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Six strategies for successful surveys
Surveys can be an easy way to identify members' needs to help your chapter provide relevant services and programs. Is your chapter asking the right questions? -
A six-phased approach: Starting an STTI chapter
(2012-11-29)Session presented on Thursday, September 20, 2012: Starting a new chapter, or joining an existing chapter, is a collaborative process between the group and STTI headquarters. Discover the phases to bringing an STTI chapter ... -
Skills for success: Implementation of a first-year nursing retention program on prelicensure nursing students
Increasingly, employers report that new nurses lack the soft skills necessary to be an outstanding employee-time management, organization, effective coping. This study explored the effect of a first-year retention program ... -
Skin cancer and tanning bed use in the young female population
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Saturday, November 7, 2015 and Sunday, November 8, 2015: Background: The incidence of skin cancer from indoor tanning-beds has been rising over the past several decades. In the United States, "an ... -
Skin champions lead decreasing hospital-acquired pressure injuries (HAPIs) in the intermediate care setting
Clinical RN lead evidence-based practice (EBP) initiative to reduce the rate of hospital acquired pressure injuries (HAPIs) within a 32-bed intermediate care unit. How the consistent use of EBP and peer-to-peer feedback ... -
Skin Health, Skin Care, and Dermatology Nursing Worldwide: Evolution of a Clinical Research Programme
(2018-06-04)Skin care is a universal and fundamental element of nursing, yet it is a field that has received limited research attention. This paper illustrates the evolution of a programme of work investigating and developing universal ... -
Skin to skin bonding: Maternal infant nursing is fun!
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Saturday, November 7, 2015 and Sunday, November 8, 2015: Problem: In the fast paced Labor and Delivery and Mother Baby Units, patient care is focused on care that is perceived by patients as family ... -
Skin-to-skin contact after birth to promote newborns' vital stabilization: An evidence-based project
(2016-02-05)The hours immediately following birth are a crucial time for an infant to sustain life. Skin-to-skin contact (SSC) during this time provides the infant with natural thermoregulation and promotes oxygenation. The purpose ... -
Sleep and adolescent obesity: Results from the creating opportunities for personal empowerment (COPE) randomized controlled trial
(2014-11-17)Session presented on Sunday, July 27, 2014: Purpose: The purpose of this presentation is to report baseline findings related to sleep, gender, weight and mood in adolescents participating in the NIH funded, COPE healthy ... -
Sleep and cognitive function: Examining how sleep impacts cognition in older adults living with HIV
Participants will learn how older adults living with HIV experience poor sleep despite effective use of antiretroviral therapy to control their HIV virus. The correlation between poor sleep and cognitive function will be ... -
Sleep deprivation and the potential impact on nursing students practice and health
(2016-09-26)Session presented on Monday, September 19, 2016: Nursing students are an important part of the overall healthcare team. In addition to the didactic aspect of nursing student education, students also complete required ... -
Sleep disruption and delirium in critically ill children
The purpose of this observational, repeated measures pilot study was to develop a measurement framework that illustrates the relationship between modifiable characteristics of the PICU environment (e.g., light and sound ... -
Sleep Disturbance and Fatigue in Renal Transplant Patients: A Pilot Study
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Monday, November 9, 2015: Background: Renal disease is the ninth leading cause of death in the United States. An estimated 80,000 are diagnosed annually with chronic renal failure, and over 400,000 ... -
Sleep disturbances in older adults following traumatic brain injury
Insomnia, excessive daytime sleepiness, and obstructive sleep apnea are common complaints and substantially correlated to quality of life in elderly people following traumatic brain injury. -
Sleep Enhancement
The purpose of this project is to increase the number of hospitalized adult patients who get sufficient sleep. -
Sleep health knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and practices of underserved mothers with a history of prenatal depression
The purpose of this study was to describe the sleep health knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and practices of an underserved sample of mothers with a history of prenatal depression. This was a cross-sectional, multimethods ... -
Sleep hygiene education for rural adults
This is a DNP Capstone paper. This DNP project examined what effect a community based sleep hygiene education program had on the quantity and quality of sleep in rural adults. Participants received a 45 minute oral PowerPoint ... -
Sleep loss and its health impact among family caregivers of persons with a primary malignant brain tumor
Sleep impairments for caregivers are multifactorial. Assumptions are that caregivers of those with primary malignant brain tumors (PMBT) are similar to caregivers of persons with dementia as cognitive impairments are present ... -
Sleep quality and its associated factors in patients with chronic hepatitis C receiving antiviral therapy
(2016-07-13)Session presented on Thursday, July 21, 2016: Purpose: The population with chronic hepatitis C is gradually increasing in the world. The treatment with pegylated Interferon and Ribavirin is still a standard therapy for ... -
Sleep quality and its related factors during pregnancy
(2013-10-22)Session presented on: Tuesday, July 23, 2013: Purpose: Pregnant women experience greater disturbed sleep such as more awakenings, longer awakening time, and lower sleep efficiency than non-pregnant women. Poorer sleep was ...
