Institutional Animal Care And Use Committee ( Protocol 13-070 )

Florence Nightingale was the first person to recognize the therapeutic potential of animals in the late 1800s. Nightingale is considered the founder of modern nursing which enabled her to make such discoveries by observing the impact animals had on her medical patients. She discovered that the company of a small pet reduced anxiety in children and adults that resided in psychiatric institutions and recorded her findings in her book “Notes on Nursing”. With Nightingale’s involuntary record of these human-animal interactions, animal-assisted therapy approaches began to flourish.

In conclusion, to ensure the welfare of horses in Stableyards and riding schools, requires a lot of hard work and dedication. Horses have to learn to adapt to stable live. Therefore, they need regular exercise and proper care to satisfy their physical and mental needs to avoid boredom and stress. Furthermore, horses are highly social animals and needs regular contact with humans and other horses. Overall, the three horse riding schools used in this research comply with the Five Freedoms created by

Undoubtedly, transportation hasn’t always been as accessible as it is now. For centuries, people have come up with innumerable ways of getting themselves from one location to another. In former times, people would use their available resources for several purposes. Some of these included the use of animals for travel, which involved: horses, ox, mules, camels, etc. Yet, at the same time, maintaining an animal in

This can result in certain malpractices” (7). Hens agrees therapy dogs may help those feeling emotionally unstable, but at the same time argues that these dogs experience the same hardships during treatments.

Twenty American Quarter Horse geldings, aged between four and eight years and weighing ideally 1,000 to 1,300 pounds, shall be used. All horses should ideally be non-athletes that were previously kept as pleasure riding horses. The horses will be completely evaluated clinically and ultrasonongraphically by veterinarians blinded to the study before the experiment to ensure that there are no preexisting health conditions to hinder healing, or any history or signs of previous injuries to the superficial digital flexor tendon. All horses will be placed in individual stalls and paddocks and adapted to their new daily routines for thirty days before the start of the experiment to allow acclimation. Any horses that obtain injury or disease during the course of the study will be removed from the study group to reduce confounding and returned to their provider.

With limited empirical research supporting the use and effectiveness of animal-assisted therapy, it is reasonable to suggest that the costs of implementing AAT into occupational therapy are not worth the benefits. Occupational therapy modalities are already effective at treating patients with many different disabilities and/or disorders—integrating a new type of therapy into occupational therapy is less convenient and more expensive than leaving an already effective therapy as is.

Animal-assisted interventions have also been proposed as a method to improve social interactions and communication skills in children with autism. Supporters of animals improving social competence find that children have a natural connection with animals that may help to facilitate communication skills, which are often a challenging skill to improve in children with ASD. Solomon (2015) advocates for the inclusion of animals in structured interactions with the child, because “there are indications that some people diagnosed with ASD ‘are’ more companion-able and more response-able when their interactions with animals are enfolded into interactions with people” (p. 327). She describes these structured interactions for children with ASD through

Horses (Equus caballus) also known as equines have played in important role in various human interactions for hundreds of years. First, horses served as a means of various warfare, and then a role of transportation for humans. Today, horses are generally used for recreation and business which make up the equine industry. In the United States, there are about nine million horses, four million used in recreational activities, along with about five million people involved in various horse activities. Moreover, the equine industry has an impact of over one hundred million dollars on the United State’s Gross Domestic Product in jobs and spending. Florida is one of the leading states in the United States’s equine industry and has the third most populous

The first poster I reviewed, that did not pertain to nursing practice, was titled: Perceptions and Practices of Speech and Language Therapy: A Global Perspective. This poster examined current literature pertaining to family-centered approaches to speech-language therapy, as well as proposed future research regarding this method of therapy. Along with identifying the numerous benefits associated with family-centered therapy, the poster also provided full disclosure of the existing barriers currently hindering speech language pathologists and families’ implementation of family-centered therapy. As I learned through the poster, and the authors’ presentation, the dissociation that often exists between speech language pathologists and families can significantly and negatively affect children’s’ progress in

Happy Hands Farm? will be a therapy farm that provides animal-assisted therapy to adults and children who seek to improve their quality of life through meaningful occupations. Happy Hands Farm? will be owned by four licensed occupational therapists, one of which will reside on the estate to serve as grounds keeper. The use of rescued and adopted animals will help to teach clients activities of daily living (ADLs) and instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs), as well as communication, motor, and emotional skills that are personalized to their needs and interests. The 100 acre farm will be located at 36225 Covington Road, Dade City, Florida in Pasco County. The therapy farm will employ trained and certified occupational, physical, and

The Animal Hospital in Coquitlam and his team of professionals veterinarians are fully trained to treat your dog or cat with an outstanding care. Therefore, protecting your pet is part of their training and giving you the best options and treatments for their well-being.

The purpose of this memo is to provide information on key take always from North Carolina State ERM Initiative Roundtable Summit. Information provide will come from the Eli Lilly, Representative Mr. Nick Lemen, Senior Director of Ethics and Compliance on the topic of Enterprise Risk Management, Communication and Strategy.

The animal study will be performed following the NIH and Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) guidelines, LSUHSC. An application for the animal model and procedures used for this project have been submitted to the IACUC at LSUHSC and an approval is pending.

The word reform means to make changes to something to make it better. There are many thing in this world that need to be reformed but the thing that i think needs to be reformed is animal shelters. Everyone knows that animal shelter around the world take in stray or abandoned animals and give them a temporary home. But what you don't know is that shelters that don't have a no kill policy put down animals after a period of time if they have not been adopted. And shelters with a no kill police have to turn away strays and unwanted due to overpopulation,

The researchers employed ten 2-year-old horses to perform the workouts used in the study. All of the horses performed the same