Dominican Scholarly Reflective Report

The Dominican Scholarly and Creative works Conference was quite interesting. All the students I talked to are very intelligent with some interesting final thesis’s and capstone projects. They were also very enthusiastic when I approached their projects. In addition, they were very knowledgeable on their subjects giving me all their details on their projects. I would like to add that people who have not taken statistic are unable to understand their evidence because most of the data was explained by using numbers.

The first project I listened to was by Laura Tennant, her experiment tested if the classroom had a visible indoor plant in view, it would reduce stress, reduce mental fatigue and improve performance on cognitive test. She had a control

This feeling is called the acculturation process. It is a psychological change when they come into contact with a different culture. She concluded that college immigrant students experience high levels of acculturative stress with no social support. The study implies that there is a relationship between social supports to acculturative stress levels. Additionally, there are some limitations because all the information came from only Dominican University. In this study, social support was perceived only as family and friends. Support can also come from the community as well. As a student I do feel stressed about school and social support means a lot to me. Their support has meant the world to me and they have pushed me to strive for the best. I feel this study should go more in-depth and hopefully more people will understand social support is important in student’s

The hypothesis was “emergency department nurses who work a non-traditional of above 40 hours or more are proven to be susceptible to medical errors and prone to fatigue which can compromise patient’s safety and their own”. Interestingly enough, the project was not their own study but really other sources like Dominican University’s databases like Iceberg. PubMed, Academic Search Complete, and Archive Grid. Jerrymi Mendoza and Nima Tso found nurses work overtime are 3X more likely to make medical errors. In conclusion, health care system should provide enough staffing to handle the high workloads in the emergency department. Another way to avoid this problem is to implement laws to regulate how many hours nurse can work per week. Sleep is important and sleep deprivations lead to many errors that a nurse can make. Nurses should be reeducated on the importance of sleep and fatigue related problems and their impacts on patient safety and medical errors. The last one I saw was titled “Gender Differences in Choice to Attend College for Hispanic Families” by Stephany Ortiz. The first hypothesis is Hispanic males will be encouraged to attend college if the male parent has low life satisfaction. The second hypothesis is Hispanics females will be encouraged to attend college independent of the life satisfaction of either parent. Her method to get participants was by social media and