Browsing by Sigma Chapters "Mu"
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The Abusive Relationship of Emergency Nursing: What is it Doing to Our Nurses?
Emergency nurses face stressful situations daily. These situations have a profound impact resulting in multifaceted effects for emergency nurse. Using Husserl's descriptive phenomenology and Colaizzi's method for data ... -
Beliefs, Behaviors, and Experiences of APRNs With Lesbian and Gay Patients: A Mixed Methods Study
Understanding the beliefs, behaviors and experiences of APRNs who have cared for lesbian and gay patients will inform health care providers to demonstrate greater individualized care for these patients. Findings will apprise ... -
A case study of a multi-method evaluation design: Correctional nurse competency program
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Monday, November 9, 2015 and Tuesday, November 10, 2015: Background: In only a few studies have improved nurse-patient care outcomes associated with continuing education programs been assessed. Provided ... -
Collaboration Through Interdisciplinary Education and Its Impact on Future Health Care Practitioners
(2016-07-13)Session presented on Friday, July 22, 2016: With our ever changing and increasingly complex healthcare system, there are indications that health care practice must adapt to provide safe, effective, precise, and cost effective ... -
Compassion Fatigue in the Presence of Employee Engagement
A relationship exists between employee engagement and compassion fatigue. The screening for compassion fatigue in conjunction with employee engagement on acute care nursing units will provide nursing administration the ... -
Conversations Had at Trying Times (CHATT): Development & Testing of an Advance Care Planning Simulation
This presentation will describe a simulation study in advance care planning called Conversations Had at Trying Times (CHATT). This two-phase study consists of simulation development, through standardized guidelines, and ... -
Dedicated Education Units: Partnerships that Promote Nursing Leadership Development
(2014-05-13)Session presented on: Saturday, April 5, 2014: Recent recommendations for the development of nurse leaders at every level require that we examine how leadership competencies are most effectively developed in nurses. ... -
Evaluation of a clean delivery kit intervention in preventing umbilical cord infections in Monrovia, Liberia
The project's objective was to evaluate the effectiveness, impact, and rate of infant umbilical cord infection when community health care workers/ midwives utilized clean delivery kits in under-resourced areas of Monrovia, ... -
Evidence appraisal mobile educational game
We created the Evidence Appraisal Mobile Education Game to be a learning tool with a fun interactive design to help nursing and other health professions students learn how to identify the level of evidence when presented ... -
Evidence-based clinical guidelines and their impact on prevention of catheter related blood stream infections
The growing concern for hospital-acquired infections in healthcare has stimulated the development of evidence based practice guidelines. Healthcare institutions across the United States are increasing their focus on the ... -
The Experiences of Nurses Returning to School for the Baccalaureate: A Metasynthesis
(2014-05-13)Session presented on: Friday, April 4, 2014 Aim/Purpose: This metasynthesis assists the interpretation of qualitative research performed to explore the experience of registered nurses who return to school to pursue a ... -
Exploring relationships between mindfulness, job stress, job demands and missed nursing care
Preventable medical errors pose a substantial threat to patient safety, leading to over 400,000 deaths annually (Cathro, 2016; James, 2013; Kohn et al., 2000). Medical errors include care that is omitted or delayed, such ... -
Global Priorities for Home Care Research, Education, Practice, and Management
(2016-03-17)Session presented on Monday, July 27, 2015: Purpose: This study describes global priorities for the future of home care nursing research, education, practice, and management. Attendees at the inaugural international Home ... -
A history of the lived experience of nurse-caring by Northern women during the American Civil War
The purposes of this research were to create and historicize a phenomenological description of the lived experience of nurse-caring by the culture of white Northern women during the American Civil War. Primary sources ... -
How to gamify your course
This session is 2 of 3 on game-based learning. In this session we will review and build on the principles of game-based learning and focus on the process and considerations for applying game mechanics and game aesthetics ... -
Implementation and Evaluation of a Training Program to Develop Professional Competencies in Nursing
Writing narratives can help to promote professional competences in nurses and consequently, therapeutic relationships with patients. Results of this research supported study hypothesis, and confirmed the preliminary efficacy ... -
Improving Nursing Students' Therapeutic Communication Via Low-Cost Interventions
Therapeutic communication is related to higher quality nursing care and more favorable patient outcomes, yet many nurses do not possess or utilize effective therapeutic communication skills. This experimental study examined ... -
Knowledge Mobilization of Methods and Findings of Intimate Partner Violence Research in Canada's North
(2017-07-12)Intimate partner violence (IPV) in Canada’s Northwest Territories (NWT) is a grave social and public health issue with rates of IPV nine times the national average (Statistics Canada, 2016). The social, contextual and ... -
The lived experience of adolescent females with diabetes: A phenomenological approach
Adolescent females with type 1 diabetes are at risk for long-term complications including retinopathy, nephropathy, and neuropathy. Habits formed during this period can positively or negatively influence future health ... -
Making a case for innovations in learning: Overcoming resistance in nursing education
This will be part 3 of 3 sessions that explore game-based learning in nursing education. Whether game-based learning or another type of educational innovation, there can be resistance to change! In this session we will ...
