Browsing by Sigma Chapters "Zeta Eta at-Large"
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Brokering student well-being: Understanding the work of school health administrators
Background: Despite a well-documented need for school health programs (SHPs) among school children who have chronic conditions, require medically complex interventions at school, or experience socio-emotional health issues, ... -
Diabetes management and mHealth technology: The importance of healthcare partnerships and clinical integration
(2016-07-13)Session presented on Sunday, July 24, 2016: Purpose: Diabetes affects more than 29 million people in the United States, and an estimated 86 million people have pre-diabetes. The World Health Organization estimates that ... -
E-wound care specialist
(2013-10-22)Session presented on: Tuesday, July 23, 2013: Wound assessment and care is a highly specialized area of medicine; specialized training is needed to provide the tools to assess, treat, and document complicated wounds. Yet, ... -
Educating healthcare providers to identify and heal victims of sex trafficking
(2017-07-20)Purpose: Human trafficking is recognized as a gross violation of human rights that victimizes tens of millions of vulnerable women, men and children worldwide (Ahn et al., 2013). A United States Congressional Research ... -
Empathy Levels of New Graduate Nurses in a Nurse Residency Program
Over half of new nurses leave the nursing profession within two years. Empathy may be important in the retention of new nurses in the profession. The purpose of this study was to examine empathy in new nurse graduates ... -
Exploring masters' entry program nursing students' poverty simulation experience
This presentation describes a masters' entry program in nursing students' perspective of a poverty simulation, "Community Action Poverty Simulation" learning experience. The descriptive thematic analysis demonstrated that ... -
Failure to Maintain: Missed Care and Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia
(2017-09-26)Please join us to discover the #1 infectious disease related hidden patient harm in hospitals and determine its impact. This session will cover interprofessional solutions and partnerships to improve fundamental nursing ... -
Hospital-acquired pressure ulcer/injuries as compared to community acquired pressure ulcer/injuries
Pressure ulcers occur in every setting from home to Intensive Care Units. This study will contrast and compare pressure ulcers that occur in hospital to those that occur in home, skilled nursing, or long term care facilities. -
How does obesity and intentional weight loss impact health related quality of life in adults?
(2017-06-05)Purpose: Over the past 30 years, the percentage of older adults who are obese has doubled; the most recent CDC data indicates that adults age 60 and over were more likely to be obese than were younger adults. The number ... -
The impact of readmission on family caregivers of children following ventricular peritoneal shunt surgery
Objectives: Family caregivers work tirelessly to ensure their loved ones don’t need to return to the hospital after discharge. This study will examine the impact of readmission on family caregivers of children who have had ... -
Informatics Competencies: Transition from Classroom to Bedside
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Sunday, November 8, 2015: Informatics Competencies: Transitioning from classroom to bedside. Gaps in the integration of informatics into nursing curriculum and development of informatics competencies ... -
Innovative nursing education pathways and racial/ethnic diversity
(2017-07-20)Purpose: The purpose of this study is to determine whether innovative nursing education pathways reflect the racial/ethnic diversity of traditional pathways. In 2008 the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation partnered with the ... -
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction in Veterans With PTSD
A review of the current literature suggests that different forms of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) is effective in improving quality of life outcomes for veterans with PTSD. -
Nursing student and faculty perceptions of the characteristics of effective instructors in the simulated clinical experience
Effective clinical nursing instructors are essential to maximizing the educational experience of nursing students. Due to a shortage of clinical placement sites and advancements in technology, today's nursing students are ... -
Patient and stakeholder engagement in research: The PCORI opportunity
(2016-07-13)Session presented on Sunday, July 24, 2016: Purpose: This symposium will highlight results of a Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) funded program of research focused on nurse coaching and emerging mobile ... -
Pediatric Continuity of Care
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Saturday, November 7, 2015: Currently, there is no patient centered pediatric discharge Transition of Care (TOC) plan on Tower 8. No educational materials are readily available on this topic either. ... -
Peer-mentorship for master's entry nursing students: Utilizing Lewin's Change Theory for program development and pilot-testing
This presentation describes how students in the Master's Entry Program in Nursing at the UC Davis School of Nursing developed and pilot-tested a student-led peer-mentorship program using Lewin's Change Theory as a way to ... -
Pilates Cadillac for chronic low back pain: A pilot study
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Saturday, November 7, 2015 and Sunday, November 8, 2015: BACKGROUND: Musculoskeletal health problems such as low back pain contribute significantly to morbidity in the general population and contribute ... -
Preferences for Rural and Urban Jobs Among Registered Nurses: A Discrete Choice Experiment
(2018-06-14)A discrete choice experiment was used to examine how U.S. nurses' value different job characteristics, and how they make trade-offs between these characteristics when choosing between jobs. Findings provide employers with ... -
Preparing prelicensure nursing students for workplace violence: A limit setting education module
In the hospital setting, de-escalation training has become a very important method of preventing workplace violence against nurses and other healthcare workers. While nurses are now required to complete workplace violence ...
