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Waist Circumference as a Measurement Tool for Pediatric Obesity
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Monday, November 9, 2015 and Tuesday, November 10, 2015: Waist Circumference as a Tool in Pediatric Obesity Screening. Background: The focus of this project was exploring methods for the early ... -
Waiting Room Nurse Roles in the Emergency Department: Current Practice and Praxis Context
(2018-06-14)Some emergency departments introduced a nurse dedicated to care for patients in the waiting room. This session will present an overview of the current context of waiting room nurse roles in Australia. -
Waiting room nurse: Enhancing the patient experience
Poster presentationSession A presented Monday, September 30, 10:00-11:00 amPurpose: Nationally, nearly half of Emergency Departments (ED) across the country are experience crowding, which has contributed to a decrease in ... -
Walk This Way: Graduating Associate Degree Nurses Utilizing an Innovative Academic/Practice Partnership for a High School Dual Enrollment Program
(2016-03-17)Session presented on Sunday, July 26, 2015: The global nursing shortage continues to strain healthcare, especially in economically disadvantaged areas. Recruitment in these areas is difficult despite local colleges being ... -
Walk to Hawaii: An Undergraduate Honors Capstone Project
This project seeks to determine the needs of faculty and staff at the College of Nursing, and create a walking program. Physical benefits and psychological motivators to starting and maintaining a walking program are ... -
Walking for Heart Health in Rural Women
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Tuesday, November 10, 2015: Purpose: To examine the effects of a walking program on outcomes such as blood pressure, total and HDL cholesterol, body mass index (BMI), 10 year cardiovascular risk and ... -
Walking for Our Health: Evaluation of Randomized Spousal Physical Activity Pilot Intervention
(2017-07-20)Purpose: Addressing physical inactivity among older adults is a crucial public health challenge as less than 5% of older adults meet physical activity (PA) recommendations (Troiano et al., 2008) and PA declines with age ... -
A Walking Plan for Pregnant Women with Gestational Diabetes: A Feasibility Study
Purpose: To determine the feasibility of a structured walking plan among pregnant women diagnosed with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) within a maternal fetal medicine practice. Summary: Physical activity in ... -
Walking Pre-Heart Transplant Patients With Percutaneously Placed Axillary-Subclavian Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump
(2017-07-27)This activity will discuss an innovative approach of mobilizing pre-heart transplant patient with percutaneously placed axillary-subclavian intra-aortic balloon pump.New nursing protocol to safely manage this patient ... -
Walking the Language Technology Talk
(2017-09-25)Recognizing and addressing cultural and linguistic diversity is essential to nursing practice. Presentation outlines development, implementation and evaluation of a pilot study using clinical simulation to deliver evidence ... -
Walking the Walk: Designing a 10-Week Research Course and Integrating an EBP Model
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Monday, November 9, 2015 and Tuesday, November 10, 2015: In the 21 st century's healthcare, behind every clinical decision making, there should be evidence to support it. Using Evidence-Based Practice ... -
Walt Whitman: Civil War nurse
Walt Whitman’s life as a nurse during the Civil War is largely ignored in the nursing literature. His service to wounded and dying soldiers, as well as his poetry about the horrors of war, deserves recognition. The ... -
Wanted! Leaders to Advance Excellence, not Mediocrity, in Nursing Education
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Monday, November 9, 2015 and Tuesday, November 10, 2015: Chances are good that if you ask faculty teaching in almost any nursing program about the quality of their program, you will get a response that ... -
Wartime Nurse Heroes Recognition
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Tuesday, November 10, 2015: Over the centuries nations have engaged in conflicts that have often resulted in massive physical and emotional injuries. Warriors have fought with bravery and courage. Their ... -
Washing Without Water: Cost-Effectiveness of a Rapidly Spreading Nursing Intervention in Care Dependent Patients
(2013-10-22)Session presented on: Friday, July 26, 2013: Purpose: Washing Without Water, using disposable cleaning and skin care materials, is increasingly implemented in nursing care. However, well performed studies on skin effects ... -
Washington, D.C. health policy immersion experience of doctoral nursing students: A phenomenological study
Today's political environment calls for nursing professionals to increase their awareness and efforts of advocacy to ensure ethical health policy. This study looked to determine the effect a week-long Washington, D.C. ... -
Water Quality and the Incidence of Gastrointestinal Symptoms in a Locality in Cavite, Philippines
(2012-9-12)Purpose: Water quality is an indicator of the wellness of the environment and is directly related to the health of the people exposed to it. Worldwide, infectious waterborne diseases are the number one killer of children ... -
The Watson Room: Managing Compassion Fatigue in Clinical Nurses on the Front Line
(2017-03-03)Session presented on Saturday, March 18, 2017: The concept of compassion fatigue (CF) emerged in the early 1990s in North America to explain a phenomenon observed in nurses employed in emergency departments. A precursor ... -
A Way Toward Ensuring a Relevant Undergraduate Curriculum: BSN Curriculum Assessment Plan
(2017-10-13)Responsive-situational leadership strategies were used to lead and engage a team of college of nursing faculty in the development, implementation, and evaluation of a comprehensive BSN curriculum assessment plan. -
Wayfinding in Cognitively Impaired Patients Within Virtual Environments
(2016-09-26)Session presented on Sunday, September 18, 2016: Wayfinding is the ability to find one's way from one place to another. Persons with Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairments have a profound wayfinding impairment ...
