Browsing by Sigma Chapters "Eta Eta"
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Creation of a serenity room in an acute care hospital setting
(2017-03-03)Session presented on Saturday, March 18, 2017: Nurses face physical, emotional, and mental stress in their daily work. Job-related stress is linked to decreased job satisfaction and patient satisfaction. Researchers ... -
Daily interruption of sedation versus continuous sedation and length of mechanical ventilation
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Monday, November 9, 2015 and Tuesday, November 10, 2015: Hundreds of thousands of critical care patients are intubated every year. Many of these patients are sedated for comfort. However, continuous ... -
Eta Eta: Beyond the Classroom and Into the Community
(2015-01-15)Session presented on Thursday, September 25, 2014, and Wednesday, September 24, 2014: Description: Eta Eta chapter is celebrating its 30th year as a chapter at York College in York, PA. Chapter leadership identified that ... -
Examining the effectiveness of virtual instruction for medication administration skill acquisition in prelicensure nursing students
To better meet student needs, nurse educators must explore alternatives to traditional educational approaches that will accommodate student needs while still providing essential instruction and feedback for students. Virtual ... -
How one organization used evidence to address lateral violence among nurses
(2017-03-03)Session presented on Sunday, March 19, 2017: Bullying and lateral violence in nursing is a serious problem and damages the dignity of the individual and the profession. A common definition of bullying at work is 'repeated ... -
Implementation of an evidence-based patient education Stoplight Tool to reduce cancer treatment-induced diarrhea
CID is a common side effect of chemotherapy treatment for patients with gastrointestinal cancers, which can result in ED visits, hospital admissions and delays in cancer treatment impacting overall survival. Prior research ... -
Medication reconciliation: It's in the bag
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Monday, November 9, 2015: Background: Medication discrepancies, defined as unexplained differences in documented medications between various sites of care, occur in 70% of patients at hospital admission ... -
A novel approach to reduce non-emergent visits through a mentored postnatal education program
(2016-03-21)Sesssion presented on Saturday, November 7, 2015 and Sunday, November 8, 2015: Purpose: Anecdotal information from nurses at two local hospitals suggested that mothers seemed to be accessing emergency services unnecessarily ... -
Nurse Externships Promote Interprofessional Collaboration, Enhance Resiliency, and Foster Nurse Self-Advocacy
Nursing externships augment the student's undergraduate clinical education and focus on reinforcing safe patient care. However, externships have the ability to do more than reinforce theoretical knowledge. When immersed ... -
Nursing in Sendafa, Ethiopia: A collaboration of mission, mentoring, and medicine
(2012-9-12)Ethiopia is the second poorest nation in the world. Ninety percent of the population lives in poverty, over 50% on less than one dollar a day. The village of Sendafa has about 15,000 people, most of whom have never seen a ... -
The relationship between health locus of control, perceived self-efficacy, hardiness, and recovery in schizophrenia
Approximately 1 out of 100 persons in the United States will be diagnosed as schizophrenic at some point in their lives. As an illness with onset in late adolescence or early young adulthood, schizophrenia has been described ... -
Structural empowerment impacts nurse educators' work environment and professional quality of life
This investigated nurse educators’ perception of structural empowerment (SE) to determine if there is a relationship to their professional quality of life (ProQoL). While greatly studied, in nursing staff, this has ... -
Student opportunity for success (S.O.S.): An academic recovery program
(2018-03-14)The purpose of this presentation is to describe an innovative program designed to promote academic achievement in nursing students. The goal of the program is to reduce attrition and increase retention to allow the growth ...