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Acculturative stress, psychological flexibility, and cardiovascular health behaviors among second generation Arab Americans in the greater Washington DC region
Arab Americans are under-represented in cardiovascular (CV) research, but recent evidence reveals they are at disproportionate risk for poor CV health behaviors when compared to the overall United States of America population. ... -
Achieving cultural competency with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) patients through application of Carper's Fundamental Patterns of Knowing in Nursing
(8/5/2014)Vulnerable groups with respect to health care are those susceptible to heightened adverse physical, psychological, or sociological health because of their particular status within society (De Chesnay & Anderson, 2008). ... -
Acuity-based Staffing in Long Term Care: Does it Influence Quality?
Background. Long-term care settings have frequently been targeted as environments prone to deficiencies in quality and resultant negative effects on resident safety. The use of minimum nurse staffing ratios has been proposed ... -
Adult Asthma Care Guidelines for Nurses: Promoting Control of Asthma
(Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario, 2007-02)The purpose of this best practice guideline is to provide nurses (RNs and RPNs) working in diverse settings with an evidence-based summary of basic asthma care for adults. The guideline aims to assist nurses and their ... -
Anesthesia protocol for bariatric surgery: A quality improvement process
Objective: The purpose of this quality improvement process was to review current enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) protocols for bariatric surgeries, analyze the current anesthesia protocol used at a midwestern medical ... -
Anesthetic management of an adult brain-dead organ donor: A quality improvement project
Objective: Anesthesia plays a critical role in the management of an adult brain-dead donor. It is imperative that the anesthesia provider understand the pathophysiology of brain death and its subsequent effects on the body, ... -
Antecedents of control over nursing practice
Control over nursing practice (CONP) is a participatory process through which nurses have input and engage in decision making about the context of practice and unit operations related ... -
Aseptic administration of intravenous medications by anesthesia providers; A quality improvement project
(2018-05-22)This quality improvement project addresses the lack of compliance by anesthesia providers in following aseptic techniques for preparing and administering IV medications. An initial 8-question survey was conducted to assess ... -
Assessment and Care of Adults at Risk for Suicidal Ideation and Behaviour
(Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario, 2009-01)This best practice guideline aims to assist nurses working in diverse practice settings provide evidence-based care to adults at risk for suicidal ideation and behaviours. Within the scope of this guideline, adults at risk ... -
Assessment and Device Selection for Vascular Access
(Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario, 2008)This best practice guideline focuses on assisting all nurses providing care to clients requiring infusion therapy in diverse practice settings, both institutional and community. This guideline incorporates best practices ... -
Assessment and Management of Foot Ulcers for People with Diabetes
(Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario, 2013-03)This guideline has been developed to address the question of how to assess and manage people with established diagnosis of diabetic foot ulcer(s). It provides evidence-based recommendations to all nurses and the interprofessional ... -
Assessment and Management of Pain
(Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario, 2013-12)This guideline provides evidence-based recommendations for nurses and other members of the interprofessional team who are assessing and managing people with the presence, or risk of, any type of pain. -
Assessment and Management of Stage I to IV Pressure Ulcers
(Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario, 2007-03)The purpose of this guideline, Assessment and Management of Stage I to IV Pressure Ulcers (Revised), is to identify nursing care related to assessment, management of tissue load, ulcer care and the management of bacterial ... -
Assessment and Management of Venous Leg Ulcers
(Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario, 2004-03)The purpose of this guideline is to:- improve outcomes for venous leg ulcer clients;- assist practitioners to apply the best available research evidence to clinical decisions; and- promote the responsible use of ... -
Assessment of Risk for Osteoporosis
(9/17/2015)Osteoporosis is a major global public health problem associated with significant morbidity, mortality, and socioeconomic burden. Osteoporosis is a silent disease, reflected only in a low bone density, till a fracture occurs. ... -
Attention process training: Its effectiveness in remediating attention and memory deficits following mild traumatic brain injury
Traumatic brain injury is an insult to the brain capable of producing physical, intellectual, emotional, social, and vocational changes. Statistics show a rapid increase in the number of brain injuries each decade in both ... -
Bar code medication administration-clinic orders (BCMA-CO) increase nurses' satisfaction with the medication administration system - A quality improvement project
(2017-08-03)Nurses’ satisfaction was compared before and after implementation of Bar Code Medication Administration- Clinic Orders (BCMA-CO) in a Veterans Affairs (VA) urgent care clinic. Results were significant, revealing ... -
Becoming a nurse: Continuing the story of the Alexian Brothers Hospital School of Nursing graduates
The Alexian Brothers Hospital (ABH) School of Nursing in Chicago, founded in 1898, was the fifth all male nursing school in the United States. Research Question: The aim of this study is to present the oral histories of ... -
A beginning look at the effect of age on dyspnea, physical functioning and self-efficacy for home walking and managing shortness of breath in adults with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
Chronic illness is common in older adults and is associated with functional impairments. Older adults with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) face both age-related and disease-related decline in pulmonary function. ... -
Best clinical practice of disinfection in intravenous device therapy contaminated with Klebsiella pneumoniae
Klebsiella pneumoniae is a Gram-negative bacteria. The treatment of infections from this bacteria in children is more challenging due to limited appropriate antibiotic use in this specific group (Akturk et al., 2016). ...
