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Haiti National School of Nursing: 100 years of nursing education
The purpose of the activity is to describe a brief history of educating Haitian nurses at the government school in Port-au-Prince and provide results of an evaluation of alumni gathered at the 100th anniversary celebration. -
Half the sky: Use of literature to teach undergraduate nursing students about global health equity
(2017-07-12)Purpose: This presentation describes qualtiative findings from a global health assignment which we have used with undergraduate maternal child nursing students for the past ten years. We developed this assignment as a way ... -
HALO: Health and Liver Optimization, partners in care
(2016-07-13)Session presented on Sunday, July 24, 2016: Purpose: The purpose of the presentation is to disseminate knowledge and effectiveness of a unique model of patient care in chronic disease management. The Health and Liver ... -
Hand hygiene compliance and glove use
Peer-reviewed articles were examined and research was extracted in order to examine how today's practice of hand hygiene could be affected by glove use in the clinical setting.. -
Hand Hygiene Journey
(2017-10-09)Hand hygiene practice is considered to be the most effective strategy for patient safety. Engagement strategies involving all hospital staff are necessary to increase hand hygiene compliance for patient safety. It is ... -
Hand washing among nurses and midwives in Rwanda: Is it compliance or adherence?
(2016-07-13)Session presented on Saturday, July 23, 2016: Purpose: It is paramount that hand washing (HW) adherence among health care workers (HCWs) be increased and sustained as it has been found as one of the simplest yet most ... -
Handoff communication among senior nursing students: A phenomenological study
Despite discussions in health care regarding poor communication and its link to patient safety, it was revealed in the literature that many student nurses are inadequately prepared to conduct handoff communication. Student ... -
Hands off: Student experiences in objective data collection in virtual clinical simulation
(2017-07-26)Virtual patient simulation is a valuable tool for clinical curricula, but the inability to engage in physical contact may limit its application. This session will describe a novel virtual patient simulation for evaluating ... -
Handwashing: What is Staff Using?
(2012-01-04)(41st Biennial Convention) Handwashing is a simple process to decrease nosocomial infections in the hospital and all staff are expected to comply with hand-washing guidelines. I hypothesized that if staff is provided with ... -
"Hanging on in there": A qualitative longitudinal study exploring caring values in undergraduate nurse students
(2017-09-28)The purpose of this presentation is to report on findings from a 5-phase qualitative longitudinal study exploring the impact of an undergraduate-nursing curriculum based on humanising philosophy on students' values. Whilst ... -
The Hankins-Lee project
The purpose of this project is to reduce nosocomial infections by performing a surgical scrub prior to central-line dressing changes and port access. -
Happy Feet in a Rural Clinic: A Diabetic Foot Education Intervention
Rural Healthy People 2010 report indicated that diabetes was more pervasive in non-metropolitan areas than in central cities and more commonplace in the Southeast and the Southwest regions of the United States due to complex ... -
Happy Feet in Tomagwa: A Diabetic Foot Education Intervention
(2018-06-29)The complexity of Diabetes requires a multidisciplinary approach which may not be available in many rural health care settings. Fragmented diabetic patient education and under usage of standards of diabetic foot care among ... -
Happy Feet in Tomagwa: A Diabetic Foot Education Intervention
The complexity of Diabetes requires a multidisciplinary approach which may not be available in many rural health care settings. Fragmented diabetic patient education and under usage of standards of diabetic foot care among ... -
Hardwiring nurse-driven protocols in removing indwelling urinary catheters in the ICU
The major risk factors of CAUTI are the presence of an indwelling catheter and the duration that it is in place. A quality improvement project implemented criteria-based screening protocol into the EHR to hardwire nurse-driven ... -
Hardwiring Standardized Nursing Bedside Handoff to Improve Patient Safety and Satisfaction
(2016-07-13)Session presented on Sunday, July 24, 2016: Purpose: By shifting to the bedside and engaging patients in their care, healthcare organizations are increasingly utilizing a more patient-centered approaches to nursing handoff ... -
Harlem healthy heart: A community outreach initiative with favorable impact on diabetes mellitus and cardiometabolic risks
African/Caribbean Americans are more likely to be at risk for diabetes mellitus development and cardiovascular disease as compared to whites. Ongoing monthly workshops providing education, screening, diet, exercise and ... -
Harm reduction in nursing practice: Compassionate care for persons with addiction
(2017-06-22)Substance abuse and overdose deaths are increasing at profound rates in the United States. Nurses and clinicians must evaluate their response to this growing epidemic. Harm Reduction is an alternative therapy for rehabilitation ... -
Harm reduction strategy for prevention/reduction of opioid overdose fatalities in the substance use disorder population
This educational activity describes the use of a harm reduction intervention/strategy for the current issue of opioid overdose fatalities in public health and its effect on perceived importance of and barriers to Naloxone/Narcan ... -
Harm, Threat, or Challenge, Nursing Students in Clinical Education Settings
(2016-03-17)Session presented on Friday, July 24, 2015: The majority of students in a baccalaureate nursing program are traditionally new graduates from high school. The research shared the need for educating nursing students about ...
