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Resolution congratulating Dr. Chester T. McNerney on his hiring as president of Edinboro State College, April 4, 1967.

The American Nurses Association (ANA) published their position on Education for Nursing in 1965. This paper defined professional nursing and technical nursing as the two levels of nursing. The minimal educational preparation for professional nursing should be the bachelors degree in nursing. An associate degree in nursing should be the minimal requirement for the practice of technical nursing. The position paper advocated phasing out diploma education for registered nurses. It acknowledged practical nursing as a growing occupational trend and proposed replacing programs for practical nursing with programs for technical nursing., Copyrights are retained by the author. Please contact Sheila Warner for further use of this material.

6 X 10 cm sepia carte de visite of Pheneas Meacham. Written on the back is "Pheneas Meacham, Simeon, father of Edwin 80 years old. Stamped on the back is, "WM. H. Van Dyke Photographer Edinboro, Erie Co. PA"

This thesis will provide a general background of how women musicians, both Caucasian and African-American, were subject to idealized standards of beauty and gender prejudice within their profession as musicians. Monographs by Fauser, Sullivan, Jones, Lang, and Tucker will be analyzed to provide readers with a complete picture of the current state of historiography concerning music of the World War II era and its importance to American culture. Real life examples of how women were forced into patriarchal norms within their work environments will add credence to the concept that song narrative story lines served an integral purpose in perpetuating patriarchal gendered standards during World War II. Song storylines will then be analyzed to demonstrate that it was a vital medium by which patriarchal standards of gender were demonstrated to men and women who were exposed to music regardless of race. However, tropes for African-American women differed from those of their white counterparts. This thesis will address their unique challenges performed by a sample of African-American women artists., Copyrights are retained by the author. Please contact Sarah Gaudioso for further use of this material.

Annual Security and Safety Report, 2015.

Booklets containing information on courses and continuing education held at Porreco Center, a satellite campus of Edinboro University in Erie PA. All extant material is preserved digitally at

Certificate proclaiming Edinboro State College Appreciation Week, February 1982.

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Published: 1914, Description: 1 score (5 pages) ; 34 cm; Geographic: United States.; Note(s): For voice and piano./ Caption title./ Cover illustration by Starmer./ First line of text: There's a farm upon a hill, down in Maine./ First line of chorus: Where the honeysuckle vine.; Responsibility: lyrics by Seymour Brown ; music by Albert Gumble.; Entry: 19921015; Update: 20160422

This record group includes class schedules, school bulletins, HEGIS reports and admissions studies. For the years 1915-1932 the school bulletins (catalogs) were distributed in the June Edinboro Quarterly. This was a publication of the Alumni Office and are included in that record group. They are included in this series as shared documents. This digital repository contains school catalogs and commencement programs., The earliest mention of the Office of Registrar is in the 1912-13 catalog for Edinboro State Normal School. It appears the duties of the registrar at this time did not include accepting tuition payments, as it did later. The 1913-14 catalog instructed that the President accepted payments on behalf of the board. Starting in the 1930s, the office accepted tuition payments, as well as did the scheduling. The registrar’s office and Dean of Instruction office were combined in 1938. The Fall 1981 student directory shows the Registrar’s office changing departments. Up to this time, the Registrar’s office had been under the head academic officer. As of Fall 1981, the Registrar was under the Dean of Graduate Studies and Academic Administration. In 1987, Graduate Studies separated from Academic Administration. The Registrar’s office stayed under Academic Administration. The title changed in 1991 to Coordinator of Scheduling and a new position was created for Coordinator of Records.

Background: Hyperoxia is known to be detrimental in healthcare, yet it continues to be a problem in mechanically ventilated patients. Oxygen weaning protocols have been discussed in many studies that have evaluated various outcome measures with mixed findings. A study completed by Cuevas et al. (2020) evaluated respiratory therapists' compliance with an oxygen weaning protocol. The conclusions of this study found that the protocol was often not followed. At a level II trauma hospital tertiary care hospital in three ICUs, patients' FIO2s were not being weaned in a timely manner. Due to the previous research on the risks of hyperoxia and poor outcomes, a conservative oxygen weaning protocol was developed. The aim of this study was to assess if implementing a conservative oxygen weaning protocol would improve oxygen weaning times in mechanically ventilated patients compared to the current oxygen weaning practice. Methods: Out weaning program evaluation was completed using the PARISH framework and Lewin’s change theory to evaluate and implement evidence-based practice. This evaluation was conducted using quantitative, retrospective, consecutive sampling; a quasi-experimental methodology was used to compare the current oxygen weaning group (before intervention group) and a conservative oxygen weaning group (after intervention group) in three ICUs at a level II trauma tertiary care hospital. Intervention: A conservative oxygen weaning protocol was developed and implemented in three ICUs at one medical center. Mechanically ventilated patients with a P/F ratio is ≥ 150 qualified for the oxygen weaning protocol. The weaning pathways are determined by the PaO2 on the ABG. After the initial FIO2 wean, the SpO2 will be used for FIO2 weaning. FIO2 weaning will be continued as long as the SpO2 level is ≥ 4% of the ordered goal SpO2 until the FIO2 is 0.3. Results: The current oxygen weaning group had 34 patients, and the conservative oxygen weaning group had 18 patients that met the inclusion criteria. Both groups had non-normal distribution. The current oxygen group had a p-value= 1.827e-08 and the conservative oxygen group had a p-value= 6.213e-06. Mann-Whitney U test was completed, and the result was a p-value = 0.05735. Therefore, there was no statistically significant finding that the implementation of the conservative oxygen weaning protocol improved oxygen weaning times. Though there was no statistical significance, the conservative oxygen weaning groups did show improvement in weaning time. Conclusions: The statistical findings for improvement in oxygen weaning time to 0.3 with the implementation of a conservative oxygen therapy protocol showed no statistical significance. Evaluating the conservative oxygen weaning groups' data showed improvement in weaning times. Further research is needed on the implementation of a conservative oxygen therapy protocol to evaluate the improvement of FIO2 weaning times in mechanically ventilated patients, as well as the effectiveness of consistent weaning protocols with staff compliance., Copyrights are retained by the author. Please contact Colleen Sansoucie for further use of this material.

Patients presenting for surgical procedures must meet specific criteria in order to be deemed ready for surgery. Same-day surgical delays and cancellations often occur due to patients’ inability to follow preoperative instructions. The goal of this quality improvement project was to decrease the number of same-day surgical delay/cancellation occurrences due to patient nonadherence of preoperative instructions. The Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) Cycle was used in order to test an intervention on a smaller scale in order to determine if it leads to improvement. An evidence-based, standardized preoperative instruction pamphlet was developed and distributed to the patients across three specialties at an outpatient surgery center over a four-week time period. Surgical delay/cancellation occurrences decreased from 4.94% in the pre-intervention phase to 0.57% in the intervention phase. All same-day case cancellations during this project occurred due to patients’ nonadherence to preoperative instructions, more specifically, fasting guidelines. Evidence supports using a standardized, evidence-based, written pamphlet for delivery of preoperative instructions in successfully reducing same-day surgical cancellations. Further research is needed in preoperative instructions for patients speaking languages other than English as well as for patients who cannot read., Copyrights are retained by the author. Contact Lauren M. Hostetler for further use of this material.

This correlational study was done to determine if there is a relationship between a nurse educator's spiritual well-being and the emphasis he/she places on teaching about spiritual care. The design involved the development of a six point Likert scale questionnaire which assessed specific educational activities pertaining to spiritual care. Another six point Likert scale, The Spiritual Well-Being Scale (SWB) by Ellison and Paloutzian (1982), was utilized to assess spiritual well-being. These two questionnaires were sent to 136 nurse educators from five universities in New York and Pennsylvania. The hypothesis was that there is a significant relationship between nurse educator's scores on the SWB Scale and their scores on the Educational Activities Assessment Tool. Pearson's correlation was used to assess the relationship between the scores from the two questionnaires. The correlation coefficient was 0.585 which was significant (t76=1.98, pc.05). The hypothesis was supported. The results of this study have implications for nurse educators and schools of nursing. It is important for educators to be aware of how their own personal biases and convictions might relate to their teaching behavior., Copyrights are retained by the author. Please contact Nathan Everhart for further use of this material.