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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 sffects 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 competent administration of methotrexate by emergency nurses
Methotrexate is a chemotherapeutic agent given infrequently (5-7 times a year) in the Emergency Department as a pharmacologic treatment option for ectopic pregnancy. Emergency Nurses lack the knowledge and experience working ... -
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 opioid prescribing through proper screening
It is known in today’s healthcare that opioid abuse is on the rise in the United States. The project site noted aberrant behaviors and the seeking of narcotics from certain clients in the occupational health clinic. The ... -
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 practice of medication administration by anesthesia practitioners
An estimated 44,000-98,000 patients die each year due to medication errors and a large percentage of these are medication administration errors. A medication error is defined as a preventable event that can cause or lead ... -
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: 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 of co-sleeping ... -
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)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 the resources ... -
Safe use of opioids in individuals with obstructive sleep apnea
Define obstructive sleep apnea. Identify prevalence of obstructive sleep apnea. Review the literature related to the use of opioids in individuals with obstructive sleep apnea. List best practices for the use of opioids ... -
Safely prescribing opioids for chronic pain in primary care using risk mitigation strategies
Background: Safely prescribing opioids in primary care for adults with chronic non-cancer related pain has become a cornerstone of fighting the current opioid epidemic. The statistics are alarming, with the Centers for ... -
The safety and efficacy of liposomal Bupivacaine administration in patients undergoing shoulder arthroplasty: An integrative review
The aim of this integrative review is to examine and report current evidence regarding the safety and efficacy of liposomal bupivacaine (LB) administration for post-operative analgesia in shoulder arthroplasty. The two ... -
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 ... -
Safety first; Locate the student nurse
The purpose of this project is the Implementation of real-time location badge trackers (RTLBT) to help locate students in the clinical setting at Blessing Hospital (BH). -
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 role transition: Building competency through preceptorship
The nurse preceptors are functioning in many roles to deliver a high quality of care and to ensure that the preceptees are competent. Understanding this phenomenon will help nurses in developing and preserving the safety ...
