Browsing by Sigma Chapters "Pi Epsilon at-Large"
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An Attitude of Gratitude: A Secret for Success
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Monday, November 9, 2015: As nurses transition through their professional careers, with many specializing within their practice, involvement with a nursing association is an important aspect of their ... -
Back to school: An educational collaboration and tool for school nurses and their patients with chronic headache and school absence
(2014-11-17)Session presented on Sunday, July 27, 2014: Purpose: The purpose of this project is to develop an effective teaching tool to facilitate communication among medical providers, students and families, and school administration ... -
Becoming a community engaged department in an academic university
This presentation will explore the concept of community engagement as an academic process and describe how a School of Nursing became a community-engaged Department in a University. Four examples of community engagement ... -
Continuous Virtual Monitoring of Hospitalized Patients: Barriers and Facilitators to Implementation
In recent years, an increased use of observers has put a strain on nursing resources. An alternative, continuous virtual monitoring is an effective strategy to maintain patient safety and improve nursing budgets, however, ... -
Development of a decision aid for unaffected BRCA mutation carriers
(2017-06-20)Purpose: Deleterious BRCA mutations confer high risks for developing breast and ovarian cancer (Chen & Parmigiani, 2007; Mavaddat, et al., 2013). For healthy women, diagnosis of ... -
Educating nurses to engage in health policy and advocacy
Few nurses engage in developing health policy from the local to global level. For a scholarly practice project, American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) accredited nursing schools in New England were surveyed to ... -
The effect of infusion rate titration on taxane-related hypersensitivity
The purpose of this project is to determine if an initial three-step, gradual infusion rate titration provided with first and second lifetime exposure taxane infusions reduces the occurrence and severity of immediate ... -
Effects of Neuraxial anesthesia on readiness for ambulation following total knee arthroplasty
Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is the most commonly performed inpatient surgical procedure within the USA and is estimated to reach 3.48 million procedures annually by 2030. An aging population with multiple health conditions ... -
Facilitating the success of nursing faculty via the onboarding process
This ENFLA scholar created a model for faculty onboarding that is robust, sustainable, and focuses on promoting faculty success because it is imperative to help new faculty understand and flourish in the academic environment ... -
Factors that challenge and/or facilitate a military student’s transition to the civilian nursing classroom
Military nursing students bring a variety of experiences to the classroom but they may also present with some unique challenges that educators should be cognizant of in order to successfully transition them to the civilian ... -
A global nursing initiative: An interdisciplinary, multicultural collaboration for nurse practitioner students
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Sunday, November 8, 2015: This paper describes a collaborative program between St. Georges University, Grenada, West Indies and Regis College, Weston, Massachusetts, where faculty from both schools ... -
Instruction and empowerment of nursing students in participatory action research: The heart healthy photovoice project
Participants will learn how community health students can participate in a photovoice project to engage middle-school students in a participatory action project to provide them with an early understanding of the connections ... -
A nurse-led community partnership initiative to identify and reduce hypertension in the Mukono District, Uganda
A school of nursing led initiative in Uganda, partnering with a local non-governmental agency (NGO) successfully trained community health workers on blood pressure screening and healthy lifestyle education and referral to ... -
Nurses Responding to Patient Symptoms Improving Outcome Trajectory for Headache Patients Treated With IV-DHE
(2016-07-13)Session presented on Saturday, July 23, 2016: Chronic pediatric headache is a disabling disorder that at times may require inpatient care (Marmura et al., 2015). Intravenous dihydroergotamine (IV-DHE) has emerged as an ... -
A school of nursing-led community initiative to identify and reduce hypertension in Mukono District, Uganda
Pre-licensure nursing students and a university faculty member partnered with a local NGO in Uganda and successfully trained 90 community health workers on blood pressure screening, healthy lifestyles, and referral to ... -
A Student Actor Performed Three Vignettes Addressing Culture in an Undergraduate Health Assessment Class
(2017-10-13)A student actor portrayed three patients from three different cultures (Mexican, Chinese, and Jewish) performing three vignettes addressing mental health, anxiety, and suicide in an Undergraduate Health Assessment Class. ... -
Undergraduate military nursing students in the civilian classroom: An integrative review
Civilian baccalaureate nursing programs educate 100% of undergraduate military nursing students yet many faculty are unaware of the challenges and facilitators that these students encounter when they attend a BSN program. ...
