Browsing by Sigma Chapters "Theta Chi"
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American Association of Diabetes Educators 7 intervention in managing type 2 diabetes in older home health patients
Management of chronic disease pathologies requires the patient to have the ability to understand and manage their care. This may be especially challenging in the aging population caring for themselves at home. The home ... -
Computer-Based Training at a Military Medical Center: Understanding Decreased Participation in Training among Staff and Ways to Improve Completion Rates
(2014-11-17)Session presented on Sunday, July 27, 2014: Military health care facilities make extensive use of computer-based training (CBT) for both clinical and non-clinical staff. Despite evidence identifying various factors that ... -
An ethnomethodological examination of the decision-making process psychiatric nurses use when deciding whether to use seclusion
This replication and expansion of Mason's work on seclusion used an ethnomethodological approach to examine the decision-making process of five Canadian registered nurses. Each nurse read two patient vignettes and then ... -
Improving quality in long-term care: A collaborative evidence-based practice project
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Monday, November 9, 2015 and Tuesday, November 10, 2015: This presentation will describe an ongoing collaborative evidence-based practice (EBP) project to improve quality in long-term care (LTC). The ... -
An Innovative Approach to Teaching Genetics to Graduate Nursing Students Using Interprofessional Teaching Modalities
(2017-07-14)Purpose: To present an innovative approach to teaching genetics to graduate nursing students using interprofessional teaching modalities. The Masters’ Essentials (2011) mandate the integration of genetic and genomic ... -
Living with a Defibrillator
(2017-03-03)Session presented on Saturday, March 18, 2017: Patients with implanted cardiac defibrillators face fear, uncertainty, and many unknowns when deciding to have the device implanted. The implanted cardioverter defibrillator, ... -
Mentoring undergraduate nursing students for evidence-based practice to improve quality and safety in long-term care settings
(2016-03-17)Session presented on Saturday, July 25, 2015: This presentation will describe a project to mentor undergraduate nursing students and clinical staff in Evidence-based Practice (EBP) to improve quality and safety in long-term ... -
Perceived Sources and Types of Social Support and Academic Success
There are many benefits of including males in Nursing, Social Work, and Occupational Therapy to produce a more diverse workforce supporting positive patient care outcomes and delivery services. Results indicate that perceived ... -
Silenced in history: A historical study of Mary Seacole
This study sought to uncover the factors that contributed to the historical disappearance of Mary Seacole from the literature from 1900 through to the 1980s. By the late 1990s she was celebrated as a nursing pioneer and ... -
Stress in Baccalaureate Nursing Student
(2015-01-15)Session presented on Thursday, September 25, 2014: Stress is a phenomenon that everyone experiences in his or her lifetime. Stress can impair both physical and psychological health. Nursing students are no exception to ...
