Saint Anselm College

About: Saint Anselm College is a education organization based out in Manchester, New Hampshire, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Nurse education & Extinction (psychology). The organization has 255 authors who have published 522 publications receiving 7222 citations.

Hooking them young: Demystifying computer science and technology among underprivileged high school students

Abstract: This paper examines three different programs to engage refugee, immigrant and underrepresented high school students for a semester-long college campus experience in the field of science, technology and computing. The college is a liberal arts college that values service to the community and is situated in Manchester NH, a refugee resettlement area. The three STEM programs are part of the Access Academy run by the college's center for community engagement. The Access Academy aims to help refugee, immigrant, and underrepresented students graduate high school, and to help them with the college application process. The STEM component is one of the four focus areas of the academy. The goal of the STEM programs is to expose the participants to science, computing, and technology and to broaden their perspective on the importance of these fields in today's world. The paper discusses three different programs: (i) Biodiversity Mapping using GPS technologies; (ii) Computer Construction; and (iii) A Computational Approach to Problem Solving. Surveys, as well as in-depth interviews were used to measure student attitude toward STEM disciplines. Although these were only preliminary surveys, most students seemed to have increased their interest in the STEM fields as well as their interest in pursuing a college degree. These programs were easy to setup and could be replicated at other institution across the country.

The evolution of professional obstetric nursing in the United States (1880′s-present): Qualitative content analysis of specialty nursing textbooks

Abstract: Background Professional maternal-newborn/obstetric nursing in the United States emerged in the mid- 19th century coinciding with the increased medical management of childbirth. Before this mothers were attended by female family members, friends, neighbors and lay nurses or midwives. Objective To trace the evolution of professional maternal-newborn/obstetric nursing since its inception, identify factors which may have influenced this evolution, and consider how this knowledge can inform current issues and challenges in caring for childbearing families. Methods Qualitative content analysis, informed by historical research methods, was used to analyze selected content from a sample of maternal-newborn/obstetric nursing textbooks published from the 1880′s to the present. Findings The last 150 years have been characterized by vast changes in medicine, technology and the healthcare system which have all influenced the evolution of professional maternal-newborn/obstetric nursing. Over the decades there has also been a significant change in the conceptualization of pregnancy/childbearing and our relative understanding of maternal and infant vulnerability. Findings revealed, however, that over time the primary focus of professional maternal-newborn/obstetric nursing care has consistently been: “protection, counseling/teaching and support” of childbearing families. In the U.S. maternal-newborn/obstetric nurses currently face many challenges including caring for an increasingly diverse patient population within a complex, technologically advanced healthcare system. This system is characterized by a high rate of cesarean section births, frequent intervention in vaginal births, disparities in access to care, and a high rate of preventable morbidity and mortality. Conclusions Since its origins the nursing profession has matured and nursing's allegience is now clearly to patients and society Today's nurses have the opportunity to play a key role in advocating for healthcare reform which would allow for less interference in the natural birth process, maximize patient outcomes, decrease inequities, and make comprehensive care for all mothers and infants a national priority.

Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and the Racialization of Attitudes Toward Descriptive Representation:

Abstract: Who is most likely to consider diverse representation desirable? Previous literature typically emphasizes the importance of partisanship and group identity congruence (i.e., women representing wome...

Introduction: Anita Brookner in the World

Abstract: Anita Brookner has enjoyed several successful careers—as a British academic teaching art history at the Courtauld Institute and Cambridge University, as a scholar writing on French Romanticism, and, most notably, as a novelist. Since 1981, she has published twenty-five novels, with the latest of these appearing in 2009, and every one of them has found readers on both sides of the Atlantic. Despite the acclaim she has received (including Britain’s coveted Booker Prize) and the diverse audiences she has attracted, she has often been described in print, by journalists and critics alike, as a writer whose concerns are narrow and whose talents are those of a miniaturist. Much of this characterization has borne with it a taint of gender bias, expressed through adjectives such as “limited” and even “spinsterish” that traditionally have plagued the careers of women novelists. The year 2008 saw the arrival of her eightieth birthday, a milestone that seemed to call out for a new appraisal of her achievements and a new framework in which to evaluate them in order to bring attention to the unacknowledged breadth and ambition of her fiction. With that end in mind, the three of us—feminist academics specializing in women’s literature and, moreover, unapologetic admirers of Brookner’s novels—began the process by proposing a special session for the 2008 Modern Language Association convention held in San Francisco. This collaborative effort— the first MLA panel ever devoted to her work—took as its title “Anita Brookner in the World: Relocating the Writer at Eighty.” Our intention was not merely to celebrate Brookner’s long career but to recontextualize it. Through our papers, we would reconsider some of the standard ways in which she has been categorized—as a novelist of manners, a psychological realist, and a creator of tragi-comic romances. But most of all, we would re-examine the assumption that hers was a narrow set of interests, realized in a small and claustrophobic fictional sphere. Ultimately, we chose to reframe her work by looking at its engagement with the larger worlds of geography, politics, history, culture, and media. The figure who emerged from this conversation was not an English miniaturist but a transnational writer, crossing borders of gender and genre, as well as of place and location, and addressing expansively the most serious questions of morality, social justice, and art.