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Making community-based participatory research (CBPR) "real" in undergraduate interdisciplinary nursing education
(2016-03-29)Session presented on Saturday, April 9, 2016: Implementation of 'High Impact Educational Practices (HIEP)' has been shown to positively impact critical thinking, expands inquiry, and promotes life long learning in undergraduate ... -
Making connections: Implementing the national diabetes education program to improve diabetes management in Hispanic patients
Diabetes mellitus type 2 (DM2) is an ever-increasing chronic disease among Hispanic patient populations. Evidence-based practice has shown that DM2 can be managed with lifestyle changes; diet, and exercise. This project's ... -
Making it work: Information technology and mobile devices in nursing education
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Monday, November 9, 2015 and Tuesday, November 10, 2015: Information technology (IT) and mobile devices have become a part of most everyone's daily lives both personally and professionally. IT and ... -
Making key clinical assessment tools accessible for global nursing practice
(2012-01-04)Purpose: Taking up a global leadership role by providing hands-on nursing on international medical missions, inspires one to enhance giving and leading to yet another level. It is proposed that research incorporated into ... -
Making senior care a system priority
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Monday, November 9, 2015: Aligning a model of geriatric care with the system strategic plan and priorities is an expectation for nursing and physician leaders and provides an opportunity for ongoing ... -
"Making the best of a bad situation": Nursing best practices during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Discover how clinical nurses advocated for resources to help them provide high quality nursing care during the unprecedented cascade of change imposed by COVID-19. Using a bell-shaped curve to illustrate effectiveness, ... -
Making the hard decisions: Ethical issues encountered by military nurses during wartime
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Monday, November 9, 2015: Aims: The purpose of this study was to address the research question: How do military nurses identify, assess, manage, and personally resolve ethical issues occurring in ... -
Making the most out of QSEN's knowledge, attitude and skills (KAS) competencies in an RN to BSN program: A three level education approach
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Saturday, November 7, 2015: Literature Review: Nurse Executives, leading nursing organizations, and Magnet Hospitals, all recognize the unique value that baccalaureate-prepared nurses bring to the ... -
Making the Process of Policy Making Transparent
(2016-07-13)Session presented on Thursday, July 21, 2016: Healthcare policy development in the United States is a patchwork quilt of complex issues complicated by legislative, regulatory and judicial activities. Over the last twenty-five ... -
Making the switch: A new multicultural curriculum for improving clinical care and reducing health disparities
With Israel's great cultural diversity, Israeli health professionals must increase their cultural competency so as to improve quality of medical care. This presentation describes efforts to introduce multiculturalism, ... -
Making your research more robust with implementation science
(2017-07-21)Purpose: Implementation science is the study of methods, interventions, and variables that promote uptake and use of research and other evidence-based practices by organization with the goal of improving health care ... -
Male combat veterans in pre-licensure baccalaureate nursing programs: A phenomenological exploration
There is recognized shortage of nurses in the United States which includes a lack of baccalaureate prepared nurses and lack of workforce diversity related to gender. Military veterans could be a recruitment source for the ... -
Male nurses' experiences of gender stereotyping over the past five decades: A narrative approach
Negative stereotyping of men in nursing has been a chronic problem that has a direct effect on males and detracts from efforts to recruit and retain them. At this time in American history (2018), traditionally male-dominated ... -
Male nursing students in the community college and the struggle to completion
Despite significant contributions to healthcare made by male nurses throughout the centuries, nursing is a female-dominated profession, creating challenges for male nursing students. The problem addressed in this study was ... -
Male-Factor Infertility: The Process to Seeking Treatment
(2017-07-27)Findings are presented from a qualitative study using grounded theory about the process that males with infertility go through from deciding to conceive to seeking treatment for male-factor infertility. -
The Mallampati test versus the upper lip bite test in predicting difficult intubation
(2018-05-11)The accurate assessment of the airway is one of the most important skills an anesthesia practitioner should perfect. A difficult intubation is often defined as a Cormack Lehane (CL) grade of III or IV in adult patients. ... -
Malnutrition in institutionalized older people with swallowing impairment: The weancare modified texture foods program
The preliminary results of the WeanCare program, a personalized texture-modified food program for older people with swallowing impairment have shown a positive impact on the nutritional, biochemical, and functional profile ... -
Malpractice Claims Naming Staff Nurses as the Primary Responsible Service
As the nursing profession continues to expand, we succeed to greater exposure and risk to being litigated in a malpractice lawsuit. Awareness of claims naming nurses will allow for tailored nursing education and training ... -
Mama Care: An innovative care model for pregnant women with a prenatally diagnosed birth defect
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Saturday, November 7, 2015 and Sunday, November 8, 2015: The purpose of this project is to demonstrate how an adaptation of the Centering Pregnancy Model of group prenatal care, Mama Care, is being ... -
Man's best friend: The role of companion animals in the lives of the homeless
(2017-06-29)Purpose: It is estimated that 28,000 persons are homeless in Texas on any given night (Texas Homeless Network, 2016). Many homeless people have companion animals to fulfill social needs: friendship, while demonstrating ...