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An Academic Shared Governance Model for Leadership in an Academic Setting
(2016-03-21)
Session presented on Monday, November 9, 2015: A West Texas university school of nursing (SON) has experienced tremendous growth over the past 14 years in three strategic areas - student enrollment, geographic locations, ...
Registered nurses breaking into the political arena: A qualitative study
(2016-03-17)
Session presented on Saturday, July 25, 2015:
Purpose: The necessity for nurses to cultivate confidence for becoming an active member of a board or seeking election to goveRNg boards dictates that skills, attitudes and ...
Eating behavior in college-students: TFEQ R-18 and qualitative perceptions of cell-phone use for recording diet
(2016-07-13)
Session presented on Thursday, July 21, 2016:
Purpose: Worldwide, an estimated 600 million adults are obese and 1.9 billion are overweight (World Health Organization, 2014). The etiology of obesity and overweight is ...
Best practices for mentoring novice academia faculty members
(2016-03-17)
Session presented on Thursday, July 23, 2015:
According to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (2014), a total of 1,181 full-time nursing faculty vacancies are reported along with 103 additional schools reporting ...
Spirituality in nursing education: Are we teaching our students to provide spiritual care?
(2016-03-21)
Session presented on Tuesday, November 10, 2015:
Nurses are mandated by accreditation organizations such as Joint Commission to address spiritual aspects of the patients. This makes it paramount to insure that holistic ...
Effects of recording food intake using cell phone camera pictures on calorie intake and food choice in college students
(2016-03-17)
Session presented on Friday, July 24, 2015:
Purpose: Recording food intake may contribute to weight loss by promoting changes in eating behavior. The current spread of mobile phone embedded cameras offers new opportunities ...
Bridging the practice/research chasm
(2016-03-21)
Session presented on Sunday, November 8, 2015: The literature repeatedly affirms that the time period for translating research findings into the practice arena requires approximately 17 years. Recent studies have identified ...
Patient Falls: Improving patient safety, continuing challenge
(2016-03-17)
Session presented on Sunday, July 26, 2015:
Purpose: Although the previous Patient Fall Prevention program required adult inpatients be assessed using the Hendrich II Fall Risk Assessment tool on admission and each shift, ...