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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. -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
We Don't Miter the Sheets on the Bed: Understanding the Preceptor Role in Nursing Enculturation
(2016-03-29)Session presented on Saturday, April 9, 2016: Background: Many studies examine the role of preceptors with students in pre-licensure clinical immersion experiences and how that impacts student socialization to the role ... -
We Think We Can, We Know We Can… Improving Patient Satisfaction Scores
(2017-12-01)<p>Patient Satisfaction measures play an important role in reimbursement, attracting and retaining patients and patient safety. In 2014, our facility examined our Patient Satisfaction Scores and deemed them less than ... -
We Walked Their Walk: A Simulation of Poverty
(2016-07-13)Session presented on Thursday, July 21, 2016: Abstract Purpose: The goal of this experience was to evaluate the impact of a poverty simulation on undergraduate public health nursing (PHN) students' attitudes towards those ... -
Weaning Inconsistencies in Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) and Modified Scoring
(2018-03-19)This two group comparison study will determine if our tool is making a difference in our length of stay and provides safe weaning. With our multi-disciplinary quality improvement collaborative we continue to decrease our ... -
Weathering the Perfect Storm: A Multifaceted Strategy to Improve Nursing Student Retention
(2018-03-22)The experience of the leaders of one Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program during a time of significant challenge and change is described. Attendees will leave the session with ideas, tools and motivation that can ...