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The use of deicing agents during the winter months is one of many stressors that impact stream ecosystems in urban and urbanizing watersheds. In this study, a long-term data set collected by citizen scientists with the Missouri Stream Team was used to evaluate the relationships between watershed urbanization metrics and chloride metrics. Further, these data were used to explore the effects of elevated chloride concentrations on stream invertebrate communities using quantile regression.

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Nursing education transformation. Building an infrastructure for the future.

Am J Nurs

April 2015

Mary Sue Gorski is a consultant at the Center to Champion Nursing in America, Washington, DC. Tina Gerardi is deputy director of the national program office of Academic Progression in Nursing, located at the American Organization of Nurse Executives, Washington, DC. Jean Giddens is dean and professor in the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Nursing, Richmond. Donna Meyer is dean of health sciences and director of the Lewis and Clark Family Health Clinic, Lewis and Clark Community College, Godfrey, IL. Angelleen Peters-Lewis is chief nursing officer and senior vice president for patient care services at Women and Infants Hospital of Rhode Island, Providence. Contact author: Mary Sue Gorski, The authors have disclosed no potential conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise.

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National reports outlining disparities in oral health care in the United States have focused attention on ways to encourage health care providers to become more involved in the public health arena. Utilization of service-learning in professional health education programs is one method being explored. The purpose of this study was to conduct a retrospective review of a service-learning rotation within a dental hygiene public health course.

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