Acculturation strategies as predictors of fandom identification in the fanfiction, fan, and furry communities.

Research suggests that people at the interface of two different cultures may face a dilemma regarding how or whether to adopt aspects of the new culture in light of their existing cultural identity. A growing body of research in fan communities suggests that similar group processes may operate in recreational, volitional identities. We tested this by examining the associations between acculturation attitudes and identification with fan communities across three studies.

How Sanctuary Chimpanzees () Use Space after Being Introduced to a Large Outdoor Habitat.

Wild chimpanzees live in large, mixed-sex groups that display a fission-fusion social organization. To provide a social environment more like that of wild chimpanzees, Chimp Haven integrated smaller groups of 3-4 individuals into one large group of 18 individuals. This large group was introduced to a 20,234.

Aggressive, Submissive, and Affiliative Behavior in Sanctuary Chimpanzees (Pan Troglodytes) During Social Integration.

Chimp Haven is a sanctuary for chimpanzees being retired from biomedical research and from facilities that can no longer care for them. Chimpanzees often live in smaller groups in captive settings; however, Chimp Haven integrates them into larger, more species-typical groups. Social integrations, the process of introducing unfamiliar chimpanzees to one another, are often complex in terms of logistics and can be stressful due to the territorial nature of the animals, reduced space in captivity, and the fact that these situations are engineered by humans.

"Chasing Tail": Testing the Relative Strength of Sexual Interest and Social Interaction as Predictors of Furry Identity.

Furries can be described as a mediacentric fandom, similar to other fandoms, which organizes around an interest in anthropomorphic art. Past research has also aimed to highlight and understand the sexual motivations of furries, leading to questions regarding the relative strength of fandom and sexual motivations for joining and maintaining membership within the group. The goal of the present study was to test the relative contributions sex- and fandom-related motivations (e.

Nursing Students' Home Care Learning Delivered in an Innovative 360-Degree Immersion Experience.

Background: Health care is delivered to patients in the community, frequently in their own homes. New graduates need to be prepared for this unique nursing role to care for patients in the home health setting.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to assess student satisfaction with an innovative pedagogy to teach home health nursing using an immersion experience.

Measuring the value of a digital supplemental resource.

Supplemental resources in science education are made available to students based on the belief that they will improve course-based student learning. This belief is ubiquitous, with supplemental resources being a traditional component of physiology education. In addition, the recent large-scale transition to remote learning caused by the Covid-19 pandemic suggests an increased relevance and necessity of digital versions of supplemental resources.

Digital Feast and Physical Famine: The Altered Ecosystem of Anatomy Education due to the Covid-19 Pandemic.

This article explores the effects of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic on the evolution of both physical and digital cadavers within the unique ecosystem of the anatomy laboratory. A physical cadaver is a traditional and established learning tool in anatomy education, whereas a digital cadaver is a relatively recent phenomenon. The Covid-19 pandemic presented a major disturbance and disruption to all levels and types of education, including anatomy education.

Escape Room Teaching Pedagogy in the Didactic Learning Environment for Nursing.

Background: Nursing students are diverse in their levels of experience, preferred teaching styles, and levels of engagement. This poses a challenge for nurse educators to deliver meaningful classroom activities.

Problem: Learning activities should promote analysis of data in the classroom that translates into the clinical practice arena.

Adjunct Nurse Faculty Demographics and Intent to Stay Teaching.

Adjunct nurse educators have become a primary facilitator of students' clinical learning in nursing education. However, studies are lacking as to variables that correlate with their intent to stay teaching. This study examined demographic variables that had an impact on adjunct clinical educators' decisions about whether to leave a teaching position in an associate degree nursing program.

Promotion of Nursing Student Civility in Nursing Education: A Concept Analysis.

Purpose: Substantive research into the development of civility within nursing education is long overdue. Behaviors learned by nursing students while in the school of nursing transfer to the work environment and culture of nursing. This paper reveals a concept analysis of civility within nursing education using Rodgers' evolutionary concept analysis method.

'More than skin-deep': biological essentialism in response to a distinctiveness threat in a stigmatized fan community.

We investigated how group distinctiveness threats affect essentialist beliefs about group membership in a stigmatized fan community. An experiment conducted on 817 members of the fan community revealed that highly identified fans who perceived significant stigmatization were the most likely to endorse essentialist beliefs about group membership when exposed to a distinctiveness threat via comparison to a highly similar (vs. dissimilar) outgroup.

Nursing student clinical shift completion as a predictor of NCLEX failure.

As competition for clinical sites increases, hospitals and nursing schools report the use of nontraditional student placements such as one 12-hour clinical shift; that was an option offered by the author's school. The author discusses implementation of 12-hour shifts and compared NCLEX fail rates of students on one 12-hour shift with students who had 2 weekly 6-hour shifts.

A group orientation model for new graduate nurses.

A local hospital implemented a unique, fiscally resourceful orientation strategy constructed by a nursing faculty professor designed to accommodate the needs of the graduate nurse (GN) in making the transition from academia to practice. The nurse faculty provided a reliable "hands-on" small group orientation to four new graduates simultaneously. This group orientation strategy provided these GNs with a preceptor, mentor, and role model to assist in their transition.

The child-centered social worker and the sexually abused child: pathway to healing.

The prosecution of child sexual abuse cases continues to be an area in which there is a strain between the judicial system and the social work profession; the former is predominately interested in the conviction of the accused and the later is primarily interested in the protection of the child's emotional well-being. In an effort to assist the sexually abused child throughout the court process, the authors propose the concept of a child-centered social worker committed to minimizing the potential for system-induced trauma by assisting the sexually abused child through the judicial process and providing clinical treatment as well.

Puerto Rican cultural beliefs: influence on infant feeding practices in western New York.

The purpose of this study was to examine the cultural beliefs and practices of Puerto Rican families that influence feeding practices and affect the nutritional status of infants and young children. The goal of the study was to outline strategies that would enable nurses to provide culturally congruent care for this population. Culture care theory guided the research, and an ethnonursing methodology was used.