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Hello, and welcome
to this presentation
on "Thermoregulatory Responses".
My focus today will be
on the clinical assessment
and management of heat loss
in a nursing situation.
This is where my program
of research started.
And I'm going
to briefly acknowledge
how that all took place.
So you'll understand
that research for me,
was really a combination
of my clinical experience,
a curiosity about
how physiological mechanisms work,
and an extraordinary mentor
in my masters program
who showed me how nursing research
could make a difference
in patient care.
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I'd like to acknowledge
the following,
in terms of their contribution
to this presentation.
The Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation's
Clinical Nurse Scholars Program
supported my research
at this institution.
The faculty and clinical mentors
at the University of Pennsylvania
were very supportive of my work.
My research mentors
Dr. June C. Abbey
and Dr. Ralph T. Geer
were instrumental
in helping me accomplish
this particular study.
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What I would like to convey
in this report
are how this research project
grew out of my original interest
in thermoregulation.
And how
an interdisciplinary collaboration
yielded both the opportunity
and the outcomes
for me to move my research
on shivering even further.
And possibly,
the most applicable features
of this research
is how these findings relate
to the nursing concerns
of any patients
who are shivering from any cause.
And I'd like to convey,
why nurses should care?
What are the consequences
for patients?
And what principles of care
can be addressed for them all?
