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Sacred Valley Health: A global organization with a local impact
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Monday, November 9, 2015: Sacred Valley Health (SVH) is a US 501 c3 nonprofit organization working in Ollantaytambo, Peru. The mission of SVH is to promote health in the underserved, rural communities ... -
Safe and sound: A longitudinal study of the sffects of a Sigma Theta Tau International membership-based mentoring program on job satisfaction and intention-to-stay in new BSN-prepared nurses
(2016-03-17)Session presented on Saturday, July 25, 2015: Purpose: Mentoring programs extending past two years are uncommon, and yet the stressors of nursing still result in significant turn over during this period of time. The impact ... -
Safe implementation of a hyperglycemic crises protocol by utilizing a conversion table
(2018-06-26)Hyperglycemic crises are medical emergencies associated with increased morbidity, mortality and healthcare costs. The development of a conversion table, versus nursing estimation, for insulin titration was adopted to assure ... -
Safe patient handling and mobility national standards: A ground breaking collaborative effort
(2013-05-13)Session presented on Sunday, April 14, 2013: This session will introduce and describe the collaborative process the American Nurses Association used to develop the multi-disciplinary and multi-setting Safe Patient Handling ... -
Safe Practice Environments: Nurses' Perceptions of Stressors and Solutions
(2012-9-12)Purpose: Nursing units include teams working to provide safe patient care. Without true partnerships, care is compromised due to decreased quality in communication and teamwork. Stressors impact the nursing practice ... -
Safe sleep advice to safe sleep action: Pilot of the Pepi-Pod Program in indigenous communities
(2014-11-17)Session presented on Monday, July 28, 2014: Background: Sharing sleep spaces with babies is a common infant care practice in Australia [1], and the cultural norm in many Indigenous communities [2]. While forms of co-sleeping ... -
Safety auditing as a nursing accountability measure for hospital fall prevention
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Tuesday, November 10, 2015: Preventing falls is important to patient safety. Despite 15 years of focused, evidence-based efforts our hospital was not consistently reducing falls to desired benchmarks. ... -
Safety climate: Perception of professionals in an emergency unit
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Saturday, November 7, 2015 and Sunday, November 8, 2015: Introduction: The emergency medical services, characterized as challenging and dynamic environments, are considered particularly prone to adverse ... -
Safety culture: Medication adverse event tracking at a pediatric oncology hospital in Guatemala
(2017-07-03)Purpose: The ECHO Project: Educacion de Cuidados Intensivos en un Hospital de Oncologia is a multidisciplinary educational collaborative between the Medical-Surgical Intensive Care Unit at Boston Children’s Hospital ... -
Safety of medication administration in the home: Should we double check?
(2012-9-12)Purpose: With increasing pressures on hospitals, home care by visiting nurses presents a viable option for care delivery. Nurses routinely provide complex interventions at home that previously were only available in a ... -
Safety role transition: Building competency through preceptorship
The nurse preceptors are functioning in many roles to deliver a high quality of care and to ensure that the preceptees are competent. Understanding this phenomenon will help nurses in developing and preserving the safety ... -
Safety rounds: Improving multidisciplinary communication
(2017-09-20)The Joint Commission describes communication as a key component of sentinel events. Obstetric Safety Rounds provides a forum for the exchange of information between medical providers and nurses thereby improving communication. ... -
Sailing through Ethnographic Data Collection on a Hospital Ship
This is a reflection on the experiences of data collection by the researcher positioned as a participant observer whilst conducting an ethnographic study of nurses volunteering in an international humanitarian context on ... -
Saliva-extracted DNA is a noninvasive sampling technique for examining OPRM1 gene methylation in preterm infants
Mitigating pain in early life may prevent epigenetic changes that increase an individual’s susceptibility for developing chronic pain. Adverse effects and the quality of the DNA collected challenge the suitability ... -
The salutogenic effects of prayer and meditation on health perception, behavior, and outcomes
(2018-06-20)Modern science, presently acknowledges that spiritual practices such as prayer and meditation influences and increases the health of humanity (Puchalski, 2001). Provision of holistic nursing could change the response to ... -
The satisfaction of patients with breast cancer who used shared decision-making before surgery
The audience will understand: 1. the process and the benefits of shared decision-making 2. the possible predictors of the medical service satisfaction in the outpatient -
Satisfaction with daily life, BMI, perception of weight, and nutritional intake in undergraduate nursing students
Researchers conducting this study found that nursing students had an increased likelihood of a higher level of satisfaction with daily life when they self-reported healthy eating, drinking fewer energy drinks or alcohol ... -
Save Stan turns five: A large-scale interprofessional practice and academe innovation
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Sunday, November 8, 2015: Description of the Event: The Interdisciplinary Health Education Partnership (IHEP) is an inter-institutional, interprofessional team comprised of healthcare simulation ... -
Say "I Do": Engaging Students and Reducing Attrition Through Active Learning Strategies
The purpose of this project was to assess the effect of active learning strategies utilized in medical-surgical nursing on Fall-to-Fall attrition rates. Another aim was to examine the effect of active learning on Fall-to-Fall ... -
"Saying 'thank you' wouldn't cost them one cent": Voices of Southern CNAs
Results of qualitative research conducted on tenured certified nursing assistants working in four nursing homes in a two-state study. Seventeen CNAs were interviewed for factors that were displeasing to them or made their ...