Browsing by Sigma Chapters "Upsilon Kappa"
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Achieving clinical learning outcomes in a community/public health nursing course through an international immersion experience
(2017-06-20)International clinical immersion experiences are valuable in that students are exposed to diverse cultures and ways of living, but these experiences can also provide an unconventional setting for clinical learning and the ... -
Are nurses prepared for a radiological disaster?: Assessing the knowledge of nursing students to support the need of integrating radiological/disaster content into nursing curricula
(2014-11-17)Session presented on Sunday, July 27, 2014: Purpose: The purpose of this project is to provide further evidence of the need for integrating radiological disaster preparedness content into nursing education curricula by ... -
Assessing nurse learners' stress using technology to measure physiologic adaptation within interprofessional patient care simulation
(2017-06-30)Background: Recent public reports find that communication-based errors contribute to medical errors as the third leading cause of death in America (Fikes, 2016; Kaiser Health News, 2016). Safe, efficient reporting of ... -
Building a foundation of transformation
(2018-03-19)Transformative learning encourages critical reflection and experience in discourse that requires adult learners to reframe perspectives and assumptions. Nurse educators are the cornerstone to building a foundation of ... -
The effects of nursing program simulation experience level and type of advanced organizer on clinical judgment performance, satisfaction, self-confidence, and perceived cognitive load of pre-licensure nursing students in simulation based learning
Nursing education programs face many challenges with training students to become professional nurses who will practice safely in an evolving and complex healthcare system. Nurse educators are obliged to prepare students ... -
Enhancing asynchronous RN to BSN online instructor-learner engagement using video-recorded assignment directions: A descriptive study
(2018-03-23)This descriptive study demonstrates the significance of using technology to enhance instructor-to-learner engagement in an asynchronous RN to BSN online course. Participants will learn steps to create instructor-created, ... -
High-fidelity simulation of critical illness: An evidence-based practice summary
(2017-10-18)The purpose of this presentation is to summarize cuurent literature on the use of high fidelity simulation in critical care enviornments. A PICOT question is developed. -
Impact of music in the operating room: EBP
Research shows that music is commonly played in the OR environment. A critical appraisal of evidence showed the effect music has in the OR has been found to cause errors, interfere with communication and the critical phases. ... -
Implementing a Birth Preference Protocol for Intrapartal Women to Promote Collaboration, Autonomy and Patient Satisfaction
(2017-03-03)Session presented on Saturday, March 18, 2017: Laboring women have a right to informed consent and autonomy of their healthcare decisions. Having control over one's own healthcare decisions is an important element of ... -
Incorporating online education modules with community clinical experiences to enhance cultural competency among student nurses
(2016-07-13)Session presented on Thursday, July 21, 2016 and Friday, July 22, 2016: Purpose: Cultural competency can be a challenging and overwhelming topic for students to understand. A West Florida Associate Degree Nursing Program ... -
Integrating theory in an alternative community health nursing clinical experience
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Monday, November 9, 2015 and Tuesday, November 10, 2015: Today's nursing students engage in various learning styles, presenting challenges for faculty to educate and create meaningful learning. Numerous ... -
Interprofessional collaborative approach for improving situation awareness using simulation in a nursing residency program
(2018-03-14)Lack of situation awareness (SA) in healthcare is a leading cause of medical errors. The University of West Florida’s psychology and nursing faculty collaborated on an interdisciplinary, innovative approach to enhancing ... -
Nurse leader mentoring to fuel co-creation
This presentation examines the current need for mentoring of nurse leaders. Approaches to enhance the mentoring role and ways to support co-creation are discussed. The presentation slides and abstract information including ... -
Quality enhancement plan: Interprofessional educational program to improve nursing students' self-efficacy in scholarly written communication
(2016-09-26)Session presented on Monday, September 19, 2016: This presentation describes Nursing and English departments’ interprofessional strategies to create two sequential writing courses for an online RN to BSN nursing ... -
Stories, ethics and the interpretation of meaning: Bearing witness to mothers' stories of their neonatal intensive care unit experience
This study grounded in narrative perspectives was conducted to uncover mothers' experience of having a baby in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). The purpose of this study was to describe and interpret mothers NICU ...