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Aging-in-Place in Rural and Urban Communities
(2012-01-04)(41st Biennial Convention) In Canada, only 7% of older adults over the age of 65 years live in long term care facilities. The majority of seniors manage to live in their own home despite challenges. We have little knowledge, ... -
When paradigms collide: Implications for transforming nursing practice
(2012-01-04)There is compelling evidence to support the link between healthy work environments, quality healthcare outcomes, patient safety, nurse retention and satisfaction in acute practice environments. Additionally, numerous ... -
Nurses' attitudes towards continuing formal education: A comparison by level of education and geography
(2012-01-04)Quality of healthcare is a priority yet registered Nurses (RNs) are the least educated healthcare professional. The IOM report, The Future of Nursing, calls for more Baccalaureate prepared nurses and research has demonstrated ... -
Self Injurious Behavior Among Nursing Students
(2012-01-04)(41st Biennial Convention) For the past 10 years there has been increasing attention to the phenomenon of self-injury -- the deliberate destruction of body tissue without conscious suicidal intent. Although the professional ... -
Multidisciplinary Leadership Development for All Hazards Preparedness: Building Capacity While Improving Health
(2012-01-04)(41st Biennial Convention) Multidisciplinary Leadership Development for All Hazards Preparedness: Building capacity while improving health Purpose:� The Office of Force Readiness and Deployment (OFRD) in the Office of the ... -
Development and Psychometric Assessment of the Undergraduate Nursing Student Academic Satisfaction Scale (UNSASS)
(2012-01-04)(41st Biennial Convention) Background and Purpose: To examine the psychometric properties of a newly developed instrument: The Undergraduate Nursing Student Academic Satisfaction Scale (UNSASS). Methods: A self-report ... -
Stepping strong to control blood pressure, weight, and fatigue
(2012-01-04)One of three U. S. adults has high blood pressure. It is a major risk factor for heart disease and stroke contributing to 326,000 deaths in 2006 and costing $76.6 billion in health care services, medications, and missed ... -
Building nurses' leadership and research capacity through international mentoring
(2012-01-04)The need to develop sound research to inform health care planning and policy development in health care is well documented. However, not all areas of health care have seen adequate research productivity and there is general ... -
An innovative clinical practicum model: Preceptorship
(2012-01-04)In nursing, the transition from student to newly qualified nurses is recognized as being very stressful. Preceptorship program in senior elective course may meet the needs of senior nursing students by increasing their ... -
Nourishing the valuing of leadership behaviors
(2012-01-04)Returning RN students bring a preconceived idea that learning will focus on enhancement of knowledge regarding intensive or medical/surgical nursing, and may not value leadership and management courses. Working from this ... -
Developing excitement for political activism
(2012-01-04)Purpose: The purpose of this presentation is to identify strategies for infusing information related to health care systems and health policy into BSN and MSN curricula. The IOM report specifically calls for nurses to have ... -
Developing and implementing end of program OSCE (Objective Structured Clinical Examinations) for an undergraduate BSN program
(2012-01-04)Project Summary: Final semester nursing students are required to obtain a minimum score on a standardized test to graduate. Although these tests are highly predictive of NCLEX success, a didactic exam cannot evaluate a ... -
Where the personal and professional self meet: Understanding nurses' lived experiences of adoption
(2012-01-04)Problem: Nurses render care to members of the adoption triad: the birth parents, adoptive parents and the child. Yet, understanding nurses' perceptions of and interactions with members of the adoption triad (AT) have not ... -
Emotional intelligence in nursing
(2012-01-04)Practice problems: Nurses are responsible for using emotional skills to evaluate and promote patient's emotional health. There is very limited research relating to measuring emotional abilities of nurses. Research from ... -
Evidence-based practice: An opportunity to change the culture surrounding clinical research?
(2012-01-04)The majority of the general public believes that clinical research is important, but less than 5% of eligible adult patients participate in CT. While the public harbors mistrust towards some aspects of research, they do ... -
Online Course Development Success: The Samoan Experience
(2012-01-04)(41st Biennial Convention) Background: Registered Nurses in Western Samoa have no access to continuing education once they have completed their initial university education and are employed in the villages of Western ... -
Nursing students experiences with interdisciplinary service learning in Belize
(2012-01-04)Nursing faculty and students from Western Kentucky University have been participating in an interdisciplinary service learning project in Gales Point, Belize. The purpose of the current study was to examine the students' ... -
Integrating Information Literacy Across a BSN Curriculum
(2012-01-04)(41st Biennial Convention) Although research regarding effective informatics teaching strategies is sparse, nurse educators are challenged to include informatics into an already burgeoning curriculum. This presentation ... -
The trauma of being diagnosed with HIV/AIDS for Zimbabwean women
(2012-01-04)Background: Zimbabwe has among the highest HIV infection rates worldwide, with 1.3 million people, most of them women between 15-49 years living with the disease in 2008. The pandemic has caused crisis level adult morbidity ... -
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 ...