MARS

MARS is a repository service of Mason Publishing and the Data and Digital Scholarship Services (DDSS) at the George Mason University Libraries. MARS provides enduring, stable, well-indexed access to a wide range of scholarship from the Mason community, such as Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs), articles, presentations, reports, and creative work. Learn more about publishing, sharing, and preserving research data with the George Mason University Institutional Dataverse, and our other repository services.

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Alternate Light Assessment of Skin Trauma (AtLAST): Guidelines for Clinical Practice

(2023-11) Scafide, Katherine N.; Ekroos, Rachell A.

The following document provides practice guidelines for using an alternate light source (ALS) to detect and document possible physical trauma during a clinical skin assessment. These guidelines offer recommended standards for forensic clinicians to apply the ALS technology during patient encounters and appropriately interpret observations based on available scientific evidence. Development of these guidelines included a contextual assessment of patient care practices, organizational resources, and stakeholder input (i.e., forensic clinicians, law enforcement professionals, and prosecuting attorneys) at two forensic nursing departments.1 Data collection included historical data from a forensic nursing department with ten years of clinical experience integrating ALS in medical forensic examinations of soft tissue skin injuries and a forensic nursing department at a separate organization integrating ALS as a new clinical practice. A focused grey literature search for existing standards and practice guidelines on ALS application in the clinical setting assisted in understanding current practices further. Finally, a systematic review and appraisal of peer-reviewed literature provided the scientific evidence base to support the practice recommendations in these guidelines (see Appendix A). These guidelines address considerations related to the physical clinical environment, equipment, and patient conditions for using ALS in clinical practice to assess for possible soft-tissue skin trauma. The included step-by-step protocol for ALS application in the clinical setting is trauma-informed, patient-centered, and considerate of patient and user safety. These guidelines also include sections introducing the reader to documentation considerations (written and image documentation) of ALS technology use, informed testimony preparation, and education and training requirements.

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The Mason Statistician

(2026) Auerbach, Jonathan

A magazine published annually showcasing the capstones completed by the graduates of the Department of Statistics.

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The Mason Statistician

(2025) Auerbach, Jonathan

A magazine published annually showcasing the capstones completed by the graduates of the Department of Statistics.

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The Mason Statistician

(2024) Auerbach, Jonathan

A magazine published annually showcasing the capstones completed by the graduates of the Department of Statistics.

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Sweeping the Dust Off of the Syllabus with Broadly Inclusive Teaching Strategies

(2026-02) Yoho, Rachel

Why bother putting effort into a syllabus that the students do not read? The syllabus can be a dense, lengthy document weighed down by university and departmental required statements and expectations. But students do read the syllabus, even if only for certain sections and on an occasional, as-needed basis. Updating the syllabus beyond changing the due dates each semester likely is a low priority for instructors among many competing demands on their time, unless they are redesigning the course. However, the syllabus also can be a useful way to establish the path for the course in terms of both the logistics and the implementation.