Browsing by Sigma Chapters "Zeta Omega at-Large"
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Are senior nursing students competent in the assessment and management of intimate partner violence?
Intimate partner violence is a global health problem. Nurses are required to screen for IPV during each encounter with a patient. The aim of this study is to examine whether graduating nursing students are competent to ... -
Assignments matter: Results from a nurse-patient assignment survey
(2017-10-24)Nurse-patient assignments are an integral part of inpatient nursing care affecting patient, nurse and organizational outcomes. Discover what this sample of medical-surgical nurses thinks about assignments. They are more ... -
Becoming someone different: A grounded theory study of how nurses integrate pregnancy and full time employment
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Saturday, November 7, 2015 and Sunday, November 8, 2015: In the United States, 40% of the contemporary nursing workforce is comprised of women of childbearing age, 65% of whom are employed full-time. ... -
Bridging the digital divide: College students mentoring seniors via an intergenerational interdisciplinary computing course
(2012-9-12)Nursing and Computer Science faculty created an interdisciplinary Gerotechnology course that prepares students to mentor older adults in computer literacy. The goal of the partnership is to prepare students for a future ... -
Clinical nurse faculty and the lived experience of clinical grading
Clinical grading is one approach to assure that future nurses have the knowledge and skills to provide safe patient care. The phenomenon being explored for this study was the experience of clinical grading for clinical ... -
Collaborating globally to transform Haiti's healthcare
(2014-11-17)Session presented on Sunday, July 27, 2014: Purpose: Haiti is facing a serious healthcare delivery crisis (Jerome & Ivers, 2010). The Haitian American Nurses Association (HANA) is addressing this issue by collaborating ... -
A Concept Analysis of Caring
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Monday, November 9, 2015 and Tuesday, November 10, 2015: Caring represents a basic tenet of nursing that undoubtedly defines the profession. Yet, it remains a somewhat ambiguous term, with a plethora ... -
Contributory elements in the introduction of new health care delivery models to health care systems globally
(2012-9-12)Purpose: The purpose of this study was to describe influential factors in the introduction of expanded nursing roles to existing health-care systems for improving access to care in health workforce shortage areas ... -
Daily management system improving quality and promoting patient safety: An evidence-based practice initiative
(2016-07-13)Session presented on Sunday, July 24, 2016: The 2015 report from the Joint Commission emphasizes the importance of expanding evidence-based initiatives to improve care quality and safety in acute care hospitals across the ... -
Development of a church-based educational program to increase prostate cancer screening for Black men 40 and older
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer among men in the United States and is one of the leading causes of cancer death among men of all races. However, African-American men are at particularly high risk. These men are ... -
Educating for success in evidence-based practice
(2012-9-12)The profession of nursing endorses EBP as a means to ensure high quality care, yet many practicing nurses do not have the necessary tools. Faculty must prepare students to make evidence-based decisions in clinical practice. ... -
Educational effects on repeating use of and evaluation by human patient simulators for developing lung sound auscultation skills
(2012-9-12)Purpose: A purpose of this study was to clarify effects of utilizing human patient simulators for development of auscultation skill on lung sounds. Methods: For the nurses who participated the three times consecutive ... -
Ericksonian hypnotherapeutic approaches in chronic care support groups: A Rogerian exploration of power and self defined health promoting goals
In Martha E. Rogers' Science of Unitary Human Beings the purpose of nursing is to promote the health and well-being of all people. Health in Rogerian science is viewed as eudaimonistic, evolving well-being which involves ... -
Holistic review impacts success of underrepresented minority nursing students: A case study
(2017-06-07)Purpose: The purpose of this project is to increase the enrollment, retention, and graduation of individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds, including ethnic and racial minorities, in the accelerated Associate's Degree in ... -
Impact of an advance care planning simulation on the communication skills of nurse practitioner students
(2016-03-29)Session presented on Saturday, April 9, 2016, and Friday, April 8, 2016: This poster will highlight the results of a pilot study, which evaluated the impact of a standardized patient advance care planning simulation on ... -
Lifesaving partnership with nonprofit organizations: A case study
(2016-07-15)Session presented on Saturday, 23 July 2016 and Sunday, 24 July 2016: The purpose of this project is to assess the process of establishing, implementing, and evaluating a lifesaving partnership between an international ... -
Managerial caring, multicultural competence, and organizational commitment in a department of nursing
The purpose of this descriptive study was to investigate the relationships among caring behaviors, multicultural competence of nursing managers, and the organizational commitment of those managers and their staff members. ... -
Mental health nurses' imagination, power, and empathy: A descriptive study using Rogerian nursing science
The researcher developed a perspective on empathy derived from Rogers' (1970, 1994) Science of Unitary Human Beings. Building on Barrett's (1983) Rogerian theory of power as knowing participation in change, the researcher ... -
The MICU Spotlight Journal: Skill building and shared accountability in a military medical ICU
(2016-03-29)Session presented on Saturday, April 9, 2016, and Friday, April 8, 2016: Background: In order to address skill building and shared accountability in a military Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU), the unit journal was ... -
Nurse-patient assignments: Moving beyond nurse-patient ratios for better patient, staff and organizational outcomes
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Sunday, November 8, 2015: Adverse patient safety outcomes have been linked to higher nurse-patient staffing ratios (1). But given the current shortage of nurses and financial constraints, reliance on ...
