Browsing by Sigma Chapters "Alpha Phi"
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Assessment of female sexual health by advanced practice nurses in primary care setting
(2016-03-17)Session presented on Saturday, July 25, 2015: Purpose: Female Sexual Dysfunction (FSD), persistent, recurrent problems with sexual response or desire, affects an estimated 43% of women in the United States. Assessment of ... -
Assessment of nursing faculty development needs: An evidence-based approach
(2014-05-13)Session presented on: Friday, April 4, 2014: As the largest public university in the country, the City University of New York graduates over 1000 nurses each year and is the largest supplier of registered nurses in the ... -
Attitudes of nurses toward children with disabilities
The attitudes of U.S. nurses toward children with disabilities have not been adequately measured over time and after an educational intervention. Disability content has not been a priority in nursing education and, if ... -
Augmenting sickle cell anemia/sickle cell disease genetic knowledge through simulation: A descriptive pilot study
(2017-05-25)Purpose: Genetic/genomic knowledge has radically changed the way health care is provided. Augmenting this newly required competency into constrained nursing curricula is a challenge. Simulation provides such an ... -
Biomarker, treatment, and socio-demographic factors affecting opioid use disorder treatment retention
Increasing mortality from opioid overdose and low treatment engagement are significant public health concerns. Along with increasing health care and criminal justice enforcement costs, there is an urgent need to study the ... -
Building Healthy Workplace Environments Through Collaborative Care Councils
(2013-05-13)Session presented on Saturday, April 13, 2013: Effective decision making is best achieved when those who have a stake in the decision have an opportunity to have input during the decision making process. As part of the ... -
Clinical faculty orientation: Improving student outcomes at the bedside
(2018-07-03)Clinical instructors are required to attend an eight hour orientation day at the start of every semester. The objectives for these sessions are to prepare instructors to lead a successful clinical day, implement QSEN ... -
Community-based nurse led biomedical HIV prevention service: A tale of two sites
(2017-07-27)This presentation will describe two HIV prevention programs designed, implemented and run by nurse practitioners and nurses in order to prevent HIV infection in high risk marginalized individuals. This presentation will ... -
Creatively impacting patient hospital experience rounds: Nurses leveraging technology
Humanizing technology to enhance rounding with purpose has been instrumental in: increased staff and patient satisfaction, improved outcomes, and reducing harm.Utilizing an integrated interdisciplinary rounding tool that ... -
Cultivating a culture of resilience
(2017-07-10)Resilience is a concept that has been applied to research and practice in nearly every possible area of life and academia- from science to sociology, psychology, nursing and medicine. Given the high degree of stress in ... -
The Dedicated Education Unit: A model for fostering healthy work environments
(2013-05-13)Session presented on Saturday, April 13, 2013: Background: Healthy work environments are essential to optimize quality patient and family centered care. The American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN) has identified ... -
Do Older Hispanic Diabetics Use the Internet for Health-Related Information?
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Tuesday, November 10, 2015: Diabetes is a major cause of morbidity and mortality and a growing public health concern. In 2012, Hispanics comprised 16.9% of the total 313.9 million US population; and ... -
Empowering a culture that promotes safe patient handling
(2018-06-28)Discuss strategies developed by nursing staff to decrease bias and address challenges for implementing a safe patient handling program. While empowering the nursing staff to engage in a culture that enables safe patient ... -
Enhancing Skills in Behavioral Health Management
(2018-03-19)Transforming the healthcare delivery system to address the growing need for behavioral health services requires new approaches to workforce development. One approach that can expose students and healthcare professionals ... -
Facilitators and barriers to reproductive health information among women and men affected by HIV
(2016-07-13)Session presented on Monday, July 25, 2016: Purpose: To examine and explore factors which facilitate accessing reproductive health information and treatment (RHI/T) for women and men living with HIV and the barriers that ... -
Factors associated with non-acceptance of testing and evaluation of household contacts exposed to tuberculosis
(2017-06-14)Purpose: The WHO reports that the incidence of TB is approximately 9.0 million new cases globally each year and approximately 3.3 million cases are missed by health systems as either undiagnosed or not reported. A ... -
Folklore as a Health Patterning Modality
The lived experience of folklore practices as a health patterning modality may have meaning for nursing science. This hermeneutic phenomenological qualitative study was designed to uncover and understand the meaning and ... -
Graduate students' perceived genetic knowledge: A preliminary study
(2017-06-05)Purpose: Summary of a preliminary assessment of graduate nursing students' from the City University of New York [CUNY] knowledge about genetics and genomics. Methods: Thirty-six graduate students, 7 in a DNP program, ... -
Hybrid FNP education in Haiti: A global collaboration
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Saturday, November 7, 2015: The purpose of this presentation is to describe how Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI) Region 14 members and nurse leaders developed and operated two Family Nurse ... -
The impact of an educational intervention on patient satisfaction on a mixed acuity surgical unit
Individually acquired caring behaviors through a structured educational program will influence a caring culture on a mixed acuity surgical unit, with a positive impact on patient satisfaction.
