Bibliographic record
Abstract
Figure: Mary ThompsonFigureMary Thompson (1939-2023) was national director of Nurses Christian Fellowship USA (NCF) from 1984 to 2007. Mary demonstrated a lifetime of faithful service and hope in Jesus Christ through her work with NCF. She graduated with her Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing from the University of Minnesota in 1962, receiving the honor of Highest Distinction. Mary also completed her Master of Science degree in Nursing at California State University, Los Angeles, in 1979. Mary first worked at the University of Minnesota Hospital and as a school nurse at Roseville High School in Roseville, Minnesota. She served as the West Coast Area Director for NCF. From 1996 until 2004, Mary also served as president for Nurses Christian Fellowship International. After retirement, Mary became a faith community nurse and was active in the lay care ministry of her church. She mentored students, new graduates, and nurses alike. As a leader of the Twin Cities NCF professional nurse group, Mary was instrumental in the group's success in reaching a broader audience during the COVID-19 pandemic. If one word could be used to describe Mary, it would be hope. Hope was the subject of her master's degree thesis in which she conducted interviews over time with individuals with a cancer diagnosis. Within her interviews, she identified hope as a vital component of life (Thompson, 1994). Mary identified two aspects of the phenomenon of hope: facilitators of hope and expressions of hope (Thompson, 1994). Facilitators of hope begin with love from others and/or God leading to a sense of being cared for and respected. Mutuality, the reciprocal relationship existing with others and/or God through shared experiences and resources, contributes to the sharing of ourselves with others; healthy dependence on others dispels fear and fosters freedom to make choices, explore alternatives, and develop creativity as well as the discovery of new insights (Thompson, 1994). Mary noted how expressions of hope grew from these insights, fostering growth or change and feelings of control in one's destiny. Positive expectations for the future lead to the perception and belief of goals being attained which also increases meaning and purpose in life (Thompson, 1994). As goals are set, even times of waiting are seen as active processes leading toward action. The cycle then continues to repeat and build. Relationally, Mary fostered hope in others. She understood the power of presence and the value of doing life together, whether eating a meal around her table or talking with a new grad about the first loss of a patient. She enjoyed new opportunities, and her sense of courage and humor supported her as she traveled through the United States or caught a bus loaded with people and chickens in Fiji for an international conference. Mary spent much time in prayer. Her connection with the God of hope fostered hope in others. You could see and experience hope as Mary openly lived out her joys and challenges. She sometimes struggled to find the words she wanted to speak. But one word remained a consistent part of her vocabulary, “Wonderful...wonderful!” In her later days, she expressed this word any time someone entered her room, offered her a drink, or prayed with her. Approaching end of life did not decrease Mary's hope. It simply provided a doorway for her to experience hope in its fullness. Let us continue to encourage each other to walk and live in this legacy of hope. Find relationship with other nurses in NCF through membership, student and nurse groups, and national events. Visit ncf-jcn.org and learn more!
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".