicals, poor wiring, and more. Fires in the hospital can be especially dangerous as...
Maximus the Confessor’s belief that the Incarnation would have happened without a Fall is a key facet of his thought, yet contradicts portions of his corpus which state that God became human due ...
This is a textbook for first-semester Spanish with a focus on the cultural products, practices and perspectives of Spanish-speaking communities in the world today. This text is designed to build students’ cultural and...
This book provides everything STEM teachers need to use graphic novels in order to engage students, explain difficult concepts, and enrich learning. Drawing upon the latest educational research and over 60 years of combined...
The purpose of this qualitative study is to examine how principal supervisors who identify as Black develop Black principals in K-12 settings. The approaches generally include leadership activities, philosophies, and mentoring....
Background: Anesthesia providers are trained to adapt and rapidly respond to cannot intubate cannot ventilate situations based on a difficult airway algorithm. In anesthesia education, simulated events allow for effective...
Semaglutide is a prescription medication for weight loss and combating obesity. Current evidence indicates patients are regaining weight after discontinuing the medication unless diet and exercise regimens are sustained....
Sunscreen is a staple in any household and with a variety of varying brands and SPF values it can be difficult to decipher which is the best choice. UV-visible spectrophotometry is one useful analytic method to compare the...
This research project investigates lead exposure in urban areas, focusing on community gardens with lead-contaminated soils. Lead exposure causes brain damage, IQ decrease, and behavioral problems. Lead is one of the health...
In the DNA barcoding project, an investigation was conducted on commercially acquired shrimp from grocery stores with the aim of determining their origin, identifying the species, and detecting potential mislabeling. A prior...
Biologists in Arizona are working to relocate the endangered Chiricahua Leopard frogs due to heavy droughts and immense livestock grazing. The Chiricahua Leopard frogs have a similar appearance to other species of leopard...
The enzyme lactase reacts with lactose, creating glucose as a product. For some members of the human population, their body does not produce the lactase enzyme, making it difficult to digest dairy products. Environmental...
This study introduces a MATLAB-based learning tool to enhance engineering students' understanding of stress and shear forces in cantilever cylindrical beams. Utilizing graphical methods, including Mohr's Circle, the tool allows...
According to the CDC, 29.7 million people in the U.S. population had diagnosed diabetes in 2021. In addition, 352,000 children under 20 years had diagnosed diabetes as well. (Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 2023)....
Type 1 Diabetes is an autoimmune condition characterized by a deficiency in insulin due to the destruction of pancreatic β-cells. This leads to elevated blood glucose levels. The primary treatment involves daily administration...
In the late 1990s, doctors were told by pharmaceutical companies that opioid pain relievers were not addictive and that they could prescribe them freely to patients in severe pain. As a result, doctors began prescribing opioid...
Burnout: A psychological syndrome from emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and decreased personal accomplishment. Can also include cynicism (Stehman, et al., 2019).
Submitted as part of the BMS-515 Public Health and US...
The low accessibility to mental health care in the United States is a major public health problem. This poster reviews the literature on the causes and consequences associated with low accessibility to mental health care, such...
Overmedication is a very broad term with many definitions, each centering around the concept of administering too much medication(s). Though not to the point where it may be considered an overdose,...
In the United States, one of the biggest issues that every state is experiencing is the shortage in doctors. Primary Care Physicians make up a huge percentage of the shortage in doctors. The Midwest took a huge hit by this...
In recent medical history, vaccinations have facilitated the reduction/eradication of many transmissible diseases (Olusanya et al., 2021). Recently, a growing reluctance of parents to vaccinate their children is a pertinent...
The Cambridge dictionary defines work-life balance as “the amount of time you spend doing your job compared with the amount of time you spend with your family and doing things you enjoy.”
The annual increase on price of pharmaceuticals are becoming a growing health concern in the United States for patients, prescribers, and policy makers.
Why is this an issue?
• Prices of newly marketed and pre-existing...
“The legacy of slavery still shadows the American health-care system The inequalities of the health system were built in from the beginning,” said former Harvard College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds.
Organ transplantation is a surgical procedure in which a failing organ is replaced by a healthy organ .The healthy organ can come from a deceased or living donation