Browsing by Sigma Chapters "Epsilon Omega"
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Applicability of Cuba's Hogares Maternos Model of Care to United States rural settings
This session compares the state of maternal child care in Cuba and the United States. In particular, the Hogares Maternos, or maternity home, model of caring for pregnant women will be reviewed and the potential for a ... -
Barriers and facilitators to ELNEC undergraduate integration into nursing curricula
This presentation will explore challenges to ELNEC Undergraduate module integration experienced by educators across the country. Successful strategies and solutions to overcoming barriers will be presented. -
Beyond biometrics: Optimizing academic professional well-being at individual and organizational levels
This presentation describes an academic workplace wellness program and its longitudinal (5-year) impact on participating employees' biometric health screening data. An overview of workplace wellness literature will be ... -
Breaking traditions: Exploring new variables to promote student success
(2016-03-29)Session presented on Friday, April 8, 2016: Nationally, nursing schools have a long standing history of using traditional academic measures of grade point average (GPA) for admission and evaluation of student success. ... -
Bringing Back Field Day: An Innovative Approach to Cultivating Healthy Work Environments
(2017-03-03)Session presented on Friday, March 17, 2017: A positive workplace culture is perhaps one of the most dynamic factors thought to be integral to an organization's success, as it has potential to significantly boost employee ... -
Clinicians take 5: Emphasizing accountably in blood pressure measurement
(2018-06-14)The USPSTF provides evidence based recommendations for blood pressure (BP) screening. All individuals 18 years and older should receive screening for high BP. Demographic variables play a role in BP reading difference. ... -
Cognitive Apprenticeship in Hospital Orientation for Newly Graduated Nurses
(2017-10-12)The transition from student nurse to practicing, newly graduated nurse (NGN) has been described as a time of challenge. Cognitive apprenticeship (CA) is an instructional strategy that may facilitate ease of transition for ... -
Cognitive Apprenticeship in Hospital Orientation for Newly Graduated Nurses
(2017-06-06)Purpose: Most hospitals utilize the preceptor model for the clinical portion of orientation with newly graduated nurses. The transition from student nurse to practicing, newly graduated nurse can be stressful. Many newly ... -
Collaboration for Women Wellness in Rural Communities
Breast cancer impacts many women throughout the world. As nurses, health promotion and disease prevention are emphasized to all populations. In an effort to understand rural populations and their belief system, an ... -
A comparison of evaluation methods of intravenous catheter insertion skills in third-term associate degree nursing students
Nursing programs are responsible for ensuring student nurses are competent in performing psychomotor skills before clinical experience to ensure patient safety. Traditional, face-to-face methods of evaluating skills are ... -
Comparisons of cardiometabolic risk between African American and Caucasian women in a worksite wellness program
(2017-06-16)Purpose: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death and chronic illness in the US. The burden of CVD is substantial in terms of mortality, disability, and cost. More than 82 million Americans have some ... -
Content specific simulation-supported learning and high-stakes exams: Longitudinal outcomes
(2016-03-17)Session presented on Saturday, July 25, 2015: Purpose: The use of human patient simulation in nursing curriculum has intensified over the last several years. As more schools of nursing begin and/or continue to implement ... -
Coping style, psychological impact, and information needs of men with prostate cancer
This research study focuses on the psychological aspects of prostate cancer examining coping styles, information seeking, satisfaction with information received, perceptions of illness, depression, anxiety and stress in 62 men. -
Creating opportunities for research collaboration
This presentation will describe how nurse educators and researchers from across the country collaborated to explore implementation and outcomes of incorporating the End of Life Nursing Education Consortium Undergraduate ... -
Developing civically engaged nursing student leaders through mentoring and community engagement
(2015-01-15)Session presented on Friday, September 26, 2014: Purpose: Primary care and health promotion, with a community-based orientation, is the driving force of healthcare reform. The Institute of Medicines 2010 report on the ... -
Development of a dashboard to monitor employee wellness data
Dashboards are graphical displays that integrate disparate related data sources enable swift interpretation of large datasets, often unloading cognitive burden. This project illuminated how dashboards can provide practice-based ... -
Discovering cardiovascular risk factors within workplace wellness biometric data: A cluster analysis
The purpose of this study was to examine and describe the prevalence of single and combined, or multiple, cardiovascular risk factors within a workplace wellness dataset by way of cluster analysis. The analysis provided ... -
Don’t cry yourself a river: A framework to bridge the clinical-to-academia transition gap
This presentation aligns the AACN Healthy Work Environment Standards with the Kouzes & Posner Leadership Model as a framework for enhancing professional wellbeing within academic environments. The presenters will: ... -
Effective ventilation strategies for one-lung ventilation
For patients requiring mechanical ventilation during surgery, anesthesia practitioners generally choose between one of two approaches, lung-protective ventilation (LPV) or traditional individual parameter manipulation. The ... -
Emotional intelligence: Why it should be included in baccalaureate education curricula
This presentation will including findings from a quantitative longitudinal study that examined the measured Emotional Intelligence scores of baccalaureate nursing students at the beginning and end of a professional program. ...
