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Kangaroo care and postpartum depression: The role of oxytocin
(2017-04-28)Problem: Postpartum depression (PPD) occurs in about 10–15% of women after birth and adversely affects their health and the health of their newborn. Kangaroo care (KC) is known to have many health-related ... -
Kangaroo Care: Creating a Video Teaching Tool for Parents and Neonatal Nurses
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Monday, November 9, 2015: Kangaroo Care (KC) is the process of holding an infant skin-to-skin, a timeless technique with scientific benefits revealed in the 1970's (Johnson, 2013). With a thorough ... -
Kangaroo mother care effect on crying time during clustered painful procedures in full term neonates
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Tuesday, November 10, 2015: Background: Full term neonates face many painful procedures shortly after birth. Repeated unrelieved procedural pain is related to detrimental physiologic and behavioral ... -
The Kansas Nurse Leader Residency program: A clinical-academic partnership to develop nurse leaders
(2016-09-26)Session presented on Monday, September 19, 2016: In this presentation we will describe the Kansas Nurse Leader Residency (KNLR) program, developed and implemented through a statewide clinical – academic partnership. ... -
KATTS framework and Kaplan resources remain effective for NCLEX-RN® success after 2013 passing standard increase
(2017-07-28)Findings of a study of the Kaplan NCLEX® Prep resources is presented along with an explanation of the KATTS (Knowledge – Anxiety – Test Taking Strategies) framework and how these resources are effective in ... -
Keeping Girls in School During Menses: Partnerships to Enhance Local and Global Health Outcomes
Girls who have learned how to make their own sanitary pads became strong advocates for improving sanitation in their schools and communities. Many have gone on to complete college and now function as community leaders who ... -
Keeping heart failure patients in the "Loop": Creating a sustainable program
The purpose of this project is to increase engagement of the GetWell Loop (GWL) allowing HF patients to have confidence that their decision making is correct for their overall health. Through increasing engagement in the ... -
Keeping mothers safe: Strategic planning for the transition of maternity services to a pediatric hospital
Change is hard. Transitioning maternity services from an adult to a free-standing pediatric hospital heightens fear around whether child-bearing women, a vulnerable population, will be safe. A change readiness assessment ... -
Keeping nurses in nursing: Service-learning as a means to enhance grit
Retention of nurses is a major concern for the profession, especially in light of the nursing shortage; specifically, new graduate nurses are particularly susceptible to this phenomenon. While there are many causes for ... -
Keeping nurses safe: Creation of a safe patient handling and mobility program
(2017-03-03)Session presented on Saturday, March 18, 2017: Work related musculoskeletal injuries among nurses are costly. As many as 20% of nurses who leave direct patient care do so because of risks associated with their work (OSHA, ... -
Keeping nurses up-to-date with cardiovascular care at a safety-net facility
(2017-10-12)The purpose of the educational activity was to design and deliver an acute care educational program to enhance nurses' knowledge about care of the cardiovascular patient at a safety-net facility. Learning strategies, ... -
Keeping Nursing Faculty Healthy
(2016-07-13)Session presented on Monday, July 25, 2016: Purpose: We are currently experiencing a worldwide shortage of nurses. Nurses are at the front line of most health care systems. A shortage of nurses will have a negative impact ... -
Keeping nursing student stress in check: Strategies from clinical nursing faculty
This program provides a rich description of how clinical faculty manage nursing student clinical stress. Various faculty actions and behaviors that contribute to the clinical growth of students will be discussed. Faculty ... -
Keeping self-care relevant: Creative work-life integration for early career nurses
(Sigma Theta Tau International, 2021-08-25)New nurses are most vulnerable to burnout during their first three years of practice. In this webinar, the authors of Self-Care for New and Student Nurses will focus on keeping self-care relevant to the needs of early ... -
Keeping Skin in the Game: Bringing Awareness to Neonatal Skin Injuries
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Saturday, November 7, 2015 and Sunday, November 8, 2015: Title: Keeping Skin in the Game: Bringing Awareness to Neonatal Skin Injuries Introduction. Purpose: The purpose of this project is to increase ... -
Keeping the Child with Food Allergies Safe at School
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Monday, November 9, 2015: Rates of children suffering from food allergies have increased dramatically in prevalence in the past decades. It has been documented that the overall prevalence of pediatric ... -
Keeping women and their infants together during the recovery phase following cesarean section
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Kenyan women living with HIV/AIDS: A mixed method study
(2012-9-12)Purpose: Kenya, among the 47 African countries south of the Sahara geographically referred to as Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), the region worst affected by HIV/AIDS globally. Kenyan women are disproportionally affected by ... -
Ketamine as a general anesthesia adjunct
Ketamine is a unique anesthetic agent with both anesthetic and analgesic properties. Ketamine is primarily a N-Methyl-D-Aspartic acid (NMDA) antagonist that also works on glutamine, nicotinic, muscarinic, monoaminergic and ... -
Keto prescribed
The purpose of this project, Keto Prescribed, was to implement research evidence of a ketogenic diet into clinical practice through a nurse practitioner (NP)-led interdisciplinary health coaching team approach and evaluate ...
