This research project examined the impact mobile app Pokémon GO has had on its user’s frequency of face-to-face interactions. We wanted to see if the app was encouraging users to interact more with other users. Typically, mobile devices are associated with exclusive and antisocial behaviors. When an individual is using a mobile device, that individual tends to close himself or herself off from the immediate environment and surrounding individuals. Our research found that Pokémon GO actually increased the frequency of face-to-face interactions among users. This has unique implications for mobile apps and technology moving forward.

Following this presentation, Daniel will present from 10:30-10:55 a.m. in Science and Nursing room 124

As nursing students interested in careers in pediatric nursing, we wanted to understand the implications and evidence-based research behind having parents present during their child’s invasive procedures and how it corresponds to safe nursing practice and improved patient/parent satisfaction. We conducted a literature review of the current research and literature from the last five years, including randomized controlled trials, literature reviews, qualitative descriptive studies and reports of expert committees. We found that the choice for parents to decide whether they are present during their child’s procedure corresponded to higher levels of satisfaction with their child’s overall care. While parental presence did not improve the child’s experience, it did allow parents to move from a bystander role into a more active role in their child’s care. Based on our findings, we found there is enough evidence to change current practices.

Obstetrics is a unique discipline of healthcare in which nurses play a crucial role in the childbearing experience. The labor and delivery nurse is expected to utilize current evidence based practice and think critically to provide safe, effective, patient-centered care throughout the antepartum, intrapartum, and postpartum periods. This case study investigates a 26-year-old, Caucasian female diagnosed with placenta previa and her newborn. We selected this client as the focus of this case study due to her poor prenatal care, high-risk delivery and psychosocial disorders. The client was diagnosed with placenta previa in her second trimester, allowing us to further explore the condition, including the pathophysiology and symptoms of a low-lying placenta, risk factors associated with its development and the best indicated maternal and fetal treatment. We aimed to gain knowledge about nursing care during the labor and delivery period by studying and analyzing the collected laboratory data, diagnostic tests and results, medications and assessments of the client to formulate nursing diagnoses and interventions to aid in the promotion of a safe and healthy postpartum period. This poster presentation will serve as a visual aid to explore the pathophysiology and care of our client, a high-risk individual, throughout the stages of her pregnancy and delivery, as well as postpartum care and concerns.

Nitric oxide (NO) is a product of nitric oxide synthase (NOS). NOS catalyzes the oxidation of L-arginine to form NO. NO plays important roles in the cardiovascular, nervous and immune systems. To form NO, there must be an electron transfer between the oxygenase and reductase domains. The electron flows from NADPH to FAD, FMN and the oxygenase domain heme during catalysis. The NO that is released can be further oxidized to form nitrite, while heme-NO complex can also be converted to nitrate. We will focus on the percentage of nitrite and nitrate productions that occur in the three NOS isoforms. Our preliminary data indicated that more nitrate than nitrite was produced in both iNOS and nNOS isoforms. Experiments using NO donor (NOC-12) are still undergoing.

Polyploidy occurs when an organism contains more than two sets of chromosome. One example of polyploidy is found in strawberries, which can have up to eight sets of chromosomes (octoploidy). It is expected that the size of the nucleus will be in direct relationship with the amount of DNA it contains, therefore, it is hypothesized that a strawberry with additional sets of chromosomes will have a larger nucleus. This will be tested using confocal microscopy in which the nucleus of cells from strawberries with different ploidies will be viewed and compared. Their cells will first be stained to cause the nuclei to fluoresce, and those cells will then be viewed simultaneously to make a direct comparison between the sizes of the nuclei.