A survey questionnaire was conducted to determine what the biggest sources of stress are in a baccalaureate nursing program and identify what factors in the students' lives may affect academic achievement and self-efficacy.

(41st Biennial Convention) Practice problems: Nurses are responsible for using emotional skills to evaluate and promote patient's emotional health. There is very limited research relating to measuring emotional abilities ...

Sexual health is an important aspect for patients with heart disease that covered by silence. Nurses often ignore sexual health assessment due to many barriers related to nurses, patients, organizations and value related ...

The history and evolution of the pilot project developed is in reference to the first hospital acquired (HA) Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) outbreak in a rural hospital within western Canada and how one can best ...

Session presented on Monday, November 9, 2015: Nursing experiences in Liberia have been fraught with challenges because of the lack of infrastructure made worse by the civil war. Edwin's first years as a nurse at the John ...

Session presented on Monday, November 9, 2015: Leadership is considered a critical attribute in the enhancement and transformation of the nursing workforce of Liberia. As part of this leadership transformation, the Master's ...

The purpose of this presentation is to discuss findings of a retrospective, naturalistic, qualitative study of a reflective journaling assignment developed by an inter-professional faculty team to assess real-time transfer ...

Session presented on Monday, November 9, 2015 and Tuesday, November 10, 2015: Introduction: The importance of leadership can be measured through the strength at which this theme has been shown in the academic literature. ...

Session presented on Saturday, November 7, 2015 and Sunday, November 8, 2015: Introduction: Patient safety is a priority worldwide and the effectiveness of health systems in different countries is being reconsidered (WHO, ...

Session presented on Saturday, November 7, 2015 and Sunday, November 8, 2015: The purpose of this scholarly project was to explore the effectiveness of implementing a standardized leadership program on improving nurse ...