Browsing by Sigma Chapters "Delta Mu"
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Autonomy, Role Ambiguity, and Collaborative Relationships Impact Novice Nurse Practitioner Turnover Intention in Primary Care
(2017-03-03)Session presented on Sunday, March 19, 2017: The purpose of this study was to describe the individual characteristics, role acquisition and job satisfaction of novice nurse practitioners (NPs), and identify the factors ... -
Baroreflex sensitivity during positional changes in patients with traumatic brain injury
Background and significance. Traumatic brain injury (TBI) affects 1.7 million Americans annually leading to significant morbidity and health care costs. An important cause of morbidity in TBI is secondary brain injury due ... -
Challenges of customizing ECG alarm settings in intensive care units: A mixed methods study
(2018-03-22)Background: Alarm fatigue is a well-established patient safety concern in acute care settings. One mechanism for reducing this phenomenon and improving patient care is customization of alarm settings to reflect individual ... -
The DNP Scholarly Project: A Roadmap for Success
DNP scholarly projects are crucial to development of evidence-based practice (EBP) skills and practice scholarship. However, variance exists in rigor, quality, and approaches to DNP projects, threatening their quality and ... -
The Effect of Caregiver Feeding Education on Dementia Patient Weight
(7/3/2018)Dementia is associated with deterioration in memory and cognition which can be severe enough to diminish a person's capacity to perform everyday activities including eating. Maintaining sufficient nutritional intake for ... -
A group education intervention for improving transition readiness for caregivers of adolescents with cerebral palsy
(2017-09-28)There is a critical need for a seamless transition process from pediatric to adult healthcare for adolescents with CP and other chronic pediatric conditions and their caregivers. This quality improvement project improved ... -
Human trafficking: What do nurse practitioners know?
There is an increased awareness that human trafficking affects children and adolescents worldwide. Nurses caring for children and adolescents need to be able to recognize potential victims of human trafficking. This study ... -
Mothering from the inside out: A mentalization-based intervention for mothers enrolled in mental health services
(2017-07-27)A pilot study of a parenting intervention delivered by an interdisciplinary clinical team improved maternal indices for mothers enrolled in community mental health services. While intervention with this vulnerable and often ... -
An Onsite Self-Care Break to Decrease Stress and Promote a Culture of Wellness
Replenish at Work is a mind body restorative intervention that can be performed onsite during the workday to mitigate stress and promote self-care. Our intervention improved engagement and was a positive experience for the staff. -
Parenting Bedtime Behaviors and Sleep Among Toddlers Living With Socioeconomic Adversity
(2017-07-25)Purpose: Sleep problems are very prevalent during the first year of life with 20-30% of infants reported to have a sleep problem. Families most commonly seek support from pediatric health care clinicians regarding their ... -
Screening for Behavioral Health Conditions in an international Clinical Placement
(2016-07-13)Session presented on Friday, July 22, 2016 and Thursday, July 21, 2016: Background: This clinical project describes a mental health screening initiative conducted by nurse practitioner students in a pediatric clinic located ... -
Self-Management in HIV-Positive Women in China: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial
(2016-07-13)Session presented on Friday, July 22, 2016: Purpose: China is experiencing a rapid increase in the number of HIV infections. It is estimated that approximately 780,000 people are infected with HIV in China, 80% of whom are ... -
Setting academic standards for graduate-level global health clinical practicums
This study describes development of a tool designed to build academic standards and a comprehensive evaluation of graduate level nursing students having clinical immersion practicums in low resource settings from the ... -
Stressed parents' practices in feeding and food preparation for young children: A qualitative analysis
(2018-06-18)A qualitative data analysis was conducted to understand parental practices in feeding and food preparation among moderate to high stress in racially and ethnically diverse families. With a descriptive content analysis, ... -
Times past-times present: The midwife
Midwifery has re-emerged as a birthing system and women are again seeking midwives as their birth attendants. This pluralization of the U.S. medical system and its birthing system is on one level of interpretation is ... -
Toxic stress and protective factors in multiethnic school-age children
(2017-07-19)Purpose: Exposure to stress in early childhood is associated with poor health and developmental outcomes that extend across the lifespan (McEwen, 2008a). To explain this link, researchers have proposed a conceptual taxonomy ... -
The Transformation of Nursing Practice in the Acute Care Hospital
The Delphi method elicited the opinions of 12 expert nurses regarding the knowledge, skills, relationships, and resources that were most important to the transformation of nursing practice in the acute care hospital. Five ... -
Whole Genome Sequencing and Nursing Science Among Minority Populations
(2016-07-13)Session presented on : Purpose: The development of increasingly powerful technology such as genome sequencing to understand and decode human genome sequence is now having a dramatic and expanding impact on the ability to ... -
Why Do Nursing Students Want to Participate in Education Abroad Programs?
(2016-07-13)Session presented on Saturday, July 23, 2016: Purpose: The purpose of this study was determine nursing students' motivations for participating in a clinical education abroad program. Background: international clinical ...
