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Labor Pain as a New Nursing Diagnosis: Conceptual and Content Validation
(2013-10-22)Session presented on: Tuesday, July 23, 2013: Purpose: Labor pain has different clinical evidence of the Acute Pain nursing diagnosis . Our objectives were to build the concept labor pain and to develop the content ... -
Labor Progressive Environment: An Evidence-Based Approach to Primary Vaginal Delivery
The rate of medically unnecessary primary cesarean sections is a growing epidemic in the United States with no measurable improvement in maternal/newborn outcomes. Implementation of a labor progressive environment that ... -
Laboring Down: A Pretest-Posttest Educational Study
(2016-12-19)The primary aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of an educational video in increasing labor and delivery nurses’ knowledge of laboring down. The secondary study aim was to determine if the educational ... -
Ladder to Success for EBP
(2016-03-17)Session presented on Monday, July 27, 2015: Evidence-based practice (EBP), crucial to all healthcare disciplines today, is an essential element in any nursing curriculum. It is critical that the foundation be laid early ... -
Laidback Leadership: Technologies to Make Your Life Easier
(2016-09-26)Session presented on Sunday, September 18, 2016: STTI offers many tools to save you time in your chapter leader role. This session will tour these technologies and offer tips to make your life easier. This session is not ... -
Language Concordance in Diabetes Self-Management Care: From Observation to Intervention
Language concordance can positively impact health outcomes for Spanish speaking patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. We describe the development of a course in medical Spanish predicated on the discourse model of the ... -
Last request
A photograph capturing the pure joy of a hospice patient's last request to enjoy the sunshine. Photography helped this certified hospice nurse through her mother's journey with cancer and subsequent passing. -
The Last Ten Years: Nurse Practitioners in the Southern United States Employed in Medically Underserved Areas
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Monday, November 9, 2015 and Tuesday, November 10, 2015: Background & Significance: Collectively, the U.S. Southern states are some of the poorest, most rural, and socioeconomically deprived regions ... -
Late Ultrasound (Greater Than 20 weeks) vs. Last Menstrual Period to Date Pregnancy in Hispanic Women
(2017-09-29)This presentation will include a review of the current evidence on the use of ultrasound measurements in pregnancy dating. Then, new research on pregnancy dating in Hispanic women will be presented. Finally, recommendations ... -
Latent Class Analysis of Lymphedema Symptoms and Phenotypic Characterization
(2018-06-21)Latent class analysis is able to identify three distinct lymphedema symptom classes with lower, moderate and severe symptom class. Identification of symptom classes is a priority to predict high-risk populations for ... -
Latent Heterogeneity in Short-Term Trajectories of Sleep Disturbance in Family Caregivers
(2018-06-29)Sleep quality of family caregivers is a dynamic process and changes over time. However, little is known about the information on the factors that predict longitudinal sleep patterns of caregivers. By using growth mixture ... -
Lateral Violence: Lived Experiences of the Psychiatric Nurse
(2016-03-17)Session presented on Friday, July 24, 2015: Lateral violence is a matter of interest and cause for alarm among nurses. The literature review, sparse and with few empirical studies, generalizes lateral violence across the ... -
Launch of an Interdisciplinary Poverty Simulation
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Saturday, November 7, 2015 and Sunday, November 8, 2015: Background: Poverty is a significant issue in the United States. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the 2013 poverty rate was 14.5%, with a ... -
Laying the Foundation: Partnering to Build Research Infrastructure in the Clinical Setting
Presenters from two separate hospitals will discuss the origin and initial outcomes of collaborative service-academic partnerships to overcome barriers to conducting nursing research in clinical settings. Early impact ... -
Lead: Empowering Clinical Leaders at the Bedside
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Monday, November 9, 2015 and Tuesday, November 10, 2015: The LEAD Program, Leadership Education and Development was designed to transform care at the bedside by empowering clinical nurses and assistant ... -
Leader Co-Mentorship: A Journey Toward Purpose and Excellence
Co-mentoring in leader dyads institute mutually beneficial learning relationships. This leader dyad leveraged co-mentoring to increase first year nurse retention by 47% and reduce patient harm by 60% while enhancing purpose ... -
A Leader's Challenge: Using E-Learning/Flipped Classroom Instructional Techniques to Build Graduate Nursing Student Leadership Skills
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Monday, November 9, 2015: Background: Healthcare organizations need employees with leadership skills who can successfully navigate politically delicate situations, determine alternatives, prioritize ... -
The Leader's Role in Assuring Person and Family Centered Care
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Tuesday, November 10, 2015: The role of the leader in promoting person and family centered care is to create the systems, processes and structures for providing care that fully engages the person and ... -
Leaders Among Us: Leadership Appraisal of Baccalaureate Nursing Students
(2016-03-29)Session presented on Saturday, April 9, 2016, and Friday, April 8, 2016: In today’s fast-paced and technology-driven health care settings, the need for nurse leaders remains a critical demand. Stemming in part because of ... -
Leaders and Patient Safety: Leader-Member Exchange and Structural Empowerment Influencing Patient Safety Climate
This study examines nurses' perceptions of patient safety climate being influenced through the four concepts of Structural Empowerment (support, opportunity, resources, and information) and the four dimensions of Leader-Member ...