202 results match your criteria: "Endicott College[Affiliation]"

Value-based care has incrementally increased its footprint across healthcare over the past 2 decades. Several organizations in ABA have begun experimenting with various components of value-based care specific to the delivery of ABA services and it seems likely that this trend will continue into the future. For those new to value-based care, this article reviews the main conceptual components as well as common myths and misconceptions about value-based care.

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Objectives: Chronic pain (CP) significantly impacts emotional and physical well-being and overall quality of life across diverse populations in the United States (U.S.).

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Sensor networks generate vast amounts of data in real-time, which challenges existing predictive maintenance frameworks due to high latency, energy consumption, and bandwidth requirements. This research addresses these limitations by proposing an edge-cloud hybrid framework, leveraging edge devices for immediate anomaly detection and cloud servers for in-depth failure prediction. A K-Nearest Neighbors (KNNs) model is deployed on edge devices to detect anomalies in real-time, reducing the need for continuous data transfer to the cloud.

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Objectives: The aims of this study were to 1) categorize and quantify the most frequent concerns of informal caregivers, 2) conduct a thematic analysis on a sample of the posts, and 3) examine a subset of 100 post responses to determine if they are supportive and evidence- based.

Method: For Aims 1 and 2, we used a qualitative descriptive design using content analysis. To address Aim 3, we used a Delphi method in a subset sample of responses to posts to determine if they were supportive or not and evidence-based or not.

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Introduction: The current study examined the relationships between neighborhood risk, perceived ethnic-racial discrimination, and depressive symptoms among rural Latinx adolescents. We also tested for potential moderation effects of ethnic-racial identity (ERI) and how these associations differ by gender.

Methods: Interviewer-administered surveys were used to collect quantitative data for this cross-sectional study in 2017.

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Among the developmental milestones related to language and communication in early childhood, one that has been the subject of considerable research is response to name (RTN). Delayed or absent RTN in early childhood is a diagnostic marker for autism spectrum disorder and a target behavior in many early intervention curricula. This article describes two related studies.

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  • The paper discusses a method to improve gait management through integrating IoT and machine learning with ankle-foot orthosis (AFO) devices, aimed at providing better support for individuals with walking difficulties.
  • It entails equipping smart AFOs with sensors to gather muscle activity and movement data, which is then analyzed using various machine learning techniques to detect different walking phases.
  • Results show that a Transformer model accurately predicts walking phases with 98.97% accuracy, allowing for personalized care recommendations and enabling continuous monitoring by physicians and patients.
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Euthyroid sick syndrome predicts the risk of ischemic stroke-associated pneumonia in the acute stage of ischemic stroke: a nested case-control study.

Front Endocrinol (Lausanne)

November 2024

Department of Neurology, The Quzhou Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Quzhou People's Hospital, Quzhou, Zhejiang, China.

Article Synopsis
  • Ischemic stroke-associated pneumonia (iSAP) affects around 10% of stroke patients during their hospital stay, highlighting the need for better predictive tools as current scales are ineffective.
  • This study analyzed 1,767 acute ischemic stroke patients to assess the predictive value of euthyroid sick syndrome (ESS) as a biomarker for iSAP, finding that older age and comorbidities like atrial fibrillation and COPD increase the risk.
  • Results indicate that ESS is a significant predictor of iSAP, with a sensitivity of 35.64% and specificity of 87.92%, suggesting its potential use in identifying at-risk stroke patients early on.
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Cloud IaaS Optimization Using Machine Vision at the IoT Edge and the Grid Sensing Algorithm.

Sensors (Basel)

October 2024

Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan-si 38541, Republic of Korea.

Article Synopsis
  • Security grids utilizing HD IoT cameras are increasingly popular for perimeter surveillance, but they face challenges with high bandwidth and storage needs for cloud video transmission.
  • This paper introduces a Machine Vision at the IoT Edge (Mez) technology combined with a Grid Sensing (GRS) algorithm to reduce cloud resource costs, showing a 31.29% decrease in bandwidth and 22.43% in storage.
  • The system optimizes video frame processing and automatically ranks bandwidth needs of IoT nodes to enhance overall efficiency and minimize resource usage.
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In recent times, automated detection of diseases from pathological images leveraging Machine Learning (ML) models has become fairly common, where the ML models learn detecting the disease by identifying biomarkers from the images. However, such an approach requires the models to be trained on a vast amount of data, and healthcare organizations often tend to limit access due to privacy concerns. Consequently, collecting data for traditional centralized training becomes challenging.

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Nurse Educators.

Am J Nurs

October 2024

Jessica Ochs is a professor at the Endicott College Cummings School of Nursing and Health Sciences in Beverly, MA. Contact author: . The author has disclosed no potential conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise.

They teach knowledge and skills while fostering clinical reasoning.

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Safety is a significant clinical challenge in settings serving adults with developmental disabilities. Few resources exist to guide clinical teams in this realm; this study explored safety elements through interviews with experts in critical areas of safety management. The present study aimed to gather knowledge and insights regarding assessing risk among individuals with disabilities.

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The current study compared the effects of interteaching and discussion forum activities on quiz and assignment scores in a master's-level asynchronous research methods course. In an alternating-treatments design, six participants engaged in interteaching on half of the weeks and in the discussion forum on alternate weeks. Participants in the interteaching condition (M = 96.

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Sustainable sojourns: Fostering sustainable hospitality practices to meet UN-SDGs.

PLoS One

July 2024

Endicott College of International Studies, Woosong University, Daejeon, Republic of Korea.

This research discusses the significance of environmental transformational leadership (ENTL) in the creation of energy-saving sustainable behaviors (EESB) among employees in the tourism and hospitality sector of China. The method is consequently a quantitative analysis, where the mediating effect of green intrinsic motivation (GNIM) and green passion (GRP), and the moderating role of green altruism (GNA) are examined to understand their influence on the relationship between ENTL and EESB. The data were gathered from multiple hotels in major Chinese cities, with the use of a structured questionnaire.

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Background: Chronic illness diagnosis while living in low resourced communities creates ongoing adversity in the process of adaptation. Resilience is an important phenomenon of study to improve health outcomes. The subject in this particular population has been poorly studied.

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Embracing the Growth Mindset: Shifting From Pass or Fail to Pass or Practice in Practice Assessments.

Nurse Educ

July 2024

By Allison Hamner, MSN, RN, CNE, Endicott College, Beverly, Massachusetts, Rachael Salguero, PhD, RN-BC, CNEcl, MGH Institute of Health Professions, Boston, Massachusetts, Bethany Nasser, PhD, RN, CNE, Endicott College, Beverly, Massachusetts, and Cheryl Williams, PhD, RN, CNE, NP-C, Salem State University, Salem, Massachusetts,

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A Correlational Study Measuring Burnout and Resilience Among Nurse Educators.

Nurs Educ Perspect

June 2024

About the Authors Jessica Ochs, DNP, APRN, ANP-BC, FNP-BC, CNE, FNAP, is a professor, Endicott College Cummings School of Nursing, Beverly, Massachusetts. Cynthia Mitsakis, PhD, RN, CEN, CNE, is an associate professor, Endicott College Cummings School of Nursing. Richard Ochberg, PhD, is an adjunct professor, Salem State University, Salem, Massachusetts. For more information, contact Dr. Ochs at .

Burnout, one possible cause of the nurse faculty shortage, may be mitigated by resilience. This study found that faculty who scored unusually low in resilience were likely to feel emotionally exhausted and depersonalized; however, even those with average scores in resilience were likely to feel emotionally exhausted, if not depersonalized. These findings suggest that interventions that increase resilience may reduce the frequency of the most severe burnout profiles among nurse educators.

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  • The study addresses the lack of research on teaching menstrual care skills, particularly for individuals with autism spectrum disorder and other disabilities, aiming to evaluate existing literature.
  • A literature review following PRISMA guidelines identified only 7 relevant studies over 40 years, mostly lacking rigor according to What Works Clearinghouse standards, with only one study achieving the highest rating.
  • The findings emphasize the challenges in developing effective interventions for menstrual care and aim to guide future researchers in conducting high-quality studies while being respectful and effective in their programming.
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Microaggressions in Nursing.

Am J Nurs

May 2024

Christine Frazer is senior core MSN faculty at Walden University, Lois Lopez is a faculty development specialist at Chamberlain University, Ashley Graham-Perel is an assistant professor of nursing at Columbia University in New York City, Jessica Ochs is a professor of nursing at Endicott College in Beverly, MA, Natalie Pool is an associate professor at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, Denise Land is an academic coordinator and DBA faculty at Walden University, and Sonique Sailsman is an assistant professor at Mercer University in Atlanta. Contact author: Christine Frazer, . The authors have disclosed no potential conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise.

How to address these behaviors to promote health equity and inclusion.

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Nurse Leader Mindfulness Pilot Impact on Perceived Stress: A Quality Improvement Project.

Nurs Adm Q

April 2024

Author Affiliations: Endicott College, Cummings School of Nursing & Health Sciences, Beverly, Massachusetts (Dr Buckley) and MGH Institute of Health Professions, School of Nursing, Boston, Massachusetts (Dr Sipe).

The recent COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated pre-existing stressful conditions in health care, further elevating the risk of negative health outcomes for nurses and particularly nurse leaders. The aim of this pilot project was to assess the efficacy of mindfulness practices in attenuating nurse leaders' perceived stress levels. There is a lack of evidence regarding the outcomes of stress reduction programs aimed at health care staff, especially for nurse leaders within the clinical setting.

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly a part of our everyday lives. Though much AI work in healthcare has been outside of applied behavior analysis (ABA), researchers within ABA have begun to demonstrate many different ways that AI might improve the delivery of ABA services. Though AI offers many exciting advances, absent from the behavior analytic literature thus far is conversation around ethical considerations when developing, building, and deploying AI technologies.

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The Promises and Possibilities of Artificial Intelligence in the Delivery of Behavior Analytic Services.

Behav Anal Pract

March 2024

Department of Behavioral Science, Daemen University, 4380 Main Street, Amherst, NY USA.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has begun to affect nearly every aspect of our daily lives and nearly every industry and profession. Many readers of this journal likely work in one or more areas of behavioral health. For readers who work in behavioral health and who are interested in AI, the purpose of this article is to highlight the pervasiveness of AI research being conducted around many facets of behavioral health service delivery.

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A growing body of research suggests that, compared with single parent-child attachment relationships, child developmental outcomes may be better understood by examining the configurations of child-mother and child-father attachment relationships (i.e., attachment networks).

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