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Reducing Outpatient Antibiotic Resistance: A Quasi-Experimental Study
(2017)
Approximately 50% of antibiotics prescribed are not necessary, nevertheless in the United States
among the many outpatient prescriptions, few are more widely prescribed than antibiotics. The
inappropriate use of ...
Discourse structure as the scaffolding of stance structure : developments of a central concept in a central site of discursive interaction in bioethics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
This study explored how a major concept and principle in the interdisciplinary area of bioethics, respect for autonomy, changed across the first and the seventh editions of the textbook Principles of Biomedical Ethics by ...
Human factors, automation, and alerting mechanisms in nursing home electronic health records
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
The objective was to evaluate a clinical decision support system in an electronic medical record (EMR) to determine activation frequencies, patterns of activity, and how automated alerting mechanisms affect clinical responses ...
Caricature as the record of medical history in eighteenth-century London
(2013)
This thesis examines two disparate developments that began in sixteenth-century
Renaissance Italy and converged in almost inconceivable ways in eighteenth-century
London. One of these developments was the public study ...
Making the Connection: J.B. Murray and the Scripts and Forms of Africa
(2016)
This dissertation focuses on the artwork of J.B. Murray, an African American artist
from Mitchell, Georgia. The goal of this dissertation is to explore J.B. Murray’s production
of protective scripts and spirit figures. ...
The roles of client religion, counselor religiosity, and spiritual competence in counselors' clinical judgment
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-07-15)
The present study explored the roles that clients' religious beliefs, therapists'
spiritual/religious beliefs, and therapists' attitudes toward spirituality and religion may play in
how therapists conceptualize a prospective ...
More than a river: using nature for reform in the progressive era
(2013)
how progressives looked to nature as a tool of social reform. Each of these men understood the American environment in multiple contexts. Nostalgia and romanticized Missouri River history activated themes of empire, race, and manhood in Neihardt’s work...
Press coverage of lynchings in Missouri : an analysis of the newspaper coverage of black and white lynchings between 1882 and 1942
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
Beginning in 1882, Missouri communities experienced a wave of lynchings that would not subside until 1942. The lynchings that took place in Missouri initially affected both White and Black males accused of crimes. In ...
Concealed authorship on the eve of the revolution : pseudonymity and the American periodical public sphere, 1766-1776
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
Concealed authorship played a vital role in the critical ten years prior to American independence. Authors utilized printers as cover to publish political essays seditious and disruptive to British authority. Pseudonymity, in particular, was useful...
An Ethnographic Case Study Examining the Experiences of African American Students with Nonresident Fathers
(2022)
The purpose of this ethnographic case study was to identify influences that replace the presence of Black fathers with children living in non-paternal homes. For my research investigation, influence was defined as people ...
The lived experience of nurse mentors : mentoring nurses in the profession
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
This qualitative study explored the lived experience of 13 nurse mentors in various practice settings, specialties, and roles. Additional findings included understanding facilitative practices, obstacles, and benefits of ...
The use of cognitive enhancing substances and academic stress
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This study investigated relationships between reported academic stress, caffeine consumption, and illicit prescription stimulant use, as a means of ...
Fatigue-recovery simulation model to analyze the impact of nursing activities on fatigue level in an intensive care unit
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
activities that impact the nurses' average fatigue level in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Nurses' time-study and real-time location data have been used to develop a simulation model in two different periods: February to March 2020 and July 2020. Two...
Mizzou Nursing, 2006 Spring
(University of Missouri -- Columbia. School of Nursing., 2006)
Castor oil and orange juice: how John H. Johnson fed news to black America
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
In the mid-1940s, publisher John H. Johnson did not like the image of African Americans that was projected by mainstream, white-owned media. He felt the image constructed was too limited and stereotypical. He also felt that the news in those...
Forgetting strength : Coffeyville, the black freedom struggle, and the vanishing of memory
(2013)
of the riot, occupation, and trial in their wrap-ups of the year's events. This thesis uses the lens of the Coffeyville riot to argue that African American activism in Kansas flourished because of the state's unique history. While never an egalitarian racial...
Power in the garden : exploring the lives of Missouri farm women and their vegetable gardens during the Great Depression
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
was primarily the responsibility of the farm woman, was an engine that helped many rural families pull through tough economic times. The home vegetable garden is an ideal place from which to explore women's agency, because it is not only a gendered site...
Without a sword or a shield: the fighting army behind Brown
(2021)
were positive and some not, but seventy years after the initial court decision in 1954, the quality of American public education is questionable, and the sacrifices the original families made are at risk of being for naught....
The experience of young adults living with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
The purpose of this interpretive phenomenological study was to explore and interpret the experience of young adults living with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) who were diagnosed by a physician at least six months prior to the study...
"Send only your serious cases" : delivering flu to Toronto: an anthropological analysis of the 1918-19 influenza epidemic in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
This project looks at the 1918-19 pandemic influenza experience in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Based on historical records (most notably death registries and archival material) this work strives to understand the social, ...