Browsing by Sigma Chapters "Omicron at-Large"
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Acuity-based Staffing in Long Term Care: Does it Influence Quality?
Background. Long-term care settings have frequently been targeted as environments prone to deficiencies in quality and resultant negative effects on resident safety. The use of minimum nurse staffing ratios has been proposed ... -
Advocacy: Civic engagement among nurses
Civic engagement is a way to advocate for persons and for health-related issues. This study identified the frequencies in which nurses advocate for health-related issues through civic engagement and examined the relationship ... -
An Assessment of Errors and Near-Misses From Pre-Licensure Student Nurses
An examination of quality and safety measures of a current hospital based associate degree nursing (ADN) educational program provided data regarding errors committed by prelicensure students. Tracking and analysis of ... -
An Assessment of Errors and Near-Misses From Pre-Licensure Student Nurses
(2017-07-27)An examination of quality and safety measures of a current hospital based associate degree nursing (ADN) educational program provided data regarding errors committed by prelicensure students. Tracking and analysis of ... -
An Assessment of Errors and Near-Misses From Prelicensure Nursing Students
(2018-03-15)An examination of quality and safety measures of a current hospital based associate degree nursing (ADN) educational program provided data regarding errors committed by prelicensure students. Tracking and analysis of ... -
Attitude of Pregnant Women Toward Induction of Labor in a Secondary Health Facility in Nigeria
Attitude towards induction of labor is important in healthy delivery, this was examined in this study. Attitude found was positive indicative that these patients are well disposed towards induction. This is related to the ... -
Attitudinal Disposition of Adults Toward People With Mental Disorders in Oke-OSE Community, Ilorin East, Nigeria
The research looked at the attitudes of adults to mental health disorders in a local community in Oke-ose, Kwara State, Nigeria. Such factors influencing the acceptability and non-acceptability on mental health disorders ... -
Audit of End-of-Life Nursing Care in Ghana
Nursing responsibility in end-of-life care include performing activities that leads to a peaceful death. The study seeks to determine the End-of-Life nursing care rendered to clients who died whilst on admission in the ... -
Collaboration With Chinese Nurse Educators in Developing/Implementing Simulation in Nursing Schools and Clinical Settings
U.S. and Chinese nurse educators' collaborative research involving two quantitative descriptive studies. One examines knowledge and identified perceived barriers of Chinese nurse educators regarding development and ... -
Collaborative Efforts Yielding a Sharp Increase in RN-BSN Enrollment: Benefits, Challenges, and Lessons Learned
Collaborative efforts with one College of Nursing, University Admissions, and a state hospital yielded a 195% increase in the hospital nurse enrollment in an RN-BS program. Incentives attracting nurses to seek a bachelor's ... -
Development of a Nurse Practitioner (NP) Fellowship for Transition From a Novice to Clinical Expert
The Institute of Medicine recommends the extension of NP fellowship programs to assess competencies after completion of licensure (2011). The initiative will evaluate NP satisfaction between NPs who have not completed a ... -
Environmental sustainability issues are everywhere: A pilot program for undergraduate, interdisciplinary research and problem solving
An active interdisciplinary Materials Management research team (nursing, anthropology, economics, environmental engineering, and food science) developed a pilot program with undergraduate, interdisciplinary students to ... -
Examining the relationship among civic attitudes, civic engagement behaviors, and a sense of community in a sample of nurses
Nurses are called to advocate for those they serve, and civic engagement is a way to advocate for health-related issues. However, there is sparse evidence of frequency and types of civic activities in which professional ... -
An exploration of the first year of nursing practice: Continued formation as registered nurses in the 21st century
A challenge to health care in the 21st Century is preparing and integrating newly registered nurses (RNs) into the health care system. The most ill and infirm are often the recipients of nursing care provided by new RNs, ... -
Gender-specific HIV prevention intervention for adolescent girls: Unanticipated evidence for broad sexual risk reduction
(2016-07-13)Session presented on Friday, July 22, 2016: Purpose: Worldwide, more than 50% of individuals infected with HIV are women and girls (UNAIDS, 2014). Other sexual morbidities, such as STIs and unplanned pregnancy, negatively ... -
I Am Woman: Gender Specific Issues for Australian Women Following Traumatic Brain Injury
This paper presents preliminary findings regarding the experience of women following traumatic brain injury. Without this research there is a risk that clinical care, policy development and advocacy services will not ... -
Identifying barriers to success for minority undergraduate nursing students
Efforts to diversify the nursing workforce must begin with successful recruitment and retention of minority nursing students. The purpose of this poster presentation is to share findings from a literature review exploring ... -
Increasing trauma informed awareness in higher education
Traumatic experiences across the lifespan can impact an individual's physical, social and emotional health, and cognitive development. There has been an increased focus on trauma informed initiatives in various public and ... -
The Influence of Age, Employment, and Race on Nursing Students' Perceptions of Instructor Caring
Caring is a core value of nursing, but is it evident in nursing education? Participants will learn about recent research regarding nursing students' perceptions of instructor caring including: how students' age, employment, ... -
The International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame: One Nurse's Journey
(2017-07-27)The presentation will describe Professor Trisha's Dunning's journey to the STTI International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame and her key learnings along the way using stories.
