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Effectiveness of Cell Phones with Digital Picture Capability and MyPyramid Tracker for Measurement of Fruit/Vegetable Consumption
(2012-01-04)
(41st Biennial Convention) Purpose:�Inadequate fruit/vegetable intake is linked to the leading causes of global mortality and rise in obesity (World Health Organization, 2009). Traditional dietary assessment methods have ...
Student Learning Outcomes and Global Trips: Insight into Cultural Awareness and Personal Growth
(2013-10-22)
Session presented on: Monday, July 22, 2013: Purpose: Understanding global culture has become an expectation in nursing education world-wide and Leininger's Culture Care Theory is a framework for global culture. Educational ...
Diet, Encoded Memory, Visual Cues, Obesity, and Neuroimaging: The Role of
(2014-11-17)
Session presented on Friday, July 25, 2014: Purpose: According to the World Health Organization, 35.8 million people are obese world-wide. The obesogenic factors contributing to this global problem are thought to reflect ...
Addressing Nursing Workaround Solutions to Encountered Problems: Engagement of Frontline Nurses in STAR-2++ Network Study
(2016-07-13)
Session presented on Saturday, July 23, 2016 and Sunday, July 24, 2016: Purpose: Frontline nursing staff experience first-order operational failures negatively impacting their ability to provide optimal care. Frontline ...
Comparative analysis of the similarities and differences in approach to integrative scholarly reviews
(2017-07-20)
Purpose: Primary research provides the scientific foundation for evidence-based practice (EBP)--vital in the attainment of health for all people (World Health Organization, 2012). A comprehensive literature review is ...
Strategies for on-line surveys: Overcoming the challenges and obstacles of subject recruitment
Recruitment of subjects for participation in online surveys poses several challenges and obstacles. This project discusses strategies employed to achieve the sample size needed for an online survey aimed at describing EBP ...
How does self-efficacy impact evidence-based nursing practice?
This project investigated the impact of self-efficacy on EBP knowledge and utilization by registered nurses. The presentation will present the results from the study completed.
Family-centered care: Perceptions of newborn care during transition to a higher level of care
There is limited evidence on how best to communicate with parents with newborns with hypoglycemia during transition to a higher level of care. This project presents focus group findings from mothers of newborns with ...
Caring for newborns with transitional hypoglycemia: Best practices for education healthcare providers and families
(2018-06-29)
A number of fetal-maternal conditions predispose infants to hypoglycemia. Consensus on postnatal glucose screening and management is mixed contributing to ineffective communication during level of care transition. This ...
Bridging the gap: An innovative web-based approach for evaluating EBP readiness in direct care nurses
(2018-06-14)
Healthcare organizations worldwide are challenged to engage the EBP skills of direct care nurses. A number of barriers to EBP utilization by nurses on the front line remain. This descriptive exploratory study reports the ...