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Helping those in need is a moral imperative, not necessarily a religious one How did Harold Lerass come to believe self-sacrifice is a moral imperative, not just a religious one? In this world, there are many people who need help, and for PLU student Harold…
subscribe to any faith, but if you were to label him, the best term may be humanist. “I don’t think you have to be religious to be moral,” Leraas said. Whether it’s Gandhi, Buddha or Christ, the approach of self-sacrifice to help others is a mission Leraas believes more people should adhere to. The pre-med major has spent time overseas in Trinidad and Tobago, as well as Mali. In Mali, he worked in a Leprosy clinic. The disease may be something of a rarity in the U.S., but in a third-world country it’s
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Assistant Professor of Nursing | School of Nursing | kayla.harvey@plu.edu | 253.535.7672 | After many years of experience as a pediatric nurse practitioner in the critical and acute care setting, I have expanded my practice into research in order to better understand and support families during a pediatric hospitalization. I enjoy sharing my clinical experience and researcher insight as faculty working with nursing students at PLU. Education PhD: University of Washington, Doctor of Nursing Science Masters of Science in Nursing (MSN): University of California, San Francisco, Pediatric Primary Care/Critical Care Nursing Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN): University of Florida, Gainesville, BSN Teaching Areas Lead faculty for NURS 360, Nursing Research course, Baccalaureate program, School of Nursing, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington. Lead faculty for NURS 702, Nursing Informatics course, Doctoral program, School of Nursing, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington. Pediatric clinical instructor NURS 380, Baccalaureate program, School of Nursing, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington. Scholarly Interests My current research interests include exploring the psychological sequelae of the pediatric medical traumatic stress of a hospitalization on parents and young children and examining the function of the attachment system in the presence of a life-threatening event. Current Practice Part-time faculty for the BSN and DNP programs at PLU.
, A. Journal of Pediatric Nursing (2018) 43: 9–15. (Principle Investigator). Experiences of mothers of infants with congenital heart disease before, during, and after complex cardiac surgery. Harvey, KA, Kovlalesky, A, Woods, RK, Loan, LA. Journal of Heart & Lung (2013) Nov-Dec;42(6):399-406. Epub 2013 Sep 21. (Principle Investigator) Presentations Abstract Poster Presentation. What do parents expect regarding their child’s comfort after heart surgery? Western Institute of Nursing, Annual
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To begin with, water is the world’s most essential resource. Every living being needs water; not one species can survive without it.
the Arctic are melting and breaking off. On land, people – especially women and children – travel great distances to collect the water their families need. However, the water they collect is too often polluted and leads to disease; thus women and children bear the brunt of the diseases carried in dirty water. It is said contaminated water contributes to the death of 15 million pre-school age children per year. It is like wiping out a country the size of Canada every three years. Regionally, fish
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The Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) core coursework focuses on client-centered clinical practice, and prepares nurses to respond to the needs of today's and tomorrow's health care consumers, to
Family Nurse Practitioner RolesThe Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) core coursework focuses on client-centered clinical practice, and prepares nurses to respond to the needs of today’s and tomorrow’s health care consumers, to manage direct care based on advanced assessment and diagnostic reasoning, to incorporate health promotion and disease prevention interventions into health care delivery. The Family Nurse Practitioner cares for the whole family, throughout the lifespan. There is a well
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....an experience I'll carry with me through my entire writing life and it's shaped me in ways I'm only beginning to understand.
. Erin Hollowell received the Rona Jaffe Foundation Scholarship in Poetry to the Bread Loaf Writers Conference for Summer, 2010. Casey Fuller has been awarded the 2010 Jeanne Lohmann Poetry Prize, a statewide prize for Washington State poets. (NB: Boyd Benson was the winner in 2009.) Rick Dakan’s new novel, The Cthulhu Cult: A Novel of Lovecraftian Obsession, is now out and available at Amazon.com. Holly Hughes’ anthology, Beyond Forgetting: Poetry and Prose about Alzheimer’s Disease, was selected
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The School of Nursing's conceptual frameworks, undergraduate and graduate, are guided by the mission of PLU and the mission of the School of Nursing.
right to access health care and to participate fully in decisions affecting their health, quality of life, well-being, and/or quality of death. Persons have significant impact on their health through their life choices. Supporting the optimal health of persons includes disease prevention and promoting healthy lifestyle behaviors, regardless of clinical diagnosis. PLU’s Undergraduate Conceptual Framework At the baccalaureate level, the professional relationship between person and nurse is the health
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Elizabeth Kaley, Senior Capstone Seminar With the rapid industrialization and heavy reliance on fossil fuels the concentration of Carbon dioxide (CO2) in the Earth’s atmosphere has exponentially
Poster Session (Morken Atrium)3:30-3:45 - Break3:45 pm - Keynote Speaker (Morken 103):Medical Imaging: Progress towards early diagnosis, minimal invasive therapies, and personalized treatment. David L. Coy (’90), MD PhD Department of Radiology, Digestive Disease Institute & Cancer Institute, Virginia Mason Medical Center; Affiliate Assistant Professor of Radiology, University of Washington Since the first use of X-rays to produce anatomic radiographs over 100 years ago, medical imaging has developed
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The PLU School of Nursing offers a Post Graduate Nurse Practitioner Certificate for two advanced practice specialty areas, Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) and Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse
Education The American Psychiatric Nurses Association The Family Nurse Practitioner specialty focuses on client-centered clinical practice, and prepares nurses to respond to the needs of today’s and tomorrow’s health care consumers, to manage direct care based on advanced assessment and diagnostic reasoning, to incorporate health promotion and disease prevention interventions into health care delivery, and to recognize their potential for professional growth, responsibility, and autonomy. Successful
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A student messaged me on my Facebook page the other day with an article on college rating systems. Along with messaging her back my response, I thought to share my opinion here with you. Hi President Krise, I’m eager to hear your thoughts on this…
most famous to the most focused on local needs–indicates that this is a risky proposal. America has the world’s finest system of higher education–no one else comes close. Imposing a rankings system tied to funding is almost certain to weaken one of our strongest sectors of society. Two books that are worth reading to understand why highly trained personal services like higher education, health care, legal services, and live performances cost what they cost are: The Cost Disease by William Baumol
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Check out this panel discussion from International Education Week at PLU, featuring representatives from all of the Wang Center's Gateway locations!
September 30th’s class.Class Readings: John of Ephesus Cyprian of Carthage Reflection questions: Cyprian writes, ‘And further, beloved brethren, what is it, what a great thing is it, how pertinent, how necessary, that pestilence and plague which seems horrible and deadly, searches out the righteousness of each one.’ His thesis is that an individual’s unique response to pain and suffering, disease and death is a test of faithfulness to one’s ideology and an indication of one’s character, and this is an
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