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Sacred Valley Health: A Global Organization with a Local Impact
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Monday, November 9, 2015: Sacred Valley Health (SVH) is a US 501 c3 nonprofit organization working in Ollantaytambo, Peru. The mission of SVH is to promote health in the underserved, rural communities ... -
Safe and Sound: A Longitudinal Study of the Effects of a Sigma Theta Tau international Membership-Based Mentoring Program on Job Satisfaction and Intention-to-Stay in New BSN-Prepared Nurses
(2016-03-17)Session presented on Saturday, July 25, 2015: Purpose: Mentoring programs extending past two years are uncommon, and yet the stressors of nursing still result in significant turn over during this period of time. The impact ... -
Safe Implementation of a Hyperglycemic Crises Protocol by Utilizing a Conversion Table
(2018-06-26)Hyperglycemic crises are medical emergencies associated with increased morbidity, mortality and healthcare costs. The development of a conversion table, versus nursing estimation, for insulin titration was adopted to assure ... -
Safe Patient Handling and Mobility National Standards: A Ground Breaking Collaborative Effort
(2013-05-13)Session presented on Sunday, April 14, 2013: This session will introduce and describe the collaborative process the American Nurses Association used to develop the multi-disciplinary and multi-setting Safe Patient Handling ... -
Safe Practice Environments: Nurses' Perceptions of Stressors and Solutions
(2012-9-12)Purpose: Nursing units include teams working to provide safe patient care. Without true partnerships, care is compromised due to decreased quality in communication and teamwork. Stressors impact the nursing practice ... -
Safe Sleep Advice to Safe Sleep Action: Pilot of the Pepi-Pod Program in Indigenous Communities
(2014-11-17)Session presented on Monday, July 28, 2014: Purpose: Background: Sharing sleep spaces with babies is a common infant care practice in Australia [1], and the cultural norm in many Indigenous communities [2]. While forms ... -
Safe Sleep/Reading Patient Education Handout
(2017-02-17)During the Fall of 2016, student leadership interns of Delta Xi chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI) implemented a project to address STTI goals of advancing world health, and celebrating nursing excellence ... -
Safe Transport of Telemetry Patients with ED RN's - Unintended Consequences
(2015-02-04)Research Abstract: Purpose: Maintaining safe transport of telemetry patients from the Emergency Department (ED) by having an ED RN accompany them has become a priority in recent years. Unfortunately, many ED’s do not have ... -
Safety Auditing as a Nursing Accountability Measure for Hospital Fall Prevention
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Tuesday, November 10, 2015: Preventing falls is important to patient safety. Despite 15 years of focused, evidence-based efforts our hospital was not consistently reducing falls to desired benchmarks. ... -
Safety Climate: Perception of Professionals in an Emergency Unit
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Saturday, November 7, 2015 and Sunday, November 8, 2015: Introduction: The emergency medical services, characterized as challenging and dynamic environments, are considered particularly prone to adverse ... -
Safety Culture: Medication Adverse Event Tracking at a Pediatric Oncology Hospital in Guatemala
(2017-07-03)Purpose: The ECHO Project: Educacion de Cuidados Intensivos en un Hospital de Oncologia is a multidisciplinary educational collaborative between the Medical-Surgical Intensive Care Unit at Boston Children’s Hospital and ... -
Safety of Medication Administration in the Home: Should We Double Check?
(2012-9-12)Purpose: With increasing pressures on hospitals, home care by visiting nurses presents a viable option for care delivery. Nurses routinely provide complex interventions at home that previously were only available in a ... -
Safety Rounds: Improving Multidisciplinary Communication
(2017-09-20)The Joint Commission describes communication as a key component of sentinel events. Obstetric Safety Rounds provides a forum for the exchange of information between medical providers and nurses thereby improving communication. ... -
Sailing through Ethnographic Data Collection on a Hospital Ship
This is a reflection on the experiences of data collection by the researcher positioned as a participant observer whilst conducting an ethnographic study of nurses volunteering in an international humanitarian context on ... -
The Salutogenic Effects of Prayer and Meditation on Health Perception, Behavior, and Outcomes
(2018-06-20)Modern science, presently acknowledges that spiritual practices such as prayer and meditation influences and increases the health of humanity (Puchalski, 2001). Provision of holistic nursing could change the response to ... -
Salvaging Self: A Grounded Theory Study of Pregnancy on Crack Cocaine
To explore the experiences and concerns of pregnant women who use crack cocaine, 60 pregnant and postpartum women who had used crack cocaine an average of at least once weekly during pregnancy were recruited in a West Coast ... -
Save a Brain- Getting your ED ready for Comprehensive Stroke Certification
Session D presented Thursday, September 27, 2:30-3:30 pm Purpose: Stroke is the 5th leading cause of death in the U.S. Our health system is located in the Southeastern part of the United States in the middle of the Stroke ... -
Save Stan Turns Five: A Large-Scale Interprofessional Practice and Academe Innovation
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Sunday, November 8, 2015: Description of the Event: The Interdisciplinary Health Education Partnership (IHEP) is an inter-institutional, interprofessional team comprised of healthcare simulation ... -
Saving Competencies, One Tree at a Time
(2017-12-01)Per The Joint Commissions (TJC) standards, nursing competency validation is based upon completion of the competency based orientation (CBO) checklist. The Nursing Education team faced barriers in managing the paper CBO ... -
Saving Hearts: Reducing Emergency Department Door-to-Electrocardiogram Times
(2014-08-04)Evidence-based Practice Abstract Purpose: The American Heart Association (AHA) recommends that electrocardiograms (EKGs) be obtained on all potential Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) patients within ten minutes of Emergency ...