Browsing Sigma Theta Tau International (Sigma) by Sigma Chapters "Alpha Delta"
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Addressing the burden of burn injury utilizing a comprehensive holistic innovative approach
(2016-03-17)Session presented on Saturday, July 25, 2015: Background: 'I woke up and all I could see was smoke. I could hardly breathe. Then it dawned on me- the house was on fire. All I could think about is..Lord, please get my wife ... -
Answering the call for improved maternal safety
(2017-09-18)Over 600 women die each year in the United States as a result of pregnancy or delivery complications and approximately half of the maternal deaths have been determined to be preventable; the obstetric early warning system ... -
Confronting Nursing Incivility: Educational Intervention for Change
(2017-03-03)Session presented on Saturday, March 18, 2017: It is essential for nurses and nursing faculty to increase and implement interventions that decrease incivility within the nursing profession. Incivility is known by a variety ... -
Correctional Nursing: Described From the Perspective of Nurses Working in a Maximum Security Correctional Hospital
(2016-07-13)Session presented on Saturday, July 23, 2016 and Sunday, July 24, 2016: Purpose: The purpose of this study is to describe the experiences of nurses as they work in a maximum security acute care hospital. The thematic ... -
Creating a culture of patient safety: Patient safety executive rounds
(2013-05-13)Session presented on Sunday, April 14, 2013: As the acuity and complexity of patient care have increased, the challenge of providing quality care within the context of a safe patient environment has become a point of ... -
Creative Reflections
(2016-03-21)Session presented on Saturday, November 7, 2015 and Sunday, November 8, 2015. -
Cultivating engagement using our nursing professional practice model
A grassroots effort of nurse clinicians seeking to create a healthy work environment utilized all domains of the nursing professional practice model to create actionable items related to workplace violence. -
Diabetes-related foot care interventions for preventing diabetic foot ulceration: A systematic review of the literature
(2017-09-25)Promoting self-foot care practices, and preventing diabetic foot ulceration in diabetes still remains challenging in the United States. There is an urgent need for a well-designed randomized control trials to provide robust ... -
A dirty little secret: Verbal abuse of obstetric patients
(2016-03-17)Session presented on Saturday, July 25, 2015: Purpose: Disruptive, verbally abusive behavior is an issue that has a well-documented history within the healthcare setting and occurs both inter- and intra-professionally. ... -
Establishing professional boundaries in the nurse faculty-student relationship: The slippery slope
Participants will learn about the challenges nurse faculty face in establishing and maintaining professional boundaries in the nurse faculty-student relationship and various faculty development resources available to assist ... -
Gimme a break: An innovative intervention to prevent musculoskeletal disorders related to sedentary work
Work-from-home orders compounded the amount of sedentary work one SON’s faculty and staff faced as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. As part of its wellness/resiliency strategy, SON leaders implemented the Gimme A Break ... -
Going for gold: A bundled approach to improve resuscitation performance
(2016-03-17)Session presented on Sunday, July 26, 2015: Background: The global burden of cardiovascular disease and cardiac arrest is significant. According to data from the World Health Organization (2014), cardiovascular diseases ... -
Impact of Cultural and Linguistic Diversity on Success of the First Attempt of the NCLEX-RN
(2017-07-27)Schools of nursing are struggling with high attrition rates and low NCLEX-RN first time pass rates. Many students identified among those with high attrition rates and low pass rates are culturally and linguistically diverse ... -
Implementing universal depression screening for underserved adult patients in a primary care setting
Depression is not routinely screened for in the primary care setting despite high prevalence and association with increased morbidity and mortality resulting in great economic burden to the nation. Universal depression ... -
Improving performance and confidence with defibrillators for resuscitation
This abstract will discuss the global implications of cardiovascular disease and data on survival to discharge after cardiac arrest. An opportunity for improvement in resuscitation performance with the use of defibrillators ... -
Let’s be blunt- legal ≠ safe: Addressing maternal marijuana use while breastfeeding
Marijuana exposed infants are at a greater risk of adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes and neurological morbidities. Utilizing the Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) approach may effectively ... -
Nurses' knowledge and beliefs related to depression and screening in heart failure patients
(2016-03-17)Session presented on Saturday, July 25, 2015: Purpose: The purpose of this study was to assess nurses' knowledge and beliefs related to depression and the use of screening in heart failure patients. To date, there has ... -
Participating in the graduate nurse education demonstration project: The students' view
(2016-03-21)Background: The Graduate Nurse Education Demonstration Project (GNE) is a new federally funded demonstration project directed at increasing the number of primary care nurse practitioners in concert with the implementation ... -
Participation in virtual clinical simulation: An assessment of the impact on content mastery for students
(2018-06-29)As a result of the limited clinical learning sites needed for educational purposes, this project looked to compare content mastery exam scores of BSN students to determine if a difference exist between students who ... -
Paying preceptors in nurse practitioner education: Perceptions of the preceptor
(2017-09-25)Paying for NP student preceptors is a growing trend in NP education. This study presents survey results from paid preceptors that participated in the Graduate Nurse Education Demonstration Project. Findings indicate that ...