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Adolescent resilience following parental death in childhood and its relationship to parental attachment and coping
Adolescent resilience following loss has been linked with supportive social relationships and coping. Retrospective studies have found that parental death during childhood has been a risk factor for serious mental health ... -
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 ... -
Associations Between Caring Among Nursing Students
Caring is a feeling of compassion and an understanding of the difficulties of others. Research indicates that caring behaviors and attitudes are an important part of the knowledge base for nursing students. These findings ... -
A Collaborative Model for Addressing a Lead Crisis Affecting a City's Children
This collaborative project, led by a SON, brings together a city health department, mayor's office, school district and hospital system to address the lead crisis impacting the city's children. Health professional schools ... -
COVID-19 Resource: Communication tips for nurses supporting seriously ill patients, families, and communities during the Coronavirus
(Sigma Theta Tau International, 2020)Are you struggling with what to say to patients and families who are struggling with fears associated with the virus? This webinar is intended for all nurses, across all clinical settings. The webinar offers tips and ... -
COVID-19 Resource: Ethical dilemmas facing nurses during the Coronavirus Crisis: Addressing moral distress
(Sigma Theta Tau International, 2020)Nurses across the country are struggling with fears surrounding the impact of COVID-19 on patients, families and the health care system. Concerns about healthcare professionals’ safety, availability of proper protective ... -
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 ... -
Examining health-related decision making patterns of African Americans with coronary heart disease: A hermeneutic phenomenological study
The purpose of this study was to explore the themes that affected the day-to-day health-related decision making of African Americans managing coronary heart disease (CHD). Understanding the lived experience of African ... -
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 ... -
The impact of emotional regulation on treatment burden in the primary care population
For the 60% of the US population living with one or more chronic conditions, understanding how emotional regulation contributes to treatment burden is an unstudied, yet potentially important dynamic affecting self-management ... -
Implementation interventions for Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) in public health sexually transmitted infections clinic and related PrEP minority trends
Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) effectively reduces the risk of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection. PrEP implementation in public health clinics is suggested for increasing PrEP access; However, it is unclear if ... -
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 ... -
Interoception: A Self-Regulatory Mechanism for Self-Management
This session highlights Dr. Solano's (Emerging nurse research awardee) body of work around the concept of Interoception. Interoception, the ability to sense the physiological condition within the body, may be acting as a ...
