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Caesarean section surgical site infection and associated personal patient risk factors: An integrative review
An integrative literature review was conducted using four databases CINAHL, Discover, PubMed and Science Direct to provide a critical evaluation of published research on caesarean section surgical site infection and ... -
A call to leadership
Stay interviews were incorporated into the Nurse Residency Program at month six in an effort to decrease one year turnover rate. A "start, stop, and continue" approach was utilized. Senior nursing leadership addressed the ... -
Called to promote nursing excellence as facilitators of service learning
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Saturday, November 7, 2015: Experienced American nurse educators discuss their experiences living in and learning about the Chinese culture. They were in residence in Hubei Province, China from February ... -
Called to promote nursing excellence as global educators
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Saturday, November 7, 2015: An American nurse educator spends a semester as a visiting professor at Wuhan HOPE School of Nursing in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China under the auspices of Project HOPE. ... -
Called to promote nursing excellence as transformational leaders
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Saturday, November 7, 2015: American nurse educators share their experiences as volunteer nurse educators representing Project HOPE. This organization's mission is to achieve sustainable advances in ... -
CAMP: Care for addicted mothers program
(2017-10-17)The current opioid crisis is affecting not only pregnant patients, but also their newborn infants. This project involved implementing a prenatal screening tool for early identification of maternal drug use, conducting a ... -
Campus-Based Health Information Campaign Using Bluetooth 4.0 Low Energy Device (iBeacons)
(2017-10-23)Technological development has greatly impacted the manner in which health services are rendered. In this inquiry, we looked at the potential of Bluetooth low energy (iBeacons) as a tool for health information dissemination. ... -
Can a patient-centred pressure injury prevention care bundle increase patient participation and reduce pressure injuries; An implementation study
Preventing hospital-acquired pressure injuries (HAPI) in patients is a key quality of care and safety goal for healthcare organisations and clinicians. Nurses implement numerous pressure injury prevention (PIP) strategies ... -
Can an asthma self-management intervention improve quality of life in children who have asthma?
(2017-06-13)Purpose: Asthma is a major public health problem in childhood. Frequent symptomatic days requiring urgent management, disturbed sleep, and limitations in daily activities due to asthma contribute to worsening quality of ... -
Can an interprofessional 'virtual clinic' teach culturally appropriate interviewing techniques?
(2016-07-13)Session presented on Monday, July 25, 2016: Purpose: Nurse educators must embrace opportunities to prepare students for future practice which will be interprofessional, evidence based, and highly technical. Use of online ... -
Can concept mapping be used as a strategy to engage learners in nursing education?
(2017-10-24)Nursing educators must select teaching and learning strategies which engage students and which promote higher-level critical thinking. This presentation explores the impact of using concept maps on faculty engagement and ... -
Can connecting with students create a seamless transition from ADN to on-line RN-BSN programs?
Nurse educators play a pivotal role in the transition from Associate degree nurse to online RN-BSN student, particularly in the execution of pedagogy that utilizes their past experience. This session will highlight the ... -
Can group scenario exercises in fundamental nursing using process oriented guided-inquiry learning (POGIL) affect national test scores
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Monday, November 9, 2015: Background: Measuring the effect of a Process-Oriented Guided-Inquiry Learning (POGIL) implementation in a fundamental nursing course is one way to determine its effectiveness. ... -
Can incident report learning predict incident reporting attitude and satisfaction among nursing home staff?
(2017-07-19)Purpose: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the prediction of incident reporting learning to incident reporting attitude and incident reporting satisfaction among nursing staff and administrators in nursing ... -
Can interprofessional student teams impact patient outcomes? Yes they can!
(2017-09-22)This presentation describes an innovative clinical strategy involving interprofessional teams of pre-licensure nursing and medical students conducting transitional care home visits in collaboration with the Transitional ... -
Can knowledge transfer in nursing students be improved by developing and utilizing a clinical toolkit?
(2017-10-11)The purpose of this project is to develop, implement, and evaluate an evidence-based intervention to bridge the gap in knowledge transfer from classroom to clinical. The intervention is a clinical faculty toolkit. The ... -
Can mobile technology improve weight loss in overweight adults? A systematic review
The purpose of this systematic review was to determine the impact of mobile applications and wearable devices on weight loss in overweight adults, as their reliability is not well-documented. Evidence indicates that mobile ... -
Can multiple roles at work and home improve the mental health of female nurses?
Although the mental health level of working female nurses was low, we have shown that having multiple roles may be a source of strength for nurses to maintain and improve their mental health levels. -
Can nursing content standardized tests predict NCELX-RN outcomes?
(2014-05-13)Session presented on: Friday, April 4, 2014: This study was to investigate effective predictors of NCLEX-RN outcomes on the first-attempt among nursing content standardized tests (adult medical-surgical, fundamentals for ... -
Can Nursing Escape the Medical Model?
(2012-01-11)ESCAPE-C is an acronym for an Assessment Tool for the first step of the Nursing Process. It is derived from concepts identified by major theorists and is used as a consistent framework for�identifying patient needs.� It ...