Browsing by Sigma Chapters "Alpha Mu"
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Advancing Nursing Education in China: Contributions of Foreign Expert Nurse Faculty
(2017-10-16)The nursing profession in China has faced challenges in its efforts to improve the quality of education and practice. Invited foreign expert nurse faculty, who collaborated with a major research university in China, will ... -
Association of Breastfeeding with the Risk of Postpartum Depression: A Psychoneuroimmune Perspective
(2016-03-17)Session presented on Monday, July 27, 2015: Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine patterns of stress response, immune, and depressive symptoms, and explore the relationships among these variables in women ... -
The Association of Health Literacy, Understanding of Health Information, and Food Choice in Female Caregivers
(2017-07-21)Purpose: Female caregivers play an important role to take care of their family health and food choice when one of family members is sick. Caregivers with inadequate health literacy skills have been shown to have poorer ... -
Designing the Nation's First Critical Care Transport Helicopter Simulator
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Monday, November 9, 2015 and Tuesday, November 10, 2015: Air medical transport requires the practitioner to develop clinical and diagnostic reasoning abilities and manage the dynamic needs of the patient ... -
Effects of the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program on Blood Pressure in Adults: A Literature Review
(2018-06-18)The purpose of this session is to enable the learner to identify the effect of RCTs using a mindfulness-based intervention called mindfulness-based stress reduction program on blood pressure in adults with hypertension or ... -
eSMART-HTN: An Electronic Hypertension Self-Management Intervention for Improving the Quality of the Patient-Provider Interaction
(2017-09-18)This presentation will focus on the current state of the science on hypertension self-management and evaluate the effect of a new behavioral intervention, eSMART-HTN, that targets quality of the patient-provider interaction. ... -
Evaluating the Outcomes of a Registered Nurse Empathy Education Program in an Academic Medical Center
(2017-07-26)Oncology patients face many challenges in our current health care system. Some of the most notable include an increasing number of medical errors, escalating cost, and a lack of healthcare-provider compassion (Schwartz & ... -
Evaluation of the Chinese Version of the Spirituality Index of Well-Being (SIWB) Scale in Taiwanese Elders
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Monday, November 9, 2015 and Tuesday, November 10, 2015: Background: Spiritual well-being has emerged as an important indicator of one's health outcomes. Nursing as a profession is concerned with ... -
Heat Stress May Reduce Cognitive Performance of Surgeons While Performing Surgery: An Integrative Review
Surgeons put their own physical and psychological health at risk while exposed to elevated temperatures in the operating room whereby heat is trapped under impervious protective surgical gowns increasing body temperature, ... -
Hypertension in Children: Etiology of a Health Disparity
This is secondary analysis of blood pressure data in 7398 5th grade children collected over a seven year period, in a predominately African American population. It highlights the relationship of obesity, gender and ethnicity ... -
Improving Managers' Ability to Manage Relationships
(2016-09-26)Session presented on Monday, September 19, 2016: Effective nursing leadership is vital to the success of individual staff as well as the organization they represent. Nurse managers are often placed in their role due to ... -
Kangaroo Care and Postpartum Depression: The Role of Oxytocin
(2017-04-28)Problem: Postpartum depression (PPD) occurs in about 10–15% of women after birth and adversely affects their health and the health of their newborn. Kangaroo care (KC) is known to have many health-related benefits for ... -
Lead: Empowering Clinical Leaders at the Bedside
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Monday, November 9, 2015 and Tuesday, November 10, 2015: The LEAD Program, Leadership Education and Development was designed to transform care at the bedside by empowering clinical nurses and assistant ... -
Medication Errors Reporting: Do Work Environment and Medication Practices Matter?
(2013-05-13)Session presented on Sunday, April 14, 2013: Background: Medication administration is a complex multi-stage process that involves many healthcare professionals. Medication errors occur in every step of the medication ... -
Nurse Practitioner Adherence to National Guidelines on the Management of Persistent Pain in Older Adults
(2013-10-22)Session presented on: Thursday, July 25, 2013: Purpose: To describe nurse practitioners' (NPs) knowledge and adherence to national practice guidelines on the pharmacological management of persistent pain in older adults ... -
Nursing Leadership in a Greenfield Hospital: Strategies for Success
(2016-09-26)Session presented on Monday, September 19, 2016: A "sea change" has arrived in healthcare- and is certainly here to stay. Changes in healthcare reimbursement, enhanced expectations for improved clinical outcomes, and the ... -
Physical Restraint and Falls in Older Hospitalized Adults: Where Do We Go From Here?
(2017-07-27)At the end of this session, participants will be able to (1) describe the history of physical restraint associated with hospital fall prevention, (2) identify organizational-, nurse-, and patient-level strategies to reduce ... -
Preparing Nurses to be Palliative Care Leaders Around the World
(2018-06-01)Millions of people around the world with serious illnesses are in dire need of quality palliative care. Nurses educated in the ELNEC curriculum have become international leaders, improving the way people with serious illness ... -
Prevalence and Factors Related to Fear of Falling and Avoidance of Activity in Postmenopausal Women
(2016-03-17)Session presented on Friday, July 24, 2015: Purpose: This study was to identify the prevalence of fear of falling and avoidance activity and analyze the univariate and multivariate associations between demographic- and ... -
The Relationships between Spiritual Well-Being, Quality of Life and Depression among Taiwanese Elderly
(2016-03-17)Session presented on Sunday, July 26, 2015: Purpose: Depression is a mental health problem commonly impacting elderly people. Elders with Chinese cultural background have a high prevalence of depression. While spirituality ...